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  2. Linux and Free Software Leftovers
    FOSS mostly
  3. Red Hat and Fedora Leftovers
    good and bad
  4. 21st Anniversary: Another Good Year for the Tux (and Gnu) [original]
    So far this year GNU/Linux is making huge strides and in the past few days we served over a million requests per day
  5. Tails 6.16 Arrives with Updated Tor Browser
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  6. Security Leftovers
    Security picks
  7. Free Software and Application Leftovers
    Applications mostly
  8. Open Hardware/Modding: ESP32, Raspberry Pi, and More
    hardware stories
  9. Bringing Kubernetes Back to Debian and XMPP/Jabber Debian 13 Trixie News
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  10. Games: Latest on Steam and SuperTuxKart 1.5 RC
    some gaming picks
  11. OpenBSD and DragonflyBSD Picks
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  12. Alpine Linux 3.22 Released with GNOME 48, KDE Plasma 6.3, and LXQt 2.2
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  13. Microsoft UK Layoffs, Spyware, and Hype Over Mostly Worthless LLMs
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  14. today's howtos
    a good chuck of them for Friday
  15. Programming Leftovers
    R and more
  16. Android Leftovers
    Google: Android Auto to receive support for video & web browsers
  17. PipeWire 1.4.4 Enhances MIDI and libcamera Support
    PipeWire 1.4.4 multimedia framework is a bugfix release that improves MIDI compatibility
  18. Helwan Linux: A Made-in-Egypt Linux Distribution
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  19. GNU/Linux and BSD Leftovers
    mostly GNU/Linux
  20. Proprietary Failures and Microsoft TCO/Layoffs
    Proprietary downfalls
  21. Games: REMATCH, ELDEN RING NIGHTREIGN, and More
    a few more picks
  22. Best Free and Open Source Software
    This is free and open source software
  23. KNOPPIX is a bootable Live system
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  24. Ubuntu Studio 22.04 LTS has reached End-Of-Life (EOL)
    Ubuntu Studio 22.04 LTS has reached the end of its three years of supported life provided by the Ubuntu Studio team
  25. Another update on the Fedoraproject Datacenter Move
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  26. GStreamer 1.26.2 Improves the D3D12 Video Decoder for NVIDIA GPUs, WAV Playback
    The GStreamer project released GStreamer 1.26.2 today as the second maintenance update to the latest GStreamer 1.26 series of this popular open-source and cross-platform multimedia framework.

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  27. Today in Techrights
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