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  7. Security Leftovers
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  8. Standards/Consortia: PDF and XMPP
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  12. today's howtos
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  17. Mozilla Thunderbird, "Hey Hi" (AI) Hype, Firefox, and Mercurial
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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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  30. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
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  36. Events and Education, FOSS Edition
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  38. Mozilla and Firefox Leftovers
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  39. Fedora / Red Hat / IBM Leftovers
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  40. today's howtos
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