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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 25, 2024

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Updated This Past Day

  1. Security Leftovers
    Security related picks and Windows TCO
  2. Show, Openwashing, BSD, and More
    today's leftovers
  3. Programming Leftovers
    R, Python and more
  4. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
    a few FOSS picks
  5. Licensing Switches: CockroachDB Becomes Proprietary, Forgejo Now GPLv3+
    licence changes
  6. Events: IBM/Fedora, Linux Plumbers Conference and Debconf
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  7. 12 Desktop Environments in one Operating System and Optimizing DebOS
    distro news
  8. Devices and Open Hardware Leftovers
    10 stories or projects
  9. PostgreSQL: CloudNativePG 1.24.0 and 1.23.4, pgAdmin 4 8.11, JDBC 42.7.4
    some psql-related releases
  10. 22 Free Log Viewers and YouTube Music Clients for GNU/Linux Systems
    3 FOSS overviews
  11. Linus Torvalds Still Turns Down "AI" Hype/Ponzi Scheme
    not easy to fool
  12. Ubuntu Leftovers
    a pair of picks
  13. Chrome dumped support for Ubuntu 18.04 – but it'll be back
    it's back!
  14. This Week in GNOME #162 Late Friday Edition
    Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from August 16 to August 23
  15. RefreshOS: A Potential Debian-based Alternative to Kubuntu
    It may not be too exciting, but it's an alternative to exist. What do you think
  16. Chromebook, Devices, and Openwashing
    today's leftovers
  17. Best Free and Open Source Software
    Linux offers a rich platform for anyone with an artistic inclination
  18. today's howtos
    many howtos for the morning
  19. Windows TCO: NHS, Zimbabwe, Healthcare, and More
    7 stories about the cost of Microsoft dependence
  20. This week in KDE: per-monitor brightness control and “update then shut down”
    This week was all about the quality of life features
  21. Raspberry Pi Pico RP2040-Powered FlippyDrive: An Optical Disc Drive Emulator for GameCube
    The project has an open-source component
  22. MYIR Nuvoton NuMicro MA35D1 Development Board with Future Debian and OpenWrt Support
    According to the product page, future support for Debian and OpenWrt is also planned for this specific SoM
  23. Many GNU/Linux Articles in How-To Geek This Month
    lots in How-To Geek
  24. qBittorrent v5.0 Now Available for Testing
    The first release candidate for qBittorrent 5 is now available
  25. Make Your Linux Terminal Look Like a Retro Computer With This App
    I’m old
  26. Inclusivity Activists are Destroying Open Source
    Left Wing Extremists call people "Nazis", rip Open Source apart, in name of "Inclusivity".
  27. today's leftovers
    IBM, CISA, and more
  28. today's howtos
    many howtos for now
  29. Audiocasts/Shows: The Linux Link Tech Show and Many GNU/Linux Videos From the Past Week
    mostly Invidious
  30. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles

    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Saturday contains all the text.

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

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    1242 /n/2024/08/18/CachyOS_August_2024_Release_Adds_Support_for_the_COSMIC_Desktop.shtml
    1136 /n/2024/08/21/Good_Reason_to_Delete_Windows_Not_Dual_Boot_and_Call_Out_the_Mi.shtml
    956 /n/2024/08/14/Kubernetes_v1_31_and_More.shtml
    801 /n/2024/08/12/Future_Ubuntu_Releases_Will_Ship_with_the_Latest_and_Greatest_L.shtml
    796 /n/2024/08/22/More_Layoffs_in_IBM_This_Week.shtml
    782 /n/2024/08/22/LibreOffice_24_8_Open_Source_Office_Suite_Officially_Released_H.shtml
    717 /n/2024/08/21/Linux_Market_Share_Reaches_New_Peak_July_2024_Report.shtml
    704 /n/2024/08/19/Linux_6_11_rc4.shtml
    703 /n/2024/08/17/Goodbye_Windows_11_hello_Linux_Discover_how_ExTiX_Deepin_24_8_c.shtml
    703 /n/2024/08/16/Forget_Microsoft_Windows_11_the_Chinese_made_deepin_Linux_23_is.shtml
    682 /n/2024/08/21/today_s_leftovers.shtml
    593 /n/2024/08/19/today_s_howtos.shtml
    571 /n/2024/08/22/GNOME_47_Beta_Desktop_Released_with_Many_Changes_Here_s_What_s_.shtml
    569 /n/2024/08/13/Openwashing_by_Linux_Foundation_No_Connection_to_Linux_Absent_a.shtml
    567 /n/2024/08/20/today_s_howtos.shtml
    561 /n/2024/08/21/today_s_howtos.shtml
    552 /n/2024/08/19/Programming_Leftovers.shtml
    539 /n/2024/08/20/EasyOS_Scarthgap_series_version_6_2_released.shtml
    530 /n/2024/08/19/today_s_leftovers.shtml
    529 /n/2024/08/20/No_Time_to_Rest.shtml
    523 /n/2024/08/21/NXP_Debian_Linux_and_Debian_Day_2024_in_Santa_Maria.shtml

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