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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 14, 2024

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Updated This Past Day

  1. Red Hat's Latest Promotion of Buzzwords/Hype/Plagiarism and Microsoft Stuff
    weak messaging from Red Hat again
  2. CentOS Stream 10 Released with Linux Kernel 6.12 LTS, GNOME 47, and DNF 4.20
    The CentOS Project released CentOS Stream 10 “Coughlan” as the latest version of this distribution built by Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) engineers as the major version branch that RHEL minor versions are created from.
  3. Openwashing by Microsoft-sponsored and Microsoft-run OSI, OSI's OpenSource.net Pretends to Still be Active
    OSI posturing
  4. KDE Frameworks 6.9 Released with New Symbolic Icon for Wine, Various Fixes
    The KDE Project released KDE Frameworks 6.9 today as a new monthly update to this collection of more than 70 add-on libraries to Qt, which provide commonly needed functionality for KDE applications and the KDE Plasma desktop.
  5. Games: Steam Deck, GNU/Linux, Chrysalis, and More
    Latest 11 from GamingOnLinux

    New

  6. GNU/Linux and Free Software
    Software leftovers
  7. Security Leftovers
    Security picks
  8. WordPress 'Dead End' and Drupal 7 Long in the Tooth
    Content Management Systems (CMS) picks
  9. Programming Leftovers
    Development related news
  10. Kernel Picks: Hans de Goede on Bugs on SFC's Layest Hypocrisy on Inclusion
    some kernel picks
  11. today's howtos
    7 howtos
  12. Bazzite: A Linux Distro Worth Gushing Over
    My recent GNU/Linux experience has been pretty awesome thanks to Bazzite. It may represent the frontier of OS experiences.
  13. Mozilla Betrays Privacy Again, Props Up Buzzwords
    Buzzwords and nonsense from Mozilla
  14. Tracing the FSF's Footsteps
    The FSF emerged on October 4, 1985
  15. pgAdmin, PGDay, PostgreSQL, and PSQL Databases
    postgres news
  16. Android Leftovers
    Google And Samsung Team Up On Android XR Headset To Take On Apple And Meta
  17. today's howtos
    many howtos for today
  18. Security and Windows TCO
    lots from CIISA
  19. A yearly review – My 53 most favorite apps for Linux for 2024
    It’s that time again, the last month of the year. The year 2024 is almost over and a lot has happened
  20. Open Hardware/Modding: Raspberry Pi, Olimex, and More
    Hardware picks/news
  21. Slimbook Executive, long-term report 7
    Lately, my Executive has been misbehaving somewhat. Wait. That's not a correct statement. Let me rephrase it
  22. Android Leftovers
    5 reasons I want UWB on all Android phones
  23. COSMIC Desktop Proposed as Official Spin for Fedora 42
    Fedora (probably) goes COSMIC! There is an official proposal about Fedora 42 Spin, featuring System76's innovative desktop with powerful features
  24. IDAD 2024 - Dec. 20: For freedom, against restriction
    Don't let computers go to waste and join us in fighting restriction on December 20 for the eighteenth International Day Against Digital Restrictions Management (IDAD)
  25. Revisited: kew – terminal-based music player
    I was planning to write a review of a new release of fooyin
  26. Latest Videos From Invidious: GNU/Linux and More
    videos from the past week or so
  27. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Friday contains all the text.

    Top-read articles (excluding bot/crawler visits):

    Span from 2024-12-07 to 2024-12-13
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    623 /n/2024/12/10/The_Shepherd_1_0_0_released.shtml
    588 /n/2024/12/07/GNU_Linux_Leftoverss.shtml
    584 /n/2024/12/09/Linux_6_13_rc2.shtml
    581 /n/2024/12/08/_3_Security_Leftovers.shtml
    580 /n/2024/12/08/today_s_howtos.2.shtml
    580 /n/2024/12/08/Scrcpy_3_0_Added_Virtual_Android_Display_Official_GNU_Linux_Pac.shtml
    557 /n/2024/12/07/today_s_howtos.shtml
    555 /n/2024/12/07/Security_Leftovers.shtml
    555 /n/2024/12/08/today_s_howtos.1.shtml
    555 /n/2024/12/07/GNOME_47_2_Officially_Released_with_Various_Bug_Fixes_and_Impro.shtml

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