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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 22, 2023

Updated This Past Day

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  2. New Release: Tor Browser 13.0.1
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  3. NVK reaches Vulkan 1.0 conformance
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  4. Android Leftovers
    Kyocera launches unlocked DuraSport 5G Android 13 smartphone on UScellular
  5. Google Slows Down Firefox Users When Watching YouTube
    If you are using the open source Firefox web browser to browse YouTube and watch its videos, then you might have noticed that there is an artificial delay that was added recently whenever you try to watch a video
  6. Helping Tux Machines Blossom Until Its 30th Anniversary
    A week ago we distinguished (in the schema) "news" from "original/s", just like in the old and original site
  7. The Future of the Planet is GNU/Linux, But Freedom Needs to be Included Too
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  8. Mozilla Firefox 120 Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New
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  9. GNUnet News: RFC 9498: The GNU Name System
    specification is now published
  10. Rocky Linux 9.3 Brings Back Cloud and Container Images for PowerPC 64-Bit
    RHEL clone Rocky Linux 9.3 has been released today and it’s now available for download as a free alternative to Red Hat’s enterprise Linux distributions CentOS Stream and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
  11. Xen Project Releases Version 4.18 with New Security, Performance, and Architecture Enhancements for AI/ML Applications
    The Xen Project, an open source hypervisor hosted at the 'Linux' Foundation

