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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 01, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. COSMIC Team Interview: Building Your Own User Experience

   We’re gearing up to release the alpha for COSMIC, a new desktop environment for Linux

2. This Linux distro is inspired by Windows' UI - and it works surprisingly well

   Deepin is the way to go

3. Making sense of font selection

   It’s been a while since my last blog post regarding text

   New

4. today's leftovers

   Red Hat, BSD, and more

5. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers

   misc. FOSS picks

6. today's howtos

   only 3 more howtos for now

7. Open Hardware: Raspberry Pi, ESP32, and More

   Some hardware related stuff

8. Programming and Standards Leftovers

   mostly coding related picks

9. Audiocasts/Shows: Destination Linux, Late Night Linux, What’s in the SOSS?

   3 new episodes

10. Security Leftovers

    Security patches and more

11. New Games You Can Play on GNU/Linux with Proton, Nintendo Switch Emulator on Linux, 86Box 4.2 supports the wonderful ESS AudioDrive

    Gaming and emulation news

12. Play Classic Video Games With RetroArch on Ubuntu 24.04 [review]

    Learn how to install the RetroArch emulator on Ubuntu and other Linux distributions and play your favorite classic games on your PC.

13. today's howtos

    many howtos for today (so far)

14. Systemd-Free Nitrux 3.6 Arrives with NVIDIA 560 Driver, Latest NVIDIA GSP Firmware

    Nitrux developer Uri Herrera announced today the release and general availability of Nitrux 3.6 as the latest stable ISO snapshot of this Debian-based, immutable, and systemd-free GNU/Linux distribution.

15. today's leftovers

    4 more stories, GNU/Linux focus

16. Latest From Red Hat

    redhat.com's latest

17. Free Software Leftovers

    FSF and more

18. today's howtos

    only a handful of howtos for now

19. Windows TCO: Voting Machine Security, Windows XP, Botnets, and Ransomware

    4 stories for today

20. Super Grub2 Disk 2.06s4 System Rescue Tool Released with Btrfs Support

    Super Grub2 Disk 2.06s4 system rescue live ISO tool, which helps you boot into almost any operating system when it fails to boot, has been released with new features and improvements.\

21. Android Leftovers

    Tuya Ivy smart flower pot monitors your plant's inner feelings

22. Ubuntu Touch 20.04 OTA-5 Release is Here!

    If you are one of the few using it, you might want to update

23. Open Source Alternatives to Google Photos that Can be Self Hosted

    Google Photos can be replaced using these open-source self-hosted photo applications

24. LibreOffice 24.8 RC2 is available for testing

    LibreOffice 24.8 will be released as final at the end of August, 2024

25. Games: Athena Crisis, Enshrouded, and More

    GamingOnLinux's latest eight

26. We met our new associate member goal thanks to you!

    We are very happy to announce that we surpassed our spring goal

27. Git 2.46 Is Out with a Bunch of Improvements

    Git 2.46 distributed revision control system brings better error handling, enhanced color parsing, new global options, updates to symbolic refs, and more

28. Canonical Reports Revenue Growth in 2023, Reaching $251 Million

    In 2023, Canonical's revenue rose by $46M, driven by gains in sales, marketing, and R&D, with operating profit at $45M

29. AppImage Fan? You Need to Check Out ‘Gear Lever’

    AppImages are great: a single runtime containing all of the dependencies needed for an app to run in a double-click binary that can be run from anywhere on your system

30. Free and Open Source Software, howtos and Installations

    This is free and open source software

31. LabPlot funded through NGIO Core Fund

    This year we applied to NLnet’s NGI Zero Core open call for proposals in February 2024

32. Another Outage Hits Microsoft: A Few Days After Crowdstrike Crash, Tech Giant's 365 Services Face Issues

    leaving users grappling with degraded service and access challenges

33. 10 things I always do immediately after installing Linux - and why

    I've tested countless Linux distributions over the years

34. What is sudo in Linux and why is it so important?

    Here's how to use this powerful tool

35. New HowTos in PCLinuxOS Magazine

    3 howtos for today

36. Repo Review: GNU TeXmacs

    GNU TeXmacs is a free/libre scientific document editor, designed to create beautiful technical documents using a WYSIWYG interface

37. PCLinuxOS Screenshots, Fonts, and More

    Some PCLinuxOS news

38. Today in Techrights

    Some of the latest articles

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