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posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 11, 2024

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Updated This Past Day

  1. In Land of the Rising Sun GNU/Linux More Than Trebled in Estimated Usage [original]
    underlying data and chart as ODF
  2. Android Leftovers
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  3. KDE Frameworks 6.2.0
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  4. LibreOffice 7.6.7 Is Here as the Last Update in the Series, Upgrade to LibreOffice 24.2
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  5. Rocky Linux 9.4 Released as Another Free Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Distro
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  6. Libya: Windows Down From 99.7% to 65% (or 3.8% If Mobile Also Gets Counted), GNU/Linux Up to 5%, Android at 80% [original]
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  7. Collabora and GNOME
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  8. Security and Windows TCO
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  9. The syslog-ng Insider 2024-05
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  10. Season Of KDE, Plasma in Archlinux, and KDE neon Rebasing on Ubuntu Noble
    Some KDE news
  11. Open Hardware: Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and More
    Some hardware news
  12. Programming Leftovers
    Programming, Mozilla, and more
  13. Fedora Updates at the Back End and Red Hat's Sponsored Puff Pieces About Red Hat
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  14. Software: FreeFileSync, Incus, and PSQL
    Some FOSS news/overviews
  15. today's howtos
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  16. 5 of the Best Tools to Streamline Travel in Linux
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  17. GNOME 47 Desktop Environment Release Date Slated for September 18th, 2024
    The six-month-long development cycle of the upcoming GNOME 47 desktop environment kicked off and the release schedule was published suggesting a final release date of September 18th, 2024.
  18. KDE Frameworks 6.2 Released with Many Improvements for Plasma 6 Users
    The KDE Project released today KDE Frameworks 6.2 as the latest stable update to this collection of more than 70 add-on libraries to Qt that provide a wide range of commonly needed functionality for the KDE Plasma desktop environment and KDE applications.
  19. IPFire 2.29 - Core Update 186 is available for testing
    It is time to test the upcoming release of IPFire 2.29 - Core Update 186
  20. Unlocking the power of Fedora CoreOS
    Fedora CoreOS is an automatically updating, immutable operating system built on the trusted Fedora Linux distribution
  21. System76’s Darter Pro Linux Laptop Now Available for Preorder
    System76's Darter Pro offers an open concept, minimalist design, and powerful performance
  22. PipeWire 1.0.6 Update Boosts Audio Stability
    PipeWire 1.0.6 audio server brings important bug fixes and memory leak resolutions for smoother multimedia handling
  23. Programming Leftovers
    half a dozen picks for today
  24. Free Software Leftovers
    FOSS links and system76
  25. Security Leftovers and Debian
    Some picks from and about security people
  26. Open Hardware: Mindgrove, Compulab, Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and More
    hardware stuff
  27. today's howtos
    many howtos for today
  28. Windows TCO Leftovers
    Windows incidents and such
  29. Free and Open Source Software
    Bazel is a software tool used for the automation of building and testing software
  30. Sipeed MaixCAM is a RISC-V AI camera devkit with up to 5MP camera, 2.3-inch color touchscreen display, GPIOs
    The MaixCAM builds on the company’s board based in LicheeRV-Nano board powered by the SG2002 SoC and all software for the board can run on the camera including the Debian and Qt-based Linux images
  31. 9 Best Free and Open Source Elixir Static Site Generators
    LinuxLinks, like most modern websites, is dynamic in that content is stored in a database and converted into presentation-ready HTML when readers access the site
  32. Nitrux – Linux distribution based on Debian
    Nitrux is a Linux distribution based on Debian and the Liquorix kernel
  33. Kirigami Addons 1.2
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  34. Compulab’s MCM-iMX93 – Affordable SMD System-on-Module with Flexible Connectivity and NXP i.MX 93 SoC
    MCM-iMX93 is supported by a full BSP and ready-to-use Linux images
  35. Games: Crusader Kings III, Contra crossover Vampire Survivors, and More
    7 picks from gamingonlinux
  36. Today in Techrights
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    776 /n/2024/05/04/Linux_Mint_22_to_Boost_XApp_Independence_Says_No_to_libAdwaita.shtml
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    681 /n/2024/05/01/Neofetch_Development_Ends_as_GitHub_Project_Archived.shtml
    668 /n/2024/05/04/Programming_Leftovers.shtml
    665 /n/2024/05/04/Security_Leftovers.shtml
    659 /n/2024/05/06/today_s_leftovers.shtml
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