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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 17, 2024

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    Desktop Operating System Market Share Norway: Jan 2009 - Apr 2024

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  2. Planning a Small Party for Tux Machines [original]
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  3. GNU/Linux Inches Closer to 10% in Turkey [original]
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  4. Security Leftovers
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  7. Security Leftovers
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  8. Fedora / Red Hat Leftovers
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  9. Software and Games Leftovers
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  10. Open Hardware/Modding: Retro, STM32, Raspberry Pi, Role of GNU/Linux, and Arduino
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  11. today's howtos
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  12. KDE Frameworks and KDE Videos
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  13. Audiocasts/Shows: GNU World Order, Late Night Linux, WordPress Briefing, and Linux User Space
    Some new episodes
  14. Mozilla: These Weeks in Firefox, Servo, and More
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  15. Firefox 126 Enters Beta Testing with a Revamped Dialog for Clearing User Data
    While Mozilla is still working on releasing Firefox 125, which was delayed due to a last-minute blocker bug, they’ve already promoted the next major release, Firefox 126, to the beta channel for public testing.
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    The KDE Project released today KDE Plasma 6.0.4 as the fourth of five maintenance updates to the latest KDE Plasma 6 desktop environment series bringing fixes for bugs and crashes, as well as performance and UI improvements.
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  18. Android Leftovers
    Android to grow at ‘twice the pace of iOS’ in 2024, IDC says
  19. Zorin OS – Linux distribution based on Ubuntu
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  20. Fedora – innovative platform for hardware, clouds, and containers
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  22. 10 Small Image Tools that Pack a Real Punch
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  23. PMS – interactive console client for the Music Player Daemon
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  24. Purism Differentiator Series And Librem 5
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  28. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
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  29. Programming, Standards, Web Browsers, and Mozilla
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  30. Librem 5 and Purism Differentiator Series
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  33. today's howtos
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    946 /n/2024/04/12/Blaming_Linux_for_Intel_Defects.shtml
    849 /n/2024/04/13/today_s_howtos.shtml
    834 /n/2024/04/12/Raspberry_Pi_and_Counterparts.shtml
    817 /n/2024/04/10/Gentoo_Linux_becomes_an_SPI_associated_project.shtml
    791 /n/2024/04/11/Security_Leftoverrs.shtml
    782 /n/2024/04/10/Linux_continues_to_be_above_4_on_the_desktop.shtml
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