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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 17, 2024

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Slackware-Based PorteuX 1.8 Is One of the First Distros to Ship with Xfce 4.20

Slackware-based PorteuX 1.8 is out today as what appears to be the very first GNU/Linux distribution to ship with the recently released Xfce 4.20 desktop environment.
Elementary OS: A Linux Distro Easy To Use and Easy on the Eyes

If you're looking for a beautiful, user-friendly Linux distribution
El Salvador: GNU/Linux and ChromeOS at Over 4% This Year [original]

a lot of progress had been made
The Raspberry Pi 500 Would be a Decent Desktop [original]

consider giving the Raspberry Pi 500 a go

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9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: December 15th, 2024

The 218th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on December 15th, 2024.
Free and Open Source Software

This is free and open source software
Review: GhostBSD 24.10.1

GhostBSD is a desktop-oriented member of the FreeBSD family
Over 20 years of bug squashing

The open source project I work on for the longest time is KDE and there more specific Kate
Your input requested for DAW Live

Life interfered and priorities shifted
Linux 6.13-rc3

Earlier this week it felt to me like things might have already started to quiet down in prep for the holidays
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Links 07/09/2025: Google Fines in EU and "Your Internet Access Is at Risk": Links for the day
Gemini Links 07/09/2025: Little Brother and Corporate Theatre: Links for the day
Links 07/09/2025: More Harms of Slop and Anthropic's Nightmare Scenario (Huge Legal Liabilities for Slop): Links for the day
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Gemini Links 06/09/2025: SpellBinding Moving and "The Cloud" Ridiculed: Links for the day
Slopwatch: On "the Apology Industry", Chatbots (Punchbag for Customers), and Fake Articles About "Linux": "news reporting priorities changed"
Links 06/09/2025: "Covid Incidence on the Rise" and Many Attacks on the Press Worldwide: Links for the day
Nobody Denies That SecureBoot Will Cause Problems After September 11: Not even Microsoft
Gemini Links 06/09/2025: Infinite Scrolling and Posting from Emacs: Links for the day
Links 06/09/2025: GitHub Meltdown Over Slop, "U.S. Jury Says Google Should Pay $425 Million in Privacy Lawsuit": Links for the day
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The Thing Nobody in Red Hat Wants to Talk About Openly: There is a real sentiment or worry among Red Hatters, Europeans and Americans in particulars (because of higher salary expectations)
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Genini Links 05/09/2025: Community, ROOPHLOCH, and PITkit: Links for the day
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Gemini Links 05/09/2025: Logitech Lift and DIY Gemini Servers: Links for the day
Links 05/09/2025: Sainsbury's Caught Spying on In-Store Shoppers and Microsoft "OpenAI is Using Legal Threats to Harass its Critics": Links for the day
BASIC Predates Microsoft by Over a Decade, Microsoft-Controlled Sites Like The Register MS Don't Want You to Know This: The state of the media is really bad when it relies a lot on oligarchs' money and is appointing editors who are working for oligarchs
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Slopwatch: Scams, Fake Articles About "Linux", Plagiarism, and Worse: Perhaps some time soon the LLMs or the "Big LLMs" will run out of money (to borrow) and go offline, leaving those slopfarms in a tough place