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Updated This Past Day

  1. CVE-2024-47076, CVE-2024-47175, CVE-2024-47176 and CVE-2024-47177
    Relaxed coverager and FUD
  2. PostgreSQL 17 Rolls Out: Enhanced Performance and Developer Features
    PostgreSQL 17 open-source RDBMS brings enhanced performance, advanced features, and better scalability for all workloads
  3. Uniting for Internet Freedom: Tor Project & Tails Join Forces
    Today the Tor Project, a global non-profit developing tools for online privacy and anonymity, and Tails, a portable operating system that uses Tor to protect users from digital surveillance
  4. LibreOffice 24.8.2 Office Suite Is Now Available for Download with 85 Bug Fixes
    The Document Foundation announced today the general availability of LibreOffice 24.8.2 as the second maintenance update to the latest LibreOffice 24.8 office suite series fixing more than 80 bugs.
  5. Kernel: EasyOS, Bootlin, and Wayland Work
    Some kernel space work
  6. Sakura: A Neat Terminal Emulator, Targeting GNU/Linux (C, GTK+, GNU GPL v2) [original]
    Installing it isn't hard

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  7. EasyOS and MakulaLinux
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  8. Red Hat Puff Pieces and Technical Posts
    mostly PR though
  9. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
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  10. Net/Web: Bookmarklets, Thunderbird, and RSS
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  11. Programming Leftovers
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  12. Melissa Wen and Mike Blumenkrantz on Graphics Code
    Some Linux graphics updates
  13. Open Hardware: Fairphone, Pimoroni, Raspberry Pi
    harddware projects/products
  14. BSD Leftovers
    EuroBSDcon and more
  15. Security Leftovers
    Security related news
  16. today's howtos
    last batch for today
  17. VirtualBox 7.1.2 Released with 3D Acceleration Support for VMs Running on ARM
    VirtualBox 7.1.2 is now available for download with a new option to change the remote display security method and other improvements.
  18. Time to take back the Internet
    For instance, in GNU Solidario and GNU Health, we fight for Social Medicine and for the rights of human and non-human animals
  19. Windows TCO and Network Rail on Wi-Fi Cracked
    security news
  20. Programming and Standards
    mostly the latter
  21. Open Hardware: Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and More
    some devices in the news
  22. Graphics improvements in WebKitGTK and WPEWebKit 2.46
    WebKitGTK and WPEWebKit recently released a new stable version 2.46. This version includes important changes in the graphics implementation
  23. today's howtos
    many howtos for day's start
  24. Games: EmuDeck, Crusader Kings, and More
    The latest 9 from GamingOnLinux
  25. This Linux App Turns Websites Into Apps Themselves—Here's Why It's Great
    If you want to browse the web on Linux, you have largely the same options as you find on other PCs: Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Vivaldi, and others
  26. From 'Just for Fun' to a Full-Fledged Distribution: Aditya Shakya's Archcraft Journey
    The Archcraft idea started as a passion project, and now it is a responsibility for the creator
  27. Best Free and Open Source Software
    All of these tools are released under a freely distributable license. Here’s our verdict
  28. URVE Board A55 Runs Linux on Rockchip RK3566 SoC
    The system also supports multiple Linux distributions, such as Debian 11, Android 12, and URVE Linux (Buildroot), providing flexibility for various applications
  29. today's leftovers
    4 more misc. links
  30. Red Hat and Fedora Leftovers
    IBM camp in GNU/Linux
  31. Canonical/Ubuntu on Charmed OpenSearch and TurtleBot3
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  32. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software News and Events
    FOSS picks
  33. GNOME's Christian Hergert on Messaging Needs and Jonathan Blandford on GUADEC 2024
    Some GNOME news
  34. Programming Leftovers
    Programming related picks
  35. Open Hardware/Modding: RISC-V, Arduino, and More
    Some hardware news (long)
  36. Software: Videos Editors, whisper, and libtool
    Some Free software
  37. today's howtos
    only a few more howtos for now
  38. Security Leftovers
    Security related picks
  39. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles
  40. VirtualBox : To whom does it matter whether corporate takeover of FOSS is problematic?
    To you?  To us? To everyone?
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Friday contains all the text.

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    864 /n/2024/09/20/PREEMPT_RT_in_Mainline_and_Microsofters_Trying_to_Use_Rust_to_D.shtml
    859 /n/2024/09/21/Wine_9_18.shtml
    808 /n/2024/09/21/OpenSSH_9_9.shtml
    740 /n/2024/09/22/Shipping_Tumblr_and_WordPress_WP_Engine_is_not_WordPress_and_Wo.shtml
    626 /n/2024/09/25/Openwashing_Winamp_Collaborative_License_WCL_and_Open_Source_Jo.shtml
    600 /n/2024/09/26/Mozilla_the_Privacy_Abuser.shtml
    561 /n/2024/09/23/today_s_leftovers.shtml
    523 /n/2024/09/18/GNOME_47_Denver_Desktop_Environment_Officially_Released_Here_s_.shtml
    521 /n/2024/09/25/_200_Why_Hyprland_a_Beautiful_Tiling_Desktop_For_Linux_Is_Worth.shtml
    519 /n/2024/09/17/Fedora_Linux_41_Enters_Public_Beta_Testing_with_Linux_Kernel_6_.shtml
    494 /n/2024/09/22/today_s_howtos.shtml
    494 /n/2024/09/16/Germany_s_Sovereign_Tech_Fund_Injects_688K_into_Samba.shtml
    491 /n/2024/09/21/today_s_howtos.shtml
    485 /n/2024/09/22/today_s_leftovers.shtml
    482 /n/2024/09/25/today_s_howtos.shtml
    480 /n/2024/09/21/Security_Leftovers.shtml
    478 /n/2024/09/24/SK_Hynix_applies_CXL_optimization_solution_to_Linux.shtml
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