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  8. SUSE/OpenSUSE: Tumbleweed Review and OBS
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  9. Opera, NAS, and Task Managers
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  10. IBM: Red Hat, Podman, Fedora
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  29. Videos and Audiocasts/Shows About GNU/Linux
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  30. Perl Weekly Challenge and More Perl News
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  39. BSD: FreeBSD and BSD Now
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  40. today's howtos
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