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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 26, 2025

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Updated This Past Day

  1. COSMIC Alpha 7 Desktop Adds Pinned Workspaces, New Accessibility Features
    Linux hardware vendor System76 released today COSMIC Alpha 7 as the latest development version for this up-and-coming desktop environment written in Rust for GNU/Linux distributions and the company’s in-house Pop!_OS Linux distro.
  2. GStreamer 1.26.1 Improves dav1d AV1 Decoder, Matroska v4 Support in Muxer
    Today, the GStreamer project released GStreamer 1.26.1 as the first maintenance update to the latest GStreamer 1.26 series of this popular open-source and cross-platform multimedia framework.

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  3. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
    FOSS picks
  4. Web Browsers/Web Servers Stories
    WWW leftovers
  5. GNU/Linux and BSD Leftovers
    mostly GNU/Linux
  6. Programming Leftovers
    Development stories
  7. Security Leftovers
    only a few more for now
  8. Open Hardware/Modding: 3D Printing, ESP32, and More
    hardware news
  9. What It Takes to Be PostgreSQL Compatible and PostgreSQL Anonymizer 2.1 Released
    PostgreSQL news
  10. today's howtos
    many from idroot
  11. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
    FOSS stories
  12. IBM Problems and Red Hat Leftovers
    mostly redhat.com
  13. Open Hardware/Modding: Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and More
    3 stories for this afternoon
  14. Games: Frostrail, Discord CEO Leaves, and More
    GamingOnLinux, 10 articles
  15. Security Leftovers
    Security news, inc. Linux
  16. Lilbits: Snapdragon X Chromebooks, Pixel 7a battery swelling, and a Liberux NEXX Linux phone progress update
    Earlier this year the folks at Liberux announced plans to build a Linux smartphone that combines the kind of features you’d expect from a modern phone with the hardware you’d expect from a pretty good single-board computer
  17. Powerful Mini-PCs Provide Efficient Replacement for Desktop Computers
    That was a choice I seriously considered since I already had a drawer full of free Linux installation disks
  18. Free and Open Source Software
    This is free and open source software
  19. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles
  20. Lenovo Cuts the Windows Tax and offers Cheaper Laptops with Linux Pre-installed
    Lenovo is doing something that many aren't
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Friday contains all the text.

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    693 /n/2025/04/21/Wine_10_6.shtml
    671 /n/2025/04/19/Amazon_smart_TVs_could_soon_replace_Fire_OS_with_Linux_based_Ve.shtml
    630 /n/2025/04/20/today_s_howtos.shtml
    612 /n/2025/04/19/today_s_howtos.shtml
    597 /n/2025/04/19/Programming_Leftovers.shtml
    589 /n/2025/04/21/today_s_howtos.shtml
    586 /n/2025/04/20/today_s_howtos.1.shtml
    584 /n/2025/04/19/GNU_Linux_Leftovers.shtml
    578 /n/2025/04/21/Android_Leftovers.shtml
    577 /n/2025/04/19/today_s_howtos.1.shtml
    575 /n/2025/04/22/QEMU_10_0_Open_Source_Virtualization_Software_Released_Here_s_W.shtml
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    562 /n/2025/04/22/OpenMandriva_Lx_6_0_Released_with_Linux_6_14_KDE_Plasma_6_3_and.shtml
    556 /n/2025/04/20/Programming_Leftovers.shtml
    554 /n/2025/04/21/today_s_howtos.1.shtml
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