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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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  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
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  6. Board with GNU/Linux, DIY, Modding
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  7. Programming Leftovers
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  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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  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]
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  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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  27. 8 ways I optimize Zorin OS for peak performance - from a decades-long Linux user
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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
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  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
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  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
    2 new articles
  37. Today in Techrights
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