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Updated This Past Day

  1. today's leftover
    GNU/Linux focus
  2. Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers
    Linux creator Linus Torvalds on Wednesday affirmed the removal last week of about a dozen kernel maintainers associated with Russia

    New

  3. Canonical, Mozilla, and Coding
    today's leftovers
  4. Games: Best ASCII Games, Electronic Arts Gives GNU/Linux Users the Middle Finger
    gaming picks
  5. GNOME Desktop/GTK: Alice Mikhaylenko on SteamOS, GNOME Foundation on Event
    some GNU or GNOME stuff
  6. DTrace 2.0 for Gentoo and Hacking the Linux Kernel in Ada
    Programming in Linux
  7. Fedora and Red Hat Leftovers
    IBM camp in the news and blogs
  8. Istio, FOSS Weekly, qmpbackup, Log2ram, and More
    Software leftovers
  9. Security Leftovers
    Security with FGSS focus
  10. Proprietary Traps and Openwashing
    by rOpenSci and Google
  11. Open Hardware/Modding: Raspberry Pi, Open Source Lathe, RISC-V, and More
    Some Open Hardware picks
  12. Huawei Introduces HarmonyOS Next, Built Entirely Independent of Android and Linux
    Technically speaking, it’s based on a self-developed microkernel using the company’s OpenHarmony open-source core
  13. today's howtos
    second batch of howtos for today
  14. IBM's mainframe bubble bursts and growth stalls
    IBM falls
  15. Android Leftovers
    BOOX upgrades its e-reader lineup with Android-powered options of all sizes
  16. Programming Leftovers
    Programming related picks
  17. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
    FOSS leftovers
  18. Open Hardware: RISC-V, Raspberry Pi, and FLOSS Weekly at Hackaday
    Some hardware centric news
  19. Twenty Years with Ubuntu, Canonical in Brazil, Canonical Chasing CentOS Users
    Canonical/Ubuntu news
  20. Vivaldi Browser 7.0 Introduces Redesigned UI and Tools
    Vivaldi 7.0 is here with floating tabs, sleek icons, and a powerful Dashboard that brings Mail, Calendar, and Feeds together in one space
  21. Free and Open Source Software
    This is free and open source software
  22. today's howtos
    today's first batch of them
  23. MiniOS – lightweight and fast Linux distribution
    MiniOS is a lightweight and fast Linux distribution designed for installation on a USB drive
  24. MIRACLE LINUX – Japanese distro based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
    MIRACLE LINUX is a RHEL-compatible license-free Linux distribution
  25. Windows TCO: SharePoint, Microsoft Word, and More
    Devastation by Microsoft
  26. Games: Proton Experimental, The Rogue Prince of Persia, EA Anti-Cheat (Rootkit) and More
    8 articles from GamingOnLinux
  27. New LWN Articles on Kernel
    with Rust focus, now outside paywall
  28. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles

    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Thursday contains all the text.

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    697 /n/2024/10/15/Solus_4_6_Convergence_Released_Here_s_What_s_New.shtml
    689 /n/2024/10/19/Wine_9_20_Rolls_Out_with_Improved_DirectPlay_Support.shtml
    669 /n/2024/10/22/Clementine_Music_Player_Released_1_4_1_Stable_after_8_Years_of_.shtml
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    571 /n/2024/10/18/_Latest_in_Wordpress_Drama.shtml
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