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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 10, 2024

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Solus 4.5 Released with Calamares Installer, PipeWire, Linux 6.6, and New Xfce Edition

The developers behind the Solus distribution announced today the release and general availability of Solus 4.5 as the latest installation and live media for this independently developed distro.

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today's leftovers

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Programming Leftovers

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Fedora / Red Hat / IBM Leftovers

Red Hat helping Microsoft
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GNU micron 1.4 and KDiagram 3.0.1

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4 new episodes
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Latest from IBM's corporate GNU/Linux
Security Leftovers

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today's leftovers

KDE, Arduino, and DRM
Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers

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How to Transpose Tables (rotate) in LibreOffice

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Games: Eamon, UX, Steam, and More

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today's howtos and technical posts

quite a few for this morning
Canonical wants better Snap support outside Ubuntu, based on latest hires

Returning developer says he might get to "change some of the old ideas."
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