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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 04, 2023

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  6. It’s Final: Fedora 40 to Offer Plasma 6, Drops X11 Entirely
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  7. Audacity 3.4 Released with Music Workflows, New Exporter, and More
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  8. Canonical Choosing War and Microsoft
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  9. PSPP 2.0.0-pre3 has been released
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  10. LibreOffice 7.5.8 Is Here as the Last Update in the Series, Upgrade to LibreOffice 7.6 Now
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  17. Security Leftovers
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  18. Red Hat's Friday Five — November 3, 2023: A Pool of Red Hat-Funded Propaganda, Spin, and More Bait/Traps
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  19. LibreSSL 3.8.2 Released
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  23. Scarlett Gately Moore on KDE neon and interview with KDE’s lead propagandist
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  30. Libreboot 20231101 released!
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  35. today's leftovers
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  37. Open Hardware: Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and More
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  38. Updating GNOME shell extensions to GNOME 45
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  39. Software for GNU/Linux and Some Free Software
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  40. Security Leftovers
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  41. Mozilla: Firefox Nightly, Firefox in OpenEmbedded, SUMO, and Localization
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  42. today's howtos
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  44. today's howtos
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  47. Software: Tor Browser, Package Managers, and Kubernetes
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  53. Windows TCO (Security Calamities)
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  54. Mozi is Dead
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  59. Embedian solutions integrate i.MX8M Plus processors
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