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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 09, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. God Bless GNU/Linux? Windows Vista 11 Falls to Relative Share Lower Than It Was a Year Ago in the United States of America. [original]

   Microsoft's efforts at Windows "user retention" (e.g. "WSL") won't work

2. Monday Coffee Notes [original]

   As we made publicly known quite some time back, a campaign of harassment was targeted at my wife (and at this site)

   New

3. EndeavourOS Devs Say “Goodbye” to Their ARM Branch, Maintainers Needed

   Founder and project leader of EndeavourOS Bryan Poerwoatmodjo published today a short blog post announcing the end of the road of the distribution’s ARM branch due to a lack of recent upstream changes and maintainers.

4. Distributions and Operating Systems: Mageia Server Problems and QV Installer in EasyOS

   two updates from distros of GNU/Linux

5. Games: Total Eclipse in ScummVM and Arch Linux Adapting for Games

   Some gaming news

6. Rise of HarmonyOS in China, GNU/Linux Popularity, and Best PCs for GNU/Linux

   Some leftovers

7. Open Hardware/Modding: Framework and Raspberry Pi 5

   A couple of hardware picks

8. Debian: Thorsten Alteholz's Report, DPL Race, and Debian Policy 4.7.0.0

   Some Debian news

9. Audiocasts/Shows: This Week in Linux, Going Linux, and GNU World Order

   3 new episodes

10. today's howtos

    3 howtos

11. Security Leftovers

    Security news with Linux and breaches focus

12. This Is the Secret to a Hassle-Free Linux Desktop

    Well, we're not declaring it the Year of the Linux Desktop quite yet.

13. Linux 6.9-rc3

    new RC now out

14. Fragments 3.0

    It has finally happened! The long awaited major update of Fragments is now available...

15. Android Leftovers

    3 New Android Phones You Can Actually Repair Yourself

16. Goodbye EndeavourOS ARM

    Even though we are saying goodbye to the project with pain in our hearts

17. ADLINK OSM-IMX93 is an OSM Size-L module based on NXP i.MX 93 SoC

    ADLINK provides a Yocto Linux BSP for the OSM Size-L module with extended support (BSP) available through Foundries.io

18. 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: April 7th, 2024

    The 182nd installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on April 7th, 2024.

19. today's leftovers

    4 misc. links

20. today's howtos

    early morning howtos

21. PiVPN Releases Final Version and Announces Project Shutdown

    PiVPN's journey concludes with v4.6.0. The last update brings bug fixes, refactors, and the addition of Pi-hole in unattended installs

22. Zrythm – automated and intuitive digital audio workstation

    This free and open source software is currently in a beta stage of development

23. Compilations of the Best Free and Open Source Static Site Generators, Linux Compression Tools, and Graphical Music Players

    All of the programs featured in these articles are free and open source

24. Review: Dr.Parted Live 24.03

    Before the tidal wave of new mainstream releases descends upon us this April

25. Season of KDE: Adding MCAP support to Labplot

    This article describes the work done for adding MCAP support to LabPlot as part of the Season of KDE 2024

26. 30,000 German Government PCs to Switch to LibreOffice

    Schleswig-Holstein Government agencies to adopt Linux and LibreOffice to move away from vendor lock-in.

27. Today in Techrights

    Some of the latest articles

28. Springtime in Tux Machines [original]

    As GNU/Linux growth continues (it's becoming more widespread in more countries) we expect to remain relevant

29. Tridge returns to rsync (but outsourcing to proprietary GitHub and Discord), a Look at Bottles, and more

    Some software news

30. today's howtos

    from the past week or so

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