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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 01, 2024

2024, Greeting Card

Updated This Past Day

  1. Sipeed’s Longan Pi 3H is a compact Linux development kit with Allwinner H618 processor
    In terms of software, Sipeed states that they are actively contributing to the Linux open-source ecosystem
  2. How We Make Daily Summaries [original]
    In case it's not obvious, we've been running this site from the command line over SSH

    New

  3. today's leftovers
    only 4 more
  4. Programming Leftovers
    Perl and Python
  5. Security Leftovers
    4 stories for today
  6. Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update and GNU/Linux Weekly Roundup
    A pair of updates
  7. Audiocasts/Shows: The Linux Link Tech Show, SFP, and Invidious
    Many to watch or listen to
  8. today's howtos
    some from the past week
  9. LibreELEC (Nexus) 11.0.4
    The final stable version of LibreELEC 11.0.4 has been released, bringing Kodi (Nexus) v20.2 with additional fixes.
  10. Android Leftovers
    I review phones for a living — and this is the best Android phone of 2023
  11. GNOME and KDE Work
    Some outlines of developments
  12. ScummVM 2.8.0: Mysteries, Mammoths, and Muppets
    We are proud to announce the last release of the year 2023. Please welcome ScummVM 2.8.0
  13. Alacritty Terminal Emulator Released New Major 0.13.0
    Alacritty, the popular free open-source GPU-accelerated terminal emulator
  14. 9 Best Free and Open Source Linux Caching Systems
    Only free and open source software is eligible for inclusion
  15. Adguard DNS, or how to reduce ads without apps/extensions
    What is less known, is that you can you DNS-over-TLS or DNS-over-HTTPS for ad blocking
  16. Slimbook Executive
    It's been some six months since I purchased my new laptop, one Slimbook Executive
  17. ScummVM: End of year Director roundup
    The end of the year is almost upon us, along with a new release of ScummVM
  18. Mageia 8 End of Life
    Mageia made it to a byte’s worth of releases when Mageia 8 was released in 2021
  19. Breeze Icons Update!
    Plasma has been encouraged many times to adopt this size. However, manpower is always something not readily available
  20. Licensing and Attacks on Software Freedom
    Perens and more
  21. Slimbook Executive, long-term usage report 2
    A rather turbulent series of events, all of which turned out well in the end. You can read about those in the first article on the Executive, but that's not why we're here.
  22. Programming Leftovers
    Only 3 for now
  23. rpki-client 8.8 released
    OpenBSD related
  24. Raspberry Pi and More Open Hardware/Modding
    Three stories
  25. WIP port of the Linux ath11k driver
    thanks to support from the OpenBSD Foundation
  26. Kernel Panics in ZFS on Linux and Some Blurb About Linux
    2 stories about Linux, the latter strange
  27. today's howtos
    a nightly batch
  28. Mozilla Giving Up on Firefox
    Remember when Mozilla made a web browser?
  29. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles
  30. 2024 Will be an Amazing Year for Tux Machines (TM) Owing to New Tools [original]
    No more MariaDB or MySQL

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