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  14. Releases of GNU Projects: GCL 2.7.1 and GNUnet 0.24.1
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  15. Pinta 3.0 Open-Source Paint Program Released with GTK4 Port, New Effects
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  23. DietPi – extremely lightweight Debian-based distribution
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