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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 15, 2024

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Updated This Past Day

  1. Libadwaita 1.6
    Well, it’s time for another release
  2. Ubuntu 24.10 Fixes a Pesky File Picker Paper-Cut
    Ubuntu 24.10 features a clutch of headline-worth changes, but also plenty of less obvious fixes for “paper cuts”

    New

  3. Programming Leftovers
    Programming related picks for the weekend
  4. Fedora Family / Red Hat / IBM Leftovers
    The Red Hat stuff for today
  5. Free Software Funding, Education, and More
    FOSS leftovers
  6. Firefox Nightly and SpiderMonkey Newsletter
    development news about Firefox
  7. Open Hardware: Raspberry Pi, Arduino, RISC-V, and more
    News on the hardware side
  8. antiX, Ubuntu, and GNOME
    today's leftovers
  9. Kernel Space: eBPF Summit, Linux Plumbers Conference, "Linux and open-source documentation is a mess" (According to SJVN)
    Linux kernel news
  10. today's howtos
    second howtos cluster
  11. Security and Windows TCO
    including some "Linux" FUD
  12. Tumbleweed – Review of the week for two weeks
    a pair of outlines of changes
  13. Haiku R1/beta5 has been released!
    After about a year and a half since the last beta
  14. Many Akademy Reports From KDE and Qt Folks
    half a dozen new ones
  15. This Week in GNOME #165 Signing Documents
    Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from September 06 to September 13
  16. Security Leftovers
    Security links for the week
  17. today's leftovers
    5 more links
  18. Open Hardware: Raspberry Pi, Supercon, and More
    Raspberry Pi and more
  19. today's howtos
    first long batch of howtos
  20. Haiku OS R1 Beta 5 Is Keeping the BeOS Dream Alive
    Haiku is a free and open-source operating system, based on the technical and design foundations of the now-defunct BeOS, instead of Linux or Unix
  21. Best Free and Open Source Software
    Here’s our verdict on the finest Java application servers
  22. This week in Plasma: 6.2 beta release!
    Technically Akademy isn’t part of Plasma, but most of KDE’s movers and shakers were here in Würzburg for Akademy 2024 this week
  23. Youtube channel eligibility - Keep dangling them carrots
    Recently, I uploaded a new video to my Youtube channel. When I tried to add a description to the clip, Youtube wouldn't let me proceed to the next step
  24. ODROID-M2 Leverages RK3588S2 SoC and Supports LPDDR5 Memory
    The ODROID-M2 supports various software environments, including Android 13 and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
  25. Games: Latest 5 Gaming Stories From GamingOnLinux
    Slow day for GamingOnLinux
  26. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Saturday contains all the text.

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

    Span from 2024-09-08 to 2024-09-14
    862 /n/2024/09/11/VirtualBox_7_1_Released_with_Qt_6_GUI_Wayland_Support_for_Clipb.shtml
    858 /n/2024/09/07/KDE_Slimbook_Plasma_VI_Linux_Ultrabook_Launches_with_AMD_Ryzen_.shtml
    831 /n/2024/09/11/Juno_Tab_3_Tablet_Announced_Available_with_Ubuntu_24_04_LTS.shtml
    748 /n/2024/09/02/Rhino_Linux_2024_2_horns_in_on_Microsoft_Windows_11.shtml
    704 /n/2024/09/09/Linux_6_11_rc7.shtml
    696 /n/2024/09/12/Cinnamon_6_4_to_Debut_with_Revamped_Default_Theme.shtml
    643 /n/2024/09/05/Ubuntu_24_10_Default_Wallpaper_Mascot_Revealed.shtml
    629 /index.shtml
    623 /n/2024/09/08/This_week_in_Plasma_Stabilization_for_6_2.shtml
    621 /n/2024/09/10/KDE_Plasma_6_1_5_Released_with_More_Bug_Fixes_for_Plasma_6_1_Us.shtml
    606 /n/2024/09/10/Geminispace.shtml
    581 /n/2024/09/11/Kali_Linux_2024_3_Adds_11_New_Hacking_Tools_Improves_Raspberry_.shtml
    551 /irc.shtml
    546 /n/2024/09/09/NanoPi_R3S_is_a_30_Router_Board_with_Dual_GbE_and_FriendlyWrt_O.shtml
    545 /n/2024/09/09/today_s_howtos.shtml
    543 /n/2024/09/08/today_s_howtos.shtml
    542 /n/2024/09/09/Programming_Leftovers.shtml
    538 /n/2024/09/10/Redox_OS_0_9_0.shtml
    534 /n/2024/09/11/Raspberry_Pi_Imager_1_9_Released_with_Qt_6_Port_AppImage_Suppor.shtml
    517 /n/2024/09/11/today_s_howtos.shtml
    514 /n/2024/09/10/today_s_howtos.shtml
    511 /n/2024/09/10/Audiocasts_Shows_Self_Destruction_of_Open_Source_Software_Late_.shtml
    508 /n/2024/09/12/today_s_howtos.shtml
    507 /n/2024/09/09/Security_Leftovers.shtml

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