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  2. New Steam Games with Native Linux Clients, including Enlisted - 2024-07-17 Edition
    Between 2024-07-10 and 2024-07-17 there were 69 New Steam games released with Native GNU/Linux clients
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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
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  7. GNU Parallel 20240722 ('Assange') and GNUnet on DHT Technical Specification Milestone 5
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  8. EasyOS Development Updates
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  9. Android Leftovers
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  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
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  12. My 30-Day Experiment With Native Linux Games
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  13. today's howtos
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  14. Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications With Linux
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  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
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  18. Review: Andronix - Running Linux distributions on an Android phone
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  19. Windows TCO: Azure Outages, Bricked Windows, Ransomware, and Worse
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  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.
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    990 /n/2024/07/19/Apache_Software_Foundation_Becomes_Politics.shtml
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    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
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