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  1. SUSE, Ubuntu, and Games
    today's leftovers, half a dozen links
  2. Programming Leftovers
    including some KDE
  3. Mozilla Leftovers
    Picture-in-Picture and SUMO updates
  4. Open Hardware/Modding: Raspberry Pi, RISC Processor, and Alberto Ruiz Having Adventures
    hardware-centric stories
  5. BSD: Some BSD Stories About Deb Goodkin and Poul-Henning Kamp
    BSD pair of posts
  6. Security Leftovers and Windows TCO
    especially Windows TCO today
  7. today's howtos
    afternoon batch for the weekend
  8. Darktable 4.8.1 Released with Various Bug-Fixes [Ubuntu PPA]
    Darktable, the popular raw image processing software, released new 4.8.1 version few days ago
  9. Android Leftovers
    Your Android Phone's Web Browser Has Junk Files You Can Delete Now
  10. Bring back distro-wide themes!
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  11. Funtoo Linux Project Being Discontinued?
    Funtoo Linux to end? Founder Daniel Robbins announces the project's closure in August
  12. Immich Hits Milestone with 40,000 Stars on GitHub
    Immich, a self-hosted photos and videos backup solution, celebrates 40K stars with v1.110
  13. Best Free and Open Source Software, howtos and Installations
    All of these tools are released under a freely distributable license
  14. ArchEX Linux live system
    ArchEX 64bit is a Linux live system based on Arch Linux
  15. This week in KDE: features and UI polish
    After last week’s bug-squash-a-thon, this week there was more focus on features and user interface improvements
  16. How AlmaLinux Came to Be Fixing Bugs Ahead of a Content Creation-Focused Open-Source Event
    This is a story about a software project and a small Linux Foundation-sponsored conference for a niche audience that’s generally beneath the radar
  17. Windows TCO: Healthcare Besieged, ClownStrike Postmortem, Windows Ransomware
    the chaos persists
  18. Linux Weekly Roundup and Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update
    Some GNU/Linux news updates
  19. Games: Scorchlands, Old School Rally, and More
    Latest half a dozen from GamingOnLinux
  20. Perl Programming Leftovers
    perl site updates
  21. today's howtos
    most of these days old though
  22. Security Leftovers
    mostly CISA stuff
  23. New Videos and Shows
    Mostly from Invidious
  24. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles
  25. Alpine 3.20.2, 3.17.9, 3.18.8 and 3.19.3
    4 new releases
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Saturday contains all the text.

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    1174 /n/2024/07/21/OpenMandriva_ROME_24_07_Released.shtml
    1110 /n/2024/07/19/Apache_Software_Foundation_Becomes_Politics.shtml
    943 /n/2024/07/23/NVIDIA_560_Beta_Linux_Driver_Released_with_Open_GPU_Kernel_Modu.shtml
    897 /n/2024/07/23/The_final_Linux_Mint_22_ISOs_are_undergoing_final_checks_before.shtml
    804 /n/2024/07/24/today_s_howtos.shtml
    768 /n/2024/07/24/GNOME_bans_Manjaro_Core_Team_Member_for_uttering_Lunduke.shtml
    761 /n/2024/07/23/The_GNU_C_Library_version_2_40_is_now_available.shtml
    716 /n/2024/07/23/First_Pop_OS_24_04_Alpha_with_COSMIC_DE_Drops_on_August_8.shtml
    713 /n/2024/07/25/today_s_howtos.shtml
    706 /n/2024/07/23/today_s_howtos.shtml
    696 /n/2024/07/23/Programming_Leftovers.shtml

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