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Updated This Past Day

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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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  10. Season Of KDE, Plasma in Archlinux, and KDE neon Rebasing on Ubuntu Noble
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  11. Open Hardware: Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and More
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  12. Programming Leftovers
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  14. Software: FreeFileSync, Incus, and PSQL
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  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
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  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
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  22. PipeWire 1.0.6 Update Boosts Audio Stability
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  23. Programming Leftovers
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  24. Free Software Leftovers
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  25. Security Leftovers and Debian
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  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
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  30. Sipeed MaixCAM is a RISC-V AI camera devkit with up to 5MP camera, 2.3-inch color touchscreen display, GPIOs
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  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
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  35. Games: Crusader Kings III, Contra crossover Vampire Survivors, and More
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  36. Today in Techrights
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