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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 14, 2024

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  4. KDE Frameworks 6.6 Is Out with Support for Cross-Desktop Thumbnail Generators
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  12. Security Leftovers
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  13. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software and Programming Leftovers
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  14. Canonical/Ubuntu News, Releases, Screenshots
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  16. GNOME Asia 2024 in Bengaluru, India and Tiling Shell
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  18. Audiocasts/Shows: mintCast, Sudo Show, and BSD Now
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  19. Games: OSS Android Gaming, Steam Deck, and Pop_OS!
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  20. Release of trurl 0.15.1
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  21. The Worst Part of Open Source: The Community
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  22. Programming Leftovers
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  23. today's howtos
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  24. Security and Windows TCO: Patches and Privileges Broken
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  25. Reasons I still love the fish shell
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  27. 5 top Linux text editors that aren't vi or Emacs (and why they are my favorite)
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  29. Open Hardware/Modding: ESP32, ZimaCube, and Arduino
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  30. Ubuntu Has Upgrade Problems and Support From Proprietary Parallels 20
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  31. Security Leftovers
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  32. Today in Techrights
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  33. Free Software Leftovers and More
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  34. Events: GNU Cauldron, OpenUK Awards, Akademy
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  35. Open Hardware: Raspberry Pi and More
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  36. today's howtos
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  37. Security and Windows TCO
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  38. OpenZFS 2.2.6 Released With Compatibilities for Linux 6.10 and early 6.11
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  39. Much improved MIPS and Alpha support in Gentoo Linux – Gentoo Linux
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