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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 21, 2025

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Updated This Past Day

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    Six weeks from now it is 2026 already

    New

  3. today's leftovers
    mostly GNU/Linux
  4. Distributions and Operating Systems: GNU/Linux, BSD and More
    some OS leftovers
  5. Sharing and Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
    FOSS and more
  6. Security Leftovers and Microsoft TCO
    Security picks for today
  7. Programming Leftovers
    Development with Rust, R, and more
  8. Red Hat Leftovers
    mostly from Red Hat's own site
  9. today's howtos
    a handful of howtos
  10. PHP 8.5 Released with Pipe Operator, URI Extension, and Clone With Functionality
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  11. Android Leftovers
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  12. 5 pioneering Linux distros that quietly faded into history
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  13. Free and Open Source Software
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  14. ObsidianOS – Arch-Linux based distribution
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  15. GDM Settings adding Toggles for Light Mode & Fingerprint Authentication
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  16. Deploy Your Thanksgiving Dinner with Cranberry sOSS
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  17. Wireshark 4.6.1 Released with Updated Protocol Support and Various Bug Fixes
    Wireshark, the world’s most popular network protocol analyzer, has been updated today to version 4.6.1, a minor point release to the latest and greatest Wireshark 4.6 series, addressing various bugs and updating protocol support.
  18. Protecting Privacy With Tails, Release of Tor Browser 15.0.2
    Tor news for today
  19. Latest in LWN: filesystems, magic kernel functions for BPF, unstable pages and direct I/O, and bootc for workstation use
    Kernel news
  20. Fedora and Red Hat Leftovers
    mostly the latter, from Red Hat's site
  21. Games: Primal Survival, Megabonk, Steam Machine, and More
    New from GamingOnLinux
  22. Android Leftovers
    Survey shows a ton of readers didn't know about this Android Auto feature
  23. Proxmox VE 9.1 Released With OCI-Based LXC Deployment
    Proxmox VE 9.1 debuts OCI-based LXC containers, Linux kernel 6.17
  24. Immich 2.3 Adds Multilingual OCR Models
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  25. 6 things I wish I knew before moving from Windows to Linux
    A lot of people come to Linux because they think it's magic
  26. Here's how I rank the most popular lightweight Linux desktops
    If you want to use Linux to breathe life back into an old PC
  27. Ubuntu Budgie vs. Pop!_OS: I've used both Linux distros - here's how to choose
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  28. Fedora vs. Ubuntu: How to choose your next Linux distro (and which one I use)
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  29. Screw it, I’m installing Linux
    I am going to put Linux on my gaming PC
  30. Best Free and Open Source Software, howtos and Installations
    This is free and open source software
  31. OsoLinux – 64-bit Linux operating system built on Fedora
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  32. gabeeOSLinux – Void Linux respin
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  34. Samsung A54, One UI 8.0 & Android 16 update
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  35. 83% of organizations see value in adopting open source, but report major gaps in security and governance
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  36. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Thursday contains all the text.

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    1050 /index.shtml
    1037 /n/2025/11/15/Debian_13_2_Trixie_Released_with_123_Bug_Fixes_and_55_Security_.shtml

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