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  5. today's leftovers
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  6. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software: LibreOffice and Switching to European tech companies
    2 more picks
  7. GNU Project MediaGoblin Has New Release
    now out
  8. KDE SC/Qt: Kubuntu Focus, Typhoon, and Qt News
    KDE/Qt leftovers
  9. FreeBSD Foundation Q4 2025 Status Update and FreeBSD pkg autoremove
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  10. Red Hat Promotion of Telemetry and Slop
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  11. Ubuntu: Showtime, Ptyxis, and Upgrades from Zorin OS 17 to 18
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  12. Web Browsers and DNSSEC Picks
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  13. PostgreSQL: credcheck v4.6 and Other PostgreSQL News
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  14. Security Leftovers
    Security patches, breaches etc.
  15. Content Management Systems (CMS): WordPress, Wikis, and Pure
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  16. Programming Leftovers
    Development news
  17. Retro/Open Hardware/Modding: RISC-V, Arduino, and More
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  18. Applications: syslog-ng, VLC and More
    Some software news
  19. today's howtos
    Instructionals/Technical posts, mostly idroot
  20. BSD/Linux Kernel Space: Linux 7.0, 6.6, 6.12, and 6.18; ZFS and More
    mostly Linux
  21. Linux Foundation for Monopolies, Paid-for Spam (Disguised as 'Studies'), and Software Patents
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  22. Android Leftovers
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  23. The last barrier in Linux gaming is not code, it is cowardice
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  24. 3 Arch-based Linux distros that actually solve real problems (and aren't just reskins)
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  25. Forget distro hopping: How to use any Linux distribution on one PC
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  26. Free and Open Source Software, howtos and Installations
    This is free and open source software
  27. Krita 5.2.16 bugfix release!
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  28. Linux, product and the art of essence
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  29. ClusterCut Lets You Share a Clipboard Across Your Linux Desktop Fleet
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  30. Tails 7.5 Anonymous Linux OS Released with Updated Tor Client and Tor Browser
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  31. Fwupd 2.0.20 Firmware Updater Adds Support for HP Engage One G2 Advanced Hub
    Fwupd developer Richard Hughes released fwupd 2.0.20 today as the twentieth maintenance update to the fwupd 2.0 series of this open-source Linux firmware update utility.
  32. LibreOffice 26.2.1 Open-Source Office Suite Released with 65 Bug Fixes
    The Document Foundation announced today the general availability of LibreOffice 26.2.1 as the first maintenance update to the latest LibreOffice 26.2 office suite series with various bug fixes.
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  34. LWN Articles About Kernel Space
    Linux, GCC, and more
  35. Slop Versus Free Software and Free Software Combatting Slop ("AI" Scammers, Plagiarism, Plunder)
    4 new articles from LWN
  36. Android Leftovers
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  37. App verification isn't Google's only evil
    Google has proposed a plan to require Android developers to submit to onerous restrictions just to be allowed to publish their applications
  38. The once beloved PCLinuxOS is back - and it's still a great Windows escape
    There's another Linux distribution that's ready to welcome Windows users with open arms
  39. This KDE add-on brought Home Assistant controls to my Linux desktop
    Home Assistant is fantastic on its own, but with one open-source project and about 10 minutes
  40. 4 reasons I can no longer use Linux as my daily driver
    After a decade of using Linux, it has now been two years since the last time I loaded up a distro to get work done
  41. Free and Open Source Software, howtos and Installations
    This is free and open source software
  42. Finally! 3,300 Active Gemini Capsules Known to Lupa, a Geminispace Crawler and Analyser [original]
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  43. GNOME 50 is a brilliant release - but I had to look twice to see why
    This latest (still beta) version of the Linux desktop is faster
  44. The Currency of Software Freedom [original]
    People who do all this for financial gain are easy to corrupt
  45. Want your Linux looking more like Windows? KDE Plasma makes it easy - here's how
    If you'd like to use Linux
  46. Stricter is Less Popular [original]
    Reprinted with permission from Alex Oliva
  47. Scheduled Network Maintenance This Month and Next Month [original]
    Hopefully no downtimes or timeouts will be experienced by anybody
  48. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles
  49. Hardware Black Boxes [original]
    Reprinted with permission from Alex Oliva
  50. GStreamer 1.28.1 Released with Support for the AV1 Stateful V4L2 Decoder
    GStreamer 1.28.1 has been released today as the first maintenance update to the latest and greatest GStreamer 1.28 series of this powerful, free, open-source, and cross-platform multimedia framework.
  51. Wireshark 4.6.4 Updates Protocol and Capture File Support, Fixes More Bugs
    Wireshark 4.6.4 has been released today as a minor update in the Wireshark 4.6 series of this popular open-source, free, and cross-platform network protocol analyzer.
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