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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 24, 2024

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  7. Security Leftovers
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  8. today's howtos
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  9. Open Hardware/Modding: RISC-V, Raspberry Pi, and More
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  10. BSD: FreeBSD vs. GNU/Linux, HardenedBSD, OpenBSD
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  12. This Week in GNOME: #140 Forty-six!
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  14. The Lunduke Journal has been banned from YouTube
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  15. Free Software Leftovers
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  16. Programming Leftovers
    Announcing Rust 1.77.0 too
  17. Open Hardware Leftovers
    Devices and a Linux focus
  18. Security Leftovers and Windows TCO
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  19. Fedora and Red Hat Leftovers
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  20. today's howtos
    half a dozen howtos
  21. Games: Dungeon Clawler, Tails of Iron 2, and More
    half a dozen new stories from Liam Dawe et al
  22. Security Leftovers
    non-Linux but relevant
  23. Figuring out how ipsec transforms work in Linux
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  24. This week in KDE
    The bug-fixing continued this week with the aim of getting Plasma 6.0.3 into a great state
  25. Quimup – client for the Music Player Daemon
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  28. Milk-V Duo S: Dual-Core RISC-V SBC Open for Pre-Order Starting at $11.00
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  29. Today in Techrights
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  30. GNU/Linux Security Tools and Ubuntu Security Issues
    a batch of new reports
  31. Security Leftovers
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  32. Programming Leftovers
    Programming related links and perl release
  33. BSD: Beacon Awards Summary and BSD Now
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  34. Linux Graphics: "Nova" Driver for NVIDIA, wayland-protocols 1.34
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  35. today's howtos
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  36. MakuluLinux Shift 2024.03.18 Is Live
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