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  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

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  3. GNOME 51 Alpha Desktop Environment Is Now Available for Public Testing
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  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.
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  6. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software and Standards
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  7. Programming Leftovers
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  8. Distributions and Operating Systems: KolibriOS, Gentoo, Ubuntu, and Android
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  10. KDE and GNOME Leftovers
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  11. Killing Fedora Community, Promoting Slop, and More IBM Red Hat Puff Pieces
    Red Hat leftovers
  12. BSD: EuroBSDCon and FreeBSD Leftovers
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  13. Games: ESP32-based Game Boy, Steam Deck, and "Sony announces plans to stop making PlayStation game discs"
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  14. today's howtos
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  15. Linux Kernel: Konstantin Ryabitsev Restoring Content, Trademark Scam, Linux Virtual Appliance
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  17. DDOS Attacks on Techrights Also Impacted Tux Machines [original]
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  18. Slow News Ahead [original]
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  19. GNU/Linux Rises to 5% in Panama [original]
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  20. Android Leftovers
    Google Wallet on Android rolling out order tracking dashboard using Gmail
  21. Free and Open Source Software
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  22. GnuPG 2.5.21 Released With Kyber Support as 2.4 Reaches End of Life
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  23. If you like COSMIC Desktop, you'll love its new system monitor
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  24. GNU/Linux in Jamaica in 2026 [original]
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  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.
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    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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