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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 02, 2024

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  3. Audiocasts: Destination Linux, Linux User Space, Late Night Linux
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  6. Programming Leftovers
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  7. today's leftovers
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    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
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  13. Red Hat Leftovers
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  14. today's howtos
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  15. BSD: HardenedBSD, Jails, EuroBSDCon, and More
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  17. Krita 5.2.6 Released!
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  18. today's leftovers
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  19. Android Leftovers
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  20. Windows TCO: Journalism and Lives Losr
    very high cost of choosing Microsoft
  21. Void Linux (Finally) Bids Farewell to Python 2
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  22. Games: RPG Fest, NEODUEL: Backpack Monsters, and More
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  23. Free and Open Source Software, howtos and Installations
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  24. FreeBSD Invests In Laptop Support For Broader Adoption
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  27. Today in Techrights
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    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Tuesday contains all the text.

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    997 /n/2024/09/25/Openwashing_Winamp_Collaborative_License_WCL_and_Open_Source_Jo.shtml
    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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