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  2. Show, Openwashing, BSD, and More
    today's leftovers
  3. Programming Leftovers
    R, Python and more
  4. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
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  5. Licensing Switches: CockroachDB Becomes Proprietary, Forgejo Now GPLv3+
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  6. Events: IBM/Fedora, Linux Plumbers Conference and Debconf
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  7. 12 Desktop Environments in one Operating System and Optimizing DebOS
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  8. Devices and Open Hardware Leftovers
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  9. PostgreSQL: CloudNativePG 1.24.0 and 1.23.4, pgAdmin 4 8.11, JDBC 42.7.4
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  10. 22 Free Log Viewers and YouTube Music Clients for GNU/Linux Systems
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  11. Linus Torvalds Still Turns Down "AI" Hype/Ponzi Scheme
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  12. Ubuntu Leftovers
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  13. Chrome dumped support for Ubuntu 18.04 – but it'll be back
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  14. This Week in GNOME #162 Late Friday Edition
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  15. RefreshOS: A Potential Debian-based Alternative to Kubuntu
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  16. Chromebook, Devices, and Openwashing
    today's leftovers
  17. Best Free and Open Source Software
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  18. today's howtos
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  19. Windows TCO: NHS, Zimbabwe, Healthcare, and More
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  20. This week in KDE: per-monitor brightness control and “update then shut down”
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  21. Raspberry Pi Pico RP2040-Powered FlippyDrive: An Optical Disc Drive Emulator for GameCube
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  22. MYIR Nuvoton NuMicro MA35D1 Development Board with Future Debian and OpenWrt Support
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  23. Many GNU/Linux Articles in How-To Geek This Month
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  24. qBittorrent v5.0 Now Available for Testing
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  25. Make Your Linux Terminal Look Like a Retro Computer With This App
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  26. Inclusivity Activists are Destroying Open Source
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  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
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    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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