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posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 11, 2024

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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

   Introducing the new Android Police logo

3. KDE Frameworks 6.2.0

   KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 6.2.0.

4. LibreOffice 7.6.7 Is Here as the Last Update in the Series, Upgrade to LibreOffice 24.2

   The Document Foundation announced today the general availability of LibreOffice 7.6.7 as the seventh and last maintenance update in the LibreOffice 7.6 office suite series for productivity environments.

5. Rocky Linux 9.4 Released as Another Free Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Distro

   The Rocky Linux release engineering team announced the general availability of Rocky Linux 9.4 as yet another free alternative to the latest Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 operating system.

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]

   On the desktop (or laptop), Windows was measured at 99.7% just 15 years ago

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7. Collabora and GNOME

   today's leftovers

8. Security and Windows TCO

   quite a few Windows TCO stories

9. The syslog-ng Insider 2024-05

   Some news from syslog-ng

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

    IBM and RH news

14. Software: FreeFileSync, Incus, and PSQL

    Some FOSS news/overviews

15. today's howtos

    3 howtos

16. 5 of the Best Tools to Streamline Travel in Linux

    Make your travel planning a breeze with Linux

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

    Kirigami Addons 1.2 is out with some accessibility fixes and one new component

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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