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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 28, 2023

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Updated This Past Day

  1. Nobara 39 Officially Released
    Happy Holidays!

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  2. AMD’s Next-Gen Zen 5 CPUs Recieve New Support In Linux, PMC Drivers Aim Onboard SoC
    The AMD Zen 5 family has been receiving various patches and support within Linux for the last few months
  3. today's howtos
    only 5 for now
  4. Postgres pioneer promises to upend the database once more
    Turing Award winner whose research and startups broke ground for five decades, tells The Reg he has more up his sleeve
  5. GNU/Linux Saw Its Biggest Global Boost This Month, Rising 0.6% in a Month Based on statCounter [original]
    This is unprecedented
  6. today's howtos
    only 3 technical ones for now
  7. Best Finance and Accounting Software for Linux
    a long list
  8. Databases: JDBC FDW 0.4.0, pgModeler, and MiluDBViewer
    3 new links
  9. ESP32, Raspberry Pi, and More
    Open Hardware/Modding links
  10. Games: Lists, Bans. and Leaks
    3 stories, some related to GNU/Linux
  11. Android Leftovers
    Battery running low on Android? Three little-known buttons to help ‘maintain 100% power’ for longer
  12. RISC-V Grows With Qualcomm (and Others, in China Also)
    new report and some older ones
  13. PostgreSQL: pgtt v3.1, PGSpider 4.0.0, GridDB FDW 2.3.0, DynamoDB FDW 1.3.0
    4 new postgres-related releases
  14. 8 Exciting Open Source Apps Linux Users Loved Exploring in 2023
    The best underrated apps that we discovered in 2023
  15. PostgreSQL: Parquet S3 FDW 1.1.0 released
    This release can work with PostgreSQL 13, 14, 15 and 16
  16. today's leftovers
    4 more technical links
  17. Programming Leftovers
    mostly Python
  18. Games: Steam, Rasterization, and More
    some gaming news
  19. today's howtos
    picking up pace again
  20. The Life and Death of Open Source Companies
    About Prusa and more
  21. Linux-Centric Devices and Open Hardware
    Microcontrollers, RISC-V, Blackbird and Talos II
  22. Android Leftovers
    Powerful Android MDM alerts to increase business efficiency
  23. Fedora 40 Plans to Merge /usr/bin and /usr/sbin Directories
    Learn about the Fedora 40 change proposal, which plans to merge the /usr/bin and /usr/sbin directories together.
  24. Does Wayland really break everything?
    I’ve written some other posts on Wayland recently, and it’s time for another one
  25. 4 Best Free and Open Source Console BitTorrent Clients
    Only free and open source software is eligible for inclusion
  26. Tagged PDF funsies
    PDF was originally designed as a file format for pixel perfect layout of graphics on every conceivable device
  27. Free software in education and free software education
    Free software is vital for education, and free software education is vital for a free society
  28. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles
  29. Security Leftovers
    patches and incidents

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