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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 18, 2025

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Updated This Past Day

  1. KDE Plasma 6.4 Desktop Environment Officially Released, This Is What’s New
    The KDE Project released today KDE Plasma 6.4 as a major update with exciting new features and enhancements for all fans of the KDE Plasma desktop environment.
  2. Git 2.50 Lands: Say Goodbye to Recursive Merges Engine
    Git 2.50 distributed revision control tool removes the legacy recursive merge engine
  3. Arch Linux Shifts to Pure WoW64 Builds for Wine and Wine-Staging
    Arch Linux transitions wine & wine-staging to pure WoW64 builds

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  4. Android Leftovers
    Arch Linux Breaks New Ground: Official Rust Init System Support Arrives
  5. today's leftovers
    BSD and more
  6. Security Leftovers
    Security breaches and more
  7. Programming Leftovers
    Development picks
  8. Web Browsers/Web Servers: nginx and Mozilla
    mostly Mozilla
  9. Debian Leftovers
    Debian picks
  10. Open Hardware Leftoevrs
    hardware news
  11. Red Hat Leftovers
    IBM and more
  12. Audiocasts/Shows: Ask Noah Show and Politics in Free Software
    political slant today
  13. Dozzle 8.13 and GNOME Development Updates
    FOSS news
  14. today's howtos
    many for today
  15. Yet another European government is ditching Microsoft for Linux - here's why
    The decision will affect nearly every civil servant, police officer, and judge, about 30,000 employees
  16. Games: Away Team, Puzzle Pizzazz Humble Bundle, and More
    9 stories from GamingOnLinux
  17. Android Leftovers
    Feel Old Yet? You Can Now Emulate PS3 Games on Android Phones
  18. I've been gaming on Windows for over 30 years, but now I'm giving Linux a shot
    Hopefully I can play more than Super Tux Kart
  19. Best Free and Open Source Software
    This is free and open source software
  20. GXDE OS – desktop-oriented Linux distribution
    GXDE OS is a desktop-oriented Linux distribution that combines Debian with Deepin Desktop Environment (DDE)
  21. 'End of 10' offers hope and support to Windows 10 users who can't upgrade their PCs
    The end is near for Windows 10
  22. FSF Fundraiser, FSF adds provisional board member Alexandre Oliva
    Some FSF news
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    1024 /n/2025/06/13/From_Word_and_Excel_to_LibreOffice_Danish_ministry_says_goodbye.shtml
    1011 /n/2025/06/11/Apple_and_Microsoft_Try_to_Prevent_Users_From_Exploring_Install.shtml
    900 /n/2025/06/13/Kali_Linux_2025_2_Released_with_Revamped_Kali_Menu_13_New_Hacki.shtml

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