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  9. After Arch Linux, Mageia Faces Infrastructure Outage
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  10. FSF40: Free software activists to speak on their history of involvement
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  15. Security Leftovers and Microsoft/Windows TCO
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  22. Octopi – powerful Pacman Qt frontend
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  23. Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) 7 “Gigi” Is Now Available for Public Beta Testing
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    mostly GNU/Linux
  25. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software and Standards
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  26. Fedora and Red Hat Leftovers
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  27. Web Browsers/Web: DuckDuckGo, Firefox, Tor Browser, and Thunderbird
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  28. today's howtos
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  31. Programming Leftovers
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  37. GNU/Linux and Free Software Leftovers
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    Security related picks
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  40. Rust Coreutils Are Performing Worse Than GNU Coreutils in Ubuntu
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