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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

   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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4. Web Browsers/Web Servers Stories

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5. GNU/Linux and BSD 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

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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

    GamingOnLinux, 10 articles

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

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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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