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  2. Kdenlive 25.12.1 released
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  3. Open Hardware/Modding: ThinkNode M3, ForgeFPGA, Raspberry Pi Latches Onto the Slop Cargo Cult
    Hardware and devices
  4. Latest Article in Linuxiac Deemed 100% LLM Slop (or Most Certainly Slop) [original]
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  6. Using a modern fork of this 90s Linux desktop was a nostalgic nightmare
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  7. GNOME 50 Alpha Is Now Available for Public Testing as a Wayland-Only Release
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  10. Programming and Standards
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  11. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software and Open Access Leftovers
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  13. Open Hardware/Modding: PureOS, RISC-V, Raspberry Pi-Like ARM Devices
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  14. BSD Leftovers: Applications, Discussion, and More
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  15. today's howtos
    Instructionals/Technical posts
  16. Security Leftovers
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  17. Fedora Games Lab Spin to Switch from Xfce to KDE Plasma with Fedora Linux 44
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  18. PipeWire 1.4.10 Backports Filter-Graph Channel Support and Fixes More Bugs
    The PipeWire project has released PipeWire 1.4.10 today as yet another maintenance update of this popular open-source server for handling audio/video streams and hardware on Linux systems.
  19. Raspberry Pi Imager 2.0.4 Improves Handling for Files Larger Than 4GB
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  21. Canonical Ubuntu Pretends That US (Outsourcing) is OK With "European Sovereignty", Chris Siebenmann Looks at Netplan
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  22. Android Leftovers
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  23. I boosted my old laptop’s battery life by switching to this power-efficient Linux distro
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  28. EDATEC CM0 NANO Combines Raspberry Pi CM0 with Full I/O in a Small SBC
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  29. Taking the Slop Train to Nowhere, Linuxiac Reverts Back to Slopfarm Mode [original]
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