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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 24, 2024

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  4. today's leftovers
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  5. Programming Leftovers
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  7. Security Leftovers
    Security news with Linux focus
  8. today's howtos
    many more howtos for day's end
  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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  13. Exploring Cosmic Desktop: A Detailed First Look
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  14. The Lunduke Journal has been banned from YouTube
    The Lunduke Journal is no longer allowed to upload any videos to YouTube
  15. Free Software Leftovers
    FOSS stories
  16. Programming Leftovers
    Announcing Rust 1.77.0 too
  17. Open Hardware Leftovers
    Devices and a Linux focus
  18. Security Leftovers and Windows TCO
    new Windows TCO examples
  19. Fedora and Red Hat Leftovers
    IBM distros and such
  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
    I’m going to try to explain how you do ipsec at a very basic level within Linux networking stack without using an ipsec toolkit
  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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  26. Best Free and Open Source Web Browser And Software
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  27. Open-Source 4WD AI Robot Kit Compatible with Raspberry Pi Models 4 and 5
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  28. Milk-V Duo S: Dual-Core RISC-V SBC Open for Pre-Order Starting at $11.00
    Linux and FreeRTOS operating systems
  29. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles
  30. GNU/Linux Security Tools and Ubuntu Security Issues
    a batch of new reports
  31. Security Leftovers
    Security news and trouble
  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
    2 new updates
  35. today's howtos
    a first weekend batch
  36. MakuluLinux Shift 2024.03.18 Is Live
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    798 /n/2024/03/17/Void_Linux_s_March_2024_Update_Brings_Raspberry_Pi_5_Support.shtml
    785 /n/2024/03/17/GNUnet_0_21_1.shtml
    779 /n/2024/03/18/Security_Leftovers.shtml
    777 /n/2024/03/14/DBOS_Introduced.shtml
    763 /n/2024/03/18/today_s_leftovers.shtml
    760 /n/2024/03/21/today_s_howt.shtml
    758 /n/2024/03/17/GNU_Linux_Leftovers.shtml
    744 /n/2024/03/17/A_Sudden_Rush.shtml

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