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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 19, 2024

Friends of mine on a weekend walking holiday

Updated This Past Day

  1. Free Software Leftovers
    4 misc. links about FOSS
  2. Calibre 7.20 Adds New PDF Input Engine, Supports New Tolino Shine 5 Firmware
    Calibre 7.20 has been released today by developer Kovid Goyal as a new update to this open-source, free, and cross-platform ebook management software for Linux, macOS, and Windows.
  3. Ardour 8.10 Open-Source DAW Released with Fixes for New Major Issues
    Ardour 8.10 was released today as another hot-fix update in the Ardour 8.x series of this powerful, free, open-source, and cross-platform digital audio workstation (DAW) software that addresses a few new major issues.
  4. Best Free and Open Source Software
    Brace yourselves for an innovative upgrade
  5. IRC Proceedings: Thursday, October 17, 2024
    IRC logs for Thursday, October 17, 2024

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  6. Android Leftovers
    The powerful Meteogram is my favorite Android weather widget- Android Authority
  7. Web/Net: Curl, RSS, and Mozilla
    Some WWW related picks and E-mail
  8. Programming Leftovers
    Programming related links
  9. today's leftover
    mix of topics for end of day
  10. Audiocasts/Shows: BSD Now and mintCast
    2 new podcasts' epsidoes
  11. Security Leftovers
    and some FUD along the way
  12. Free Software Applications of Interest
    FOSS picks
  13. Red Hat / IBM at the Back End
    OpenShift, HashiCorp, RHEL
  14. The Linux Concept Journey — Xfce (Desktop Environment)
    Xfce is a lightweight desktop environment for UNIX-like operating systems. It is very low on system resources...
  15. Android Leftovers
    Some Pixel 8 Pro users are facing back gesture issues on Android 15, but there's a fix
  16. Slimbook Executive, long-term report 5
    We must talk about my Slimbook Executive laptop, again. Well, we don't really have to, but it's been about three months since I last talked about it
  17. Release of Rust 1.82.0 and This Week in Rust 569
    Some Rust news
  18. GNU/Linux Leftovers and Windows TCO
    today's leftovers
  19. Distributions and Operating Systems: Windows Lookalikes, Ubuntu, and Red Hat
    another batch of mixed links
  20. Open Hardware: SparkFun, Raspberry Pi, and More
    hardware centric news
  21. today's howtos
    some are a bit older
  22. Latest in Wordpress Drama
    4 stories
  23. Videos: Free Software and GNU/Linux in the Past Week
    via Invidious
  24. Games: Steam Deck, Heroic Games Launcher, and More
    Latest 8 from GamingOnLinux
  25. Learn These 6 Linux Commands to Go From Beginner to Badass
    Getting started with the Linux terminal doesn't have to be daunting, and it can even be fun
  26. Volla Phone Quintus is a smartphone that’s also part of a distributed cloud, supports Android or Ubuntu Touch
    German device maker Volla has been shipping smartphones and tablets that run a custom version of Android called Volla OS for a few years
  27. FunOS – minimal, fast, and secure Linux distribution
    FunOS is a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu LTS
  28. Stable kernels: Linux 6.11.4, Linux 6.6.57, Linux 6.1.113, Linux 5.15.168, and Linux 5.10.227
    I'm announcing the release of the 6.11.4 kernel
  29. Today's HowTos and Programming Leftovers
    mostly coding-related stuff
  30. Proprietary Microsoft and Microsoft Openwashing
    failures and deceit
  31. Open Hardware: Hackaday, Arduino, and More
    Some hardware-centric sites
  32. IBM, GNOME (Outsourced to AWS), and GNOME/Debian Hackers
    today's leftovers
  33. Free Software and Games Leftovers
    lots of Mozilla
  34. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Friday contains all the text.

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

    Span from 2024-10-12 to 2024-10-18
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    794 /n/2024/10/08/The_GNOME_Foundation_Update_from_the_Board_2024_10_Financial_Cr.shtml
    707 /n/2024/10/13/Inkscape_1_4_Open_Source_SVG_Editor_Released_with_Filter_Galler.shtml
    694 /n/2024/10/12/Programming_Leftovers.shtml
    675 /n/2024/10/11/Kubuntu_24_10_Lubuntu_24_10_Xubuntu_24_10_and_More.shtml
    634 /n/2024/10/16/Ubuntu_25_04_Codename_is_Revealed_And_It_s_Perfect.shtml
    606 /n/2024/10/14/Open_Hardware_Modding_Arduino_BeagleBoard_and_More.shtml
    581 /n/2024/10/16/Shared_Source_Winamp_Revoked.shtml
    579 /n/2024/10/15/VirtualBox_7_1_4_Adds_Initial_Support_for_Linux_Kernel_6_12_and.shtml
    559 /n/2024/10/12/today_s_howtos.shtml
    534 /n/2024/10/12/KDE_neon_6_2_Is_Out_with_KDE_Plasma_6_2_Desktop_Based_on_Ubuntu.shtml
    534 /n/2024/10/14/today_s_howtos.shtml
    531 /n/2024/10/08/_Rocky_Linux_from_CIQ_Launched.shtml
    515 /n/2024/10/14/today_s_leftovers.shtml

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