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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 31, 2025

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Updated This Past Day

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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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  4. Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (12/2025): GNOME 48 and other goodies
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  5. Android Leftovers
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  6. 5 ways Hyprland transformed how I use my Linux laptop
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  7. Tiling Shell GNOME Extension Update Adds New Features
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  8. Radxa Orion O6 Preview – Part 2: Debian 12 – What works, what doesn’t
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  9. Free and Open Source Software
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  10. February/March in KDE Itinerary
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  11. today's leftovers
    GNU/Linux and more
  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
    hardware picks
  15. Videos: This Week in Linux and how to use the Sed command
    new ones
  16. Benchmark Anything With This Powerful Linux Tool
    If you need to know how fast it runs, Hyperfine will tell you
  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’
    The Debian project was founded in August 1993 as an effort to create a truly open Linux distribution
  20. Theora 1.2.0 released
    a final 1.2.0 release of theora was wrapped up today
  21. GNU patch 2.8 released
    I am pleased to announce the release of GNU patch 2.8
  22. today's howtos
    not many, but it's Sunday
  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
    Shotcut 25.03 video editor adds filter overlays, new video modes
  26. New to Linux? Focus on the Desktop Environment, Not the Distro
    When you're new to Linux, it's easy to get overwhelmed by the sheer number of distributions (distros) available
  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
    Some of the latest articles
  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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