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posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 09, 2024,
updated May 09, 2024

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  3. Post-Open Licensing Could Offer Software Devs Funding Alternatives
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  6. KGraphViewer 2.5.0 released
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  7. Android Leftovers
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  8. today's howtos
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  9. Microsoft and Apple Failures
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  10. Microsoft and Windows Seeding Chaos
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  12. Raspberry Pi Connect
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  16. Security Leftovers
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  17. Devices/Open Hardware/Modding: Pi, Arduino, and More
    news about Linux-friendly gadgets
  18. Best Free and Open Source: Configuration Management Databases, and RAW Processing Tools
    Each software featured in this article is released under an open source license
  19. Red Hat as a Festival or PR and Circus of Ridiculous Buzzwords
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  20. Free and Open Source Software
    This is free and open source software
  21. Games: Mass Layoffs at Microsoft (Again) and More
    latest dozen articles from gamingonlinux
  22. Collections of Different Linux Distributions
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  23. March and April in KDE PIM
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  24. Krita Monthly Update – Edition 15
    Our users on chromebooks faced a nasty bug which crashed krita on startup
  25. DietPi April 2024 News (Version 9.3) & Open Beta Version 9.4.0
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  26. FreeBSD to Get a New Graphical Installer for Easier Installation
    Yes, you can get a nice graphical installer for FreeBSD in the upcoming release.
  27. Today in Techrights
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  28. New Highs for GNU/Linux in Taiwan (According to statCounter [original]
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  29. Red Hat Rethinks the Linux Distro for the Container Age
    Red Hat wants to bring cloud native-based build and deployment practices to the Linux operating system itself.

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