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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 27, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. Canonical Extends LTS Support to 12 Years

   Ubuntu’s long-term support releases just got even longer, with Canonical today announcing they are eligible for up to 12 years of security coverage from initial release

2. Orange Pi Neo Linux handheld gaming PC to sell for $499 and up

   But it’s unusual in a few ways. Instead of Windows, it’s expected to ship with a handheld-friendly version of Manjaro Linux

3. Ubuntu 24.04 Makes Tiny Tweak to Hugely Improve Gaming

   Gamers can look forward to more epic top-tier titles working out-of-the-box in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, which is due for release in late April

4. Microsoft's Peril in Central Africa (Windows Usage Down Sharply) [original]

   in more and more African countries, some of them very large, Windows is now measured at a mere 2%

   New

5. Programming: Qt, Perl / Raku, and More

   Somme coding relates links

6. Raspberry Pi News and Projects

   Some Raspberry Pi links

7. today's leftovers and howtos

   two howtos only for now

8. Mozilla news and curl distro report

   Some Web-related news

9. Security Leftovers

   patches and incidents

10. Microsoft in Trouble

    Microsoft news

11. Emacs 29.3 released

    security vulnerabilities uncovered in Emacs 29.2

12. Blender 4.1 Officially Released with Quality-of-Life and Performance Improvements

    The Blender Foundation released today Blender 4.1 as a new update to its powerful, free, open-source, and cross-platform 3D graphics computer software for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows systems.

13. KDE Plasma 6.0.3 Is Here to Fix Some X11 Regressions and Various Crashes

    Two weeks after KDE Plasma 6.0.2, the KDE Project released today KDE Plasma 6.0.3 as the third of five planned maintenance updates for the latest KDE Plasma 6 desktop environment series addressing more of those pesky regressions, crashes, and bugs.

14. Windows TCO, Security, and More

    Security centric links

15. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software, FreeBSD, and Mozilla

    some FOSS picks

16. Programming Leftovers

    Programming and standards/encoding

17. Red Hat and Fedora Leftovers

    IBM stuff, lots of fluff

18. today's howtos

    a bunch of howtos, much more to come later

19. Open Hardware: IRIS, Arduino, and Raspberry Pi

    Some hardware news for hackers

20. Fedora Linux 40 Beta Released with GNOME 46, KDE Plasma 6, and Linux Kernel 6.8

    The Fedora Project announced today the release and general availability for download of the beta version of the upcoming Fedora Linux 40 operating system featuring some of the latest GNU/Linux technologies.

21. Games: Steam, GOverlay, and More

    8 new stories by Liam et al

22. Android Leftovers

    Google Wallet adds ‘Verification settings’ on Android

23. MaaXBoard OSM93 – Business card-sized SBC features NXP i.MX 93 AI SoC, supports Raspberry Pi HATs

    The MaaXBoard OSM93 development kit is supported by a Yocto-based Linux

24. FIREBAT T8 Plus Mini PC Running Linux: Introduction

    This is a multi-part blog looking at a FIREBAT T8 Plus Mini PC running Linux

25. 10 Best Free and Open Source Linux Digital Forensics Tools

    Linux has a good range of digital forensics tools that can process data

26. Fedora 40 Beta will be Released Soon

    With the official release of Fedora 40 coming in April, it's almost time to download the beta and see what's new

27. Plasma 5: The Early Years

    With KDE’s 6th Mega Release finally out the door

28. Newsflash 3.2

    Another small feature update just in time for gnome 46

29. Plasma 6 second review - Not bad, but more work is needed

    A couple of weeks ago, I tested Plasma 6 for the first time

30. Sfera Labs Unveils Strato Pi Max as Robust Industrial Controller Powered by Raspberry Pi CM4

    Today, Sfera Labs has introduced two new additions to its Raspberry Pi server lineup

31. Five Linux file and folder management commands you need to know

    Already know the 5 most essential Linux commands

32. My favorite Linux text editors (and why you should be using one)

    Name your desktop distro and I've got a great (and easy-to-use) text editor to recommend

33. Fedora Ops Architect Weekly

    Hi folks, welcome to the weekly from your Fedora operations architect

34. Today in Techrights

    Some of the latest articles

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