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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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  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
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  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)
    ‘Tis the season, and that means it’s time to push out the twelfth annual Byte Cellar vintage computer Holiday demo roundup so everyone can feel that warm, fuzzy, pixellated holiday glow
  17. 2023’s Moments That Marked the Open-Source World
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  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]
    don't take this for granted
  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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