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Updated This Past Day

  1. Immutable Distro blendOS 4 Officially Released, Now Fully Declarative
    blendOS developer Rudra Saraswat today announced the general availability of blendOS 4 as another major update to this Arch Linux-based immutable Linux distribution with some unique features.

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  2. Debian 13 Moves to tmpfs for /tmp Directory
    Debian 13 introduces tmpfs for /tmp and timed cleanup for /var/tmp, aligning with standard practices in the upcoming Trixie release
  3. LibreOffice 24.2.4 Office Suite Is Now Available for Download with 72 Bug Fixes
    LibreOffice 24.2.4 office suite is now available for download with 72 bug fixes for the latest LibreOffice 24.2 series.
  4. VLC 3.0.21 Adds New AMD VQ Enhancer Filter, Improves Opus Ambisonic Support
    VLC 3.0.21 open-source media player is now available for download with a new AMD VQ Enhancer filter, Super Resolution scaling with AMD GPUs, and other changes.
  5. Development: Xorg, Vulkan, and PipeWire GStreamer
    programming links
  6. Security, openSUSE/SUSE, BSD, and Debian
    today's leftovers
  7. 10 Years of Kubernetes and More
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  8. LibreOffice: Convenient handling of shortcuts and LibreOffice 24.2.3.2 compiled for Scarthgap
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  9. Red Hat, CentOS, and Fedora Leftovers
    IBM stuff
  10. Audiocasts/Shows: Going Linux, mintCast, Coder Radio
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  11. today's howtos
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  12. Android Leftovers
    Google announces major change for Android users
  13. Neovim on Fedora
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  14. DuckDB Hits Major Milestone with 1.0 Release
    DuckDB 1.0, a SQL OLAP database management system,
  15. Switcheroo – utility to convert and manipulate images
    Switcheroo is a Rust-based utility designed to give you a simple, quick, and easy-to-use tool to convert and manipulate your images
  16. Whonix on Qubes: The Most Secure Way to Use Tor
    Qubes OS is widely regarded as one of the most secure Open Source operating systems for workstations and laptops
  17. 5 Best Free and Open Source GUI Image Compression Tools
    Data compression is the process of storing data in a format that uses less space than the original representation would use
  18. Can You Use Raspberry Pi 5 as a Desktop Computer?
    The short answer is yes. And I am saying that after more than a month of using the Raspberry Pi 5
  19. Microsoft hit with EU privacy complaints over schools’ use of 365 Education suite
    Privacy rights nonprofit noyb has just lodged two complaints with Austria’s data protection authority
  20. What should KDE focus on for the next 2 years? You can propose a goal!
    Every 2 to 3 years KDE selects 3 goals that the whole community can focus on for the coming years
  21. A look into Ubuntu Core 24
    In this third blog, Farshid Tavakolizadeh, engineering manager from our Industrial team, will show you how to build a Matter lighting device with a Raspberry Pi
  22. Kubuntu, KDE, Debian: I am still here, in loving memory of my brother
    I am still here, busy as ever, I just haven’t found the inspiration to blog
  23. Programming Leftovers
    news about coding
  24. Applications: Arti, Tor, Emacs, and Mozilla
    Software with Web focus
  25. today's howtos
    a handful of howtos for this morning
  26. Open Hardware/Modding: Raspberry Pi, Old Netbook, Arduino, and More
    Some hardware projects and news
  27. Windows TCO Stories
    Microsoft causing mayhem
  28. Elive 3.8.43 released
    The Elive Team is pleased to announce the release of 3.8.43
  29. 2024 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summi
    Coverage of talks at LWN
  30. Games: Airships: Lost Flotilla, Humble Choice, AI Confidential, Deep Rock Galactic
    gaming related news, 7 of them for now
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