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            GNU/Linux- 
                    Desktop Environments (DE)/Window Managers (WM)- 
                            Jamie Zawinski ☛ XScreenSaver and Wayland(But swaylock is Wrong anyway: as I keep saying, locking should be built into the display manager, not some third-party user-space program.) 
 
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                    Canonical/Ubuntu Family- 
                            Ubuntu News ☛ Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 897Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 897 for the week of June 15 – 21, 2025. The full version of this issue is available here. 
 
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            Openwashing- 
                    Ars Technica ☛ Microsoft surprises MS-DOS fans with remake of ancient text editor that works on Linux [Ed: Openwashing nonsense and obsolete software that falls short of things that existed for decades]The cross-platform availability has delighted longtime users who never expected to see Microsoft's text editor running on their preferred operating system. "30 years of waiting, and I can use MS Edit on Linux," wrote one Reddit user, capturing the nostalgic appeal of running a genuinely useful version of a Microsoft DOS utility on a Unix-like system. 
 
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