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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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  4. Programming Leftovers
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  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
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  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
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  12. Android Leftovers
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  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
    Shell, Raku, Rust, and more
  17. Trisquel on arm64: Ampere Altra
    Having had success running Trisquel on the ppc64 Talos II, I felt ready to get an arm64 machine running Trisquel
  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
    Min 1.31 (Lightweight Browser) introduces the ability to select and manage multiple tabs seamlessly, improved userscript customization experience and more.
  28. Kodi 20.3 "Nexus" released as a last bug-fix update
    Discover the improvements in Kodi 20.3, address DVD playback issues, enable automatic recovery in the Music Library, and resolve platform-specific quirks for an all-encompassing media solution.
  29. LWN, Linux, and Benchmarks
    Kernel news
  30. Security Leftovers
    patches, issues, and incidents
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