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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 27, 2023

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  3. Firefox 122 Enters Public Beta Testing with Improved Built-In Translation Feature
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  5. today's howtos
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  6. Programming Leftovers
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  8. PostgreSQL: pgBadger v12.4, CloudNativePG 1.22.0, 1.21.2 and 1.20.5 Released
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  9. Best Torrent Clients for Linux 2024
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  10. Stellarium 23.4 Added Lens Distortion Estimator Plugin, Tibetan Lunar Mansions
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  11. Android Leftovers
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  12. The curl activity of 2023
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  13. D-Bus overview
    D-Bus serves various purposes aiming to facilitate the cooperation between different processes in the system
  14. FreeBSD jailed ZFS datasets – how do I find the .zfs/snapshot directory?
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  15. The Grumpy Cricket (And Other Enormous Creatures)
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  16. Have a Helping of 8-bit Holiday Cheer! (2023 Edition)
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  17. 2023’s Moments That Marked the Open-Source World
    The most remarkable events in the Open Source ecosystem that shaped the year. Let’s recall them
  18. 7 Small (Lesser Known) Distros that Emerged Winner in 2023
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  19. Enlightenment 0.26 and EFL 1.27: From Eye-Candy to High Performance
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  20. today's howtos
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  21. Proprietary Software and Security Breaches
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  22. today's howtos
    very few for now
  23. In North America, GNU/Linux Surged to All-Time High This Month [original]
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  24. GNU/Linux Year in Review: The European Perspective [original]
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  25. GNU/Linux Year in Review: The Asian Perspective [original]
    Good year for GNU/Linux on the client side
  26. GNU/Linux Year in Review: The African Perspective [original]
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  27. Linux Server Operating Systems: Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Beyond
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  28. Ruby 3.3.0 Released
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  29. Linux Distro Reviews: Tuxedo OS
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