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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 14, 2024

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Updated This Past Day

  1. today's leftovers
    SUSE, Linux, and more
  2. Poof! Shaman Holly Million, Gnome’s Executive Director Disappears on July 31
    Professional shaman Holly Million, who became Gnome’s executive director in October
  3. Incus 6.3 Container & Virtual Machine Manager Released
    Incus 6.3 rolls out with initial support for running OCI application containers

    New

  4. Programming Leftovers
    focus on Qt
  5. Linux event and Linux kernel 6.6.39 compiled for EasyOS
    Some kernel news
  6. Open Hardware: RISC-V, Raspberry Pi, and Arduino
    4 stories
  7. Security Leftovers
    Security related links
  8. Fedora Project and Red Hat Leftovers
    Mostly Red Hat's stuff
  9. Software Leftovers
    Some Releases and EoL
  10. today's howtos
    only 5 more for now
  11. Microsoft Mischief and Fake Hype (or Bribed Commentators)
    Bubbles busting and more
  12. Programming Leftovers
    Programming picks
  13. Web Browsers Leftovers
    Web related news
  14. GNOME 47 Alpha Desktop Environment Released with Support for Accent Colors
    The GNOME Project today announced the alpha version of the upcoming GNOME 47 desktop environment series, due out later this year.
  15. Audiocasts/Shows: Hackaday, Self-Hosted, The Linux Link Tech Show, and Videos
    new episodes and videos
  16. today's howtos
    over 10 howtos for today
  17. Ubuntu: Telemetry, Security Updates, and Microsoft Projects
    Some Ubuntu news
  18. Fedora / Red Hat / IBM Leftovers
    Some Red Hat picks
  19. Open Hardware/Modding: Arduino, Android, and Raspberry Pi
    hardware news
  20. Windows TCO: the Cost of Microsoft
    TCO stories
  21. Linux Command Line for Beginners – creating directories and files
    In this Command Line for Beginners tutorial series I try to lay down the basics in simple steps to get a feel for what is possible with the command line and how to actually work with it
  22. 9 Best Free and Open Source Tools to Search the Filesystem
    Best Free and Open Source Software
  23. ArchBang – simple lightweight rolling release Linux distribution
    ArchBang is a simple live Arch Linux based distribution using the Openbox window manager
  24. Jargon Buster: What is an Immutable Distro?
    Immutable Linux distributions. While these existed for a while, it is getting popular now
  25. Reaching Higher [original]
    GNU/Linux seems to be growing a lot this month, as does the general interest in it (people looking for information)
  26. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles
  27. TrueNAS 24.04.1.1
    Latest bugfix

    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Saturday contains all the text.

    Top-read articles (excluding bot/crawler visits):

    Span from 2024-07-07 to 2024-07-13
    1093 /n/2024/07/02/OpenSSH_9_8_Fixes_Critical_sshd_Vulnerability.shtml
    1079 /n/2024/07/08/Mozilla_Firefox_128_Is_Now_Available_for_Download_Here_s_What_s.shtml
    925 /n/2024/07/10/Linux_6_6_38.shtml
    879 /n/2024/07/07/Ubuntu_23_10_Support_Ends_July_11_Upgrade_Soon.shtml
    828 /n/2024/07/09/6_10_rc7.shtml
    826 /n/2024/07/09/NethSecurity_8_1_Open_Source_Linux_Firewall_Released.shtml
    809 /n/2024/07/06/LocalSend_Share_Files_and_Messages_on_the_Local_Network.shtml
    791 /n/2024/07/04/Booting_Linux_off_of_Google_Drive.shtml
    779 /n/2024/07/07/Security_Leftovers.shtml
    774 /n/2024/07/08/COSMIC_Desktop_Introduced_Its_Official_Wallpapers.shtml
    762 /n/2024/07/10/DXVK_2_4_Released_with_Non_Native_Refresh_Rate_Emulation_Direct.shtml
    756 /n/2024/07/08/GDB_15_1_released.shtml
    734 /n/2024/07/07/today_s_howtos.shtml
    724 /n/2024/07/08/In_Rome_Use_GNU_Linux.shtml
    721 /n/2024/07/07/Programming_Leftovers.shtml

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