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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 23, 2023

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Updated This Past Day

  1. Graphics: XDC, NVK, and More
    4 stories, Linux focus

    New

  2. Open Hardware and Ubuntu, Openwashing and Linux Foundation
    some more leftovers, long weekend ahead
  3. today's leftovers
    3 stories
  4. KDE and GNOME Leftovers
    3 more stories
  5. IBM: Fedora on 'Macs' and PHP in RHEL, Alma, CentOS, Rocky...
    Some Red Hat stuff
  6. New Videos: Makulu Linux and Kdenlive (Akademy 2023 Keynote)
    2 new videos
  7. LinuxLinks on ASUSTOR Data Master 4.2 and 5 Best Free and Open Source No-Code Database Tools
    2 new articles
  8. Security Leftovers
    4 news stories of blog posts
  9. SUSE/OpenSUSE: SLE BCI, Lockdown (Microsoft), and OBS Has New and Improved Ways to Report
    SUSE news
  10. Dev snapshot: Godot 4.3 dev 1
    first dev snapshot
  11. today's howtos
    many howtos for the day
  12. Weston 13.0 release: Backends consolidation
    Weston 13.0 brings multiple fixes and important changes, notably the ability to load multiple backends simultaneously
  13. Announcing Incus 0.4
    Just as we’re wrapping up 2023, one last Incus release!
  14. Plymouth Linux Graphical Boot Manager Now Better Handles Display Rendering
    Plymouth, the open-source graphical boot animation and logger application, has been updated to version 23.51.283, a release that brings various new features and improvements.
  15. TUXEDO Control Center 2.1 Released with Exciting New Functions
    TUXEDO Computers announced today the availability of TUXEDO Control Center 2.1 open-source system tuning app for TUXEDO notebooks.
  16. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
    FOSS like Tor and more
  17. Programming Leftovers
    Python, Perl, and more
  18. Audiocasts/Shows: FLOSS Weekly and Linux in the Ham Shack
    2 new episodes
  19. Games: Steam Winter Sale and The Talos Principle 2
    only 2 from Liam Dawe yesterday
  20. Android Leftovers
    Android’s Nearby Share is getting rebranded ‘Quick Share’
  21. 8Devices Noni M.2 WiFi 7 module runs FirmUx embedded Linux distribution
    The source code for FirmUX is open-source and available for download, but only to customers
  22. Windows TCO Stories
    Cost of Windows
  23. PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.8.4 and rpki-client 8.7
    two new releases
  24. Devices and Hardware: OPNsense, Purism, Raspberry Pi, Arduino, SparkFun, and More
    BSD and GNU/Linux mostly
  25. Mozilla: Buzzwords, Privacy Pass, Firefox DevTools Newsletter
    Mostly Firefox stuff
  26. BSD: FreeBSD, PlayStation 5, and the Desktop
    Some BSD news
  27. today's howtos
    10 howtos for the morning
  28. Openwashing and Lock-in in 'Open' Clothing
    SFC and LF
  29. Linux 6.7-rc8 release (rather than 6.7 final) on December 31
    Schedule for final
  30. Security and Windows TCO Stories
    also patches and FUD
  31. Openwashing, Games, and More
    today's leftovers
  32. Security Leftovers
    Many incidents and such
  33. Mozilla: Pontoon survey results and multiple memory safety bugs
    a pair of Mozilla updates
  34. Red Hat / IBM: Training and Outsourcing (to Microsoft)
    a couple of new stories
  35. Devices: Avalue, FriendlyELEC, Arduino, Youyeetoo
    Devices that are "open" or Linux leaning
  36. today's howtos
    only 3 for now
  37. Etnaviv NPU update 13: Don't cross the tensors
    serious refactoring of the data structures
  38. Qt 6.7 Beta 1 Released and More Qt News
    3 new items
  39. GRUB 2.12 released
    GRUB maintainers are proud to announce GRUB 2.12 that has been just released
  40. Today in Techrights [Some of the latest articles]
    Some of the latest articles

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