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  1. Geminispace Makes It Past 4,200 Capsules on November 1st [original]
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  2. Alpha 3: Tales from the COSMIC Desktop Environment
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  3. Immutable Distro Nitrux 3.7.1 Released with Linux Kernel 6.11, NVIDIA 565, and More
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  6. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software and the Net
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  8. Education Leftovers (FOSS Context)
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  10. Programming Leftovers
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  11. Rust: Goals, Week In Rust, and CXX-Qt 0.7 Release
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  13. Audiocasts/Shows: Taboo About Russian Programmers, MakuluLinux, and BSD Now
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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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  19. SFC Comments on Openwashing (by Microsoft OSI) and Copyrights
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  20. Urubu – micro content management system for static websites
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  21. BunsenLabs Linux – distro offering a lightweight and easily customizable Openbox desktop
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  24. today's leftovers
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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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  31. If you're ready to leave Windows 11 behind, I recommend this distro for new Linux users
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  32. Ubuntu-based Br OS version 24.10 comes with KDE Plasma 6 and Wayland
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