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  1. The Next Ten Years: Promoting Software Freedom, Exposing Abuse [original]
    To me, the near-term future is clear (I said the same in a blog post when I turned 40); I need to – not only want to – promote Software Freedom and justice. Those two concepts are connected and they also involve journalism, particularly exposing corruption. It’s expensive to do so, but it must be done. If not us, then who? And if not right now, then when?

    New

  2. GNU/Linux Leftovers
    and FOSS
  3. IBM: GNOME and Fedora/Red Hat Reviewing (Censoring) 'Apps'
    centralised "stores"
  4. Audiocasts/Shows: How DreamWorks Uses GNU/Linux and Linux Supply Chain How-To
    2 new shows
  5. GNU/Linux Handheld Consoles for Games
    3 stories
  6. IBM Faux-Community Elections: Interviews with Jonathan Wright (jonathanspw), Diego Herrera (dherrera), Carl George (carlwgeorge), and Troy Dawson (tdawson)
    4 new interviews
  7. PCs and Laptops With Ubuntu GNU/Linux
    two new examples
  8. Another New GNU/Linux Handheld for Gaming
    a pair of articles
  9. Shelly 2.3.2 GUI Package Manager for Arch Linux Gets Downgrade UI, Flatpak Repair
    Shelly 2.3.2 open-source graphical package manager for Arch Linux-based distributions is now available for download with a brand-new downgrade UI, the long-requested Flatpak repair workflow, and other changes.
  10. Marknote 1.6 WYSIWYG Note-Taking App Adds Initial Support for Sub-Folders
    Marknote 1.6 open-source WYSIWYG note-taking application is now available for download with new features and quality-of-life improvements. Here’s what’s new!
  11. today's leftovers
    GNU/Linux and more
  12. Linux, Devices, and Open Hardware
    4 stories
  13. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software, Standards, and Open Data
    FOSS leftovers
  14. FSF / Software Freedom / Digital Sovereignty: Free Software Directory Meeting, GNUtrition, GNU Unifont, and More
    GNU and more
  15. Programming Leftovers
    Development picks
  16. Games: Godot, Humble Bundles, Playstack, and Price Hikes
    gaming leftovers
  17. Security Leftovers
    Security news and patches
  18. today's howtos
    Instructionals/Technical posts
  19. Applications: Marknote, Gedit, and Nesbitt
    KDE, GNOME, and more
  20. Red Hat: Confidentiality Promises, Virtual Machines, OpenShift, and Fedora/F44 Elections Interviews
    Fedora and more
  21. IBM Red Hat Keeps Promoting Slop Plagiarism Like Crazy, Then Says Developers Aren't Allowed to Put Slop in Flathub
    double standards much?
  22. GNOME Desktop/GTK: This Week in GNOME and GNOME Foundation Update
    GNOME leftovers
  23. Wine 11.10
    The Wine development release 11.10 is now available.
  24. NixOS 26.05 “Yarara” Officially Released with GNOME 50, systemd by Default
    NixOS 26.05 independent distribution is now available for download with Linux 6.18 LTS, systemd by default, GNOME 50, and other changes. Here’s what’s new!
  25. Android Leftovers
    Google reveals the Pixel devices getting Android 17 this summer
  26. Fedora Atomic is what Linux looks like when it stops trying to impress Linux users
    People arrive on Linux for a huge range of reasons
  27. Stop using Linux Mint—Fedora Atomic is safer
    Linux Mint has a reputation as the best distro newcomers switching to Linux
  28. Rocky Linux 9.8 launches with improved security and multiple package updates
    Rocky Linux 9.8 is now available for a wide range of platforms, as usual
  29. GNU/Linux Leftovers
    and some non-GNU/Linux stuff
  30. Open Hardware/Modding: FPGAs, Arduino, ESP32
    hardware projects/products
  31. today's howtos
    Instructionals/Technical picks from PCLOS Magazine
  32. Free and Open Source Software, and Benchmark
    This is free and open source software
  33. This Week in Plasma: 6.7 Beta 2 Released
    This week the team continued getting Plasma 6.7 in great shape for release
  34. Fairphone 6 long-term usage report 1
    Fairphone is one such formula
  35. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles

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

    Top-read articles (excluding bot/crawler visits):

    Span from 2026-05-24 to 2026-05-30
    2428 /n/2026/05/28/BSD_and_GNU_Leftovers.shtml
    2308 /n/2026/05/28/Programming_Leftovers.shtml
    2252 /n/2026/05/28/Android_Leftovers.shtml
    2213 /n/2026/05/28/today_s_leftovers.shtml
    2207 /n/2026/05/28/Krita_5_3_2_Released.shtml
    2205 /n/2026/05/28/5_Months_Pass_So_Fast.shtml
    2182 /n/2026/05/28/today_s_howtos.shtml
    2094 /n/2026/05/28/Today_in_Techrights.shtml
    2031 /n/2026/05/29/Today_in_Techrights.shtml
    1947 /n/2026/05/29/Android_Leftovers.shtml
    1919 /n/2026/05/29/Happy_Birthday_to_Dad.shtml
    1885 /n/2026/05/29/Security_Leftovers.shtml
    1879 /n/2026/05/29/12_Days_of_Shell.shtml
    1829 /n/2026/05/29/Programming_Leftovers.shtml
    1791 /n/2026/05/29/today_s_howtos.shtml
    1767 /n/2026/05/29/today_s_leftovers.shtml

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