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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 07, 2025

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  1. PipeWire 1.4 Is Out with RISC-V Support, MIDI2 Support, JACK Control API, and More
    The PipeWire project released today PipeWire 1.4 as a major update to this popular open-source server for handling audio/video streams, and hardware on Linux systems.

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  2. Xen 4.20 Hypervisor Brings AMD Zen 5 Support
    Xen 4.20 open-source type-1 hypervisor brings Arm LLC coloring

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  3. KDE Gear 24.12.3 Improves Dolphin, Konsole, Tokodon, Itinerary, Kasts, and More
    The KDE Project released today KDE Gear 24.12.3 as the third and last maintenance update for the KDE Gear 24.12 open-source software suite to fix more bugs in your favorite KDE apps.
  4. today's howtos
    4 more howtos
  5. Security Leftovers
    Security links and Linux
  6. Security Leftovers
    Security related links
  7. today's leftovers
    FOSS and more
  8. ScummVM and Steam
    Gaming related picks
  9. PostgreSQL News
    a pair of updates on PostgreSQL
  10. Programming Leftovers
    Development related stories
  11. FreeBSD and OpenBSD Leftovers
    BSD news
  12. Red Hat, AlmaLinux, and More
    IBM's universe
  13. Bits from Debian Project Leader and Dima Kogan
    Debian picks
  14. Open Hardware/Modding: RISC-V, Raspberry Pi, and More
    Linux and Hardware
  15. Applications: Memos, syslog-ng, FFmpeg 7.1.1, and More
    Software news
  16. today's howtos
    only 4 for now
  17. Immich 1.129 Photo and Video Backup Solution Released
    Immich 1.129 fixes memory issues, adds video playback in memories and introduces shortcuts and QR codes for easier sharing
  18. Tails 6.13 Released with Improved Wi-Fi Detection
    Tails 6.13, a privacy-focused Linux distro, improves Wi-Fi hardware detection
  19. KeePass 2.58 Released with New Features [Ubuntu PPA]
    KeePass password manager released new 2.58 version few days ago
  20. I Tried CachyOS, and Now It Might Be My New Main Distro
    Distro hopping isn’t exactly uncommon in the Linux world
  21. Linux From Scratch 12.3 Version 12.3
    LFS and more
  22. Android Leftovers
    Google on what makes a high-quality Android widget
  23. Why You Should Switch To Linux And Quit Windows In 2025
    Microsoft wants to claim 2025 as the year of the “Windows 11 Refresh.”
  24. 5 reasons you should swap from Windows to Linux
    While Linux may not have as many users as Windows, it has a lot of features that just make it astronomically better than Windows in almost every way.
  25. today's leftovers
    Openwashing, Mozilla, and more
  26. XpPen Deco 01V3 - review on GNU/Linux
    Modern versions of GNOME and KDE, running under Wayland
  27. Red Hat Inks Linux Tie-Up with Rakuten Mobile, Alma and EPEL
    Some IBM bits
  28. Audiocasts/Shows: PewDiePie on GNU/Linux, Destination Linux, Linux Matters
    some new videos/episodes
  29. today's howtos
    13 howtos for now
  30. Ubuntu 25.04’s New PDF Viewer App is Now Rolling Out
    Earlier this year Ubuntu announced plans to replace document viewer app Evince with Papers
  31. Windows TCO Leftovers
    7 stories of Windows TCO
  32. Programming Leftovers
    Development links
  33. Free and Open Source Software, howtos and Installations
    This is free and open source software
  34. Blender App Makes it to the Big Screen
    The animated film "Flow" won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature at the 97th Academy Awards held on March 2, 2025 and Blender was a part of it
  35. Another laptop, another SSD revival, plus a dash of Linux
    decided to go with Kubuntu 24.04. Why Kubuntu, you ask? As I outlined in my Linux & hardware article
  36. Seeking the latest in Linux? There's a right way and a wrong way to use Distrowatch
    Here's why Distrowatch is often misunderstood
  37. Meet the Fedora Project Mentors for Google Summer of Code 2025
    The Fedora Project is excited to participate in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2025
  38. Amazon tightens the digital handcuffs
    One of the most noteworthy events in the history of Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) was Amazon's Orwellian deletion of George Orwell's 1984 from its customer's e-readers.
  39. Games: Marketing Junk, Frostpunk 2, Steam, and More
    gaming related picks
  40. Hardware Leftovers
    hardware picks
  41. LWN on Linux Kernel
    new articles outside the paywall
  42. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles
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