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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 01, 2024

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Updated This Past Day

  1. today's leftovers
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  2. Hip, Hip, Hooray! Elastic (Almost) Comes Back Home to Open Source
    There was some unexpected good news yesterday. Elasticsearch and Kibana are again open source, available under the AGPL
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  4. Another Summer Ending... [original]
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  5. Open Hardware/Modding: Hackaday Podcast, LILYGO, and More
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  6. Red Hat and Fedora Leftovers
    mostly Red Hat
  7. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
    FOSS picks for today
  8. Programming Leftovers
    Programming related picks
  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
    Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from August 23 to August 30
  13. Security Leftovers
    Security incidents and more
  14. Databases: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and JameSQL
    mostly postgres
  15. Events: KDE and Debian
    4 reports and listings
  16. Debian 12.7 “Bookworm” Released with 55 Security Updates and 51 Bug Fixes
    The Debian Project announced today the release and general availability of Debian 12.7 as a new ISO update to the latest Debian GNU/Linux 12 “Bookworm” operating system series.
  17. Microsoft (NPM) Transmits Malicious Packages From North Korea, ‘SlowTempest’ Reported
    TCO again
  18. Open Hardware: Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and More
    mostly Raspberry Pi today
  19. today's howtos
    extensive new batch
  20. Windows TCO: RansomHub, LockBit, Halliburton Etc.
    5 Microsoft TCO tales
  21. IPFire 2.29 - Core Update 188 is available for testing
    We have another HUGE IPFire release available for you. It comes with a large number of important changes for every user out there: a record number of package updates
  22. Zeek 7 Launches with Major Upgrades and New Features
    Zeek 7 passive open-source network traffic analyzer debuts with comprehensive updates in scripting, telemetry, & analyzer configurations
  23. Use Lilypad to Rearrange or Hide Panel Icons in GNOME Shell
    Well, Lilypad is a new GNOME Shell extension that does the same thing, just for GNOME Shell
  24. Best Free and Open Source Software, howtos and Installations
    Here’s our verdict
  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
    Ever since the birth of 64-bit Slackware in 2009, I have been maintaining a multilib repository
  27. Games: Selaco, Dungeon Divers, Mechabellum, and More
    Latest 8 stories from GamingOnLinux
  28. Tumbleweed Monthly Update and IBM Greenwashing/Openwashing
    a pair of links
  29. Security Leftovers
    Security related news
  30. today's howtos
    only 3 more howtos for now
  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
    very obvious
  33. How is Linux Powering the AI Moment?
    majority of AI developers use Linux
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