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  5. deepin 25 Alpha Released
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  6. today's leftovers
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  7. Release of Flowblade Video Editor 2.20 and Autobase 2.2.0
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  8. Programming Leftovers
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  9. Events and 'Follow the Money'
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  10. Open Hardware: Raspberry Pi and More
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  11. BSD: powerd++ not always saving power, BSD Now has new episode
    BSD leftovers
  12. Fedora, Flatpak, Red Hat Puff Pieces, and Mass Layoffs at IBM
    Some IBM leftovers
  13. Security Leftovers
    Security news and more
  14. today's howtos
    many howtos
  15. Buzzword-Ready Linux Distributions To Watch in 2025
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  16. State of Linux Windowing Systems: Is Wayland Good in 2025?
    X.Org vs. Wayland in 2025
  17. GNOME/GTK: Christian Hergert on libdex, Robert Roth on GNOME Calculator, and GNOME Foundation on GUADEC 2025
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  18. Proton VPN in Proprietary Web Browsers Sold as "Privacy"
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  19. Contribute to Fedora 42 KDE, Virtualization, and Upgrade Test Days
    Fedora test days are events where anyone can help make certain that changes in Fedora Linux work well in an upcoming release
  20. Debian-Based Q4OS Has a New Release
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  21. Open Hardware: Raspberry Pi, 3-D Printing, FPGAs, and More
    hardware-centric stories
  22. Security Leftovers and Windows TCO
    mostly Windows TCO
  23. openSUSE’s Zypper Package Manager Gets an Exciting New Feature
    Zypper adds experimental parallel downloads and a faster media backend
  24. Linux for Windows Users? There’s No Such Thing!
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  27. Games: Warfare Legacy Collection, ENA: Dream BBQ, Geo Mythica, and More
    some of the latest from GamingOnLinux
  28. today's leftovers
    IBM layoffs and more
  29. Security Leftovers
    and Debian stuff
  30. Announcing Istio 1.25.1 and Neovim 0.11
    two new releases
  31. Today in Techrights
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