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  1. 4 Days Til Party [original]
    This coming Wednesday we travel up north

    New

  2. Servers, KDE at 30, and GNU/Linux Distributions and Operating Systems
    today's leftovers
  3. EasyOS Focuses on Enabling Xlibre Instead of Experimental Wayland (With Limited Support From Applications)
    Xlibre focus
  4. Fedora, Red Hat, and CoreOS Leftovers
    RHEL and more
  5. Debian: Russell Coker's Work, Birger Schacht's Status and Steve McIntyre on Microsoft-Controlled Kill Switch and Back Door
    Debian leftovers
  6. Open Hardware/Modding: Arduino, ESP32, and More
    Hardware leftovers
  7. Sharing and Standards: National Open Source Library, Slop Warning, and Why "You Still Need A Legacy TLD For Email"
    3 more stories
  8. Web Browsers/Web Servers/Feed Readers: Ladybird, RSS, Chromium, and Mozilla
    WWW related news
  9. Releases of GNU direvent version 5.5 and GNUtrition 0.33
    two new GNU releases
  10. Software Freedom / Digital Sovereignty Plan at EU (“Tech Sovereignty”)
    a couple of updates
  11. Programming Leftovers
    Development picks
  12. Security Leftovers
    Security picks for today
  13. Kernel Space / File Systems / Virtualization
    mostly but not only Linux
  14. Applications: Creative Software, Proton Drive, and Terminal Programs
    3 new stories
  15. today's howtos
    Instructionals/Technical picks
  16. Games: Steam Machines Running GNU/Linux on the Way, A Peek at a Godot Game
    gaming picks
  17. Dank Linux and Hyprland on Nvidia
    Hyprland news
  18. Shelly 2.3.2.2 GUI Package Manager for Arch Linux Improves CachyOS Support
    Shelly 2.3.2.2 open-source graphical package manager for Arch Linux-based distributions is now available for download with drag-and-drop AppImage installation, CachyOS updater parity, and other changes.
  19. New Zealand: GNU/Linux Reaches New High [original]
    Notice what has happened to Windows
  20. Star Labs Releases Firmware 26.06 with Support for AMD Cezanne-Based Systems
    Star Labs releases Firmware 26.06 with various improvements to enhance the reliability, performance, and overall experience of your Star Labs Linux machine.
  21. Games: IGN Live Bundle, SteamOS, and Steam Machines
    gaming picks from GamingOnLinux
  22. If Europe Wants Software Freedom / Digital Sovereignty, It'll Need to Adopt GNU/Linux Faster [original]
    What will it take for Brussels to quit appeasing (or taking bribes from) GAFAM lobbyists and instead start deploying software and systems that Europe itself can control?
  23. Sharing is Loving [original]
    We need more Free software 'fanatics'
  24. GNU/Linux Doing Well in Monaco in Recent Years [original]
    This helps us debunk the stigma of "only poor people" would "choose Linux"
  25. Android Leftovers
    I get why battery protection exists on Android phones, but I’ll never use it
  26. I switched to a tiling window manager on Linux and can't believe I wasted years dragging windows around
    Regardless of the operating system you're on
  27. These 4 package managers outlasted the Linux distros that created them
    Linux distributions are oddly mortal for projects that spend so much time preaching stability
  28. This Linux distro looks so much like Windows 11 that it's unsettling
    The first time you'll boot into AnduinOS
  29. Docker for Microcontrollers? AkiraOS combines Zephyr RTOS with WebAssembly (WASM) applications
    AkiraOS is a Zephyr-based embedded OS that runs sandboxed WebAssembly applications on microcontrollers and lets users deploy and update firmware OTA without reflashing
  30. Free and Open Source Software, howtos and Installations
    This is free and open source software
  31. GNU/Linux Leftovers
    GNU/Linux picks
  32. Software Release: Fastfetch 2.64 and Rustdesk 1.4.7
    2 new releases
  33. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
    FOSS and more
  34. GSoC KDE Work on Font Subsetting and Porting KeepSecret to the Kirigami ActionCollection API
    KDE development
  35. Red Hat Leftovers
    Red Hat picks
  36. This Week in Plasma: Fixing all the things
    This week the team continued polishing Plasma 6.7 for its release later in the month
  37. Using Fedora Silverblue for Compositor Development
    I’ve been using Fedora Silverblue on my desktop and laptop for the past
  38. Sparrow Hawk runs Linux on Renesas R-Car V4H SoC
    The Sparrow Hawk supports Yocto and Debian Linux distributions
  39. 6 easy ways I make Zorin OS even faster and more secure
    Out of the box, Zorin OS is fast and secure
  40. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles
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