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Updated This Past Day

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    After a long wait of almost a month, Ubuntu 23.10 “Mantic Minotaur” users can now finally upgrade to the latest Ubuntu 24.04 LTS “Noble Numbat” release.
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  4. Programming Leftovers
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  5. Open Hardware: BreadboardOS, Arduino, and More
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  6. Software: Stratus, Floorp Browser in Linux, and mpv
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  7. Ubuntu in Malaysia, Games, and More
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  8. AlmaLinux, Red Hat, and Fedora
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  9. Security Leftovers
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  10. today's howtos
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  11. Elon Musk Suggests Shifting 'Consumer Desktops To Linux' As Satya Nadella Promotes Microsoft's New Windows AI Feature 'Recall' With Photographic Memory
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  12. Mesa 24.1 Linux Graphics Stack Released with Vulkan X11 WSI Explicit Sync Support
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  13. Android Leftovers
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  15. AlmaLinux Launches Engineering Steering Committee
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  16. Alpine Linux 3.20.0 Released
    We are pleased to announce the release of Alpine Linux 3.20.0, the first in the v3.20 stable series
  17. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
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  19. Windows TCO Leftovers
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  20. Red Hat Leftovers
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  21. Devices: Raspberry Pi, SparkFun, and More
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  22. today's howtos
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  23. LibreOffice 24.8 Alpha1 is available for testing
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  24. Games: King under the Mountain (Mountaincore) Liberated and More
    8 picks for today
  25. Oracle Abandons Terraform in Favor of OpenTofu
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  26. Sovereign Tech Fund Backs FFmpeg Project with a €157K Infusion
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  27. Slack Linux App Fixes Screen Sharing Under Wayland
    If you use Slack on Ubuntu and were frustrated that screen sharing under Wayland was only showing a black screen (or crashing the entire app entirely)
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  29. Google thinks the public sector can do better than Microsoft’s ‘security failures’
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  31. RMS (Richard Stallman) and Cancel Culture - Lugcast Clips Ep. 244
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  36. KDE Goals Sprint and Haruna 1.1.1
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  37. Audiocasts/Shows: Going Linux, Late Night Linux, Destination Linux
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  38. Security Leftovers
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  39. today's howtos
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  40. Ubuntu Leftovers
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  41. Linus Torvalds on Why He Does Not Like Cryptocurrencies | The Visionary Creator of the Linux Operating System Calls Crypto ‘A Great Vehicle for Scams’
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    1013 /n/2024/05/22/Oracle_Abandons_Terraform_in_Favor_of_OpenTofu.shtml
    951 /n/2024/05/19/today_s_howtos.shtml
    922 /n/2024/05/18/today_s_howtos.shtml
    889 /n/2024/05/18/Winamp_Media_Player_Goes_Open_Source.shtml
    860 /n/2024/05/18/Wine_9_9_Introduces_Wow64_Mode_and_Enhanced_ARM_Support.shtml
    833 /n/2024/05/14/Manjaro_Linux_24_0_Wynsdey_Officially_Released_with_Linux_Kerne.shtml
    814 /n/2024/05/17/GNOME_OS_Migrates_to_Systemd_Sysupdate.shtml
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