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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 24, 2023

Advent Calendar December 23 Focus

Updated This Past Day

  1. Whonix 16 approaching EOL
    recommend that all Whonix users upgrade to Whonix 17 before then

    New

  2. Arch Linux vs. Fedora Linux: Which Should You Use
    They're both great. It all depends on what matters to you
  3. Graphics: Vulkan Extensions and Wayland
    Igalia and IBM
  4. GNOME and LibreOffice in Nepal
    Free software stories
  5. Don’t change your login shell, use a modern terminal emulator
    a small tool that lets you change the default shell for your current user
  6. today's howtos
    another last cluster of HowTos for today
  7. This Week in GNOME: #127 Welcome News
    Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from December 15 to December 22
  8. Digital Restrictions (DRM) Cautionary Tales, Led by Microsoft
    DRM warningss
  9. Devices With Linux or Arduino
    A few more stories of Open-ish Hardware
  10. Android Leftovers
    HyperOS vs Android: these are the new features of Xiaomi OS
  11. Programming Leftovers
    Perl, Python, and more
  12. Audiocasts/Shows: Libre Space Foundation and BSD Now
    2 videos/episodes
  13. EDATEC ED-IPC3020 – A fanless Raspberry Pi 5 industrial computer with an M.2 NVMe SSD, RS485/RS232 interfaces
    EDATEC ED-IPC3020 is a fanless industrial computer based on the Raspberry Pi 5 SBC with support for an M.2 NVMe SSD up to 2260 in size, RS232 and RS485 serial ports, and stereo audio input and output jacks
  14. Net, Ceph, Gaming, and LF
    today's leftovers
  15. Windows TCO Stories
    Cracked due to Microsoft
  16. Latest Tails 5.21 Update Addresses Persistent Storage Issues
    Tails 5.21 release includes a fix for system partition resizing errors and updated Tor Browser 13.0.7
  17. 7 Reasons to Pick Nobara Linux Over Fedora
    This article will show you 7 reasons why you should pick Nobara Linux over Fedora
  18. 7 Best Free and Open Source Graphical Download Managers
    Only free and open source software is eligible for inclusion here
  19. Linux Candy: christmasfetch – a festive command-line utility
    We only feature open source software in this series
  20. Deepin OS Features in a Quick Overview
    This article presents a compilation of ten distinctive features of deepin OS
  21. This week in KDE: Holiday bug fixes
    Like last week, the focus remained on getting the megarelrease ready for, well, a mega release
  22. Open Hardware: Raspberry Pi, PiCar, and More
    Various Pi projects/stories
  23. today's howtos
    a batch of technical posts
  24. BSD: FreeBSD/armv7 in Qemu, FreeBSD's 2023 in Review, and More
    3 BSD-related stories
  25. Tails 5.21
    update now
  26. Open-Source Linux Distribution for Blue Teaming
    Tsurugi, developed by Giovanni Rattaro
  27. Today in Techrights [Some of the latest articles]
    Some of the latest articles

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