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Updated This Past Day

  1. Open Hardware: Raspberry Pi, Arduino, RISC-V, and More
    many hardware stories
  2. Audiocasts/Shows: Late Night Linux, OpenSSH Coverage, and WordPress Briefing
    4 new episodes
  3. Security Leftovers
    Security related picks
  4. Leftovers: Makula, IBM, and Kernel
    assorted stories
  5. Programming Leftovers
    Programming related picks
  6. Debian and Ubuntu Development Reports
    3 links for now
  7. Applications and Free Software Lists
    Software news, pertinent and lists
  8. today's howtos
    another long batch for the day
  9. Firefox 129 Enters Beta Testing with Improved Reader View, Other Changes
    Now that Firefox 128 has rolled out today to all supported platforms as the new ESR series, Mozilla promoted the next major release, Firefox 129, to the beta channel for public testing.
  10. Android Leftovers
    Chrome Android Gets a Security Boost with Safety Check v2!
  11. Clonezilla Live 3.1.3 Disk Cloning Tool Is Here Powered by Linux Kernel 6.9
    Clonezilla Live developer Steven Shiau released today Clonezilla Live 3.1.3 as a new version of this powerful, free, and open-source tool for cloning disk drives.
  12. NethSecurity 8.1 Open Source Linux Firewall Released
    NethSecurity 8.1, an open-source Linux firewall, is here with improved stability, a new admin management UI, connection tracking, and more
  13. 12 Things I Do Right After Installing Linux (And You Should Too)
    Did a fresh Linux install? You're not done yet. Whether you're new to Linux or a seasoned user
  14. Goodbye Archcraft Linux, Thank You for This Year, I Switched to Endeavor OS!
    My journey using a Linux distro has been very long
  15. Best Free and Open Source Software
    This is free and open software
  16. mAid – easy and ready-to-use distribution for Android lovers
    mAid is an easy and ready-to-use Linux distribution for Android lovers
  17. Calamares ABI Checking
    Seems like over 3 years ago I wrote something about ABI stability checking and investigated a little how tools could be used to help maintain ABI stability for Calamares
  18. today's leftovers
    3 links for today
  19. Windows TCO Leftovers
    Windows TCO links
  20. LibreOffice 24.2 review - A pleasant surprise
    In many ways, LibreOffice is the Linux of office suits. What do I mean by this? Well, some releases are good, some bad, there are often seemingly random regressions in between
  21. Programming Leftovers
    Programming links, perl focus today
  22. EasyOS 6.0 “Scarthgap” Review: Surprisingly Good Release
    A new major release of the lightweight Linux distribution EasyOS 6.0 “Scarthgap” is now available for general use (with a point release)
  23. 6.10-rc7
    New RC, finalised soon
  24. Games: Bare Butt Boxing, Bella Wants Blood, and More
    7 latest stories from Liam et al
  25. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Tuesday contains all the text.

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

    Span from 2024-07-03 to 2024-07-09
    1418 /n/2024/07/02/OpenSSH_9_8_Fixes_Critical_sshd_Vulnerability.shtml
    1054 /n/2024/07/03/An_engineer_has_created_a_system_to_run_Linux_from_Google_Drive.shtml
    1011 /n/2024/07/04/Booting_Linux_off_of_Google_Drive.shtml
    988 /n/2024/07/06/LocalSend_Share_Files_and_Messages_on_the_Local_Network.shtml
    793 /n/2024/07/06/today_s_howtos.shtml
    773 /n/2024/07/03/X_Window_System_At_40.shtml
    762 /n/2024/07/04/today_s_howtos.shtml
    755 /n/2024/07/03/today_s_howtos.shtml
    745 /n/2024/07/04/GNU_Direvent_5_4_and_GNU_dbm_1_2.shtml
    743 /n/2024/07/03/Open_Hardware_Modding_RISC_V_GNU_Linux_on_Snapdragon_and_More.shtml
    738 /n/2024/07/07/Security_Leftovers.shtml
    735 /n/2024/07/06/Medevel_on_Free_Software_for_Healthcare_Service_Providers.shtml
    733 /n/2024/07/04/today_s_howtos.1.shtml
    730 /n/2024/07/06/today_s_leftovers.shtml
    726 /n/2024/07/03/Canonical_Firefighting_Support_offers_expert_troubleshooting_fo.shtml
    726 /n/2024/07/06/today_s_howtos.1.shtml
    722 /n/2024/07/06/Security_Leftovers.shtml

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