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  6. System76 Refreshes Its Adder WS Linux Laptop with an HX-Class 14th Gen Intel CPU
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  7. Istio 1.21.0
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  9. NetBSD 10.0 RC6 available!
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  10. Windows TCO and Security Leftovers
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  11. Scalpel - Recover Deleted or Lost Files on Linux
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  12. today's howtos
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  13. Programming Leftovers
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  14. Open Hardware: Booting Linux Over HTTP and An Important Consideration About Pi 5 Overclocking
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  15. Internet and the Web, Free Software and Standards
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  16. The Blog of Open Source Initative (OSI) Run by Microsoft to Promote Microsoft
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  19. System76 Adder Linux Laptop Gets a Hardware Refresh
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  20. mesa 24.0.3
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  21. Games: New Star GP, CLeM, Trappist, and More
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  22. Goodbye GNOME ISO: CachyOS March Release Prioritizes Plasma 6
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  23. Arducam KingKong – A Raspberry Pi CM4-based Edge AI camera with global shutter sensor, Myriad X AI accelerator
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  25. Best Free And Open Source Softwares
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  26. Purism Differentiator Series, Part 7: Freedoms
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  27. The story of distutils build directory in Gentoo
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  40. Software: Caprine, System G, ShellGPT, UPT, and Falco
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