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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 31, 2025

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    The developers of the Arch Linux-based CachyOS distribution released today the ISO snapshot for March 2025, featuring the latest and greatest Linux kernel, a new bootloader, and other changes.

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  2. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
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  3. Arch Linux Installer Archinstall 3.0.3 Improves Limine Bootloader Support
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  5. Android Leftovers
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  8. Radxa Orion O6 Preview – Part 2: Debian 12 – What works, what doesn’t
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  10. February/March in KDE Itinerary
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  11. today's leftovers
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  12. Confessions of a hardcore tiler
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  13. Distro War: Choosing the Best Linux Distribution
    Linux is an open source operating system that offers a variety of distributions (distros) to suit different user needs
  14. Open Hardware/Modding: ESP32, FPGA, and More
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  15. Videos: This Week in Linux and how to use the Sed command
    new ones
  16. Benchmark Anything With This Powerful Linux Tool
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  17. HP Printer Driver HPLIP 3.25.2 Added Ubuntu 24.04 & New Printers Support | UbuntuHandbook
    new 3.25.2 version last week
  18. DeaDBeef Music Player 1.10.0 Released with FFmpeg 7.0 & EAC3 Support
    The new release add support for FFmpeg 7, so it builds in recent GNU/Linux Distributions (e.g, Ubuntu 24.10 and Fedora 41) without patch
  19. Check Out Debian, the ’Mother of All Linux Distributions’
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  20. Theora 1.2.0 released
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  21. GNU patch 2.8 released
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  22. today's howtos
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  23. EasyOS Daedalus-series version 6.6.5 released
    Version 6.6.4 was released on March 11
  24. Android Leftovers
    Galaxy S25 benchmarked running Android 16 (One UI 8.0)!
  25. Shotcut 25.03 Video Editor Brings New Filters, Smarter UI, and Fixes
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  26. New to Linux? Focus on the Desktop Environment, Not the Distro
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  27. Low-Cost Luckfox Pico Pi Boards Offer Linux Development with Ubuntu Support
    The Luckfox Pico-SDK is primarily developed and tested on the Ubuntu LTS system, with a focus on supporting the Ubuntu 22.04 version
  28. Free and Open Source Software
    This is free and open source software
  29. Stable kernels: Linux 6.13.9, Linux 6.12.21, Linux 6.6.85, and Linux 6.1.132
    I'm announcing the release of the 6.13.9 kernel
  30. Programming Leftovers
    Development picks
  31. GNU/Linux Leftovers
    only 2 this Sunday
  32. Security and More
    Security leftovers mostly
  33. Linux Devices/Embedded Leftovers
    hardware picks
  34. Today in Techrights
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  35. Shotcut 25.03 Open-Source Video Editor Released with Various New Features
    Shotcut 25.03 has been released today as the latest stable version of this open-source, cross-platform, and free video editing software for Linux, macOS, and Windows written in Qt.
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