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Updated This Past Day

  1. Future Ubuntu Releases Will Ship with the Latest and Greatest Linux Kernel
    Canonical has finally given up and changed its policy for kernel version selection on Ubuntu releases, finally delivering the latest and greatest Linux kernel series starting with Ubuntu 24.10 in October 2024.

    New

  2. Python Bans Prominent Dev for Enjoying the Wrong Old SNL Sketch
    I could find no example of Tim Peters actually "Defending Reverse Racism" anyway. This appears to be made up entirely, as far as I can tell.
  3. Audiocasts/Shows: This Week in Linux and Many Videos
    Mostly Invidious
  4. EU Funding for Free Software
    Comments by Google-funded front group
  5. BSD, Linux, and games
    today's leftovers
  6. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
    FOSS picks and some DB stuff
  7. Programming Leftovers
    Programming related picks
  8. Chromium (With Rust Complexity) Makes Life Harder for Slackware (un-Googled) and Chrome+Clones Have Malicious Features Other Than Google's and Microsoft's
    getting worse over time
  9. today's howtos
    many howtos for today
  10. Security Leftovers
    Security related stories
  11. Donald Trump and Local Governments Hit by Microsoft/Windows TCO
    despite media spin
  12. Android Leftovers
    Does Galaxy Ring work with non-Samsung Android phones
  13. Free and Open Source Software
    containerd is an industry-standard container runtime with an emphasis on simplicity
  14. Canaima – Venezuelan desktop based distribution
    Canaima Linux is a Venezuelan desktop distribution based on Debian
  15. Review: TrueNAS 24.04.2 "SCALE"
    TrueNAS is an operating system (or family of operating systems) sponsored by iXsystems for network attached storage systems
  16. The colors of GTK
    Everything is better in color. Even better if it is HDR
  17. 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: August 11th, 2024
    The 200th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on August 11th, 2024.
  18. GameBar Overlay: A Linux Alternative to Microsoft Game Bar
    Discover a new GameBar Overlay GNOME extension for the GNOME DE that offers a similar experience to Microsoft's Game Bar, but for Linux.
  19. Linux 6.11-rc3
    Nothing particularly strange or interesting going on, things look normal
  20. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles
  21. Security and Windows TCO
    Especially Windows TCO
  22. Software and Debian Activities
    Some more Free and non-free software
  23. Programming Leftovers
    Programming related
  24. Open Hardware and Retro: PineTime, Pi, and Video Game Preservation
    hardware picks
  25. Audiocasts/Shows: Talk by Aleix Pol and GNU World Order
    2 new shows/presentations
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    609 /n/2024/08/10/A_zero_day_flaw_using_the_0_0_0_0_IP_address.shtml
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    588 /n/2024/08/10/This_week_in_KDE_SVG_Breeze_cursors_and_more_thumbnails.shtml
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    572 /n/2024/08/04/Manjaro_Linux_Unveils_Immutable_Variant.shtml
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