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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 01, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. Calibre 7.22: Better eReader Support, New Restart Option

   Calibre 7.22 builds on recent feature additions, adding a new option to set the position of the control bar when using ‘Read Aloud’ in the e-book viewer

2. Tux Machines Turns 20.5 in Just Ten Days (We'll Have Celebrations) [original]

   Contact us if you want to join us and live not far from Manchester

   New

3. NixOS 24.11 Released with GNOME 47 and KDE Plasma 6.2, PipeWire by Default

   The developers of the independent distro NixOS, whose set of packages can be used on other GNU/Linux distributions, released today NixOS 24.11, a major update that introduces support for recent technologies and other changes.

4. GNU/Linux, BSD, and Free, Libre, and Open Source Software

   today's leftovers

5. Perl Programming Latest

   From the official site

6. Programming Leftovers

   Development related picks

7. Open Hardware/Modding/Retro Leftovers

   hardware picks, including sparkfun

8. Security and FUD

   Security picks

9. today's howtos

   some of them from days ago

10. Armbian 24.11 Released with Support for OrangePi 5 Max and Radxa ROCK 5B+

    The Armbian team announced today the release and general availability of Armbian 24.11 as a major update aimed at enhancing functionality and expanding hardware support of this Debian and Ubuntu-based distribution for ARM devices.

11. LibreOffice 25.2 Alpha1 is available for testing

    LibreOffice 25.2 Alpha1 can be downloaded for Linux, macOS and Windows, and it can be installed alongside the standard version

12. This Week in GNOME: #176 Command History

    Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from November 22 to November 29.

13. PostgreSQL News

    The latest from PostgreSQL

14. Open Hardware: Olimex, HackerBox, Raspberry Pi

    Hardware news

15. Debian, GNU, Fedora, and More

    today's leftovers

16. Security and Windows TCO

    mostly the latter

17. Android Leftovers

    Gmail on Android just gave you one less excuse for messing up all your CCs

18. Proxmox Backup Server 3.3: Push Sync, Webhooks, and Optimized Backups

    Proxmox Backup Server 3.3 brings faster backups, "push" sync jobs, removable data stores, webhook notifications, and more

19. Both KDE and GNOME to offer official distros

    Leading Linux desktops boldly address the "not enough distros" non-problem

20. Arch Linux installer now slightly less masochistic

    Version 3 of the Arch Linux installer is out, with usability improvements and clarifications to its licensing

21. Free and Open Source Software, howtos and Installations

    This is free and open source software

22. Nova – desktop-oriented Linux distribution

    Nova is billed as a Linux distribution made by Cubans and for Cubans

23. Zenwalk – desktop-focused Linux distribution

    Zenwalk aims to be a modern, multi-purpose Linux distribution by focusing on internet applications, multimedia and programming tools

24. October/November in KDE Itinerary

    In the two month since the previous summary KDE Itinerary got a new trip map view, per-trip statistics and better Android integration

25. This Week in Plasma: Disable-able KWin Rules

    This week there was a flurry of UI polishing work and a nice new feature to go along with the usual background level of bug-fixing

26. Subtitles not in sync with the playback? Let's fix that

    I talked about Linux and subtitles a long, long time ago

27. SUSE/OpenSUSE/Tumbleweed Leftovers

    Tumbleweed and more

28. today's howtos

    mostly idroot

29. Games: Sales and More

    Latest 9 from GamingOnLinux

30. Emmabuntüs: On November 25th, 2024 EmmaDE5 1.03 also writes in Braille

    The Emmabuntüs Collective is pleased to announce the release on 25 November 2024 of an update to its distribution

31. YunoHost 12.0 (Bookworm) release

    We are glad to announce the release of YunoHost 12

32. Today in Techrights

    Some of the latest articles

33. today's howtos

    only a few more for now

34. Security Leftovers

    Security picks for today

35. OpenSUSE, Red Hat, and Hardware

    today's leftovers

36. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers

    FOSS related news picks

37. Programming Leftovers

    Development related picks

38. New Releases, GNU/Linux Tools for Data Science, and Applications Compiled

    Articles about some FOSS applications

39. Static Site Generators (SSG): Milestone and Ergonomics

    Some SSG picks

40. On Debian Suicide Cluster and Outreachy Interns in Debian (Patrick Noblet Appiah and Divine Attah-Ohiemi)

    a pair of new posts

41. BSD: On FreeBSD, MWL, and BSD Now

    Some BSD news

42. Games with “content” are bad and Microsoft can lose PC gaming to Linux forever

    2 items, a pair about games

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