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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 26, 2025

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  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
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  4. Web Browsers/Web Servers Stories
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  5. GNU/Linux and BSD Leftovers
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  6. Programming Leftovers
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  7. Security Leftovers
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  8. Open Hardware/Modding: 3D Printing, ESP32, and More
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  9. What It Takes to Be PostgreSQL Compatible and PostgreSQL Anonymizer 2.1 Released
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  10. today's howtos
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  11. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
    FOSS stories
  12. IBM Problems and Red Hat Leftovers
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  13. Open Hardware/Modding: Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and More
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  14. Games: Frostrail, Discord CEO Leaves, and More
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  15. Security Leftovers
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  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
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  20. Lenovo Cuts the Windows Tax and offers Cheaper Laptops with Linux Pre-installed
    Lenovo is doing something that many aren't
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