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  7. Security Leftovers
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  12. today's howtos
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  16. Fedora / Red Hat / IBM Leftovers
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  18. Security Leftovers
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  21. Fedora KDE Plasma Spin Gains Equal Footing With Gnome Edition
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  28. Today in Techrights
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  29. GNU/Linux Leftovers (and Other Operating Systems)
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  31. Burn My Windows Adds Dreamy New ’Focus’ Effect
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  35. Programming Leftovers
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  36. Events and Education, FOSS Edition
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  38. Mozilla and Firefox Leftovers
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  40. today's howtos
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