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  2. KDE Plasma 6.6.6 Released with Numerous Bug Fixes and Various Improvements
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  3. OpenSSH 10.4 Released
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  4. Switzerland: GNU/Linux All-Time Record [original]
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  5. Free and Open Source Software
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  6. postmarketOS in 2026-06: Plasma 6.7
    This June Plasma 6.7 was released and found its way into Alpine Linux and postmarketOS thanks to Bart who maintains KDE in both distros
  7. Proton 11 Officially Released with Support for More Games Running on Linux
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  18. Barry Kauler on EasyOS: Unmount-all-mounted-partitions bug and yff audio video utility version 3.1
    a couple of updates this week
  19. Games: Steam Deck, Steam Machine, and Godot 4.8 Dev 1
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  20. Security Leftovers
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  21. Hardware Projects: ESP32 and More
    several new Linux-ish news picks
  22. Kernel Space or Linux News
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  23. today's howtos
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  28. Free and Open Source Software, and Benchmark
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  35. Software Freedom, a Japanese Perspective - Part III: Proprietary Software Suboptimal [original]
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