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Updated This Past Day

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  3. Games: Handhelds, Godot, XBox Mass Layoffs, and More
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  4. Android Leftovers
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  5. Grafana 12 Observability Platform Released with Major Upgrades
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  6. RHEL 10 quietly leaks ahead of Red Hat Summit
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  7. GNOME 49 Finally to Use Showtime as Default Video Player
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  11. Security Leftovers
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  12. Programming Leftovers
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  15. KDE GSoC 2025 and KDE India Conference 2025
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  17. Fedora Reports and New Version of Flatpak Released
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  19. Applications: Syslog-ng, Kubernetes, Istio, and More
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  24. Red Hat Leftovers and Purchase of Hype/Buzzwords (Jounce)
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  25. Open Hardware/Modding: Raspberry Pi, Purism, and ESP32
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  26. Mozilla on Firefox Accessibility and Future Features
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  27. Linus Torvalds returns to a mechanical keyboard
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  28. Wintel TCO (Windows and Intel)
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  29. Android Leftovers
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  37. Updates From the 'Debian Family'
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  38. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
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  43. Audiocasts/Shows: Late Night Linux and Destination Linux
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  45. Applications: Kubernetes, asciinema, Newsflash, and Traefik Proxy
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  46. today's howtos
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