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  1. Distributions and Operating Systems: Roundups and New Ones
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  2. New Steam Games with Native Linux Clients, including Enlisted - 2024-07-17 Edition
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  3. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
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  4. GNU/Linux on Old Laptops and New Laptops (Amid Windows Meltdown Worldwide)
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  5. Open Hardware and General Hardware With Linux Relevance
    hardware news for today
  6. BSD Leftovers
    a pair of stories for today
  7. GNU Parallel 20240722 ('Assange') and GNUnet on DHT Technical Specification Milestone 5
    Some GNU updates
  8. EasyOS Development Updates
    a pair of updates from BK
  9. Android Leftovers
    Chrome for Android and the forever UI
  10. Audacity 3.6.1 Update Fixes Critical Crashes
    Audacity 3.6.1 update fixes critical bugs
  11. IPFire Against The Bad Guys - Denial-of-Service Protection Of Up To Hundreds Of Gigabit/s
    I would like to give an introduction to Denial-of-Service attacks and what old and new mitigations IPFire has in stock against them
  12. My 30-Day Experiment With Native Linux Games
    Testing supported games on a Linux system from Steam
  13. today's howtos
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  14. Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications With Linux
    when there is duopoly
  15. Microsoft's Evolving Blame-Shifting, Impact-Belittling, Narrative-Inverting, and Attention-Deflecting Strategy After Windows Catastrophes
    No shame there!
  16. Tiling Shell GNOME Extension Adds New Way to Tile Windows Quickly
    If you’ve tried the Tiling Shell GNOME extension you’ll know how easy it makes it to tile application windows in GNOME Shell
  17. howtos, Installations and Free and Open Source Software
    Only free and open source software is eligible for inclusion
  18. Review: Andronix - Running Linux distributions on an Android phone
    I like Andronix and how easy it is to useI like Andronix and how easy it is to use
  19. Windows TCO: Azure Outages, Bricked Windows, Ransomware, and Worse
    Microsoft cannot catch a break
  20. 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: July 21st, 2024
    The 197th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on July 21st, 2024.
  21. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Monday contains all the text.

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    1056 /n/2024/07/18/postmarketOS_selected_for.shtml
    1053 /n/2024/07/14/Linux_Kernel_6_10_Officially_Released_This_Is_What_s_New.shtml
    1026 /n/2024/07/16/Mozilla_Selling_Out_Firefox_Users.shtml
    990 /n/2024/07/19/Apache_Software_Foundation_Becomes_Politics.shtml
    945 /n/2024/07/17/OpenELA_Launches_Rapid_Delivery_of_Enterprise_Linux_Build_Sourc.shtml
    831 /n/2024/07/19/today_s_leftovers.shtml
    831 /n/2024/07/16/Audacity_3_6_Open_Source_Audio_Editor_Released_with_Master_Effe.shtml
    823 /n/2024/07/17/SUSE_Requests_openSUSE_to_Rebrand.shtml
    807 /n/2024/07/18/Nobara_40_Debuts_with_Major_Overhauls_and_Enhanced_Stability.shtml
    791 /n/2024/07/18/today_s_howto.shtml
    760 /n/2024/07/19/Our_Gemini_Capsule_is_Turning_Two.shtml
    755 /n/2024/07/16/KDE_Plasma_6_1_3_Improves_Flatpak_Support_in_Discover_Fixes_Mor.shtml
    727 /n/2024/07/16/Recore_A8_An_Allwinner_A64_powered_3D_printer_control_board_wit.shtml
    725 /n/2024/07/16/Warning_to_Half_a_Billion_Useds_sic_of_Microsoft_Outlook.shtml
    725 /n/2024/07/19/today_s_howtos.shtml
    719 /n/2024/07/19/KaOS_Linux_2024_07_Released_with_KDE_Plasma_6_1_and_Linux_Kerne.shtml
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    708 /n/2024/07/16/today_s_howtos.shtml
    698 /n/2024/07/16/Security_Leftovers.shtml
    695 /n/2024/07/19/The_Federal_Trade_Commission_FTC_vs_Microsoft.shtml
    689 /n/2024/07/20/today_s_howtos.shtml
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