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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 26, 2025

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  4. Programming Leftovers
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  5. Content Management Systems (CMS) / Static Site Generators (SSG): Kiwi TCMS 15.1, Migration to WriteFreely, and html-is-a-tree
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  6. Web Browsers Focus, Especially Mozilla and Firefox
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  8. Open Hardware/Modding: ESP32, Amiga A1200, and More
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  10. Software: Notesnook, sudo-sh, Typst 0.14
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  12. KDE: Plasma 6.5 in Arch Linux, Kai Uwe on KSplash BGRT, and Release of Haruna 1.6
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  14. Libre Hardware Founder's Project Sabotaged
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  16. I tried switching to open-source software for everything but hit a wall I didn’t expect
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  17. Free and Open Source Software
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  19. HydraPWK – security-focused Linux distribution
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  20. Linux Kamarada – Manjaro based distribution
    Linux Kamarada is a Linux distribution that, for future releases, will be based on Manjaro
  21. Libpeas and Introspection
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  22. Xubuntu 25.10: Best New Features
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  23. Austria Says ‘Auf Wiedersehen’ to Proprietary and ‘Willkommen’ to Open Source
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