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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 08, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. Fedora / Red Hat / IBM Leftovers

   mostly Red Hat stuff

2. Photos of Birthday Celebration [original]

   I have no reason not to celebrate my birthday

3. NGINX Has Chosen Proprietary Entrapment (Microsoft GitHub)

   very sad news

4. It Has Been Over a Year Since We Quit Social Control Media and We Don't Miss It [original]

   We advise others to consider doing the same

5. GNU/Linux Leftovers

   various articles about Linux in particular

   New

6. KDE Slimbook Plasma VI Linux Ultrabook Launches with AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS

   Slimbook and KDE launched today a new Linux-powered ultrabook, the KDE Slimbook Plasma VI, featuring an AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS processor, up to 96GB of RAM, and a heftier battery of 80wh.

7. Videos: GNU/Linux, Licensing, Rust, and More

   Recent via Invidious

8. LFS and BLFS 12.2 are released.

   The Linux From Scratch community is pleased to announce the release of LFS Version 12.2, LFS Version 12.2 (systemd), BLFS Version 12.2, and BLFS Version 12.2 (systemd)

9. GhostBSD 24.07.1 Is Now Available

   "I am pleased to announce the release of GhostBSD 24.07.1!"

10. Introducing rlxos 2.0 Sankalpa

    We’re excited to announce the release of rlxos 2.0

11. Perl Programming Leftovers

    Perl.org's latest

12. Distributions and Operating Systems

    1 few more stories for the day

13. Programming Leftovers

    many picks for coders and such

14. Free Software Leftovers

    many FOSS picks

15. Open Hardware/Modding: Arduino, RP2350, and More

    Some hardware related picks

16. Linux Leftovers

    kernel and more

17. Security Leftovers

    Security related picks and some FUD

18. Games: Retro, SteamOS, and More

    almost half a dozen picks about gaming

19. GNU/Linux Software Lists and Advice

    for developers and more

20. today's howtos

    many howtos for the day

21. Android Leftovers

    How to Use FTP to Get Files to and From Your Android Phone

22. RustDesk: I Found This Open-Source TeamViewer Alternative Impressive!

    RustDesk is a fantastic secure remote desktop tool. Let's take it for a spin

23. This Week in GNOME #164 Updated Translations

    Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from August 30 to September 06

24. Wine 9.17 Debuts with Enhanced High DPI Support

    Check out Wine 9.17: Better High DPI scaling, updated Mono engine, and more ARM64 support

25. Retroid Pocket 5 is a $219 handheld game console with a 5.5 inch display, Snapdragon 865 and Android or Linux support

    While the handheld ships with Android 10 software, it’s also the first game console from Retroid with official support for Linux

26. Best Free and Open Source Software, howtos and Installations

    We evaluated PlasmaTube using Manjaro, an Arch-based distro, as well as the ubiquitous Ubuntu

27. #164 Updated Translations

    Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from August 30 to September 06

28. Upscayl - Enhance your images, with AI, locally, no cloud

    Normally, I am rather disdainful of many things AI. Not because there's anything inherently wrong with the idea of Artificial Intelligence per se. No. What I dislike is the buzz and hype around technologies and products purporting to be AI

29. mesa 24.2.2 released

    new mesa

30. RDK X3 Development Board: Raspberry Pi 4B Form Factor with 5TOPs BPU

    The RDK X3 supports Ubuntu 20.04/22.04, though the product’s Wiki pages on Waveshare are still being developed

31. Security and Windows TCO Leftovers

    3 security related links

32. New Alpha Release: Tor Browser 14.0a4 | The Tor Project

    This version includes important security updates to Firefox

33. Games: Gimmick! 2, Year Unknown, and More

    Latest eight from GamingOnLinux

34. Standards/Consortia: WiFi, RSS, and More

    a few more bits for today

35. Programming Leftovers

    Programming related picks

36. Free Software Leftovers

    FOSS picks for today

37. Ubuntu Pig!

    The world is quickly abandoning Ubuntu

38. Getting Debianized

    The time has come. The inevitable can be postponed no more.

39. Red Hat is Riding the "AI" Valuation Ponzi Scheme (Hype to Inflate Perceived Worth)

    very disappointing

40. Openwashing: Musk Spin and Lies From BlueSky

    a couple of examples of openwashing

41. Mozilla: Frédéric Wang's Contributions to Gecko and Firefox Pandering to Hype, Buzzwords, Nonsense

    Some Mozilla stuff

42. Security Leftovers

    incidents, bugs etc.

43. Videos/Shows: Linus On Linux and BSD Now

    a couple of new ones

44. Linux Magazine's Latest Issue

    now out

45. Today in Techrights

    Some of the latest articles

46. Linux Kernel: (Open)ZFS, Rust Problems, Yocto, and More

    Some Linux news

47. today's howtos

    first batch for today

48. Elive 3.8.44 released

    The Elive Team is pleased to announce the release of 3.8.44

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