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  2. today's leftovers
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  3. Security Leftovers
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  5. Games: Max Payne and Sudoku
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  6. Gnome’s Dash to Panel Extension Gets a Massive Update
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  7. today's howtos
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  8. ZFS Orchestration Tools and Wheatstone Adds Linux Audio Driver
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  9. EPEL, IBM, and RHEL Clones
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  10. Open Infrastructure Foundation (OpenInfra): Openwashing or Community-washing by LF, a GAFAM Collective (Monopolies)
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  11. KDE’s X11 Support to Continue Until Plasma 7
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  13. DXVK 2.6 Adds NVIDIA Reflex Support, Improvements for Many Games
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  16. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software and Programming Leftovers
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  18. Mozilla and Tor Leftovers
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  19. Software: Zotero, Kdenlive 24.12.3, and Strawberry Music Player
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  20. Open Hardware and Linux Devices
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  21. Fedora discusses Flatpak priorities and latest from Red Hat's Site
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  22. Android Leftovers
    Google teases Android 16 Beta 3 update tomorrow
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  25. Games: Machine Mind, Old Skies, and More
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  26. Maps and GNOME 48
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  27. Max Payne running seamlessly on Linux 4K
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