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  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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  10. What's new in GNOME 47? 6 features that make it a worthy upgrade
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  11. Entrapment and Openwashing Leftovers
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  12. Security Leftovers
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  13. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software and Programming Leftovers
    FOSS and coding
  14. Canonical/Ubuntu News, Releases, Screenshots
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  15. Latest From Red Hat's Site and Purchased Fake Articles That Promote Buzzwords and Hype
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  16. GNOME Asia 2024 in Bengaluru, India and Tiling Shell
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  17. KDE, Akademy, Plasma, and Neon
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  18. Audiocasts/Shows: mintCast, Sudo Show, and BSD Now
    3 new episodes
  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
    Nothing enrages the mob (aka the "Open Source Community") more than speaking the truth publicly
  22. Programming Leftovers
    Qt and more
  23. today's howtos
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  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
    Some hardware picks
  30. Ubuntu Has Upgrade Problems and Support From Proprietary Parallels 20
    Some Canonical/Ubuntu news
  31. Security Leftovers
    Security related picks
  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
    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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