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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 14, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. Openwashing by 'Linux' Foundation, No Connection to Linux, Absent and Proprietary Components

   Openwashing as a service

2. Red Hat Leftovers

   From the official Red Hat site

3. Ubuntu 24.04.1 Point-Release Postponed to Late August

   Initially scheduled for August 19, Ubuntu 24.04.1's release was moved to August 29 after a few high-impact upgrade bugs were found

4. With eLxr, Wind River Brings Debian Linux to the Edge

   New Debian-based distro aims to match cloud native environments with heterogenous, computationally limited edge devices in remote locations

5. Today in Techrights

   Some of the latest articles

   New

6. Mozilla Faces Financial Uncertainty After Google Loses Lawsuit

   The Google Search Engine Cash Cow may be about to dry up for Firefox.

7. Open Hardware Leftovers

   Some hardware projects and news

8. Programming Leftovers

   Programming with python, Rust and more

9. Ubuntu, Fedora, and More

   today's leftovers

10. Audiocasts/Shows: LINUX Unplugged, Late Night Linux, and Bad Voltage

    3 new episodes

11. Windows TCO Leftovers

    Windows TCO stories

12. Security Leftovers

    Security stories for today

13. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers

    inc. Libreoffice and DBs

14. Web Browsers: Curl, Firefox, and Chrom*

    Some WWW tools

15. Software: wcurl, Magit, and FEX

    Some FOSS leftovers

16. today's howtos

    last batch for today

17. What’s Behind The Unusual DMCA Notices From “Crowdstrike”?

    disatrous backdoored Windows update of July, 2024

18. Raspberry Pi Pico, RP2350, and More

    some hardware picks

19. today's howtos

    many howtos, first batch

20. Standards: ActivityPub, QUIC, and Public Standard Document Formats

    Standards/Consortia leftovers

21. Android Leftovers

    LILYGO T-TWR REV2.1 is an ESP32 walkie-talkie board with display, GNSS, and SA868 module

22. Bad information drives out good or how much can we trust Wikipedia?

    This post is written on behalf of the LabPlot team. It’s different compared to what we usually publish on our homepage but we feel we need to share this story with our community

23. Efinix introduce the low-power Topaz RISC-V SoC FPGA family for “high-volume, mass-market applications”

    Some are pure FPGAs without a hardened processor, while others are Linux-capable thanks to a hardened quad-core RISC-V block

24. Windows TCO: Ransomware, Breaches, Botnets, and More

    a very Microsoft reality

25. PG Back Web 0.2 Brings Local Storage Support

    PG Back Web 0.2 PostgreSQL automatic backup solution features streamed backups, local storage options without needing S3, and one-click data restoration

26. Free Software Directory meeting on IRC: Friday, August 16, starting at 12:00 EDT (16:00 UTC)

    Join the FSF and friends on Friday, August 16 from 12:00 to 15:00 EDT (16:00 to 19:00 UTC) to help improve the Free Software Directory

27. Free and Open Source Software, howtos and Installations

    oksh is a portable OpenBSD ksh, based on the Public Domain Korn Shell (pdksh)

28. KDE, Kubuntu, Debian Qt6 updates plus Kubuntu Noble .1 updates

    Another loss last week of a friend. I am staying strong and working through it

29. Games: Super reaKtor, Minetest, and More

    Latest half a dozen from GamingOnLinux

30. Security and Windows TCO Leftovers

    mostly CISA

31. Open Hardware and Servers

    Pi and more

32. today's leftovers

    howtos, perl, and more

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