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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 03, 2025

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Updated This Past Day

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  7. VLC 3.0.22 Released with AMD GPU Frame Rate Doubler, dav1d-all-layers Option
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  10. Fedora / IBM / Red Hat Selling Microsoft and Slop
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  11. Sparky GNU/Linux and Debian Free Software Activities
    Debian leftovers
  12. Canonical: Launchpad Introducing Webhooks for Package Uploads in PPAs and Ubuntu on Qualcomm Dragonwing™ IQ-9075
    some Ubuntu leftovers
  13. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
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  14. Hardware/Modding and Mobile Gadgets With Linux
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  15. Back End/Databases: "The Computer Wants to Lose Your Data" and Psycopg 3.3 Released
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  16. BrowserOS, Google, and Mozilla/Tor
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  17. Productivity Software: Update From TDF’s Board of Directors (LibreOffice) and ONLYOFFICE 9.2 Released
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  18. Linux Security News and Some Security Incidents
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  19. Programming Leftovers
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  20. Cassidy James Blaede Looking back on GNOME and Federico Mena-Quintero Still Pushing Rust
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  21. today's howtos
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  22. Software in the News: PhotoPrism, e2ecp
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  23. Zorin OS 18 Might Be The Way Out Of Microsoft's AI Nightmare
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  24. Ryan Walker's Blackpants Turn the Flipper Blackhat Board Into a Standalone Linux Terminal
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  34. Tumbleweed Monthly Update - November 2025
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  35. GNU Guile 3.0.11 released
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  39. Slimbook Executive report 11 - Many twists and turns
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