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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 04, 2024

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2. KDE Leftovers

   mostly technical posts

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3. Android Leftovers

   The SBC3399 primarily supports Android 11, as listed on its product page

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4. Dev Gets Linux Screenshot App Shutter Working on Wayland

   Longing to use the legendary Linux screenshot tool Shutter on Wayland

5. Free and Open in the Latest Draft of the EU Cyber Resilience Act

   New provisions related to free and open software in the December 20 draft of the CRA: [...]

6. GNU/Linux Growing in 2024 [original]

   it's spreading

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7. IPFire Linux Firewall Distro Kicks Off 2024 by Blocking Email Spammers by Default

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8. today's leftovers

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9. Modding and Open Hardware: Raspberry Pi and FPGAs

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10. Red Hat/Fedora/IBM: GDB, RHEL, neovim, dap, and More

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11. Software: Lan Mouse, Detect It Easy (DIE), Rdio Scanner, and OpenShot 'AI'-Wash

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12. today's howtos

    not many tooday

13. FSF: Raising Money, LibrePlanet in Wentworth Institute of Technology, Free Software Directory Meeting

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14. Security Leftovers and Windows TCO Tales

    media barely named the culprit

15. Emmabuntüs DE5 Starts the Year Strong with a Debian 12.4 Update

    Educational-targeted Emmabuntüs DE5 rolls out, rebased on Debian 12.4

16. LibreOffice Help files have now a much better content editor

    The LibreOffice Help documentation project members have now a much better Help editor

17. 7 of the Best Distros Based on Fedora Linux

    Fedora is a reliable GNU/Linux system that is great as a base for other larger distros. Learn the best distros today that use Fedora as its base

18. Jeffrey Epstein list: Bill Gates Likely Named Soon

    relevant to Microsoft

19. today's howtos

    not so many today

20. Gamers Are Switching to GNU/Linux (It's Faster and More Secure, Both Practical Benefits) [original]

    2% now

21. Windows TCO Leftovers

    Microsoft's fault again

22. Return to The Gopherverse

    away from the WWW?

23. Programming and Technical Leftovers

    for coders mostly

24. Consider Security First

    decision to ditch Raspberry Pi OS and move everything I possibly can, including my Raspberry Pi devices, to Debian

25. Open Hardware/Modding: Arduino and More

    Some devices and hackable things

26. BSD: OpenBSD and FreeBSD News

    Some news for BSD lovers

27. PureOS Unaffected by ext4 Data Corruption Bug

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28. Going Static is the Trend Now (Welcome, 2024!) [original]

    Join the club

29. Alacritty 0.13 Released with Enhanced Configurability

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30. Mozilla CEO wants business to pick up the pace

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