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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 07, 2026

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4 Days Til Party [original]

This coming Wednesday we travel up north

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Servers, KDE at 30, and GNU/Linux Distributions and Operating Systems

today's leftovers
EasyOS Focuses on Enabling Xlibre Instead of Experimental Wayland (With Limited Support From Applications)

Xlibre focus
Fedora, Red Hat, and CoreOS Leftovers

RHEL and more
Debian: Russell Coker's Work, Birger Schacht's Status and Steve McIntyre on Microsoft-Controlled Kill Switch and Back Door

Debian leftovers
Open Hardware/Modding: Arduino, ESP32, and More

Hardware leftovers
Sharing and Standards: National Open Source Library, Slop Warning, and Why "You Still Need A Legacy TLD For Email"

3 more stories
Web Browsers/Web Servers/Feed Readers: Ladybird, RSS, Chromium, and Mozilla

WWW related news
Releases of GNU direvent version 5.5 and GNUtrition 0.33

two new GNU releases
Software Freedom / Digital Sovereignty Plan at EU (“Tech Sovereignty”)

a couple of updates
Programming Leftovers

Development picks
Security Leftovers

Security picks for today
Kernel Space / File Systems / Virtualization

mostly but not only Linux
Applications: Creative Software, Proton Drive, and Terminal Programs

3 new stories
today's howtos

Instructionals/Technical picks
Games: Steam Machines Running GNU/Linux on the Way, A Peek at a Godot Game

gaming picks
Dank Linux and Hyprland on Nvidia

Hyprland news
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.
New Zealand: GNU/Linux Reaches New High [original]

Notice what has happened to Windows
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.
Games: IGN Live Bundle, SteamOS, and Steam Machines

gaming picks from GamingOnLinux
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?
Sharing is Loving [original]

We need more Free software 'fanatics'
GNU/Linux Doing Well in Monaco in Recent Years [original]

This helps us debunk the stigma of "only poor people" would "choose Linux"
Android Leftovers

I get why battery protection exists on Android phones, but I’ll never use it
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
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
This Linux distro looks so much like Windows 11 that it's unsettling

The first time you'll boot into AnduinOS
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
Free and Open Source Software, howtos and Installations

This is free and open source software
GNU/Linux Leftovers

GNU/Linux picks
Software Release: Fastfetch 2.64 and Rustdesk 1.4.7

2 new releases
Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers

FOSS and more
GSoC KDE Work on Font Subsetting and Porting KeepSecret to the Kirigami ActionCollection API

KDE development
Red Hat Leftovers

Red Hat picks
This Week in Plasma: Fixing all the things

This week the team continued polishing Plasma 6.7 for its release later in the month
Using Fedora Silverblue for Compositor Development

I’ve been using Fedora Silverblue on my desktop and laptop for the past
Sparrow Hawk runs Linux on Renesas R-Car V4H SoC

The Sparrow Hawk supports Yocto and Debian Linux distributions
6 easy ways I make Zorin OS even faster and more secure

Out of the box, Zorin OS is fast and secure
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Some of the latest articles

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