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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 24, 2025

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  2. GNOME 47.3 Improves Frame Rate for Monitors Attached to Secondary GPUs
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  7. Mozilla: Rust Development and "Hey Hi" (AI) Nonsense
    wrong direction
  8. GNU/Linux Leftovers
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  9. Fake 'Open Source' Software and Microsoft AstroTurfing
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  14. Open Hardware/Modding: Bootlin, Raspberry Pi, and More
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  15. today's howtos
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  16. Security Leftovers
    Security news
  17. Security and Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt (FUD) Leftovers
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  18. A stuff-a-thon is happening at the FSF, Jan. 24, 28
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  19. 4 Ways to Check If a Game Will Run on Linux
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  21. Ventoy 1.1 Released with EweOS ISO Support
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  22. Ignition is a Modern Startup Applications Utility for Linux
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  25. Free and Open Source Software
    This is free and open source software
  26. today's leftovers
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  27. Security Leftovers
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  28. Canonical/Ubuntu: IRC, Arm® Processors, and Ubuntu Summit 2024
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  29. Open Hardware/Modding: Raspberry Pi 5 and More
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  30. FSF: Free Software Directory (FSD) Meeting in IRC, FSF Staff at FOSDEM 2025, and More
    Some FSF news
  31. LibreELEC (Omega) 12.0.2
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  32. New LWN Articles About Linux and Vim
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