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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 15, 2024

The Four Seasons

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  1. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
    FOSS related picks for the afternoon
  2. Programming Leftovers
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  3. today's leftovers
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  4. OpenBSD is Hard to Show Off
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  5. Security Leftovers
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  6. Software: eSM, ERP, Server Monitoring, and Data Center Management
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  7. today's howtos
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  8. Open Hardware/Modding: Arduino, BeagleBoard, and More
    Device related news with Linux of Free software focus
  9. PiWebCam, Portable Pi Palmtop, and more Raspberry Pi Stories
    Raspberry Pi picks and projects
  10. Debian: Easy Daedalus, Andy Simpkins, Mini-DebConf Cambridge, and Debian Support in Android
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  11. Arch-based Bluestar Linux 6.11.3 now available with multiple updated packages
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  12. Linux 6.12-rc3
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  13. 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: October 13th, 2024
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  14. Steam purchases were always a lie, Steam Deck and NonSteamLaunchers cross swords
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  15. Security and Windows TCO
    Windows TCO and FUD
  16. today's howtos
    today's first long batch
  17. Android Leftovers
    Crime against technology: Samsung Galaxy A16 is the best-selling Android phone no one should buy
  18. Using Snap Command on Linux in Examples
    Learn how to manage software on Ubuntu and other Linux distros using snap commands to install, remove, and update packages
  19. Windows 11, macOS 15: What Version of Linux Are We On?
    Come to think of it, what’s the current version of Linux? Google tells me Linux is on version 6.x! But Ubuntu is on version 24.04! What does that even mean?
  20. 10 Things You Can do on Linux but not on Windows
    Windows, can you do this? Linux gives you superpowers you didn't know you had
  21. Ubuntu (Linux) has been vital for the digital age
    Many, many, many devices run some form of Ubuntu
  22. Review: FunOS 24.04.1
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  23. This Week in KDE Apps
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  24. Today in Techrights
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    997 /n/2024/10/08/_Rocky_Linux_from_CIQ_Launched.shtml
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    888 /n/2024/10/08/KDE_Plasma_6_2_Desktop_Environment_Officially_Released_Here_s_W.shtml
    771 /n/2024/10/08/Git_v2_47_0.shtml
    737 /n/2024/10/10/The_WordPress_mess.shtml
    737 /n/2024/10/08/today_s_howtos.shtml
    726 /n/2024/10/09/One_Year_s_Uptime.shtml
    697 /n/2024/10/11/today_s_howtos.shtml
    694 /n/2024/10/08/Programming_Leftovers.shtml
    691 /n/2024/10/09/8_Features_Coming_in_Hot_With_elementary_OS_8.shtml
    689 /n/2024/10/08/today_s_leftovers.shtml
    680 /n/2024/10/08/Hardware_Leftovers.shtml
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