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    New

  3. today's leftovers
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  4. Mobile Systems: E-Ink QWERTY Phone, Casio F-91W/PineTime, and Fairphone
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  5. Distributions and Operating Systems: CP/M, GNU/Linux Distributions for Your Data Cente, MakuluLinux, EasyOS, and FreeBSD
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  7. Security and Windows TCO
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  8. Games: Ultimate Epic Battle Simulator 2, Linux Gaming With Anti-Cheat, Steam, Yuzu
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  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
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  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
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