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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 01, 2024

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Updated This Past Day

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  8. Programming Leftovers
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  9. Kernel: Bootlin, QR Gimmicks, and Intel
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  10. today's howtos
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  11. Canonical/Ubuntu News and Analysis
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  12. This Week in GNOME: #163 Public Transit
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  14. Databases: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and JameSQL
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  15. Events: KDE and Debian
    4 reports and listings
  16. Debian 12.7 “Bookworm” Released with 55 Security Updates and 51 Bug Fixes
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  18. Open Hardware: Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and More
    mostly Raspberry Pi today
  19. today's howtos
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  20. Windows TCO: RansomHub, LockBit, Halliburton Etc.
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  21. IPFire 2.29 - Core Update 188 is available for testing
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  24. Best Free and Open Source Software, howtos and Installations
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  25. This week in Plasma: inhibiting inhibitions and more!
    This is a big one, folks. Plasma 6.2’s soft feature freeze is now in effect, which means the last few features have just been merged
  26. Slackware-current has absorbed my multilib gcc and glibc packages
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  27. Games: Selaco, Dungeon Divers, Mechabellum, and More
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  28. Tumbleweed Monthly Update and IBM Greenwashing/Openwashing
    a pair of links
  29. Security Leftovers
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  30. today's howtos
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  31. Open Hardware Leftovers
    some hardware picks
  32. Microsoft Trying to Change the Subject to "Microsoft Loves Linux" (a Lie) After Sabotaging Dual-Boot PCs
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  33. How is Linux Powering the AI Moment?
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