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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 05, 2026

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a few bulls on a early morning

Updated This Past Day

  1. KDE Gear 26.04.2 Released with More Improvements for Your Favorite KDE Apps
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    New

  2. today's leftovers
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  3. Firefox Nightly and Tor Browser 15.0.15 Released
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  4. Debian Hacking and Canonical Promoting Slop
    Debian and derivatives
  5. Red Hat/Fedora: Majority is Still Marketing of Slop Plagiarism, Updates on AlmaLinux and Qubes
    Red Hat sells slop
  6. Board with GNU/Linux, DIY, Modding
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  7. Programming Leftovers
    Development news
  8. Standards: Against OOXML, GNOME Internationalization Progress
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  9. Application Releases: GNU Octave 11.2.0, Transmission 4.1.2, and Shotcut 26.6 Beta
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  10. Growing Interest in Software Freedom / Digital Sovereignty
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  11. Panic Over Privilege Escalation in Linux, Dr. Andrew Tridgell Starts Messing About With LLM Slop
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  12. Games: CachyOS, Godot, Fatekeeper, Everything is Gun!
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  13. today's howtos
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  17. Free Software Awards: Nominate a person or project by July 12
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  18. I upgraded to Fedora 44 and one change made it immediately worth it
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  19. I finally learned Linux after 5 years of distro-hopping, and all it took was building a NAS
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  20. Faster, More Reliable [original]
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  21. Leadership is Underrated [original]
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  22. Tails 7.8.1 Is Out as an Emergency Release to Fix Serious Security Vulnerabilities
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  24. GNU/Linux in Israel Nearing 10% "Market Share" Based on statCounter [original]
    It's hard to guess what to attribute this to
  25. Android Leftovers
    The closest thing to Pixel's Now Playing is already built into your Android phone
  26. Minimal distro MocaccinoOS 26.06 comes with KDE 6.6.5, the 6.18.33 kernel, more
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  28. Linux might never replace Windows, so Valve is putting it in your living room instead
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  29. Exciting Week Next Week [original]
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  30. This is how I'd learn Linux if I had to start all over again
    I've been using Linux exclusively on my workstation for almost four years now
  31. Free and Open Source Software
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  32. CalamaroOS – desktop Linux distribution
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  34. Using Rhino Linux's new Lomiri snapshot took me back to the glory days of Unity
    Rhino Linux has always been a beautiful Linux distribution
  35. LWN coverage from the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit
    many new articles
  36. LWN on Slop in Linux and Openwashing
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