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Updated This Past Day

  1. GNU Direvent 5.4 and GNU dbm 1.2
    two new GNU releases
  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
    a new tiling window manager made for the Mir Wayland compositor
  4. OpenMandriva ROME 24.07 Release Candidate
    We are excited to announce the unscheduled Release Candidate for OpenMandriva rolling release model, ROME 24.07

    New

  5. Why Chimera Linux
    I like that it is a comparatively small and easy to understand system without giving up quite as much as you do with Alpine Linux
  6. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software and Openwashing (Fake, Microsoft-Sponsored Lobby, OSI)
    Some Free software news
  7. Web Browsers Leftovers
    Web related things
  8. Programming Leftovers
    Programming related stories
  9. today's leftovers
    mostly GNU/Linux news
  10. GNU/Linux Hardware and Open Hardware
    several hardware stories
  11. today's howtos
    afternoon howtos
  12. wcurl: Announcement and More
    a pair of new blog posts
  13. May and June in KDE PIM
    Here's our bi-monthly update from KDE's personal information management applications team
  14. Android Leftovers
    Wireless Android Auto adapters FAQ – Motorola MA1, AAWireless, more
  15. Booting Linux off of Google Drive
    Competitiveness is a vice of mine. When I heard that a friend got Linux to boot off of NFS, I had to one-up her
  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
    Some SUSE stuff
  23. Windows TCO: Ransomware, Lockbit, and More
    4 TCO stories
  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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    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Thursday contains all the text.

    Top-read articles (excluding bot/crawler visits):

    Span from 2024-06-28 to 2024-07-04
    983 /n/2024/06/29/Debian_12_6_Bookworm_Released_with_162_Bug_Fixes_and_84_Securit.shtml
    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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