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  17. Open Hardware/Modding: ESP32, Raspberry Pi 5, and More
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  18. Rolling With Rhino: The Ups and Downs of a Reinvented Linux
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  23. 20 years of Linux on the Desktop (part 4)
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  27. Applications and GNU/Linux Going Mainstream
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