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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 17, 2023

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  1. Today in Techrights
    one day's articles
  2. today's leftovers
    OpenBGPD 8.3 released and more
  3. Programming Leftovers
    a dozen links regarding Python and more
  4. today's howtos
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  5. Ubuntu on Buzzwords, Volunteer Crave (Unpaid Worker), and Hardware Partnership
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  7. OpenBSD 7.4 released
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  8. Resources is a New, Modern System Monitor for Linux
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  9. Why Ubuntu 23.10 ISOs Have Been Temporarily Withdrawn
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  10. MariaDB’s Bad Week: Layoffs and an End to Azure Support
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  11. OpenWrt 23.05.0 - First Stable Release
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  12. Fedora Project and Slimbook Collaborate to Deliver New Fedora Slimbook Ultrabook
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  13. today's leftovers
    4 more stories
  14. Kyle E Mitchell on the GPL
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  15. Steam Proton game compatibility report 2023
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  16. This Site Should be Blazing Fast Now
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  17. The Wine development release 8.18 is now available.
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  26. today's howtos
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  27. Audiocasts/Shows: 5 New Episodes
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  28. Security Leftovers
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  29. Games: GNU/Linux Faster, Steam Deck Gets Easy Undervolting Controls, Jim Whitehurst Promoting .NET, Nvidia Reflex could be coming to Linux
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  30. Meet Wolfi: the Linux Distro Designed to Shrink Your Supply Chain - The New Stack
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  31. Microsoft Unable to Evolve to Deal With a Changing World
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  32. Android Leftovers
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  33. Debian-based MX Linux 23.1 now available for download
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  35. Tux Machines Loves Nature
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  36. Programming Leftovers
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  37. Audiocasts/Shows: Destination Linux, Linux Saloon, Linux in the Ham Shack, and Free Software Security Podcast
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  38. Strategies for deploying things on NixOS
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  40. today's howtos
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  41. Use the Real Thing, Not Microsoft's Imitation
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  42. 10 Immutable Linux Distributions: Linux Security to the Next Level
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  45. MX-23.1 “Libretto” released
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  46. Ubuntu's 'Mantic Minotaur' Release or Microsoft's Proprietary Panda?
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  47. Åland and Killer Windows
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  48. MariaDB Lays Off About a Third of Its Staff Just as We Abandon MariaDB Here in Tux Machines
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  50. 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: October 15th, 2023
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  51. today's leftovers
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  52. Programming Leftovers
    Python 3.13.0 alpha 1 and more
  53. HashiCorp Terraform's Openwashing Trap
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  54. Software: VLC 3.0.19's Betrayal, OpenStack Bobcat, and Linux Configuration Management Software
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  59. Today in Techrights
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  61. MX-23.1 'Libretto' released!
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  62. FydeOS 17.0 and Dr.Parted 23.09
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  63. KDE and Plasma Design: It’s Been a Minute…
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  64. Debian Unveiled: The Gold Standard of Linux Stability
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  66. GNOME 45 Introduces New Image Viewer and Camera Apps: Here’s How They Work
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  67. today's howtos
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  68. Linux 6.6-rc6 and Linux 6.1.58
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  69. today's howtos
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  71. today's leftovers
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  72. IBM/Red Hat and Canonical/Ubuntu Leftovers
    only 3 more stories
  73. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
    5 stories
  74. Google and Microsoft Monopolies
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  75. Programming Leftovers
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  76. Security and Windows TCO
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  77. Open Hardware: Raspberry Pi, Retro, and More
    5 links/stories
  78. Can open source be saved from the EU's Cyber Resilience Act?
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  79. Microsoft Tax Evasion
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  80. Android Leftovers
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  81. How to Stop GNOME Software from Running in the Background
    Here's how you can stop GNOME software from running in the background, consuming system resources.
  82. today's howtos
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  83. Society Cannot Bear Social Control Media for Much Longer
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  84. Back in FOSS Force
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  85. Liars at Microsoft Tell You How to Install 'Linux' (as Long as Windows is in Control of It and Microsoft Controls the User)
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  86. Critique of "Clown Computing" Orthodoxy by Helen Plews and Andy Farnell
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