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  4. Audiocasts/Shows: Destination Linux, LINUX Unplugged, and GNU World Order
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  5. GNOME Foundation Welcomes Holly Million as Executive Director
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  12. KDE Plasma 5.27.9, Bugfix Release for October
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  14. Plants, process and parties: the Kubernetes 1.28 release interview
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  15. Software Freedom Day at sflc.in and Krita Art in Plérin, France
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  17. Tellico 3.5.2 Released
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  19. Security Leftovers
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  20. Open Hardware: Raspberry Pi 5, Arduwatch, and More
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  21. Games: Gratuitous Space, Proton, Steam, and More
    9 new stories
  22. Android Leftovers
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  23. DSOM-020R PX30 development board review – Unboxing, Benchmarks, and Zigbee gateway
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  24. qBittorrent 4.6.0 Released with I2P Support
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  26. Say Thank You during Fedora Appreciation Week 2023
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  27. Project blogs are now welcome on Planet GNOME
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  32. Security Leftovers
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  33. Kubuntu 23.10 strikes a perfect balance of form and function
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  35. today's howtos
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  37. Media in San Francisco Discovers Microsoft's Imminent Divestment and Shrinkage
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  38. Sharing is the Future
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  39. New Record Today, Now Time to Rest
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  41. Android Leftovers
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  42. Windows in China: It Must be Alarming to Microsoft and Its Drug Dealer, Bill Gates
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  43. Intel NUC 13 Pro Mini PC Running Linux: Power Consumption
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  44. What Sort of Sick Person Tries to Put a GNU/Linux News Site Down?
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  45. 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: October 22nd, 2023
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  46. Moral Support for Richard Stallman From the FreeBSD Community
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  47. Chromium is Not Really Open, Chromium is Just Monoculture (and Firefox Has Given Up, Mozilla is Sponsored by the Chromium Company)
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  48. today's leftovers
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  49. Security Leftovers
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  50. today's howtos
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  51. Linux 6.6-rc7
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  52. Android Leftovers
    Google Keep rolls out text formatting on Android [U: Old notes]
  53. PeaZip 9.5 File Archiver Brings UI and Performance Improvements
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  54. Errands is a Top To-Do List App for Linux Users
    To get stuff done you need to get organised, and to-do apps can be an invaluable tool in helping you achieve that
  55. 9 Halloween/Spooky Desktop Wallpapers for Ubuntu
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  56. Keeping Things Simple Means Making Things Faster
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  57. 8 Best Free and Open Source Replacements for ls
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  58. Review: Ubuntu Cinnamon 23.10 and Linux Mint 6 "Debian Edition"
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  59. qBittorrent 4.6 Released with Initial I2P Support, Torrent Tags Editing, and More
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