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posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 12, 2024,
updated May 12, 2024

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  4. today's leftovers
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  6. Application, KDE, and GNOME
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  8. Fedora Picks and Red Hat Buying Fake 'Articles' About Itself
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  9. Security Leftovers
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  10. today's howtos
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  11. Embedded and Open Hardware: ESP32, Raspberry Pi, OrangePi, utomotive Grade Linux (AGL)
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  12. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
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  13. Windows TCO Leftovers
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  14. PeaZip 9.8 Archive Manager Adds New CLI Switches, New UI Options, and Tux Theme
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  16. Programming Leftovers
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  17. TCP_NODELAY and Linux kernel bug
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  18. BSD: FreeBSD and OpenBSD Updates/Blogs
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  19. today's howtos
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  24. HDR and color management in KWin, part 3
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  26. This week in KDE: our cup overfloweth with cool stuff for you
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  27. Today in Techrights
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  28. In Ireland, Android Up to 42% and on Desktops/Laptops GNU/Linux is Increasingly Favoured Among Computer Users [original]
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