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  2. Alpha 3: Tales from the COSMIC Desktop Environment
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  3. Immutable Distro Nitrux 3.7.1 Released with Linux Kernel 6.11, NVIDIA 565, and More
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  8. Education Leftovers (FOSS Context)
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  10. Programming Leftovers
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  14. today's howtos
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  15. SuperTuxKart 1.5 Beta
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  16. Android Leftovers
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  17. KDE’s New Distro: Btrfs-Based, Immutable Linux OS, with Flatpak and Snap
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  19. SFC Comments on Openwashing (by Microsoft OSI) and Copyrights
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