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posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 22, 2026

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  13. today's howtos
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  19. Tux Machines Subjected to Cyberattacks [original]
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  20. openSUSE Releases Agama 21 Installer with Better Network Management
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  33. LWN: Coverage From The 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit
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  34. Friction in Fedora over [Slop] developer desktop initiative
    a last-minute change to vote against the proposal by council member Justin Wheeler has (at least temporarily) sent it back to the drawing board

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

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