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    only 2 news ones
  2. China's Neighbours (Which China Asserts It Has Some Territorial Rights Over) Are Evading Microsoft Windows [original]
    Vietnam has some territorial disputes (islands) with China

    New

  3. GNOME 51 Alpha Desktop Environment Is Now Available for Public Testing
    GNOME 51 Alpha desktop environment is now available for public testing with support for saving and restoring monitor brightness, improved app grid accessibility, support for elogind as libsystemd provider, and much more.
  4. NetworkManager 1.58 Is Now Available for Public Testing with Many New Features
    NetworkManager 1.58 open-source network connection manager for Linux-based operating systems is now available for public testing as a major update with many new features and improvements.
  5. Security Leftovers
    Security related picks
  6. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software and Standards
    FOSS and more
  7. Programming Leftovers
    Development related picks
  8. Distributions and Operating Systems: KolibriOS, Gentoo, Ubuntu, and Android
    GNU/Linux mostly
  9. CalyxOS 7.2.2.0 Released
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  10. KDE and GNOME Leftovers
    3 simple posts
  11. Killing Fedora Community, Promoting Slop, and More IBM Red Hat Puff Pieces
    Red Hat leftovers
  12. BSD: EuroBSDCon and FreeBSD Leftovers
    BSD picks for today
  13. Games: ESP32-based Game Boy, Steam Deck, and "Sony announces plans to stop making PlayStation game discs"
    gaming leftovers
  14. today's howtos
    Instructionals/Technical picks
  15. Linux Kernel: Konstantin Ryabitsev Restoring Content, Trademark Scam, Linux Virtual Appliance
    Linux related picks
  16. Games: SteamOS 3.8, Steam Survey, and More
    Steam and GamingOnLinux picks
  17. DDOS Attacks on Techrights Also Impacted Tux Machines [original]
    DDoS attacks are not a "badge of honour". They are a nuisance.
  18. Slow News Ahead [original]
    holiday in the US
  19. GNU/Linux Rises to 5% in Panama [original]
    It seems to have increased this month
  20. Android Leftovers
    Google Wallet on Android rolling out order tracking dashboard using Gmail
  21. Free and Open Source Software
    This is free and open source software
  22. GnuPG 2.5.21 Released With Kyber Support as 2.4 Reaches End of Life
    On Thursday Werner Koch, the chief technology officer for the GnuPG project
  23. If you like COSMIC Desktop, you'll love its new system monitor
    If you like to see and manage your system processes on Linux
  24. GNU/Linux in Jamaica in 2026 [original]
    some bumps for GNU/Linux
  25. Calibre 9.11 E-Book Manager Adds Support for Exporting Annotations as HTML Pages
    Calibre 9.11 open-source e-book manager is now available for download with support for exporting annotations as a standalone web page in the HTML format and other changes.
  26. Today in Techrights
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    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Friday contains all the text.

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    Span from 2026-06-27 to 2026-07-03
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    947 /n/2026/06/28/Linus_Torvalds_Announces_First_Linux_Kernel_7_2_Release_Candida.shtml
    933 /n/2026/06/29/Kali_Linux_2026_2_Released_with_GNOME_50_KDE_Plasma_6_6_and_New.shtml
    925 /n/2026/06/29/HamsterOS_Crams_Complete_Graphical_Desktop_onto_1_44_MB_Floppy.shtml
    816 /n/2026/06/27/Alpine_3_22_5_3_23_5_released.shtml
    753 /n/2026/06/28/I_refuse_to_upgrade_to_Windows_11_here_s_what_I_m_doing_instead.shtml
    751 /index.shtml
    751 /n/2026/06/19/Latest_Raspberry_Pi_OS_Release_Is_Powered_by_Linux_Kernel_6_18_.shtml
    742 /n/2026/06/28/Stable_kernels_Linux_7_1_2_Linux_7_0_14_and_Linux_6_18_37.shtml
    715 /n/2026/06/27/This_Week_in_Plasma_Post_6_7_Bug_fixing.shtml
    713 /n/2026/06/29/It_s_Linux_on_a_Sega_Megadrive.shtml
    707 /n/2026/06/27/Fedora_beats_Ubuntu_in_almost_every_way_except_where_it_matters.shtml

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