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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 08, 2024

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  1. KDE Frameworks 6.3 Released with Various UI Improvements and Bug Fixes
    The KDE Project released today KDE Frameworks 6.3 as another 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.
  2. 2 Years Ago [original]
    social control media or even the mainstream media ought not be blindly trusted

    New

  3. Security Leftovers
    Security news
  4. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
    FOSS picks
  5. OMG Ubuntu on Proprietary Software, TecMint on Spyware (Google Drive)
    Software news but hardly FOSS-centric
  6. Hardware: Arduino, RISC-V, Raspberry Pi, and More
    Devices and gadgets
  7. GNU Scientific Library 2.8 and GNU Taler 0.11
    Some GNU news
  8. today's leftovers
    some evening howtos
  9. Canonical in Watford stadium and Linux-powered Matter devices
    Some case studies or PR
  10. Android Leftovers
    Android on the Rabbit R1 runs perfectly, almost like it was meant to
  11. Fibocom FG370 dual-band WiFi 7 and 5G cellular module targets 5G FWA routers
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  12. CentOS Stream 10 Shapes Up for RHEL 10
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  13. Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation (RESF), Rocky Linux, and Red Hat's Official Site
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  14. Programming Leftovers
    Programming stories
  15. Windows TCO Tales
    More Windows breaches
  16. Android Leftovers
    17 best Android app and games on sale you should install this week
  17. Games: Humble Bundle, GOG, BloodDome99, Megacopter: Blades, and More
    half a dozen from gamingonlinux
  18. Lansweeper finds a lot of CentOS Linux out there
    Network scan reveals 26 percent of Linux boxes are CentOS 7, EOL later this month. What happens next
  19. Best Free and Open Source Software
    This is free and open source software
  20. Open Source Android Email Clients to Replace Gmail
    You may wish to be notified about every email message that your inbox receives across various email servers/services that you may be using
  21. PCLinuxOS Magazine's Latest: Mostly HowTos
    PCLOS mag is out
  22. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles
  23. 3 Years Ago [original]
    One can hope that 3 years from now GNU/Linux will already be used by about 1 in 10 (maybe 1 in 5) PC users
  24. Software: Ruqola, WordPress, Betterfox, Mesa
    new releases and more
  25. Security Leftovers
    Security related news picks
  26. today's howtos (but mostly terrible advice)
    spyware promoted
  27. Hardware News and Linux
    Linux on devices and more
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Friday contains all the text.

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    870 /n/2024/06/01/NixOS_24_05_released.shtml
    860 /n/2024/06/04/Say_goodbye_to_Microsoft_Windows_11_Nitrux_Linux_3_5_0_is_the_o.shtml
    826 /n/2024/06/03/Linux_user_share_on_Steam_breaks_2_thanks_to_Steam_Deck.shtml
    763 /n/2024/06/03/Linux_Mint_s_Software_Manager_Is_Now_Faster_Safer.shtml
    758 /n/2024/06/02/today_s_howtos.shtml
    731 /n/2024/06/01/Security_Leftovers.shtml
    725 /n/2024/06/03/NixOS_24_05_Arrives_with_Linux_6_6_LTS_GNOME_46_KDE_Plasma_6_an.shtml
    715 /n/2024/06/03/Former_Debian_Developer_Daniel_Pocock_Independent_Running_in_Eu.shtml
    712 /n/2024/06/01/today_s_leftovers.shtml
    698 /n/2024/06/01/Wine_9_10_Launches_with_Enhanced_DPI_Awareness.shtml
    692 /n/2024/06/01/today_s_howtos.shtml
    692 /n/2024/06/05/Software_Morphosis_Incus_6_2_DNF_5_2.shtml
    683 /n/2024/06/03/Final_Preparations.shtml
    675 /n/2024/06/01/Programming_Leftovers.shtml
    672 /n/2024/06/04/today_s_howtos.shtml
    665 /n/2024/06/02/Android_Leftovers.shtml

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