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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 04, 2023

Today in Techrights
2 days' worth
FSF celebrates forty years of GNU with a hackday for families, hackers, and hackers-to-be
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elementary OS 7.1 Released with New Privacy Features, Improved AppCenter
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Godot Showcase and Other Recent Posts on Games Being Developed With Godot
escape Unity
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Best Retro Gaming Emulators for Linux
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GNU/Linux is Scary to Companies That Sell Windows
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Life Simplicity - a mobile phone can't get you true realisation
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Proprietary Stuff and Security Debacles
4 stories
Obarun alone employing a new paradigm of software building?
What is new in Obarun is the way packages are being built
Conferences: Debconf 23 and 2023 FreeBSD Vendor Summit
Conferences-related links
Programming Leftovers
Godot 3.5.3 and more
Open Hardware: Raspberry Pi 5, Arduino, and More
Raspberry Pi and more
BSD: FreeBSD, OpenBGPD, and More
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today's howtos
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Games: Ubuntu Summit 2023, Gearbits, Tiny Atolls, Selaco, and More
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Android Leftovers
5 launchers for UI customisations to make the most of your Android smartphone
17 Top Free and Open Source Python Natural Language Processing Tools
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KDE Promo Sprint
Slightly over a week ago, I joined my first KDE Promo sprint! My only previous experience was the KDE Plasma sprint
KStars v3.6.7 is Released
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10 Best LibreOffice Extensions for Everyone
Extend your LibreOffice experience with these best curated Extensions for a productive use.
Renesas RZ/G2L and RZ/V2L SMARC 2.1 system-on-modules target HMI and Edge AI applications
Renesas RZ/G2L and RZ/V2L used in the design and the microprocessors are supported by a Verified Linux Package (VLP) featuring the Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) Linux distribution
Introducing SpiralLinux 12.231001: Debian 12 Gets a Facelift
SpiralLinux 12.231001: Where Debian 12 ‘Bookworm’s stability meets the cutting-edge Linux kernel 6.4 for an unparalleled user experience
Ransomware Alert: Are You Using A Trusted Version Of Thunderbird
Recently, the Thunderbird team became aware of some ransomware masquerading as Thunderbird
Security Leftovers
patches and incidents
Proprietary Stuff and FUD Against GNU/Linux
Proprietary nonsense again
Python 3.12 Released
original and LWN
Kernel: Linux 6.6-rc4, Ode to Linux, Updated kernels available for antiX-23 and sid/testing users
Some kernel news
September 2023 Steam Survey: macOS and Linux dip but Linux remains above macOS
The Steam Hardware & Software Survey for September 2023 is out now and shows that both macOS and Linux have dipped down
Mission Center: A Sleek System Monitoring App for Linux
What if, one day, you find that your system is sluggish, and the default system monitor app of your distro is not helpful?
Linux gives up on 6-year LTS kernels, says they’re too much work
Linux's six-year long-term support was meant to help embedded devices
Ubuntu 23.10 seems like the usual boring update - until you dig into it
Ubuntu has been depending on baby steps to keep it moving forward. And although Mantic Minitaur might look as if it follows that pattern, there's more to it than meets the eye.
Engineering Requires Access to Code and Designs
Imagine what GNU/Linux would look like if it had to contact Microsoft and ask if it's "safe" to boot

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