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    OpenSUSE news
  2. This Week in Plasma: 6.7 beta release
    This week we released a public beta of Plasma 6.7, ready for testing
  3. Free and Open Source Software
    This is free and open source software

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  4. Rescuezilla 2.6.2 System Recovery Live ISO Adds Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Support
    Rescuezilla 2.6.2 distribution is now available for download with a new build based on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS “Resolute Racoon” and other changes. Here’s what’s new!
  5. GNOME Graphs and GLib/GObject (Christian Hergert After Red Hat)
    GNOME picks
  6. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software and Standards Leftovers
    mostly FOSS leftovers
  7. FreeBSD: Experience With FreeBSD on OVH; FreeBSD Resource Monitoring, Accounting, and Troubleshooting
    FreeBSD picks
  8. Kernel Space: Anbernic RG DS Gets a New Linux Firmware and Leveraging zram to Save Money
    a pair of news picks
  9. Databases: CloudNativePG Has New Releases, MariaDB Hack, and More
    DB-related stuff
  10. Programming Leftovers
    Development picks for this weekend
  11. GNU Projects: coreutils, emacs, and GIMP
    some GNU news
  12. Open Hardware/Modding: RISC-V, Raspberry Pi's Resort to Slop, and More
    Hardware related news/projects
  13. Ubuntu 26.04 Review and More Canonical/Ubuntu Picks
    Canonical/Ubuntu leftovers
  14. Freexian Collaborators' Debian Contributions and New Debian Contributors
    Contributions and more
  15. Fedora, Red Hat, and Rocky Linux Leftovers
    various RHEL-related things too
  16. today's howtos
    Instructionals/Technical posts
  17. Security Leftovers and Windows TCO
    little of the latter
  18. Kubernetes v1.36 and Various Roles in Server, Even Slop Fondling
    Server centric uses
  19. Games: Subnautica 2, SteamOS Manager, New Steam Games with Native GNU/Linux Builds, and More
    about a dozen new picks
  20. GNOME Desktop: GNOME Foundation Update and This Week in GNOME
    GNOME news roundups
  21. Debian 13.5 “Trixie” Released with 144 Bug Fixes and 103 Security Updates
    Debian 13.5 is now available for download as a new point release to Debian 13 “Trixie” with 144 bug fixes and 103 security updates.
  22. Recent Leftovers: howtos, Fedora/Red Hat, Mobile, and Obnam
    misc. leftovers
  23. 6 Linux distros that were huge once, but barely matter now
    Linux was the Wild West of computing in the late 1990s and early 2000s
  24. 2 beginner Linux distros that don't force you to use the terminal
    Are you switching over from Windows to Linux
  25. Anbernic RG DS gets a brand new Linux OS, and you don't need to uninstall Android
    Anbernic has released a Linux-based OS for its RG DS dual-screen handheld which ships with Android
  26. There is no digital sovereignty without ODF
    This is why LibreOffice, and its derivatives such as Collabora Office and Online
  27. Stable kernels: Linux 7.0.8, Linux 6.18.31, Linux 6.12.89, Linux 6.6.139, Linux 6.1.173, Linux 5.15.207, and Linux 5.10.256
    I'm announcing the release of the 7.0.8 kernel
  28. Heroes of Fedora Quality for Fedora 44
    Fedora 44 is out, and in this post we’d like to highlight the top Fedora Quality contributors who helped us reach the finish line
  29. Shelly 2.3 GUI Package Manager for Arch Linux Brings Performance Improvements
    Shelly 2.3 open-source graphical package manager for Arch Linux distributions is now available for download with performance improvements, translations support, code clean ups, and bug fixes.
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  31. Videos: GNU/Linux, Free Software, and More
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    1177 /n/2026/05/11/Linux_7_1_rc3.shtml
    1077 /n/2026/05/10/Good_Job_Dell_and_Lenovo_Hope_Others_Follow_You.shtml
    1036 /n/2026/05/10/Parrot_7_2_Is_Now_Officially_Available_for_Download_with_Copy_F.shtml
    1021 /n/2026/05/12/Fedora_Hummingbird_Taking_the_Hummingbird_model_to_the_full_ope.shtml
    1009 /n/2026/05/12/Programming_Leftovers.shtml
    944 /n/2026/05/11/Review_Fedora_44.shtml
    923 /n/2026/05/12/Sasha_Levin_GAFAM_Wants_Killswitch_for_Linux_the_Kernel.shtml
    917 /n/2026/05/11/GNU_Linux_Leftovers.shtml
    862 /n/2026/05/11/Pi_Slate_A_Raspberry_Pi_5_handheld_Linux_cyberdeck_with_a_5_inc.shtml
    856 /n/2026/05/13/KDE_Receives_Over_1M_from_Sovereign_Tech_Fund_for_Software_Deve.shtml

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