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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 21, 2025

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Updated This Past Day

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  5. Sharing and Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
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  6. Security Leftovers and Microsoft TCO
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  7. Programming Leftovers
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  8. Red Hat Leftovers
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  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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  13. Free and Open Source Software
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  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
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  36. Today in Techrights
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