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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 19, 2025

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Arch Says Goodbye to Redis, Adopts Valkey

Redis, a popular in-memory data store, is being deprecated in Arch Linux's repo
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Debian Developers (or IBM) on Hledger UI Themes and OpenSnitch for a 1.6.8 Release in Trixie

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Kdenlive is the best free and open-source video editor for most people

Kdenlive is an open-source video editing suite you should consider trying
Full Steam Ahead with RISC-V and Fedora Linux 42

The Fedora RISC-V SIG is excited to share that our RISC-V images for Fedora Linux 42 have landed on-time and without delay
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The newest Ubuntu version ushers in ARM64 support for early adopters

We saw a lot of movement on the Windows on Arm front earlier this year
Forget Windows 11. These mad lads made Linux look like Windows XP!

You can use the Windows XP interface (as well as other Windows versions) on the Linux distribution Q4OS
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