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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 08, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. Media Says 4% for GNU/Linux, But It's Already 4.2% for GNU/Linux (Worldwide) [original]

   articles are appearing rather belatedly

2. GNUnet 0.21.0

   We are pleased to announce the release of GNUnet 0.21.0

   New

3. today's leftovers

   a mix of stories

4. Mobile Systems: E-Ink QWERTY Phone, Casio F-91W/PineTime, and Fairphone

   3 stories about mobile

5. Distributions and Operating Systems: CP/M, GNU/Linux Distributions for Your Data Cente, MakuluLinux, EasyOS, and FreeBSD

   a handful of OS stories

6. Audiocasts/Shows: FLOSS Weekly, mintCast, Linux Out Loud, and More

   Several new episodes

7. Security and Windows TCO

   a couple of Windows TCO stories, but more of GNU/Linux

8. Games: Ultimate Epic Battle Simulator 2, Linux Gaming With Anti-Cheat, Steam, Yuzu

   Some gaming related news

9. Free Software: From Reference Management Software to PostgreSQL

   FOSS leftovers

10. today's howtos

    many howtos for today

11. Tor Browser 13.0.11 is Out, Mozilla Cozies Up to Columbia Institute of Global Politics

    Mozilla news

12. Fedora Project Now Considering Dropping XOrg Session from Fedora 41 Workstation

    Fedora Project is considering dropping the XOrg session by default in the Fedora Linux 41 Workstation edition featuring the GNOME desktop environment.

13. Zorin OS 17.1 Released with Enhanced Windows App Support, Education Edition

    The Zorin OS team released today Zorin OS 17.1 as the first update to the latest Zorin OS 17 operating system series adding various improvements and updating the Education edition.

14. Pineberry Pi Unveils New Expansion Boards for Raspberry Pi 5

    Pineberry Pi introduces a new lineup for the Raspberry Pi 5

15. openSUSE Leap 15.6 Is Now Available for Public Beta Testing with GNOME 45

    The openSUSE Project released today the beta version of the upcoming openSUSE Leap 15.6 operating system release ahead of the final version on June 12th, 2024.

16. Open Hardware: Raspberry Pi, PCB, Acorn, SparkFun, and More

    Hardware stuff, Linux focus

17. Leap 15.6 Reaches Beta Phase

    The openSUSE Project is thrilled to announce the Beta release phase of Leap 15.6

18. Fedora 41 Drops the GNOME Xorg Sessions

    Fedora Workstation 41 will not include GNOME Xorg sessions by default

19. RHVoice – multilingual speech synthesizer

    This is free and open source software

20. GTK 4.14 will be released very soon, with new renderers that were introduced earlier this year

    GTK 4.14 will be released very soon, with new renderers that were introduced earlier this year

21. Programming Leftovers

    Coding related news

22. Proprietary Malice, Microsoft Downtimes

    Microsoft news

23. Windows TCO Leftovers

    The true cost of choosing Windows

24. Games: EmuDeck, Direct3D, Proton, and More

    7 stories by Liam Dawe

25. today's howtos

    handful of howtos

26. Security Leftovers and Windows TCO

    2 of each

27. Linux Weekly News on kernel and documentation

    Linux news outside the paywall now

28. Forgejo makes a full break from Gitea

    from LWN

29. A look at Nix and Guix

    Nix and Guix are a pair of unusual package managers based on the idea of declarative configurations

30. Proprietary Imitations and FUD Against "Linux"

    3 leftovers

31. NixBSD: This Project Mixes FreeBSD and NixOS in One!

    Wait, what? Two good things in one? What do you mean? Take a look here.

32. Today in Techrights

    Some of the latest articles

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