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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 02, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. Scaleway launches hosted RISC-V servers for 15.99 Euros per month

   I didn’t try the Scaleway RISC-V server myself, but Bret Weber did and he reported his experience setting up an instance with Ubuntu 23.10 (GNU/Linux 5.10.113+ riscv64) and ran several benchmarks

2. KDE Releases Plasma 6 for Mobile Devices with Revamped Homescreen

   KDE Plasma Mobile 6 is now available for mobile devices based on the latest KDE Plasma 6 desktop environment series and bringing new features and improvements.

3. Open Hardware: Name that Ware and Birthday of Raspberry Pi

   Some hacker-friendly wares

4. 20,000 Pages in the New Site [original]

   milestone again

5. HDMI Forum to AMD: No, you can’t make an open source HDMI 2.1 driver

   Any Linux user trying to send the highest-resolution images to a display at the fastest frame rate is out of luck for the foreseeable future

6. today's howtos

   many more howtos for the day

7. Windows Falls Below 13% Market Share in Africa, Barely Has Any Country With Majority [original]

   Windows being the main "loser" (Android growing at its expense)

   New

8. today's leftovers

   SUSE, KDE, and more

9. Microsoft Clashing With Atlanta After Landgrab, Fabio Alessandro Locati Outsources to Microsoft

   Some Microsoft news

10. Fedora: Overview, Announcing Flock 2024, and Fedora-Based Qubes Selling Hardware

    Some Fedora related news

11. Programming Leftovers

    Including a Mozilla report for email

12. Devices/Embedded: Chromebooks, Arduino, ESP32, Fairphone, and More

    a plethora of stories about hardware

13. Security and Windows TCO

    some highlights and 3 Windows TCO examples

14. Applications: FOSS Weekly, Feature Flagging, Orchestration, woofV, CoffeeScript Static Site Generators

    Some FOSS news and focus on software applications

15. today's howtos

    only a handful more for now

16. Serpent OS End of February Update

    This update came a little later in the month

17. Toolbx is a release blocker for Fedora 39 onwards

    One very important thing that we did behind the scenes was to make Toolbx a release blocker for Fedora 39 and onwards

18. Android Leftovers

    Google wants to make Android 15 more resilient to WebView crashes

19. Canonical Has Given Launchpad’s Homepage a Facelift

    Next time you stop by Launchpad.net you’ll notice it has a new look

20. Android Leftovers

    New Android games: The best from February 2024

21. Stable kernels: Linux 6.7.7, Linux 6.6.19, Linux 6.1.80, Linux 5.15.150, Linux 5.10.211, Linux 5.4.270, and Linux 4.19.308

    I'm announcing the release of the 6.7.7 kernel

22. Programming Leftovers

    Programming with focus on R

23. today's leftovers

    half a dozen misc. links

24. Fedora/IBM/Red Hat Leftovers

    Some news from the Red Hat 'camp'

25. Security Leftovers

    Security stories, Linux focus

26. PostgreSQL on SLES 15, Pgpool-II 4.5.1, 4.4.6, 4.3.9, 4.2.16 and 4.1.19

    some postgres news

27. Armbian 24.2 Adds Xiaomi Mi 10, Orange Pi Zero 3, and ASUS Tinker Edge R Support

    The Armbian community informs 9to5Linux.com today about the availability of Armbian 24.2, codenamed Kereru, as the latest stable release of this Debian/Ubuntu-based distribution for ARM hardware.

28. New Articles About PCLinuxOS in The PCLinuxOS Magazine

    PCLinuxOS content/stories

29. today's howtos

    lots of howtos for this morning

30. FSF-EEE, Productivity, Coding, and More

    today's leftovers

31. Windows TCO Leftovers

    Windows TCO examples from the news

32. today's howtos

    half a dozen howtos

33. Red Hat Corporate Puff Pieces and Microsoft Promotion

    Mostly Red Hat's official site

34. Games: Vampire Survivors, Level Zero, ZERO Sievert, and More

    5 articles from Liam Dawe

35. Shotcut 24.02 Video Editor Unveils Ambisonic Audio Support

    Shotcut's latest update brings Ambisonic audio support

36. 8 Linux Apps That Surprised Me!

    I think you should take a look at these Linux apps

37. Phew, the ‘New’ App Center Icon in Ubuntu is a Bug

    About a week ago I noticed that the default icon for App Center (the Flutter-based software store-front that replaced Ubuntu Software in 23.10) had changed

38. It’s Game Over for GNOME Games in Ubuntu 24.04

    Ubuntu developers have decided to stop shipping games in future installs

39. CTL Chromebook NL73 Series to support 5G RedCap with a Snapdragon X35 modem

    The ML73 Series runs Chrome OS with automatic updates guaranteed until June 2033

40. FOSS tool Gparted 1.6 here to save the data

    Gparted 1.6 is the latest release of this graphical partition-manager to

41. 14 Best Free and Open Source Linux Issue Tracking Systems

    Only free and open source software is eligible for inclusion here

42. Graphite – 2D vector and raster editor

    This is free and open source software written in Rust

43. Punctuality Matters: Using Linux to Manage Time-Critical Situations

    Incorporating time-critical capabilities into Linux systems is a balancing act of innovation and practicality

44. On-disk format change beckons for brave early adopters of Bcachefs

    New versions of the two leading next-generations filesystems are coming: both OpenZFS 2.2.3, and some time afterwards, an improved bcachefs

45. New TNS Series on GNU/Linux

    3 new howtos of sorts

    New

46. 10 Linux Distros for Developers and Coders in 2024

    In this article, we will introduce 10 Linux distros for developers and coders in 2024, based on their features, functionality, and popularity

47. Today in Techrights

    Some of the latest articles

48. Applications: SPSS Alternatives, ERP Solutions, and WordPress

    and WordPress concerns

49. Server Leftovers

    and Canonical fluff

50. MakuluLinux, Top 14 GNU/Linux Distros, New Steam Games with Native GNU/Linux Clients, and Openwashing by Microsoft's OSI

    today's leftovers

51. Programming Leftovers

    Programming links, many languages

52. Arduino: New Board and New Portenta Machine Control Library

    2 new stories

53. Events: LF, FSF, and SUSE Gatherings

    3 events coming

54. Security Leftovers

    focus on Linux, but lots more

55. NetBSD 10.0 RC5 available!

    release candidate of the upcoming 10.0 release, please help testing

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