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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 22, 2024

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1. Ubuntu 24.10 “Oracular Oriole” Enters Public Beta Testing with Linux 6.11, GNOME 47

   Today, Canonical released the beta version of the upcoming Ubuntu 24.10 (Oracular Oriole) operating system for public testing ahead of the final release on October 10th, 2024.

   New

2. OpenSSH 9.9

   OpenSSH 9.9 was released on 2024-09-19

3. Security Leftovers

   Security bits

4. GNU/Linux and Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers

   misc. stories

5. Red Hat Leftovers

   and IBM/Fedora

6. Microsoft Bloat and Business Problems

   Now Microsoft buys its own shares

7. Programming Leftovers

   coding leftovers

8. Open Hardware and Devices: RISC-V, Zephyr, and ESP32

   Hardware news

9. Wine 9.18

   The Wine development release 9.18 is now available.

10. SUSE/OpenSUSE: PCP and Tumbleweed

    Some SUSE-related stories

11. Databases: From Postgres to SQLite and DuckDB, lifecycle of a search query

    Some DB related stories

12. BSD: OpenBGPD, BSD Conference, FreeBSD, and OpenBSD

    Some BSD picks

13. today's howtos

    mostly from idroot

14. Rockstar Destroys Steam Deck Support for GTA Online - Lying About It - Tunnell Vision

    Rockstar’s latest update to GTA Online has just broken Steam Deck support and caused major issues for GNU/Linux users

    "Today we are releasing GCompris version 4.2"Release: GCompris 4.2mpris_4_2_Today_we_are_releasing_GCompris_versi.shtml">Release: GCompris 4.2

    "Today we are releasing GCompris version 4.2"

15. Security Leftovers

    Security, mostly CISA updates

16. Canonical/Ubuntu Leftovers

    Canonical/Ubuntu stories

17. GNU/Linux Videos From The Past Week

    via Invidious (while it lasts)

18. today's howtos

    some of them older

19. today's leftovers

    5 misc. links

20. Windows TCO: Cybersecurity, Vista 11, and More

    4 picks

21. See Real-Time Power Consumption in Ubuntu’s Top Panel

    If you’re looking for a no-fuss way to monitor real-time power consumption on your Ubuntu laptop, a new GNOME Shell extension makes it deliciously easy

22. Free and Open Source Software

    It aims to improve your efficiency

23. This week in Plasma: polishing like mad

    The core Plasma team has entered full-on bug-fixing mode until Plasma 6.2.1, and what a week of bug-fixes it was

24. Upcoming tablet input changes in Plasma Wayland

    This blog post provides the heads-up about planned tablet input changes that are brewing for Plasma 6.3. KWin provides support for the tablet input protocol

25. Sad, sad state of Windows 11 - September 2024 problems

    Every few months, I power on my test machine, emphasis test machine, and start the Windows 11 instance installed there

26. Games: Humble Bundle, GTA, God of War Ragnarök and More

    Latest 8 from GamingOnLinux

27. Today in Techrights

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