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Updated This Past Day

  1. Gnome OS is Changing
    "I would like to turn GNOME OS, GNOME’s home-grown distro for testing and development of the GNOME Desktop, into a daily-drivable general purpose OS."

    New

  2. today's leftovers
    BSD, software, and servers
  3. Free Software, Events, and the Web
    Some FOSS centric links
  4. Security and Patches
    incidents and updates
  5. Audiocasts/Shows: Destination Linux and LINUX Unplugged
    2 new episodes
  6. Fedora / Red Hat / IBM Leftovers
    The RHEL and OpenShift universe
  7. Programming Leftovers
    Programming picks for now
  8. Devices, Embedded, and Single-Board Computers
    Open hardware mostly
  9. Canonical/Ubuntu: Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, OEM Event, and Virtual ECUs
    Canonical/Ubuntu leftovers
  10. today's howtos
    many howtos for the whole day
  11. New Steam Client Update Improves Native Linux Gaming and Fixes Many Bugs
    Valve released today a new stable Steam Client update for all supported platforms to fix a bunch of bugs and also improve native Linux gaming.
  12. I Installed Gentoo So You Don't Havtoo
    it’s no longer that much harder to run than either of these popular distributions
  13. KDE Plasma 6.2.3 Brings Better Support for HDR Displays, Various Bug Fixes
    The KDE Project released today KDE Plasma 6.2.3 as the third maintenance update to the latest KDE Plasma 6.2 desktop environment series with more bug fixes and various improvements.
  14. Open Hardware: Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and More
    Hardware related picks
  15. Security and Windows TCO
    mostly Windows TCO
  16. Android Leftovers
    Xiaomi 14 gets Android 15 stable update
  17. Manjaro Considers Embedding a Telemetry Tool
    Manjaro’s new MDD telemetry tool will collect user data for better metrics, yet automatic sharing concerns users
  18. Best Free and Open Source Software
    This is free and open source software
  19. Fedora Linux Flatpak cool apps to try for November
    This article introduces projects available in Flathub with installation instructions
  20. LXQt 2.1 Desktop Environment Released with Initial Wayland Support
    The development team behind the lightweight LXQt desktop environment written in Qt announced today the release and general availability of LXQt 2.1 as a major update bringing exciting new features.
  21. Games: SteamOS, Gifts for 'Reviews', and More
    8 new articles from GamingOnLinux
  22. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Tuesday contains all the text.

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    617 /n/2024/10/30/Audacity_3_7_Open_Source_Audio_Editor_Is_Out_to_Improve_Linux_C.shtml
    609 /n/2024/11/02/This_week_in_Plasma_moved_to_KDE_infrastructure.shtml
    580 /n/2024/10/31/Programming_Leftovers.shtml
    575 /n/2024/11/03/Linux_Mint_Is_Getting_a_Night_Light_Feature_in_Cinnamon_Framewo.shtml
    507 /n/2024/10/11/Gaming_on_Fedora_Asahi_Remix.shtml
    503 /n/2024/10/30/Shotcut_24_10_Open_Source_Video_Editor_Released_with_AI_Powered.shtml
    498 /n/2024/10/28/Raspberry_Pi_OS_Now_Enables_Wayland_by_Default_on_All_Raspberry.shtml
    491 /n/2024/10/29/Bazzite_41_launches_with_VRR_fixes_and_better_handheld_support.shtml
    487 /n/2024/10/31/today_s_howtos.shtml
    481 /n/2024/10/31/You_Probably_Don_t_Need_to_Compile_a_Linux_Kernel_Anymore.shtml
    469 /n/2024/10/23/Linus_Torvalds_Rants_About_Defective_x86_Designs_and_AI_Being_J.shtml
    455 /n/2024/10/30/today_s_howtos.shtml
    450 /n/2024/11/02/today_s_howtoos.shtml
    449 /n/2024/11/01/Programming_Leftovers.shtml
    448 /n/2024/11/03/Another_Party_This_Week.shtml
    446 /n/2024/11/04/Linux_6_12_rc6.shtml
    445 /n/2024/10/29/Snapdragon_8_Elite_Powered_Phones_Will_Play_PC_Games_Thanks_to_.shtml
    440 /n/2024/10/31/today_s_leftovers.shtml

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