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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 11, 2024

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Updated This Past Day

  1. Linux Kernel 6.8 Officially Released, Here’s What’s New
    Linus Torvalds announced today the release and general availability of Linux kernel 6.8, the latest stable version of the Linux kernel that introduces several new features and improvements.

    New

  2. Wine 9.4
    The Wine development release 9.4 is now available.

    New

  3. today's howtos
    half a dozen howtos
  4. Audiocasts/Shows: GNU/Linux in the Ham Shack, Going GNU/Linux, This Week in GNU/Linux
    3 new episodes
  5. today's leftovers
    IBM, SUSE, and more
  6. Programming Leftovers
    And some about Linux (kernel) too
  7. Devices: Raspberry Pi, Buzzwords ("IoT"), SimplyNUC, and SparkFun
    5 new stories
  8. Windows TCO Stories
    Windows in action again
  9. today's howtos
    second batch of howtos
  10. Cozy Audiobook Player 1.3.0 Ported to GTK4 & LibAdwaita
    After almost 2 years
  11. Games: Proton Experimental/GE-Proton, Game Jam, and Geforce Now
    4 stories about gaming for today
  12. Android Leftovers
    How to cancel subscriptions on an Android to save money
  13. Meet Lingmo OS: macOS Looking Distro with Debian Base
    A new Linux distribution, Lingmo OS arrives from China, that looks like a Cutefish OS fork.
  14. How YOU Help With Quality
    In today’s other blog post, I mentioned how we’ve been getting a huge number of bug reports since the Mega-Release
  15. Security Leftovers
    databreaches.net is also back online
  16. Audiocasts/Shows: BSD Now, Self-Hosted, and The Linux Link Tech Show (TLLTS)
    3 new episodes
  17. today's howtos
    first one for Sunday
  18. Pithos Pandora Radio Client Released 1.6.2 with Few Fixes
    Pithos, the free open-source client for Pandora Radio, released new 1.6.2 version a few days ago
  19. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles
  20. #138 Refreshing Changes - This Week in GNOME
    Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from March 01 to March 08
  21. Security Leftovers
    and some FUD, too
  22. Open Hardware: Raspberry Pi and Arduino News
    Some hacker-friendly devices
  23. Red Hat Leftovers (Mostly Puff Pieces)
    How Red Hat is presenting itself
  24. EasyVoid version 240308 pre-alpha
    If you already have 6.0.1 or 6.0.2, you cannot update to 240308
  25. Messenger-GTK 0.9.0
    Following the new release of "libgnunetchat" there have been some changes regarding the applications utilizing it. So we are pleased to announce the new release of the Messenger-GTK application.
  26. PostgreSQL: pgAdmin, Ora2Pg, pgCluu, and More
    Some PostgreSQL news/releases
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Sunday contains all the text.

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