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  4. Audiocasts/Shows: Destination Linux, LINUX Unplugged, and GNU World Order
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  5. GNOME Foundation Welcomes Holly Million as Executive Director
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  12. KDE Plasma 5.27.9, Bugfix Release for October
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  13. Still Growing, Still Waddling the Waddle
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  14. Plants, process and parties: the Kubernetes 1.28 release interview
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  16. Linux Kernel Space and Graphics
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  17. Tellico 3.5.2 Released
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  20. Open Hardware: Raspberry Pi 5, Arduwatch, and More
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  21. Games: Gratuitous Space, Proton, Steam, and More
    9 new stories
  22. Android Leftovers
    Google Keep on Android expands text formatting support to older notes
  23. DSOM-020R PX30 development board review – Unboxing, Benchmarks, and Zigbee gateway
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  24. qBittorrent 4.6.0 Released with I2P Support
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  25. 7 Best Free and Open Source Console Based Network ‘top’ Tools
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  26. Say Thank You during Fedora Appreciation Week 2023
    The Fedora DEI Team is thrilled to announce the return of Fedora Appreciation Week (FAW) for 2023
  27. Project blogs are now welcome on Planet GNOME
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  29. today's leftovers
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  30. Programming Leftovers
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  31. Linux Kernel: New Corporate Overloads and AMD Asks: Do You Need Ryzen Buzzword Support in Linux?
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  32. Security Leftovers
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  33. Kubuntu 23.10 strikes a perfect balance of form and function
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  34. FSF Event, Ubuntu at Events, and LibreOffice
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  35. today's howtos
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  36. Open Hardware: 3D Printing, Open Source BIOS for Intel 8088 Devices, Librem 5, and Linux-based PineTime
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  37. Media in San Francisco Discovers Microsoft's Imminent Divestment and Shrinkage
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  38. Sharing is the Future
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  39. New Record Today, Now Time to Rest
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  40. Today in Techrights
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  41. Android Leftovers
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  42. Windows in China: It Must be Alarming to Microsoft and Its Drug Dealer, Bill Gates
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  43. Intel NUC 13 Pro Mini PC Running Linux: Power Consumption
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  44. What Sort of Sick Person Tries to Put a GNU/Linux News Site Down?
    The more you attack GNU/Linux, the stronger it will get
  45. 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: October 22nd, 2023
    The 159th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on October 22nd, 2023.
  46. Moral Support for Richard Stallman From the FreeBSD Community
    Some of these comments may sound divisive and rude, but they echo what my wife and I experienced
  47. Chromium is Not Really Open, Chromium is Just Monoculture (and Firefox Has Given Up, Mozilla is Sponsored by the Chromium Company)
    ]usability and accessibility will go down the drain, imperiling the most vulnerable in society
  48. today's leftovers
    4 more assorted stories
  49. Security Leftovers
    4 stories for today
  50. today's howtos
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  51. Linux 6.6-rc7
    almost there now
  52. Android Leftovers
    Google Keep rolls out text formatting on Android [U: Old notes]
  53. PeaZip 9.5 File Archiver Brings UI and Performance Improvements
    The latest PeaZip 9.5 archiver unveils heightened performance, a faster mode for archive browsing, and polished file manager functionalities
  54. Errands is a Top To-Do List App for Linux Users
    To get stuff done you need to get organised, and to-do apps can be an invaluable tool in helping you achieve that
  55. 9 Halloween/Spooky Desktop Wallpapers for Ubuntu
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  56. Keeping Things Simple Means Making Things Faster
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  57. 8 Best Free and Open Source Replacements for ls
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  58. Review: Ubuntu Cinnamon 23.10 and Linux Mint 6 "Debian Edition"
    In the middle of October, Canonical published Ubuntu 23.10 and its herd of community editions soon followed
  59. qBittorrent 4.6 Released with Initial I2P Support, Torrent Tags Editing, and More
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