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  5. Ubuntu is Going in a Bad Direction [original]
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  17. Red Hat Leftovers From redhat.com (Lots of Buzzwords Like "AI")
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  18. BSD Leftovers
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  19. Debian-Based Tails 7.2 Released with Tor Browser 15 Anonymous Web Browser
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  22. Open Hardware/Modding: Raspberry Pi, Pimoroni, and NetBSD
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  23. New Release: Tails 7.2
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  24. Games: SteamOS Hardware, Cropdeck, Satisfactory, and More
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    openSUSE Tumbleweed switches to GRUB2-BLS as the default
  28. Homebrew 5.0.0 released
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