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  1. OpenSUSE Planet News Roundup, OpenSUSE Build Service (OBS), and Tumbleweed's Review of the Week
    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.
  30. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles
  31. Videos: GNU/Linux, Free Software, and More
    Linux focus

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

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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

Other Recent Techrights' Posts

Microsoft's XBox "Bloodbath" Seems to Have Already Begun (Informally), Studios Allegedly to Face Shutdowns, Layoff Notices Handed Out, 100% Layoffs in Some Cases, 10% in Others or on Average
So is a complete closure/shutdown imminent? (Compulsion Games in this case)
SLAPP Censorship - Part 105 Out of 200: When Bad Legal Advice Results in Your Client, Dale Vince, Ordered to Pay £600k - or 801,930 United States Dollar (USD) - to the Person Frivolously Sued (Lord Bailey of Paddington)
"A judge has ruled that Dale Vince must pay punitive costs to Lord Bailey of Paddington, the Tory peer, over the 'unexplained abandonment' of his" SLAPP
IBM is Importing/Exporting Corporations' Regime of Censorship (Hiding the Wrongdoing) to Free Software Communities
Is IBM protecting criminals in the name of "manners"?
 
Links 13/06/2026: University of Nottingham Confirms Data/System Breach, Courts Fuming at Fraudulent Lawyers Who Fling LLM Slop at Them
Links for the day
Gemini Links 13/06/2026: World Cups and 做人
Links for the day
Discussing Morale at IBM and Conversations Regarding IBM Layoffs (Disguised as Other Things)
Trolling can be a form of censorship
European Patent Office (EPO) Series: All the President's Men
Gilles Requena,Patrice Pellegrino, and Sandro Mendonça
SUEPO Elections Coming Up, Union Leaders at Europe's Second-Largest Institution (EPO) to be Determined Soon
The staff union of the European Patent Office (SUEPO) is having an election soon
How Long for Can American Taxpayers Justify Bailing Out Microsoft?
How many times need the American taxpayers give Microsoft money for vapourware that's neither necessary nor delivered?
Links 13/06/2026: Microsoft’s XBox Crisis and "Apple Deepfakes"
Links for the day
Gemini Links 13/06/2026: Why Humans Are Mostly Right Handed and "Getting Things Done"
Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Friday, June 12, 2026
IRC logs for Friday, June 12, 2026
SLAPP Censorship - Part 104 Out of 200: Exactly Two Years Ago Brett Wilson LLP Humiliated or Weaponised Our Solicitor's Judaism in an Effort to Censor and Gag Us
dated 12/06/24
Half a Year Since Slopwatch Died
To Google's credit, it did manage to delist a lot of slopfarms in recent months
Links 12/06/2026: Science, Windows TCO, and More
Links for the day
"AI" 46 Times in One 'Article' Because The Register MS Got Paid to Push it
Today is just another opportunity to remind people that the slop bubble and GPU bubble are based on inauthentic fake 'journalism'
Gemini Links 12/06/2026: FTP and Gopher, Cluster Outage Postmortem After Cleaning by Wife
Links for the day
Sonny Piers Finally Spills the Beans on GNOME Cover-up, Points Finger at Robert McQueen, Misusing "Defamation" to Silence Critics of Wrongdoing
Robert McQueen, who is extremely connected to Garrett (they share digital nests)
European Patent Office (EPO) Series: Transcending Partisan Rivalry in the National Interest
Up until now, Campinos has generally been regarded as a Portuguese "asset" on the international stage
Gratitude to Whistleblowers or Sources of Techrights
Whistleblowers are what makes journalism work
Techrights Was Months Ahead of "XBox" News (Mass Layoffs)
Next: end of XBox as a console
More Commentary on June 2026 IBM Layoffs and Why They Happen
It sounds a lot like what happened to the EPO
Links 12/06/2026: "NearlyFreeSpeech" No More, Openwashing by Google (DiffusionGemma)
Links for the day
Today There's a Massive EPO Strike (Like Every Friday), Workers Explain Further Cuts Despite the EPO Making More Income by Granting Illegal Patents (or Invalid Patents Illegally)
"Recent exchange with the Administration on the implications of the SAP on the Education and Childcare Allowance"
The Cyber Show: Remember That Code is Art
The article is very long, very profound, and speaks of "the next installation"
Communicating With Freedom - Part IV - Quibble Now in quibble.chat, Open for Contributions Via Codeberg
Today we continue the series about Quibble
European Patent Office (EPO) Series: The Importance of Having "Pals from the Palacete"
for his reappointment bid to succeed, Campinos will need to be able to rely on the support of both the Portuguese Prime Minister, Luís Montenegro, and the President of the European Council, António Costa
Cyber Show on How Updates or Upgrades Break Workflows, Even in Free Software
"We did a big upgrade on the AV production pipeline"
Discussions About IBM Layoffs in June, Including by RTO and PIPs
mass layoffs are becoming increasingly difficult to conceal
Gemini Links 12/06/2026: Decks and Work Essay
Links for the day
"Rolling Strikes" Continue at the European Patent Office, the Administrative Council Needs to Take Action Against Crooked Office Management
This coming weekend we'll talk about some of the other issues and concerns expressed by the union
Only Days After Mass Layoffs in Microsoft's Azure There Are Headlines About Much-Expected XBox Layoffs
XBox as a console is basically dead or "fast-dying"
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Thursday, June 11, 2026
IRC logs for Thursday, June 11, 2026
Links 11/06/2026: Disputes Over Copyright Infringement, Failure to Meet Climate Goals, "ChatGPT Caught Recommending “Products” That Are Just Scams"
Links for the day
Gemini Links 11/06/2026: Programmable Systems and Slop "is Coming for Your Serifs"
Links for the day
SLAPP Censorship - Part 103 Out of 200: Telling People What They Know and Don't Know About Death Threats They Receive
patronising letters sent on behalf of the Serial Strangler from Microsoft
IBM Genies in the Bottle
for ordinary people working who at at IBM, it's not hard to see that IBM is floundering
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, June 10, 2026
IRC logs for Wednesday, June 10, 2026
Links 11/06/2026: LF Openwashing of Slop and "Azerbaijan Bans TikTok and Other Social Media Apps in School"
Links for the day
European Patent Office (EPO) Series: The Centre (in Portugal) Falls Apart…
Luís Montenegro became embroiled in a conflict-of-interest controversy
IBM Lost About 18% of Its "Market Value" This Month
In IBM's case, a lot of the latest "pump" was Arvind's "quantum" hype/fantasy