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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 12, 2024

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  1. Microsoft-Connected Sites Taking Note of GNU/Linux Seeing "a Fivefold Increase" in 15 Years on Desktops/Laptops [original]
    "Linux had a market share of just 0.68% in 2009. In 2023, that share had ballooned to 3.82%."

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    today's leftovers
  4. Programming Leftovers
    R and more
  5. Ubuntu: Colin Watson Leaves Canonical, Ubuntu 22.04 Users Can Now Upgrade to Linux Kernel 6.5
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  6. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software: OpenTofu and “Delayed Open Source Publication” (DOSP), FOSS Weekly
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  7. Open Hardware/Modding: Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and ESP32
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  8. PipeWire Camera Support Is Coming to OBS Studio for Linux Desktops
    GNOME developer Georges Stavracas has merged today the PipeWire Camera support into the master branch of the popular OBS Studio open-source screencasting and streaming app.
  9. Security Leftovers
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  10. Software/'Apps': Mail Transfer Agents, Textual, IRC Clients, Media Downloader, and More
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  11. today's howtos
    many howtos for the day
  12. Android Leftovers
    How To Check Android Build Number
  13. Firefox: Fixing keyboard navigation in Inspector Rules view
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  14. Canonical on High Performance Computing and Servers One Can Control
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  15. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
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  16. Programming Leftovers
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  17. Trisquel on arm64: Ampere Altra
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  18. Devices: 'Dumb' Home, Home Screen, Raspberry Pi Zero, and More
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  19. Web Browsers: PSL un Curl, Brave, and Firefox
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  20. Software: Introducing Spiel, Fast Image Resizer, and Office Suites
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  21. today's howtos
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  22. Games: Valve, Townseek, Usurper, and Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth
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  23. Windows TCO Leftovers
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  24. Android Leftovers
    This new thing happens with Gboard when you connect a physical keyboard to your Android tablet
  25. Gabriel-Cezarin Popovici helps the campaigns team to spread the message that we need to fight for our digital freedom
    My reason for using GNU/Linux up until 2018 was because it was just plain better than Windows
  26. Android Leftovers
    How to take a screenshot on Android? 7 best ways explored
  27. Min 1.31 Released as a New Bug Fix Update for Lightweight Browser
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  29. LWN, Linux, and Benchmarks
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  30. Security Leftovers
    patches, issues, and incidents
  31. Today in Techrights
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