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  2. today's leftovers
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  10. OpenBSD Leftovers
    OpenBSD picks for today
  11. Open Hardware/Modding: Seeed, Raspberry Pi, and More
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  12. today's howtos
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  13. "Custom-Built Handheld Runs a Full Linux Desktop in Your Palms" and a Look at CentOS-Based Webminal
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  14. Proprietary Fake 'Linux' (Windows) Against GNU/Linux and Microsoft Sells Back Doors as "Sovereign Cloud" or "Sovereignty"
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  15. Microsoft NPM Causes Security Catastrophes, Microsoft Transmits Malware to Sites and More
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  16. IBM Red Hat is Selling Slop/Plagiarism, OpenShift, and JBoss
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  17. Games: Lakehopper, Skull Horde, and More
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  18. Slimbook Creative Linux laptop packs RTX 5070, Thunderbolt 4 and 99 Wh battery into 1.9 kg chassis
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  19. Elive 3.8.50 Stable ‘Retrowave’ is released!
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  20. CachyOS beats Windows 11 in Cyberpunk 2077 and Space Marine 2 in a new gaming benchmark
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  23. GParted Live – small bootable Linux distribution
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  24. These are the 6 worst Linux recommendations I keep hearing—here's why they're wrong
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  25. The door to digital sovereignty is open, please come in
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  27. JSP Educa – Linux distribution for use in the educational field
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  28. Krita 5.3.1 Released!
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  33. Today in Techrights
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