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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 02, 2024

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Updated This Past Day

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  2. Microsoft Trouble and Proprietary Software Surging 1,050 Percent in Price
    opposition news
  3. Audiocasts: Destination Linux, Linux User Space, Late Night Linux
    3 new episodes
  4. Security Leftovers
    Security related news
  5. Software: Mission Center, Emacs, AngularJS, and More
    Some Free software picks
  6. Programming Leftovers
    Programming related picks
  7. today's leftovers
    only 4 misc. links
  8. KDE: LabPlot, Tellico, and Qt/KDE
    Some KDE updates
  9. Back End/Databases Leftovers
    postgres and more
  10. Open Hardware: Raspberry Pi and More
    half a dozen stories
  11. Canonical/Ubuntu: Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Buzzwords, and More
    some Ubuntu news
  12. Fedora Leftovers: Fedora Council and More
    part of Red Hat's business
  13. Red Hat Leftovers
    From Red Hat's official site only
  14. today's howtos
    some howtos for today
  15. BSD: HardenedBSD, Jails, EuroBSDCon, and More
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  16. Firefox 132 Enters Beta with Support for Blocking Third-Party Cookie Access
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  17. Krita 5.2.6 Released!
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  18. today's leftovers
    4 misc. links
  19. Android Leftovers
    Handy Android Auto trick lets you easily look ahead on your Google Maps route
  20. Windows TCO: Journalism and Lives Losr
    very high cost of choosing Microsoft
  21. Void Linux (Finally) Bids Farewell to Python 2
    Void Linux finally replaces Python 2 with Python 3 and upgrades its Buildbot to enhance package delivery
  22. Games: RPG Fest, NEODUEL: Backpack Monsters, and More
    7 of the latest bits from GamingOnLinux
  23. Free and Open Source Software, howtos and Installations
    This is free and open source software
  24. FreeBSD Invests In Laptop Support For Broader Adoption
    The FreeBSD Foundation has announced a strategic investment of $750,000 to improve laptop support for the FreeBSD operating system
  25. Stable kernels: Linux 6.11.1, Linux 6.10.12, Linux 6.6.53, and Linux 6.1.112
    I'm announcing the release of the 6.11.1 kernel
  26. 20 years of Ubuntu: Canonical celebrates with upcoming 24.10 - and it's outstanding as usual
    If Ubuntu is your jam, you'll be excited to know it's the 20th anniversary of the first official release of the Linux desktop OS, and 24.10 has plenty to offer
  27. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Tuesday contains all the text.

    Top-read articles (excluding bot/crawler visits):

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    912 /n/2024/09/27/CVE_2024_47076_CVE_2024_47175_CVE_2024_47176_and_CVE_2024_47177.shtml
    824 /n/2024/09/26/Latest_in_the_WP_Engine_Dispute_and_Lawsuit.shtml
    793 /n/2024/09/22/There_s_No_Lower_Spec_Linux_Machine_Than_This_One.shtml
    755 /n/2024/09/29/Arch_Linux_Announces_Collaboration_With_Valve.shtml
    624 /n/2024/09/27/Uniting_for_Internet_Freedom_Tor_Project_Tails_Join_Forces.shtml
    599 /n/2024/09/27/VirtualBox_7_1_2_Released_with_3D_Acceleration_Support_for_VMs_.shtml
    574 /n/2024/09/25/_200_Why_Hyprland_a_Beautiful_Tiling_Desktop_For_Linux_Is_Worth.shtml
    563 /n/2024/09/26/Our_refresh_release_Endeavour_Neo_is_available.shtml
    559 /n/2024/09/27/today_s_howtos.shtml
    542 /n/2024/09/27/Programming_Leftovers.shtml
    541 /n/2024/09/27/today_s_leftovers.shtml
    541 /n/2024/09/26/today_s_howtos.shtml
    539 /n/2024/09/25/today_s_howtos.shtml
    528 /n/2024/09/26/Vanilla_OS_2_an_immutable_distribution_to_run_all_software.shtml
    528 /n/2024/09/26/RTOS_vs_Linux_The_IoT_battle_extends_from_software_to_hardware.shtml
    527 /n/2024/09/27/today_s_howtos.1.shtml
    518 /n/2024/09/27/Security_Leftovers.shtml
    516 /n/2024/09/16/Germany_s_Sovereign_Tech_Fund_Injects_688K_into_Samba.shtml
    510 /n/2024/09/26/today_s_leftovers.shtml

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