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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 13, 2023

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  2. Ubuntu 23.10 (Mantic Minotaur) Officially Released with Linux 6.5 and GNOME 45
    Canonical officially released today the Ubuntu 23.10 (Mantic Minotaur) operating system, which comes with some of the latest GNU/Linux technologies, improved hardware support, and many other changes.
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  6. SparkyLinux 2023.10 Brings Linux Kernel 6.5, Latest Debian 13 “Trixie” Updates
    SparkyLinux 2023.10 Rolling edition has been released today as the October 2023 snapshot for this Debian-based GNU/Linux distribution featuring the KDE Plasma, Xfce, LXQt, and MATE desktop environments on top of the bleeding-edge Debian Testing repositories.
  7. Smaller is Fast, Fast is Beautiful
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  10. Fedora Project and Slimbook Collaborate to Deliver New Fedora Slimbook Ultrabook
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  29. today's howtos
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  30. Announcing Istio 1.19.3, 1.18.5, and 1.17.8
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  36. LWN: Linux ecosystem contributions from SteamOS and kernel's preemption model
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  37. Digital Restrictions (DRM) Troubles
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  38. Security Leftovers and Microsoft/Windows TCO
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  39. Red Hat Official Blog: The Latest
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  43. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
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  45. Security Leftovers and Windows TCO
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  46. today's howtos
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  50. Wayland Display Server on openSUSE Tumbleweed in 2023
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  56. Krita 5.2 released
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  57. Fedora Slimbook Linux Laptop Launched with 3K Display, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti
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  59. Relax, "Linux" is Safe
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  60. Android Leftovers
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  62. today's howtos
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  63. 5 Linux Lite Tips for Windows Users
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  65. today's howtos and programming
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  66. Security Leftovers
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  67. The PineTime
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  68. Android Leftovers
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  70. Tiny Linux On A No-MMU RISC-V Microcontroller
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  71. Software Lists Updated: Partition Managers, Cron Jobs, and PDF Page Cropping Tools For GNU/Linux
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  76. Web Survey: Microsoft/Windows Desktop/Laptop Market Share in China Down From 97% in 2015 to 72% This Month
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  77. Web Browsers/Web Servers Leftovers
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  78. This is the world’s first Raspberry Pi 5 tablet
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  79. XScreenSaver 6.08 out now
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  80. Free Software Users Are Having All the Fun
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