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Updated This Past Day

  1. System76 Unveils New Lemur Pro Linux Laptop with Intel Core Ultra Processors
    Linux hardware vendor System76 unveiled a new Lemur Pro Linux-powered notebook today with a brand-new design and Intel Core Ultra processors.
  2. KDE Gear 24.02.1 Improves Dolphin, Spectacle, Okular, and Other KDE Apps
    The KDE Project released today KDE Gear 24.02.1 as the first maintenance update to the latest KDE Gear 24.02 software suite bringing bug fixes and improvements for many of the default KDE applications.
  3. Linux Devices and Retro
    Some hardware/gadgets news
  4. Security and Authenticity Leftovers
    fake security proposals
  5. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software and Web
    FOSS and WWW links
  6. Programming Leftovers
    Including Rust and more
  7. Red Hat: OpenShift 4.15, Network Observability 1.5, and More
    Some Red Hat articles in redhat.com
  8. Android Leftovers
    Qualcomm’s newest chip will supercharge budget Android phones
  9. Immich 1.99.0 Brings Upload Indicators, Optimizations, and More
    Immich's latest update introduces a sleek new logo, bug fixes, and performance improvements for web and mobile users
  10. today's howtos
    5 howtos for now
  11. Games: 'yuzu' is 'Back', Stardew Valley 1.6 is Out, and More
    4 new articles from gamingonlinux
  12. Radxa Penta SATA HAT adds up to five SATA drives to the Raspberry Pi 5 for NAS applications
    The other change is the configuration method (up to PCIe Gen3) for Raspberry Pi OS which is explained on the Radxa documentation website
  13. Usage of Plasma 6’s Global Themes May Pose Serious Risks
    A Reddit user reported that installing a specific global theme in KDE Plasma 6 erased all the information on their computer
  14. Déjà Dup – simple backup software
    It’s free and open source software
  15. 12 Best Free and Open Source Linux Document Management Systems
    Linux offers an impressive range of open source document management systems of varying complexities
  16. DietPi March 2024 news (version 9.2)
    DietPi is a lightweight and optimized OS based on Linux
  17. My top 5 user-friendly GUI backup tools for the Linux desktop (and why you need one)
    If you're not backing up your important files, you risk losing them
  18. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles
  19. today's leftovers
    Ubuntu and more
  20. Programming Leftovers
    plus Mozilla and WordPress
  21. Red Hat: OpenShift, Podman, and Fedora
    4 stories
  22. procs: Rust Alternative to ps Command in Linux
    Handle the processes better by using the Rust-based procs tool instead of the classic ps command in Linux
  23. PostgreSQL: PGConf NYC 2024, PostgreSQL JDBC 42.7.3, 42.6.2, 42.5.6, 42.4.5, 42.3.10, 42.2.29 Released
    PostgreSQL news
  24. Raspberry Pi Pico's RP2040 and Raspberry Pi 5 Projects
    Some Raspberry Pi news
  25. today's howtos
    many howtos
  26. TrueNAS CORE 13 is the end of the FreeBSD version
    Bad news from BSD land – the oldest vendor of BSD systems is changing direction away from FreeBSD and toward Linux.
  27. Security Leftovers
    Non-Linux news
  28. UNIX/Linux Security Leftovers
    mostly focused on Free software or POSIX
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Thursday contains all the text.

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    1164 /n/2024/03/16/Proton_Mail_on_GNU_Linux_Beta.shtml
    1156 /n/2024/03/15/Sparky_7_3.shtml
    1078 /n/2024/03/14/DBOS_Introduced.shtml
    969 /n/2024/03/14/Istio_1_21_0.shtml
    947 /n/2024/03/18/today_s_howtos.shtml
    925 /n/2024/03/15/Android_Leftovers.shtml
    920 /n/2024/03/16/today_s_howtos.shtml
    903 /n/2024/03/15/today_s_howtos.shtml
    888 /n/2024/03/16/KDE_Plasma_6_on_openSUSE_Tumbleweed.shtml
    879 /n/2024/03/14/System76_Adder_Linux_Laptop_Gets_a_Hardware_Refresh.shtml
    874 /n/2024/03/15/Security_Leftovers.shtml
    871 /n/2024/03/16/Programming_Leftovers.shtml
    868 /n/2024/03/15/PipeWire_1_0_4_Is_Here_as_a_Massive_Bugfix_Release.shtml
    861 /n/2024/03/16/today_s_leftovers.shtml
    833 /n/2024/03/17/today_s_howtos.shtml
    829 /n/2024/03/16/Dolphin_24_02.shtml

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