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Updated This Past Day

  1. Fedora Workstation 40 – what are we working on
    So Fedora Workstation 40 Beta has just come out

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  2. Proprietary Software Influences
    Proprietary stuff and fluff

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  3. Programming Leftovers
    Coding related links
  4. Audiocasts/Shows: FLOSS Weekly and mintCast
    a pair of new episodes
  5. Open Hardware: RISC-V, Raspberry Pi, and More
    Devices and such
  6. Security Leftovers
    patches, breaches, and more
  7. Software: Stellarium, Istio, Document Freedom Day
    Some FOSS news
  8. today's howtos
    last batch for today
  9. KDE: Releases of KTextAddons and Haruna
    some KDE software
  10. KEcoLab in SoK24: Incorporating Energy-Consumption Measurements In The CI/CD Pipeline
    Sustainability has been one of three goals at KDE over the past 2 years
  11. RIP, Simon Riggs (PostgreSQL)
    The PostgreSQL community mourns Simon Riggs
  12. LibreOffice 24.2.2 Is Now Available for Download with More Than 70 Bug Fixes
    The Document Foundation announced today the general availability of LibreOffice 24.2.2 as the second point release to the latest LibreOffice 24.2 office suite series fixing more than 70 bugs.
  13. Security and Windows TCO Leftovers
    Windows TCO mostly
  14. Free Software, WWW, and Opennwashing
    Some FOSS leftovers
  15. Programming and Open Hardware Leftovers
    some hackers' writings annd tips, RTR updates
  16. Nix, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and More
    Distro and OS leftovers
  17. Red Hat Leftovers
    mostly redhat.com
  18. Canonical/Ubuntu Self-Promotion and Announcements
    a chain of puff pieces
  19. Android Leftovers
    Delete these free VPN apps from your Android phone before they turn you into a cybercriminal!
  20. Games: 4D Golf, Lost For Swords, and More
    4 stories from gamingonlinux
  21. BeagleY-AI: Powering Open Source Innovation with the Texas Instruments AM67A
    A single-board computer that emphasizes open-source hardware in an industry-standard form factor
  22. "Powering On" Explained
    Feeling a little perplexed by how your computer goes from idle aluminum to a full-fledged modern device
  23. Alyssa Rosenzweig, who spearheaded the reverse-engineering of Apple's GPU, to keynote LibrePlanet
    The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today announced Alyssa Rosenzweig, who reverse-engineered Apple's current line of graphics processing units (GPU)
  24. Best Free and Open Source Matrix Clients and Linux Graph Databases
    Every program featured here is published under an open source license
  25. Kdenlive 24.02.1 released
    A big thank you to everyone who reported issues during this transition
  26. today's howtos
    morning howtos for today
  27. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles
  28. today's leftovers
    very GNU/Linux focused
  29. Programming Leftovers
    and some hardware too
  30. Istio, SQLite Viewer, and More Software
    Some FOSS updates
  31. Security Leftovers
    Linux and more
  32. Linux-capable RISC-V soft cores for Achronix FPGAs
    Achronix has teamed up with Bluespec to offer a family of Linux-capable RISC-V soft processors for the Speedster7t FPGA family
    Sadly, though, they recently stopped working
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    817 /n/2024/03/26/Canonical_Extends_LTS_Support_to_12_Years.shtml
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