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In three days, Ubuntu 25.10 will reach end of life, upgrade now
Ubuntu 25.10 "Questing Quokka" will reach end of life on July 9, meaning it will no longer get security updates
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A brand-new release of Hannah Montana Linux features a KDE Plasma 6 base and a lot of pink
The Linux community is full of distro creativity. Some distros are created to solve a specific problem, while others are made for fun
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Microsoft Layoffs Have Begun, News Coverage Misleading [original]
The "official" numbers are Microsoft spin
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Linux 7.2-rc2
It's Sunday afternoon, and rc2 is out. Things look very normal - it's not a small rc2, but it's in line with recent releases, and slightly smaller than rc2 was in 7.1.
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Software Freedom Day Plans Underway, New Zealand Has a "Digital Freedom Foundation" [original]
The "SFD" is now 2 months away
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BleachBit 6.0.2 Adds Support for Cleaning AI Models from Google Chrome
BleachBit 6.0.2 open-source and free disk space cleaner, privacy manager, and computer system optimizer software is now available for download with new features and improvements.
New
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Software Freedom, a Japanese Perspective - Part II: Managers Who Don't Understand Code and Never Coded [original]
Decision-making figures need to understand what they decide on
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Android Leftovers
My expensive earbuds sounded average until I changed one Android audio setting
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Want to convince a Windows user to try Linux? Here's how I do it
I've used Linux for 30 years. This is how I show Windows users what they're missing
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I tested the top 5 Linux distros on DistroWatch—here’s how I rank them
There are a ton of Linux distributions out there
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Free and Open Source Software, howtos and Installations
This is free and open source software
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Kdenlive 26.04.3 released
The last maintenance release of the 26.04 series is out
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Another German State Swaps Microsoft for ‘Born in the EU’ Open Source
The EU is slowly but surely going open source
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I tested the new Claude Desktop on Linux - here's how it compares to rival apps
Claude Code finally has an official Linux desktop app
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In Finland, GNU/Linux and Android Surpass Windows [original]
Windows at all-time low last month
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listnr is an ActivityPub bridge for static blogs
in 2012, hosting a comments section had already started being less rewarding than it used to be
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FSF / Software Freedom News and GNU / Digital Sovereignty
4 stories for now
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GNU/Linux Leftovers
5 misc. stories
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KDE and Debian Leftovers
4 overlapping stories
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Proprietary Vendors Make Open Standards Look Broken and BitTorrent's History
Standards news
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Programming Leftovers
Development, half a dozen picks
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PostgreSQL-Related Releases and News
Database picks
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Ubuntu 25.10 EoL, Embrace of Slop by Canonical
Canonical/Ubuntu leftovers
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Games: DXVK, Ridiculous Space Battles, Rolisteam, and More
gaming leftovers
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Hardware: Slop, ESP32, and More
Open Hardware/Modding for the most part
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Videos/Audiocasts/Shows: This Week in Linux, Emacs, and EasyOS Package Managers
3 new videos/episodes
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today's howtos
Instructionals/Technical picks
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Nature and Health, or How Not to Let Technology Ruin Your Life [original]
Looking for balance
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Android Leftovers
I never use Gmail on Android without changing these 6 settings
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Using Flatpak To Run A 1996 Version Of The GIMP On Modern Linux
Although there’s probably no good reason to want to run image editing software from 1996 other than for nostalgia’s sake
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Free and Open Source Software
This is free and open source software
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In Norway, Google (Android/Linux) and Apple (iOS and OS X) Caught Up With Windows [original]
To Norway, Microsoft is no longer so dominant
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Review: FreeBSD 15.1 with an install-time desktop
Back in December I reviewed FreeBSD 15.0
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Europeans Beating South Americans [original]
If England beats Norway, then it seems likely it'll play Argentina next
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Today in Techrights
Some of the latest articles
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9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: July 5th, 2026
The 299th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending July 5th, 2026.
The corresponding text-only bulletin for Monday contains all the text.Top-read articles (excluding bot/crawler visits):