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Updated This Past Day

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    There are several changes happening in openSUSE’s rolling release Tumbleweed
  2. "What will be the end of Windows? Microsoft." [original]
    Things are changing
  3. GNU/Linux Usage Estimates in Australia and New Zealand Not High, But They've Doubled in Recent Years [original]
    From statCounter's latest data

    New

  4. KDE Plasma 6.0.1 Is Here to Improve the Overview Effect and Fix Several Bugs
    The KDE Project released today KDE Plasma 6.0.1 as the first maintenance update to the latest KDE Plasma 6 desktop environment series addressing various bugs, crashes, and annoyances.
  5. Linux Mobile Distro postmarketOS Adopts systemd to Better Support GNOME, KDE Plasma
    The developers of the Alpine Linux-based postmarketOS mobile distribution announced today that they’re now supporting the systemd init system alongside OpenRC and other alternative init systems.
  6. Android Leftovers
    The 1Password Android app just got a huge upgrade
  7. today's howtos
    second batch for today
  8. Windows TCO Leftovers
    Cost of using Windows
  9. Red Hat Leftovers
    only from redhat.com for now
  10. Arti 1.2.0 is released: onion services development
    Arti is our ongoing project to create a next-generation Tor client in Rust
  11. Towards Thunderbird for Android – K-9 Mail 6.800 Simplifies Adding Email Accounts
    Setting up an email account in K-9 Mail is something many new users have struggled with in the past
  12. rpki-client 9.0 released
    great stride forward in routing security
  13. Android Leftovers
    Lava launches Blaze Curve 5G with stock Android OS
  14. Opus 1.5 Released
    This 1.5 release is unlike any of the previous ones
  15. FreeBSD 13.3-RELEASE Announcement
    just now
  16. Panthor open-source driver for Arm Mali-G310, Mali-G510, Mali-G610, and Mali-G710 GPUs to be part of Linux 6.10
    Rockchip RK3588 SoC with an Arm Mali-G610 MP4 GPU will soon have 100% open-source graphics support in Linux
  17. X graphics rendering as contrasted to Wayland rendering
    Thomas Adam (of fvwm fame) pointed out on the FVWM mailing list (here, also) a difference between X and Wayland that I'd been vaguely aware of before but hadn't actually thought much about
  18. Open Hardware: Raspberry Pi Pico, Router, RISC-V, Arduino
    4 stories for today
  19. Silverfox is a Classic Chrome Theme for Firefox ESR
    A new open-source nostalgia project lets you turn back the clock on web browser aesthetics
  20. Kaki Pi is a Raspberry Pi-inspired Renesas RZ/V2H AI SBC with four camera connectors, a PCIe 3.0 interface
    Yuridenki will provide a Yocto Linux SDK for the Kaki Pi SBC
  21. Industrial OpenWrt gateway features MediaTek MT7628 SoC, WiFi, LTE, and GNSS connectivity
    The AG-702 is said to run OpenWrt 23.05 with the Atreyo Environment V1.01b and Linux kernel 5.15.71
  22. Purism Differentiator Series, Part 6: Security
    The more doors you have the more doors can be opened, at Purism we remove the BIOS/UEFI and either install coreboot or PureBoot
  23. Games: Nintendo Kills Yuzu, Steam, Wine Updates
    5 stories from Liam Dawe
  24. Steam Survey for February 2024 shows a big bump in Simplified Chinese
    Seems like once again we're seeing an Asia influx on Steam
  25. today's howtos
    first batch of today
  26. Best Laptops for Linux in 2024
    maybe promotionl? Spammy? Not sure...
  27. Security and FUD Leftovers
    only 3 for now
  28. NVIDIA Blocks Efforts to Expand CUDA Compatibility to Other Platforms
    NVIDIA prevents the development of translation layers to run CUDA on other platforms.
  29. Using Fedora Linux as Daily Driver for Years [Real Tips]
    Here are a few tips to keep using Fedora Linux as your daily driver for many years, based on my actual experiences.
  30. Introducing NixBSD: Unofficial NixOS Fork with FreeBSD Kernel
    NixBSD Introduces NixOS Fork with FreeBSD Kernel Integration.
  31. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles
  32. The Rise and Rise of GNU/Linux in Malaysia [original]
    estimated GNU/Linux usage in Malaysia based on statCounter
  33. Tired of Windows tracking and invasive ads? Here's how to game on Linux
    many Windows users are looking for an alternative

    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Tuesday contains all the text.

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