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Updated This Past Day

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  3. Microsoft's Windows Falls to Market Share of 15% in Pakistan [original]
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  4. 20 Years, Women-Run Site [original]
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  6. Linux Mint’s Software Manager Is Now Faster & Safer
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  7. Endless OS vastly simplifies the Linux desktop so anyone can enjoy it
    Endless OS isn't your ordinary Linux desktop distribution and it makes interacting with the operating system a thing anybody can do
  8. OSMC's May update is here with a final Kodi 20.5 update
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  9. Libadwaita: Splitting GTK and Design Language
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  10. NixOS 24.05 Arrives with Linux 6.6 LTS, GNOME 46, KDE Plasma 6, and Lomiri
    The independent distro NixOS, whose set of packages can be used on other GNU/Linux distributions, as well as on macOS systems, has a new major release, NixOS 24.05.
  11. Amarok 3.0.1 Open-Source Music Player Improves the Wikipedia Applet
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  12. How to Install MediaWiki on Ubuntu 24.04 [original]
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  13. Programming Leftovers and Hardware Hacking
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  14. Security Leftovers
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  15. Linux 6.10-rc2
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  16. today's howtos
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  17. Windows TCO Leftovers
    Windows TCO stories for today
  18. Amarok 3.0.1 released
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  19. 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: June 2nd, 2024
    The 190th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on June 2nd, 2024.
  20. Fedora Approves Exception for macOS Binaries in Asahi-Installer
    Fedora FESCo grants an exception for shipping prebuilt macOS binaries to support Apple Silicon
  21. Linux user share on Steam breaks 2% thanks to Steam Deck
    The Linux user share on Steam has smashed through the 2% barrier
  22. 6 Top Free and Open Source Erlang Web Frameworks
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  23. Review: LXQt 2.0.0 running on EndeavourOS
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  24. Former Debian Developer Daniel Pocock (Independent) Running in European Elections This Week [original]
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  25. Today in Techrights
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  26. Final Preparations [original]
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  27. Microsoft Lost South America [original]
    Some new stats
  28. 18 Months of Abuse Against Guest Posts, Family Members, and Webhosts [original]
    we shall carry on while habitually mentioning and responding to the attacks on us
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