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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 14, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. Free Software and Programming Leftovers

   FOSS leftovers

2. Games: Godot 4.1.4 RC 2 & 4.2.2 RC 3, ProtonUp-Qt Update

   Some gaming related stuff

3. Distributions and Operating Systems: Debian, OpenSUSE, and Haiku

   3 OS related updates

4. Security Leftovers and Windows TCO

   Windows TCO remains the main issue

5. Season of KDE 2024 and This Week in GNOME

   KDE and GNOME news

6. Fedora, CentOS, Red Hat, and IBM

   Some Red Hat stuff

7. Bits in Arduino: Automatic Irrigation and Espresso Machine

   a couple of Arduino projects

8. today's howtos

   many howtos for Saturday

9. Audiocasts/Shows: Linux Out Loud, Hackaday, and The Linux Link Tech Show

   3 new episodes

10. dysk | The Stupendous Filesystem Listing Utility

    dysk a must-have for GNU/Linux users

11. PostgreSQL: Greenmask v0.1.7 and pgtt v3.2

    2 new releases

12. Code Exploits

    The factory bosses had journalists beaten up and, with the help of BigTech and mainstream media played the Western press with apologetic, disinformation and fake stories of happy workers

13. Ubuntu 24.10 and Debian Trixie Are Getting a Refined APT Command-Line Interface

    Ubuntu 24.10 and Debian GNU/Linux 13 will feature a refined command-line feel for the APT package manager with columnar display, colors, and more padding for structured package information.

14. Ensuring KEcoLab Stability: Introducing Dedicated CI-Test

    KEcoLab, a tool for measuring software energy consumption, needs robust testing to ensure its functionality after every code change

15. Debian Package Tracker: Accepted apt 2.9.0 (source) into unstable

    Introduce the new terse apt output format 3.0

16. FFmpeg 7.0 "Dijkstra": Best New Features

    The new FFmpeg 7.0 major release brings parallel processing, MPEG-5 EVC support and more.

17. Kodi 21.0 “Omega”: A Must-Have Update for Everyone

    Kodi 21.0, the major update which you can’t afford to miss!

18. today's leftovers

    mostly FOSS stories

19. Windows TCO Leftovers

    2 new examples

20. Android Leftovers

    5 Unexpected Devices That Run Android

21. today's howtos

    half a dozen howtos

22. Oracle Announces Availability of New DTrace 2.0 for Linux

    Oracle's new DTrace version promises feature-complete system tracing for all Linux users

23. pimpd2 – Perl Interface for Music Player Daemon

    This is free and open source software written in Perl

24. Best Free and Open Source Softwarea And Web Frameworks

    We recommend the best free and open source alternatives

25. More ads are set to plague your Windows 11 PC, thanks to Microsoft

    It’s no secret that Windows 11 continues to endure a rocky reputation

26. This week in KDE: Explicit Sync

    This week something big got merged: support for Explicit Sync on Wayland

27. Linux-compatible AIO-3562JQ equipped with Rockchip RK3562J SoC

    T-Firefly has committed to supporting a range of Linux-based operating systems

28. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7: End of compliance content on June 30, 2024

    The RHEL 7 scap-security-guide package will no longer be updated

29. Games: Proton Experimental, RimWorld and More

    half a dozen picks from gamingonlinux

30. Today in Techrights

    Some of the latest articles

31. Open Hardware: Fairbuds, Raspberry Pi, and SparkFun Thing Plus

    4 stories about devices

32. Audiocasts/Shows: BSD Now, “What’s in the SOSS?”, and More

    new and old

33. Fedora DEI PR (Capable Developers Have Mostly Fled), IBM Layoffs in Several Countries

    Some Red Hat/IBM news

34. Programming Leftovers and Kernel Work

    Some Linux news too

35. PostgreSQL and Redis Leftovers

    3 stories

36. Security Leftovers and Windows TCO

    incidents and Windows TCO examples

37. today's howtos

    only 3 howtos for now

38. Linux: From Basement Burner to Almost-Cool Cousin

    with a whole 4% desktop market share, Linux might not be dethroning Windows anytime soon, but here’s the thing: that 4% is growing, and it’s growing for a reason

39. A Linux Machine for a Few Bucks

    Uros Popovic's project demonstrates how you can create your own practical Linux computer, completely from scratch, for about $5.

40. Best Games For Linux

    Players can enjoy some of the industry's best games on Linux, although some require a bit more work than others.

41. Penguin parade: Sinevibes now does Linux

    Love Linux? Time to show it: CDM fave Sinevibes has brought their Integer effect plug-in to Linux-native VST3. So it’d be great to hear from Linux-using CDMers about this one.

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