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posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 13, 2026

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GNOME Desktop/GTK: Agile Rates After Launch and Flatpak Sandbox Escape via Yelp

Red Hat and others
Security Breaches, Patches, and Linux Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt/Fear-mongering/Dramatisation

FUD and more
Education and Standards in the News

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Web Browsers/Web Servers/Feed Readers Leftovers

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Programming Leftovers

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cURL's Stenberg: "Mythos" is Marketing Hype by Sleazy Slop Peddler, Anthropic

indeed
Content Management Systems (CMS) / Static Site Generators (SSG): Hosting, WordPress, "Out With the JS, In With the HTML"

mindset changes
GNU and Software Freedom / Digital Sovereignty Leftovers

freedom-focused picks
Open Hardware/Modding: RISC-V, Raspberry Pi, and More

Hardware picks
Audiocasts/Shows: Social Control Media, Linux User Space, LINUX Unplugged, and Late Night Linux

4 new episodes
Linux Foundation Tries to Devote Resources to Kernel (Linux) After Criticism, Partners With Sonatype

2 news picks
News About BSD and ZFS in Particular

ZFS and more
'Tech' Media Keeps Hyping Up Local Privilege Escalation, Cites Microsoft as 'Linux Authority' (FUD Source)

poor coverage
Sasha Levin (GAFAM) Wants 'Killswitch' for Linux (the Kernel)

some articles on 'killswitch'
Debian: Freexian Collaborators, Colin Watson, and Tails Release

Debian news
Microsoft, Slop, and Paid-for Red Hat Pieces

Red Hat leftovers
Databases: PgBouncer 1.25.2, gAdmin 4 9.15, Ajqvue 3.6, pgFormatter v5.10, and More

mostly but not only postgres
Games: Moving to GNU/Linux, Godot 4.7 Beta 2, New Steam Games Playable on the Steam Deck, and More

gaming leftovers
today's howtos

Instructionals/Technical posts
Android Leftovers

Android Owners: You Could Get Part of Google's $135 Million Data Settlement
Two years without a laptop taught me what Android can't do (and Linux can)

Two years ago, I replaced my laptop with an Android-based desktop
Free and Open Source Software, and Benchmark

I’ll put this mini PC through its paces from a Linux perspective
ALBA Linux Project – Japanese Linux distribution

ALBA Linux Project is an Ubuntu-based Linux distribution that’s developed by a Japanese student
Linux Mint vs. Elementary OS: I compared both distros, and here's my advice

If you're looking for a user-friendly Linux distribution
Fedora Hummingbird: Taking the Hummingbird model to the full operating system

At Red Hat Summit 2026, we’re announcing Fedora Hummingbird — a new container-based rolling Fedora Linux distribution
KDE Plasma 6.6.5 Is Out Now to Improve Performance for NVIDIA GPU Users

KDE Plasma 6.6.5 is now available as the fifth maintenance update in the KDE Plasma 6.6 desktop environment series with various improvements and bug fixes.
Fwupd 2.1.3 Linux Firmware Updater Adds Support for SHIFT6mq and SHIFTphone 8

Fwupd 2.1.3 Linux firmware updater is now available for download with support for the SHIFT6mq and SHIFTphone 8 modular smartphones, as well as various other improvements.
Android Leftovers

Android 17 could let you remove a major Pixel feature
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I've been using Ubuntu for decades. Whether you're new to the OS or returning to it after a while
Free and Open Source Software

This is free and open source software
Milk-V Jupiter2 brings SpacemiT K3 RISC-V platform to Pico-ITX form factor

Software support listed by Milk-V includes Bianbu 3.0, Ubuntu 26.04, OpenHarmony 6.0, OpenKylin, Deepin, and Fedora
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Some of the latest articles
GStreamer 1.28.3 Adds NXP i.MX 8M Plus Hardware-Accelerated H.265 Encoding

GStreamer 1.28.3 has been released today as the third maintenance update to the latest and greatest GStreamer 1.28 series of this powerful, free, open-source, and cross-platform multimedia framework.

The corresponding text-only bulletin for Tuesday contains all the text.

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