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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 07, 2026

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Updated This Past Day

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  4. Linux 7.2-rc2
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  5. Software Freedom Day Plans Underway, New Zealand Has a "Digital Freedom Foundation" [original]
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  6. BleachBit 6.0.2 Adds Support for Cleaning AI Models from Google Chrome
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    New

  7. Software Freedom, a Japanese Perspective - Part II: Managers Who Don't Understand Code and Never Coded [original]
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  8. Android Leftovers
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  10. I tested the top 5 Linux distros on DistroWatch—here’s how I rank them
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  11. Free and Open Source Software, howtos and Installations
    This is free and open source software
  12. Kdenlive 26.04.3 released
    The last maintenance release of the 26.04 series is out
  13. Another German State Swaps Microsoft for ‘Born in the EU’ Open Source
    The EU is slowly but surely going open source
  14. I tested the new Claude Desktop on Linux - here's how it compares to rival apps
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  15. In Finland, GNU/Linux and Android Surpass Windows [original]
    Windows at all-time low last month
  16. listnr is an ActivityPub bridge for static blogs
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  17. FSF / Software Freedom News and GNU / Digital Sovereignty
    4 stories for now
  18. GNU/Linux Leftovers
    5 misc. stories
  19. KDE and Debian Leftovers
    4 overlapping stories
  20. Proprietary Vendors Make Open Standards Look Broken and BitTorrent's History
    Standards news
  21. Programming Leftovers
    Development, half a dozen picks
  22. PostgreSQL-Related Releases and News
    Database picks
  23. Ubuntu 25.10 EoL, Embrace of Slop by Canonical
    Canonical/Ubuntu leftovers
  24. Games: DXVK, Ridiculous Space Battles, Rolisteam, and More
    gaming leftovers
  25. Hardware: Slop, ESP32, and More
    Open Hardware/Modding for the most part
  26. Videos/Audiocasts/Shows: This Week in Linux, Emacs, and EasyOS Package Managers
    3 new videos/episodes
  27. today's howtos
    Instructionals/Technical picks
  28. Nature and Health, or How Not to Let Technology Ruin Your Life [original]
    Looking for balance
  29. Android Leftovers
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  30. 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
  31. Free and Open Source Software
    This is free and open source software
  32. In Norway, Google (Android/Linux) and Apple (iOS and OS X) Caught Up With Windows [original]
    To Norway, Microsoft is no longer so dominant
  33. Review: FreeBSD 15.1 with an install-time desktop
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  34. Europeans Beating South Americans [original]
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  35. Today in Techrights
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  36. 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: July 5th, 2026
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    978 /n/2025/07/23/KDE_Centric_KaOS_Goes_Qt5_Free_with_July_2025_Release_Adds_Plas.shtml
    915 /n/2026/06/22/Announcing_AnduinOS_2_0_Beta_The_Declarative_Revolution_and_the.shtml
    837 /n/2026/06/19/Latest_Raspberry_Pi_OS_Release_Is_Powered_by_Linux_Kernel_6_18_.shtml

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