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  2. BSD: FreeBSD and OpenBSD Updates (OpenZFS Also)
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  5. Systemd-Free antiX 26 Linux Distro Is Here Based on Debian 13 “Trixie”
    The developers of the antiX Linux distribution announced today the release of antiX 26 as a new major version of this lightweight Debian-based distro without the systemd init system.
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  7. GNU/Linux, systemd trouble, and "Clown" Computing
    today's leftovers
  8. Wayland set the Linux Desktop back by 10 years
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  9. Mozilla and Firefox: Nightly, Emojis, and More
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  10. Android 'Safeguards', RISC-V, and the War on Hardware Its Owner Can Control
    hardware leftovers
  11. SUSE/OpenSUSE: Tumbleweed Review, Planet News Roundup, and Agama 19 Released
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  12. GNOME: This Week in GNOME, GNOME Foundation Update, and Play a Video as Lock Screen Wallpaper in GNOME
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  13. KDE: Krita Monthly Report and Marknote 1.5.1
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  14. Application Releases: b4 v0.15.0, DeadBeef 1.10.2, and virtnbdbackup 2.46
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  15. Applications: Common Picks, Simple Tools, and Tiagolr Sirial
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  16. today's howtos
    Instructionals/Technical leftovers
  17. IBM Red Hat Selling Slop, Microsoft and GAFAM Surveillance; Fedora Update (IBM-Run Faux Community)
    Red Hat leftovers
  18. Games: Godot 4.6.2 RC 2, Terra Nil, OpenTTD, and More
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  19. Programming Leftovers
    Development with R and Rust
  20. Standards: Open Document Format (ODF) Mandatory in Germany, Messing With Apple’s Webloc Format
    Standards/Consortia leftovers
  21. Security Leftovers
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  22. Linux Kernel Security: Slop, "an already-flawed CVE system", and more
    Linux security picks
  23. Wine 11.5
    The Wine development release 11.5 is now available
  24. The Value of a Human Does Not Exceed an Elephant's [original]
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  25. Android Leftovers
    Google reverses one of Android’s most annoying UI changes
  26. Programming Leftovers
    Development - a handful of picks
  27. These 5 settings are making your Linux PC less secure
    Think your Linux PC is secure just because it’s Linux
  28. Best Free and Open Source Software, howtos and Installations
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  29. This Week in Plasma: Time Zone Offsets and Type-Ahead on the Desktop
    This week several new features landed, in addition to a number of user interface improvements and some nice performance improvements and bug fixes
  30. Today in Techrights
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