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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 14, 2024

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Updated This Past Day

  1. TUXEDO Gemini 17 Gen3 Linux Laptop Launches with AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX
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  3. Shotcut 24.09 Video Editor Brings Fixes for Major New Bugs, Improvements
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  4. KDE Frameworks 6.6 Is Out with Support for Cross-Desktop Thumbnail Generators
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  6. Fedora 42 to Introduces New Anaconda Web UI Installer
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  7. GNOME Foundation Opens Search for New Executive Director
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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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  17. KDE, Akademy, Plasma, and Neon
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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!
    Gaming related picks for the day
  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
    Qt and more
  23. today's howtos
    long batch foor this morning
  24. Security and Windows TCO: Patches and Privileges Broken
    Some security related picks
  25. Reasons I still love the fish shell
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  26. Purism: A Secure Foundry for Government Mobile Computing Needs, PureOS Crimson Development Report
    Some Librem news and PureOS
  27. 5 top Linux text editors that aren't vi or Emacs (and why they are my favorite)
    Name your desktop distro - I've got great and easy-to-use text editors to recommend
  28. Games: Steam Deck, Unity (Mono Trojan Horse), and More
    10 of the latest at GamingOnLinux
  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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  34. Events: GNU Cauldron, OpenUK Awards, Akademy
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  35. Open Hardware: Raspberry Pi and More
    3 stories for now
  36. today's howtos
    7 howtos for now
  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
    This is released to work with various Linux Kernels, starting from 4.18 to 6.10 and early 6.11
  39. Much improved MIPS and Alpha support in Gentoo Linux – Gentoo Linux
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