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    New

  7. today's leftovers
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  8. Programming Leftovers
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  9. Red Hat and Fedora Leftovers
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  10. Education Leftovers
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  11. PCBs, Purism, Arduino, Retro and More
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  12. Release of curl 8.11.0 and Daniel Stenberg at FLOSS Weekly
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  13. NetBSD, FreeBSD, and More
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  14. KDE Gear 24.08.3 Released with More Fixes for Your Favorite KDE Applications
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  15. today's howtos
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  16. Android Leftovers
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  17. Immich Celebrates 50K Stars on GitHub with v1.120
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  20. Why we're still waiting for Canonical's immutable Ubuntu Core Desktop
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  21. Forlinx launches NXP i.MX 95 SoM and development board with 10GbE, CAN Bus, RS485, and more
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  22. Andes QiLai quad-core AX45MP RISC-V SoC with NX27V vector processor powers micro-ATX Voyager Development Platform
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  23. Best Free and Open Source Software
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  24. Little Wayland Things
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  25. HDR and color management in KWin, part 5: HDR on SDR laptops
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  28. Games: Vampire Hunters, Bye Sweet Carole, and More
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  29. today's leftovers
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  30. Programming: Ruby 3.3.6 Released, Perl, and More
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  31. Today in Techrights
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  32. Audiocasts/Shows/Videos About GNU/Linux
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  33. LWN Articles About Linux Kernel
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  34. Peropesis 2.8: OpenSSH
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  35. Linuxfx 11.24.04
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  36. Parted Magic 2024.11.03
    This version of Parted Magic updates the kernel to linux-6.11 and adds/updates various program
  37. NethSecurity project milestone 8.3
    We are excited to announce the release of NethSecurity project milestone 8.3
  38. Release of Pisi GNU/Linux 2.4
    Inspired by the rare flowers of Anatolia, Pisi GNU/Linux delivers the 2.4 version 'Karagül' to its users
  39. BackBox Linux 9 released!
    The BackBox Team is happy to announce the updated release of BackBox Linux
  40. Br OS 24.10
    Brazilian Linux distribution based on Ubuntu

    New

  41. 4MLinux 46.1 STABLE released.
    This is a minor (point) release in the 4MLinux STABLE channel
  42. Release of Dr.Parted 24.11
    This release is based on the Debian testing repository (2024/November/01).
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