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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 01, 2023

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  3. NixOS 23.11 released
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  4. LibreOffice 24.2 Alpha1 is available for testing
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  8. Open Source Spacecraft Avionics With NASA's Core Flight System
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  17. Security Leftovers
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  18. Shotcut 23.11 Open-Source Video Editor Adds NVIDIA AV1 Hardware Encoding
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  19. Android Leftovers
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  21. Fedora Family / IBM: Fedora Docs workshop and Cockpit 306
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    3 new posts
  24. Jonathan Riddell and Qt 6: KDiagram 3.0.0 and KWeatherCore 0.8.0
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  25. Mozilla: Thunderbird for Android and Introducing llamafile
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  26. Security Leftovers
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  27. Android Leftovers
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  28. today's howtos
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  29. NixOS 23.11 “Tapir” Released with the GNOME 45 Desktop and Wi-Fi 6 Support
    NixOS, a Linux distribution and a set of packages usable on other Linux systems and macOS, has been updated today to version 23.11.
  30. Audiocasts/Shows: mintCast, Linux Out Loud, LinDoz, Distrobox
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  31. Android Leftovers
    These are the 10 best Android apps of the year – according to Google
  32. Major Versions of PipeWire, Firefox arrive in Tumbleweed
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  33. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software and Programming
    FOSS and coding
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  35. Security and Windows TCO
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  36. Games: Gratuitous Space Shooty Game and Unity (Microsoft Mono) Still in Crisis
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  37. today's howtos
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  38. myAGV 2023 four-wheel mobile robot ships with Raspberry Pi 4 or Jetson Nano
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