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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 17, 2025

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Updated This Past Day

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    Ikey Doherty, the leader of the Serpent OS project

    New

  2. Operating Systems and Hardware Leftovers
    for end of Sunday
  3. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
    FOSS links, DB focus
  4. Firefox Add-on Reviews and February patch set for TenFourFox
    Some Firefox news
  5. Security Leftovers
    Security links, not many
  6. Events: FOSDEM 2025 and PyCon Italia 2025, I Love FS
    some special picks
  7. Fedora / Red Hat / IBM Leftovers
    Red Hat etc.
  8. Applications: TLP 1.8.0, gThumb Released 3.12.7, and More
    GNU/Linux software in focus
  9. today's howtos
    many howtos for day's end
  10. A Call for Unity
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  11. This Week in GNOME #187 Triple Buffered Notifications
    Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from February 07 to February 14
  12. Programming Leftovers
    releases and more
  13. FreeBSD 13.5-BETA2 Now Available
    from Distro Watch also
  14. today's howtos
    many howtos for now
  15. Open Hardware: FPGA, Raspberry, and More
    Hardware picks
  16. GNOME 48 Beta Is Now Available for Public Testing with Adwaita Fonts, More
    Today, the GNOME Project announced the general availability of the beta version of the upcoming GNOME 48 desktop environment series for public testing, bringing more new features and improvements.
  17. GNOME 47.4 Released with Performance Improvements for Nautilus, Bug Fixes
    The GNOME Project announced today the official availability of GNOME 47.4, the fourth maintenance update to the latest GNOME 47 “Denver” desktop environment series with more bug fixes and improvements.
  18. Android Leftovers
    Google confirms Android XR will give apps access to your headset's cameras
  19. These are the 13 Linux distros optimized for gaming in 2025
    Relatively speaking, gaming in Linux has matured
  20. 8 Weird and Wacky Linux Hardware Devices
    You can stick Linux in just about anything, and that's a big part of what makes it special
  21. Free and Open Source Software
    This is free and open source software
  22. KolibriOS – tiny Linux distribution
    KolibriOS is a tiny yet incredibly powerful and fast operating system
  23. GNU/Linux and Free Software Leftovers
    today's leftovers
  24. Open Hardware: CrowPi, ESP32, 3-D Printing, and More
    on the physical side
  25. Programming Leftovers
    Development related links
  26. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles

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    836 /n/2025/02/04/Someone_got_Linux_running_inside_a_PDF_file_because_its_users_a.shtml
    674 /n/2025/02/10/Arch_Linux_Based_EndeavourOS_Mercury_Lands_with_Linux_Kernel_6_.shtml
    660 /n/2025/02/06/Mixing_Rust_and_C_in_Linux_likened_to_cancer_by_kernel_maintain.shtml
    648 /n/2025/02/13/openSUSE_Tumbleweed_Moves_to_SELinux.shtml
    647 /n/2025/02/11/Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Software.shtml
    577 /n/2025/02/11/GNOME_Project_Launches_Revamped_Website.shtml
    515 /n/2025/02/10/today_s_howtos.shtml
    505 /n/2025/01/13/Kdenlive_24_12_1_and_KDE_in_Tech_Over_Tea.shtml

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