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  6. today's leftovers
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  7. Open Hardware/Modding: How to Homebrew A Running Shoe, PiVPN on Raspberry Pi, and RISC-V
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  8. SUSE/OpenSUSE: Tumbleweed Review and OBS
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  9. Opera, NAS, and Task Managers
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  10. IBM: Red Hat, Podman, Fedora
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  11. today's howtos
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  12. Programming, Hacking, and Openwashing
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  13. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
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  14. today's leftovers
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  15. Android Leftovers
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  16. Leap, Tumbleweed Get Makeovers
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  17. Security Leftovers
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  18. today's howtos
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  19. These 6 Tweaks Will Make Your Linux Mint Cinnamon Desktop Pop
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  20. Games: Bundles, Steam Deck, and Brotato
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  22. Slax – distro built on Slackware or Debian
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  23. Best Linux Task Managers You Can Run Comfortably in a GUI
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  24. This Week in GNOME: #171 Point of Interest
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  25. This week in Plasma: all screens, all the time
    We continued fixing bugs and making UI improvements this week
  26. PineNote Community Edition Is an Upcoming E-Ink Tablet with Community-Built OS
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  28. This Is the Best Desktop Browser to Use When You Have a Poor Network Connection
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  29. Videos and Audiocasts/Shows About GNU/Linux
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  30. Perl Weekly Challenge and More Perl News
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  31. Security Leftovers
    Security related picks for the day
  32. today's leftovers
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  33. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
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  34. Databases: SQLite, PostgreSQL, and More
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  35. Programming Leftovers
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  36. Web Browsers: Vivaldi 7.0, Mozilla Localization, and Firefox Becoming Spyware
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  37. Open Hardware: Raspberry Pi, RISC-V, Jetson, and More
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  38. Fedora / Red Hat / IBM Leftovers
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  39. BSD: FreeBSD and BSD Now
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  40. today's howtos
    first for the weekend
  41. Free Software: Calamares, OpenBoxLab, and More
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  42. Today in Techrights
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    552 /n/2024/10/19/Wine_9_20_Rolls_Out_with_Improved_DirectPlay_Support.shtml
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    520 /n/2024/10/20/LastOSLinux_Linux_for_Windows_users.shtml
    478 /n/2024/10/20/today_s_howtos.shtml
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