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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 01, 2025

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- Chiark ☛ Colin Watson: Free software activity in June 2025
  
  My Debian contributions this month were all Freexian. This was a very light month; I did a few things that were easy or that seemed urgent for the upcoming trixie release, but otherwise most of my energy went into Debusine. I’ll be giving a talk about that at DebConf in a couple of weeks; this is the first DebConf I’ll have managed to make it to in over a decade, so I’m pretty excited.
- Paul Wise: FLOSS Activities June 2025
- Matthias Geiger: Hello world
  
  I finally got around to setting up a blog with pelcian as SSG, so here I will be posting about my various Debian-related activities.
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- Ubuntu Fridge ☛ The Fridge: Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 898
  
  Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 898 for the week of June 22 – 28, 2025. The full version of this issue is available here.
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