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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 14, 2024

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Updated This Past Day

  1. TUXEDO Gemini 17 Gen3 Linux Laptop Launches with AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX
    German-based Linux hardware vendor TUXEDO Computers announced today the 3rd generation (Gen3) of the TUXEDO Gemini 17 Linux-powered laptop with updated components.
  2. Red Hat Leftovers
    3 more picks about Red Hat

    New

  3. Shotcut 24.09 Video Editor Brings Fixes for Major New Bugs, Improvements
    Shotcut 24.09 was released today as the latest stable version of this versatile, free, open-source, and cross-platform video editing software written in Qt using MLT (Multimedia Authoring Framework).
  4. KDE Frameworks 6.6 Is Out with Support for Cross-Desktop Thumbnail Generators
    The KDE Project released today KDE Frameworks 6.6 as the latest version of this collection of more than 70 add-on libraries to Qt providing commonly needed functionality for the Plasma desktop environment and KDE apps.
  5. Android Leftovers
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  6. Fedora 42 to Introduces New Anaconda Web UI Installer
    Fedora 42 may switch to a new web-based installer
  7. GNOME Foundation Opens Search for New Executive Director
    The GNOME Foundation is excited to announce that we have officially opened the search for a new Executive Director
  8. Thunderbird for Android/ K-9 Mail: July and August 2024 Progress Report
    We’re back for an update on Thunderbird for Android/K-9 Mail
  9. 6 KDE widgets to level up your Plasma desktop - and how to add them
    If you're looking for a user-friendly desktop environment, the Plasma desktop is hard to beat
  10. What's new in GNOME 47? 6 features that make it a worthy upgrade
    While GNOME 47 won't alter the landscape for Linux desktops like previous incarnations
  11. Entrapment and Openwashing Leftovers
    not so open at all
  12. Security Leftovers
    Security related links
  13. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software and Programming Leftovers
    FOSS and coding
  14. Canonical/Ubuntu News, Releases, Screenshots
    Some Canonical/Ubuntu links
  15. Latest From Red Hat's Site and Purchased Fake Articles That Promote Buzzwords and Hype
    there is no grassroots anymore
  16. GNOME Asia 2024 in Bengaluru, India and Tiling Shell
    a pair of GNOME picks
  17. KDE, Akademy, Plasma, and Neon
    KDE and Qt centric news
  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
    trurl introduced, too
  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
    Qt and more
  23. today's howtos
    long batch foor this morning
  24. Security and Windows TCO: Patches and Privileges Broken
    Some security related picks
  25. Reasons I still love the fish shell
    I wrote about how much I love fish in this blog post from 2017 and, 7 years of using it every day later
  26. Purism: A Secure Foundry for Government Mobile Computing Needs, PureOS Crimson Development Report
    Some Librem news and PureOS
  27. 5 top Linux text editors that aren't vi or Emacs (and why they are my favorite)
    Name your desktop distro - I've got great and easy-to-use text editors to recommend
  28. Games: Steam Deck, Unity (Mono Trojan Horse), and More
    10 of the latest at GamingOnLinux
  29. Open Hardware/Modding: ESP32, ZimaCube, and Arduino
    Some hardware picks
  30. Ubuntu Has Upgrade Problems and Support From Proprietary Parallels 20
    Some Canonical/Ubuntu news
  31. Security Leftovers
    Security related picks
  32. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles
  33. Free Software Leftovers and More
    FOSS picks
  34. Events: GNU Cauldron, OpenUK Awards, Akademy
    Reports and similar
  35. Open Hardware: Raspberry Pi and More
    3 stories for now
  36. today's howtos
    7 howtos for now
  37. Security and Windows TCO
    Microsoft down again
  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
    Over the last years, MIPS and Alpha support in Gentoo has been slowing down, mostly due to a lack of volunteers keeping these architectures alive

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