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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 29, 2024

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Updated This Past Day

  1. New renderers for GTK
    Recently, GTK gained not one, but two new renderers: one for GL and one for Vulkan
  2. AMD Open Sources Drivers for XDNA-Based NPUs
    AMD Open Sources Drivers for XDNA-Based NPUs, Boosting ML and Signal Processing Performance
  3. Annotating the Debian packaging directory
    In my previous blog post Providing online reference documentation for debputy
  4. Niri: A Scrollable-Tiling Wayland Compositor
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  5. 5 Compelling Reasons Why You Should Learn Linux
    Linux is a powerful operating system that fuels most of our digital world
  6. 9 Best Free and Open Source Graphical YouTube Tools Bypassing the Web-Only Barrier
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  7. GNOME battery charge control
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  8. Budgie 10.9 Desktop Adds Initial Wayland Support, Redesigned Bluetooth Applet
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  9. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
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  10. Security and Windows TCO Leftovers
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  11. today's leftovers
    BSD, IBM, and more
  12. Arch Linux-Based SystemRescue 11 Released with Linux Kernel 6.6 LTS
    Arch Linux-based SystemRescue 11 live Linux toolkit for system rescue and recovery tasks has been released today with a newer kernel, new packages, and various enhancements.
  13. today's howtos
    first long batch for today
  14. The Land Before Linux: The Unix desktops
    Way back in 1993, I oversaw a PC Magazine feature review on Unix desktops. Yes, that's right, before I was a Linux desktop user, I was a Unix user.
  15. Perl Leftovers
    Some perl picks
  16. Parch Linux: A Simple Arch-Based Distribution for All
    We review Parch Linux, based on Arch Linux and relatively new in the distribution space.
  17. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles
  18. Events: FSD Meeting Recap and Canonical at Mobile World Congress Barcelona 2024
    a couple of "events"
  19. Security and Windows TCO Leftovers
    incidents and bugs
  20. Microsoft Layoffs and Prolonged Downtimes
    more mass layoffs
  21. Programming Leftovers
    R, Rust, Python, and more
  22. Open Hardware: Arducam, Raspberry Pi, and ESP32
    3 devices that are hackable
  23. Bootable USB and CD Rescue Systems (Mostly GNU/Linux Based)
    2 new links
  24. Applications and Free Software
    various FOSS links
  25. KDE, Plasma 6, and Qt (Now Proprietary)
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  26. Microsoft Trying to Capture Developers by Paying Projects to Spread .NET and C#
    3 links, mostly Godot
  27. Openwashing by OSI and Linux Foundation (Promotion of Proprietary as "Open")
    Typical capture by Microsoft et al
  28. Fedora Family / Red Hat / IBM Leftovers
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