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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
Today in Techrights

Some of the latest articles

The corresponding text-only bulletin for Saturday contains all the text.

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IBM May be Sued for Mass Layoffs Via PIPs: Some whole threads (with all the long comments in them) recently got nuked by thelayoff.com
GAFAM Loyalty Has Come to an End, Morale Low, People Whose Future is Uncertain Choose to Become "Lifers": morale is low and there's no loyalty anymore
SLAPP Censorship - Part 152 Out of 200: Injunctions Do Not Cover Criticism, They Have Scope: self-incriminating communications
Clownflare Sees About Quarter of Web Requests in Ireland Coming From GNU/Linux: Well, in Ireland it seems like many people adopted GNU/Linux
Clownflare: In Australia and New Zealand GNU/Linux Peaks at Over 10% During Working Hours: That right there is interesting in its own right
Slowing Down by Intention: At the moment we have 6 or 7 ongoing series
Gemini Links 17/08/2026: Chamboree, Partial Solar Eclipse, Lady Macbeth: Links for the day
Links 17/08/2026: "Bluesky Is Down Again!" and "Anti-Social Media": Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Sunday, August 16, 2026: IRC logs for Sunday, August 16, 2026
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Links 16/08/2026: Reading Outside, Going Offline More, and Art of Computer Programming: Links for the day
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Links 16/08/2026: Ceuta Reports Social Control Media Used as a Weapon: Links for the day
Links 16/08/2026: Europe in Crisis of Droughts While Energy- and Water-Consuming, Pollution-Emitting Chatbots Are Spread by GAFAM (US) to Keep a Ponzi Scheme Going: Links for the day
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Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
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Gemini Links 16/08/2026: Sterrenkijker Releases, Solar Gemini Server: Links for the day
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WordPress is Bloatware and Bloated Software Guarantees Security Incidents: This site turns 20 in about 11 or 12 weeks from now and it was never cracked, not even when it ran WordPress
Too Many Chiefs (or Chefs) at IBM, They Don't Know How to Run a Company (With a 100+ Year or Century-Old Brand Recognition Advantage): It seems like a consensus opinion; some line managers or middle managers are too selfish or self-deceiving
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Omarchy is Already Dying: Same as the life cycle of slopfarms
Windows is Burning: Windows is the "burning platform" of the year
Gemini Links 15/08/2026: Stress, Jetlag, and GPU Hype (Waste of Energy for Amusement, Fake 'Currencies', and Now for Mass Plagiarism): Links for the day
Links 15/08/2026: XBox Rotting Further, "France’s Top Court Strikes Down Ban on Social Media for Children": Links for the day
SLAPP Censorship - Part 150 Out of 200: Always Independently Verify What People Claim to Be (or Find Yourself in a Jason Arday-Type Moment/Dilemma): I'm not a cardiologist and Garrett was never a security expert
Links 15/08/2026: "There Is No A.I." (Slop Plagiarism Isn't Intelligence) and Its "Impact on the Environment Is Absolutely Horrifying": Links for the day
Gemini Links 15/08/2026: Gratitudes, "Microflier" Drones, and Literate Programming: Links for the day
IBM's PIPs and RAs (Layoffs) Going on, Interns as 'Scabs': It seems like a consensus (also in Reddit, we took a quick look)
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Friday, August 14, 2026: IRC logs for Friday, August 14, 2026