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Updated This Past Day

  1. TUXEDO Gemini 17 Gen3 Linux Laptop Launches with AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX
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  3. Shotcut 24.09 Video Editor Brings Fixes for Major New Bugs, Improvements
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  4. KDE Frameworks 6.6 Is Out with Support for Cross-Desktop Thumbnail Generators
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  6. Fedora 42 to Introduces New Anaconda Web UI Installer
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  7. GNOME Foundation Opens Search for New Executive Director
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  10. What's new in GNOME 47? 6 features that make it a worthy upgrade
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  11. Entrapment and Openwashing Leftovers
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  12. Security Leftovers
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  13. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software and Programming Leftovers
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  14. Canonical/Ubuntu News, Releases, Screenshots
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  15. Latest From Red Hat's Site and Purchased Fake Articles That Promote Buzzwords and Hype
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  16. GNOME Asia 2024 in Bengaluru, India and Tiling Shell
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  17. KDE, Akademy, Plasma, and Neon
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  18. Audiocasts/Shows: mintCast, Sudo Show, and BSD Now
    3 new episodes
  19. Games: OSS Android Gaming, Steam Deck, and Pop_OS!
    Gaming related picks for the day
  20. Release of trurl 0.15.1
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  21. The Worst Part of Open Source: The Community
    Nothing enrages the mob (aka the "Open Source Community") more than speaking the truth publicly
  22. Programming Leftovers
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  23. today's howtos
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  24. Security and Windows TCO: Patches and Privileges Broken
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  25. Reasons I still love the fish shell
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  26. Purism: A Secure Foundry for Government Mobile Computing Needs, PureOS Crimson Development Report
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  27. 5 top Linux text editors that aren't vi or Emacs (and why they are my favorite)
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  32. Today in Techrights
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  33. Free Software Leftovers and More
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  34. Events: GNU Cauldron, OpenUK Awards, Akademy
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  35. Open Hardware: Raspberry Pi and More
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  36. today's howtos
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  37. Security and Windows TCO
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  38. OpenZFS 2.2.6 Released With Compatibilities for Linux 6.10 and early 6.11
    This is released to work with various Linux Kernels, starting from 4.18 to 6.10 and early 6.11
  39. Much improved MIPS and Alpha support in Gentoo Linux – Gentoo Linux
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