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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 23, 2023

Updated This Past Day

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  17. Get Ready for Overskride: A Simple Bluetooth App for Linux
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  18. PeaZip 9.5 File Archiver Brings UI and Performance Improvements
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  19. Libre Arts - Weekly-ish recap — 22 October 2023
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  20. The Dinner Table Talk at Internet Relay Chat (IRC)
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  24. Programming Leftovers
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  26. KDE Itinerary Update and Sam Thursfield's (GNOME) Update
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  27. Android Leftovers
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  30. Games: Steam Deck and Proton Updates
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  31. Reviewers Anonymous take a spin of Alpine and contrast it with antiX
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  32. OpenBSD's buitl-in memory leak detection
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  33. Libreboot 20231021 released!
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  37. Red Hat's Puff Pieces of the Week
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  38. Perl and Python Programming
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  40. Audiocasts/Shows: FLOSS Weekly, Linux Link Tech Show, and mintCast
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  41. Security Leftovers
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  42. today's howtos
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  45. FreeBSD 14.0-RC2 Now Available
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  46. New YouTube Videos (Over Invidious)
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  47. Ubuntu 23.10 (Mantic Minotaur) Officially Released with Linux 6.5 and GNOME 45
    Canonical officially released today the Ubuntu 23.10 (Mantic Minotaur) operating system, which comes with some of the latest GNU/Linux technologies, improved hardware support, and many other changes.
  48. VirtualBox 7.0.12 Adds Initial Support for Linux 6.6 and openSUSE 15.5 Kernels
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  51. Kernel Build and Mesa Graphics
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  53. Programming Leftovers
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  56. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software and Events
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  57. Security and Windows TCO
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  58. today's howtos
    many howtos for today
  59. Bitwarden vs. Proton Pass: Comparing Top Open-Source Password Managers
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  60. How to Build a Corporate Pyramid
    I strongly feel like the company is exploiting the presence of women as a sort of bait - a bait for the critics, especially ones who are guys
  61. Fedora Family / IBM: From airport ground staff operations to Fedora Operations Architect, report from Things Open 2023 (Raleigh, NC)
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  62. Gnuastro 0.21 released
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  63. Games: Gearbits, Blender, Lutris, and More
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  64. Linux Desktop Migration Tool
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  65. Locked and Loaded with new COSMIC DE Updates!
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  66. GNOME, Gear, Pipewire update in Tumbleweed
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  67. Geany 2.0 Open-Source IDE Released with UI Improvements, Initial Meson Support
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  68. Peppermint Mini: The Newest Member of the Peppermint OS Family
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  69. Finally, An Open-Source 8088 BIOS
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