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9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: February 9th, 2025

The 226th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on February 9th, 2025.

The corresponding text-only bulletin for Monday contains all the text.

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

Span from 2025-02-04 to 2025-02-10
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684	/n/2025/01/28/Facebook_Censors_GNU_Linux_Advocacy.shtml
635	/n/2025/02/04/Someone_got_Linux_running_inside_a_PDF_file_because_its_users_a.shtml

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