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Updated This Past Day

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  2. KDE Gear 24.05.2
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  3. Miracle-WM 0.3 Arrives with Bling, Bug Fixes - Better i3 IPC Support
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  4. OpenMandriva ROME 24.07 Release Candidate
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  5. Why Chimera Linux
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  6. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software and Openwashing (Fake, Microsoft-Sponsored Lobby, OSI)
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  7. Web Browsers Leftovers
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  8. Programming Leftovers
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  9. today's leftovers
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  10. GNU/Linux Hardware and Open Hardware
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  11. today's howtos
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  12. wcurl: Announcement and More
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  13. May and June in KDE PIM
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  14. Android Leftovers
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  15. Booting Linux off of Google Drive
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  16. today's leftovers
    5 more picks
  17. Open Hardware: “Retro Supplies”, Raspberry Pi, and More
    4 hardware stories
  18. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
    FOSS picks
  19. Programming Leftovers
    Programming picks
  20. Security Leftovers
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  21. today's howtos
    many howtos
  22. OpenSUSE and LEAP News
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  23. Windows TCO: Ransomware, Lockbit, and More
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  24. What Apple has forgotten...
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  25. Calamares Installer 3.3.8 Released, Here’s What’s New
    Calamares installer 3.3.8 bugfix release is out with updates in partitioning and encrypted swap fixes
  26. Celebrate Independence Day this Fourth of July by switching from Microsoft Windows 11 to Linux
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  27. Best Free and Open Source Software
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  28. Calamares & some Distro Notes
    Calamares is an indepdendent Linux distro-installer, and we just released Calamares 3.3.7
  29. Keychain Development Update: Yubikey Support
    Following my latest post about Keychain, here is a new development update
  30. ADLINK Unveils NXP i.MX 93 and i.MX 8M Plus Based Open Standard Modules
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