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    Updates:

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    8. Happy 30th Birthday, KDE!
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      GNU/Linux focus
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    5. Hardware Devices and Open Hardware, Some Linux Focus
      hardware picks
    6. Red Hat's Latest Slop Promoting and More PR
      Red Hat's own site and more
    7. GNOME: gedit 51.0 released and wallpapers to come
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    8. today's howtos
      Instructionals/Technical picks
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    23. Lyra OS – openSUSE Leap-based Linux distribution with GNOME
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    25. Shelly 3.1.7 GUI Package Manager for Arch Linux Adds RLPM Native Package Engine
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    27. Software Projects With Only One User (or None) [original]
      There will be lots of abandonware that is (and always was) just slop
    28. Epic and Torvalds: Self-Deprecating Fools [original]
      We need to get back to the root of the movement: Software Freedom. Slop goes against that.
    29. One Year [original]
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    32. Laptop/Desktop Operating System Market Share in Turkey: GNU/Linux Bigger Than Apple Based on statCounter [original]
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