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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 03, 2025

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  3. Koozali SME Server 11.0 Beta1 Release Announcement
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  4. GNU/Linux and BSD Leftovers
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  5. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software and the Web
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  6. Programming Leftovers
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  7. Games: Academia, Video Games, and DuckStation
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  8. Open Hardware/Modding: One-Hertz Challenge, ESP32, and More
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  9. Debian Development and Ubuntu Pushes Restrictions
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  10. today's howtos
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  11. Security Leftovers
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  12. This Week in GNOME: #210 Periodic Updates
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  13. Debian is Deleting Its Own History
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  14. I replaced default Linux commands with these 5 alternatives, and I should have sooner
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  15. Android Leftovers
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  16. Why Linux Is My IDE
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  17. KDE Is Making Its Own Linux Distro, and You Can Try It
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  18. today's leftovers
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  19. LibreOffice Asia Conference 2025, Tokyo – Call for proposals is open
    The LibreOffice Asia Conference Committee is pleased to invite proposals for talks at the LibreOffice Asia Conference 2025
  20. Sparky news 2025/07
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    This is free and open source software
  22. This Week in Plasma: day/night theme switching
    This week something was merged for Plasma 6.5 that a lot of people have been wanting for a long time
  23. OnlyOffice Desktop Editors 9 review - Slowly getting there
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  24. Stable kernels: Linux 6.15.9, Linux 6.12.41, and Linux 6.6.101
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  26. Today in Techrights
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  27. today's leftovers
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  28. LibreOffice Asia Conference 2025 and ODF 1.3 and 1.4
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  29. Security Leftovers
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  30. Programming Leftovers
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  31. Mozilla Localization and VPN on GNU/Linux
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  32. Red Hat and Fedora Leftovers
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  33. FOSS Weekly and Free Software Updates/Picks
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  34. today's howtos
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