    New

  12. Linux Desktop Migration Tool 1.3
    I made another release of Linux Desktop Migration Tool
  13. today's howtos
    many for this day so far
  14. Audiocasts/Shows: Late Night Linux, mintCast, and Mozilla
    3 new episodes
  15. Security: Windows Ransomware and Mozilla Ventures Invests in Sendmarc
    security twists
  16. Openwashing and Linux Foundation
    PR and posturing
  17. PostgreSQL, LibreOffice, and openSUSE Board Election
    today's leftovers
  18. Programming Leftovers
    Educational and more
  19. URL parser performance
    “URL” is this mythical concept of a string that identifies a resource online and yet there is no established standard for its syntax
  20. Canonical/Ubuntu: Launchpad News and Linux Performance on x86
    3 stories
  21. Games: Steam Autumn Sale 2023, GOG Black Friday Sale, Steam, Tomb Raider 1 'TR1X', and More
    4 articles by Liam Dawe
  22. today's howtos
    5 howtos
  23. Pano Clipboard Manager Now Supports GNOME 45
    In the world of Linux clipboard managers few can match the panache of Pano, a GNOME Shell extension I first wrote about last year
  24. 8 Open Source Password Managers to Enhance Your Privacy Game
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  25. Firefox 120 Rolls Out with Advanced Privacy Tools
    Explore the latest Firefox 120 release, featuring enhanced privacy controls, security boosts, and exciting developer updates.
  26. How to Enable and Disable Rounded New Chrome UI
    Here's how you can enable or disable the new rounded Google Chrome UI, which brings rounded corners in tabs, buttons.
  27. Security and Windows TCO
    mostly the latter
  28. Android Open Source Project (AOSP) Isn't Freedom, Even If Android Contains Linux (GPL)
    "Free Software Freedom is Not Linux," as Thomas Grzybowski explained 3 years ago
  29. Git v2.43.0
    New release
  30. Linux Foundation Has More or Less Killed Linux.com
    only 3 posts in 2 months and all of them bear no text, just some link to another site
  31. TensorFlow 2.15 Is Faster, Brings New One-Shot Installer for NVIDIA CUDA Acceleration on Linux
    The latest release of TensorFlow, version 2.15, is out now — and brings with it a much easier way to get started with CUDA-based accelerated machine learning on NVIDIA hardware under Linux
  32. An Affordable $35 Computer For Low-Income Families
    You are unlikely to find the Raspberry Pi computer in most big-box electronics stores because it is not advertised heavily like the more popular Mac and Windows computers
  33. Android Leftovers
    Google Drive redesigns the document scanner on Android
  34. today's leftovers and howtos
    4 more links
  35. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
    FOSS news
  36. Programming Leftovers
    Rust, Shell, and more
  37. Security Failures: Windows TCO and SolarWinds
    Cost of adopting Microsoft stacks
  38. Open Hardware: Raspberry Pi and More
    mostly Raspberry Pi
  39. Will anybody save Linux on Itanium? Absolutely not
    It's doomed to sink... but the how and why is interesting
  40. Pi-lomar Puts an Observatory in Your HandsPi-lomar Puts an Observatory in Your Hands
    Built with a Raspberry Pi 4, a RPi Hi Quality camera, and a Pimoroni Tiny2040
  41. CinePi Project Promises Open Source Movie Making
    Today, there’s open source options for pretty much anything mainstream
  42. EndeavourOS Ditches Xfce for KDE Plasma with the Galileo Release
    EndeavourOS has a new major release today dubbed Galileo, which comes with some significant and exciting changes for fans of this Arch Linux-based rolling release distribution.
  43. Games: Zarathustra, Action Roguelikes Bundle, Polychromatic, and More
    7 articles by Liam Dawe
  44. GNU/Linux and Android in Argentina and Falkland Islands
    Some monthly stats
  45. Security Leftovers
    patches and incidents
  46. Ubuntu Budgie switches its approach to Wayland
    Elementary OS going full speed ahead, but Parachutist Parakeet considers a new, post-Enlightenment glide path
  47. EndeavourOS Drops Xfce, Adopts KDE Plasma in "Galileo" Release
    Learn what's new in EndeavourOS "Galileo" release, which brings KDE Plasma desktop as default option, dropping Xfce and additional updates.
  48. Claws Email 4.2 Released with Improved Attachment Management
    Claws Email 4.2 has just been released, and it comes packed with several enhancements and bug fixes to improve your email experience on Linux desktops.
  49. HandBrake 1.7 Released with AMD VCN AV1 and NVIDIA NVENC AV1 Encoders
    HandBrake 1.7 has been released today as a major update to this open-source, free, and cross-platform video transcoder application for GNU/Linux.
  50. Intel NUC 13 Pro Mini PC Running Linux: BIOS
    This is a multi-part blog looking at an Intel NUC 13 Pro Mini PC running Linux
  51. How to Create Fibonacci Sequence in LibreOffice
    Here's how you can create a Fibonacci sequence in LibreOffice or OpenOffice Calc.
  52. Digital Freedom: No Clicking on “I Agree” to Use Smartphones or PCs Supported by PureOS
    Smartphones, tablet PCs, laptop PCs, or servers supported by PureOS, from Purism, do not require the Purism customer to click on “I Agree”
  53. Pseudo Open Source Foundations
    By Lunduke
  54. Midnight Heist - Looting and Zombies, Reviewed on GNU/Linux
    Midnight Heist, developed and published by MediaTale
  55. today's leftovers
    half a dozen more stories
  56. Exploring a Postgres query plan
    I learned this week that you can intercept and redirect Postgres query execution
  57. Programming Leftovers
    C++, Python, and more
  58. Mini PC Running Linux and More Hardware News
    GNU/Linux-friendly (or centric) hardware
  59. Open Hardware: Arduino, PureOS, and Raspberry Pi
    3 stories
  60. Security Leftovers
    5 stories for now
  61. Discovering SmartOS as a Home Hypervisor
    Plus: 8 Amazing GNU/Linux Distributions for Kids
  62. GNU/Linux Application Lists: Instant Messaging, Ubuntu Misc. and Accounting/Finance
    3 new lists
  63. Pied Beta
    application that makes it easy to use modern, natural sounding, text-to-speech voices on Linux
  64. Nextcloud as Personal Cloud
    a lot has happened in the Nextcloud world since then
  65. today's howtos
    many howtos for the night
  66. Events: openSUSE.Asia Summit, Godot, SemiBUG, KHNOG 5
    4 new ones, finished or upcoming

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