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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 05, 2024

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1. What All the Media Hysteria About Xz Serves to Distract From (Still) is a Successful Breach by China, Enabled by Microsoft

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2. Qt Creator 13 Released with Offline and Online Installers for Linux on ARM

   Qt Creator 13 open-source IDE is now available for download with offline and online installers for Linux on ARM, as well as various improvements. Here’s what’s new!

3. Audiocasts/Shows: FLOSS Weekly, Destination Linux, and More

   3 new episodes

4. Security Leftovers and Windows TCO

   Windows TCO has been distracted from lately

5. today's howtos

   5 howtos for now

6. Programming and Devices

   Programming links mostly

7. Distributions and Operating Systems: CentOS, Ubuntu, and More

   today's leftovers

8. Principles not products: Why we need more top-down security engineering.

   I've always started my classes with a different set of fundamental questions. What is security?

9. Linux Weekly News (“LWN”) is Taking Money from IBM, Hires Staff From IBM

   biases the coverage

10. Linux Magazine's Latest Issue

    many articles but paywalled partly

11. Linux Usage Increases in Two Key Areas

    If market share is your thing, you'll be happy to know that Linux is on the rise in two areas that, if they keep climbing, could have serious meaning for Linux's future

12. Web Browsers Leftovers

    Chrom*, Mozilla, and more

13. GNU and Free, Libre, and Open Source Software

    Some Free software leftovers and events

14. Programming Leftovers

    only 4 picks for now

15. Security Leftovers

    only 3 for now

16. today's howtos

    morning/afternoon howtos

17. Open Hardware: Arduino, SparkFun, and More

    Some hardware news

18. Debian: Whonix Introduced, Carter to Leave as DPL, and FreeOffice (Not Free Software) on Debian 12

    3 bits of information about Debian

19. Surveillance by the New Microsoft Outlook App

    The ProtonMail people are accusing Microsoft’s new Outlook for Windows app of conducting extensive surveillance on its users

20. LXC Project Announces 6.0 LTS Release with Support Until 2029

    LXC 6.0 LTS container management solution launches with major updates

21. One Week With KDE Plasma Workspaces 6 on Fedora 40 Beta (Vol. 1)

    Why am I doing this

22. Games: Lemonade, Screenbound, Superstar Strategy, and More

    7 gamingonlinux items

23. German state moving 30,000 PCs to LibreOffice

    The term digital sovereignty is very important here

24. FIREBAT T8 Plus Mini PC Running Linux: Multimedia

    For this article, we’re testing the multimedia capabilities of this tiny PC using Ubuntu 23.10

25. What Microsoft Staff/GitHub/systemd Hopes to Distract From This Week

    Windows TCO

26. 5 Best Free and Open Source Linux Font Renderers

    In the days when Linux was a fledgling operating system

27. Plasma 6 third review - laptop with Nvidia graphics

    My exploration of Plasma 6 be continuing

28. (Updated) Radxa previews ZERO 3E Single Board Computer with GbE port

    Radxa mentions that the ZERO 3E will support operating systems such as Debian, Ubuntu, and Android

29. Windows TCO, Kernel, and PCLinuxOS

    today's leftovers

30. GNOME 46 puts Flatpaks front and center

    The GNOME project announced GNOME 46 (code-named "Kathmandu") on March 20

31. Debian and Ubuntu Stories

    3 links only

32. today's howtos

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33. Today in Techrights

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34. Security Leftovers

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