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Updated This Past Day

  1. GNU Direvent 5.4 and GNU dbm 1.2
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  2. KDE Gear 24.05.2
    Distro and app store packagers should update their application packages
  3. Miracle-WM 0.3 Arrives with Bling, Bug Fixes - Better i3 IPC Support
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  4. OpenMandriva ROME 24.07 Release Candidate
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  5. Why Chimera Linux
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  6. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software and Openwashing (Fake, Microsoft-Sponsored Lobby, OSI)
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  7. Web Browsers Leftovers
    Web related things
  8. Programming Leftovers
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  9. today's leftovers
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  10. GNU/Linux Hardware and Open Hardware
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  11. today's howtos
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  12. wcurl: Announcement and More
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  13. May and June in KDE PIM
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  14. Android Leftovers
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  15. Booting Linux off of Google Drive
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  16. today's leftovers
    5 more picks
  17. Open Hardware: “Retro Supplies”, Raspberry Pi, and More
    4 hardware stories
  18. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
    FOSS picks
  19. Programming Leftovers
    Programming picks
  20. Security Leftovers
    only 3 for now
  21. today's howtos
    many howtos
  22. OpenSUSE and LEAP News
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  23. Windows TCO: Ransomware, Lockbit, and More
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  24. What Apple has forgotten...
    When NeXT still existed and the black hardware was a thing
  25. Calamares Installer 3.3.8 Released, Here’s What’s New
    Calamares installer 3.3.8 bugfix release is out with updates in partitioning and encrypted swap fixes
  26. Celebrate Independence Day this Fourth of July by switching from Microsoft Windows 11 to Linux
    As fireworks light up the night sky this July 4, consider celebrating Independence Day by declaring your freedom from the tyranny of Windows 11 and switching to Linux
  27. Best Free and Open Source Software
    Only free and open source software is eligible for inclusion
  28. Calamares & some Distro Notes
    Calamares is an indepdendent Linux distro-installer, and we just released Calamares 3.3.7
  29. Keychain Development Update: Yubikey Support
    Following my latest post about Keychain, here is a new development update
  30. ADLINK Unveils NXP i.MX 93 and i.MX 8M Plus Based Open Standard Modules
    ADLINK introduced two new modules this week, the NXP i.MX 93 and NXP i.MX 8M Plus
  31. Today in Techrights
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    944 /n/2024/06/27/NVIDIA_555_58_Linux_Graphics_Driver_Released_with_Explicit_Sync.shtml
    899 /n/2024/07/02/OpenSSH_9_8_Fixes_Critical_sshd_Vulnerability.shtml
    855 /n/2024/06/29/Wine_9_12_Debuts_with_Updated_Mono_Engine.shtml
    837 /n/2024/07/01/Linux_Mint_22_Beta_Released_with_Cinnamon_6_2_Based_on_Ubuntu_2.shtml
    831 /n/2024/06/30/today_s_howtos.shtml
    771 /n/2024/07/01/FreeDOS_open_source_text_based_OS_turns_30_still_in_active_deve.shtml
    770 /n/2024/07/01/Linux_6_10_rc6.shtml

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