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  2. Photographs From the Parties [original]
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  3. Windows Falls Below 25% in Uzbekistan [original]
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  4. Two Months After SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation) [original]
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  5. Not Made in China [original]
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  6. Tux Machines Parties (20 Years) [original]
    We've managed to keep the site going as usual despite preparations and other distractions and now we're back to normal

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  7. ]Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
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  8. Fedora / Red Hat / IBM Leftovers
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  9. Programming Leftovers
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  12. Open Hardware: Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and More
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  13. BSD: Building rbenv on OpenBSD 7.5 and FreeBSD Day Interview with Beastie
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  14. The X Window System is still hanging on at 40
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  15. This Week in GNOME: #153 Proudly Colorful
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  16. How to simplify switching from macOS to Linux
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  17. Windows TCO: Deaths, Ransom, and More
    Microsoft and TCO
  18. This week in KDE: Plasma 6.1 cleanups
    Plasma 6.1 has been released to good reviews! We’ve spent the week fixing issues reported so far, as always
  19. Games: VKD3D-Proton, Survivors Bundle, X4: Foundations
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  20. Best Free and Open Source Software
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  21. Trisquel – Linux distribution based on Ubuntu
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  22. A breath of SSD air for a 10-year-old (Linux) laptop
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  23. FOSS, Openwashing, and IBM
    today's leftovers
  24. Today's HowTos and Programming Leftovers
    today's howtos
  25. Security Leftovers and Windows TCO
    mostly security stuff
  26. Today in Techrights
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  27. GCC 12.4 Released
    The GNU Compiler Collection version 12.4 has been released

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