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  2. Alpha 3: Tales from the COSMIC Desktop Environment
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  14. today's howtos
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  15. SuperTuxKart 1.5 Beta
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  16. Android Leftovers
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  17. KDE’s New Distro: Btrfs-Based, Immutable Linux OS, with Flatpak and Snap
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  25. Best Free and Open Source Software, howtos and Installations
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  26. Unstoppable Linux: 3 things Red Hat Enterprise Linux has kept for 30 years
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  30. today's leftovers
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