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  2. Security Leftovers
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  3. GIMP 3.0 Release Candidate Is Now Available for Public Testing
    The development team behind the popular GIMP open-source image editing software announced today the general availability of the Release Candidate (RC) milestone of the highly anticipated GIMP 3.0 release.
  4. Inkscape Turned 21, Happy Birthday!
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  5. Focusing on Free Software, Political Sites Will Do Politics [original]
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  7. today's leftovers
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  8. Programming Leftovers
    Programming with various paradigms
  9. Red Hat and Fedora Leftovers
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  10. Education Leftovers
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  11. PCBs, Purism, Arduino, Retro and More
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  12. Release of curl 8.11.0 and Daniel Stenberg at FLOSS Weekly
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  13. NetBSD, FreeBSD, and More
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  14. KDE Gear 24.08.3 Released with More Fixes for Your Favorite KDE Applications
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  15. today's howtos
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  16. Android Leftovers
    The secret to summarizing notifications on Android
  17. Immich Celebrates 50K Stars on GitHub with v1.120
    Immich celebrates 50K GitHub stars with v1.120, which now includes auto-database backups, faster HDR transcoding, and a timeline scroll indicator
  18. Forty years of commitment to software freedom
    We're planning a jam-packed anniversary year and we hope you'll join us for the festivities
  19. What happens to Linux when Linus Torvalds dies?
    The Linux kernel is at the heart of countless operating systems, powering everything from smartphones to servers
  20. Why we're still waiting for Canonical's immutable Ubuntu Core Desktop
    'First impressions matter' but a KDE flavor is in the making – and more publicly at that
  21. Forlinx launches NXP i.MX 95 SoM and development board with 10GbE, CAN Bus, RS485, and more
    Only Linux is supported, and the company says its module targets the automotive, industrial, and commercial IoT markets
  22. Andes QiLai quad-core AX45MP RISC-V SoC with NX27V vector processor powers micro-ATX Voyager Development Platform
    Andes explains the NX27V core can cooperate with the AX45MP cluster and make QiLai a heterogeneous software development platform where a Linux SMP system and an RTOS or bare-metal system can run simultaneously
  23. Best Free and Open Source Software
    The ratings only relate to the Flickr functionality offered by each program
  24. Little Wayland Things
    While I do have a Qt git build on my machine that I use for development
  25. HDR and color management in KWin, part 5: HDR on SDR laptops
    This one required a few other features to be implemented first, so let’s jump right in
  26. Kubuntu 24.04, it's been a few months now ...
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  27. Windows TCO Leftovers
    True cost of Microsoft/Windows
  28. Games: Vampire Hunters, Bye Sweet Carole, and More
    Latest 7 from GamingOnLinux
  29. today's leftovers
    GNU/Linux, howtos, security
  30. Programming: Ruby 3.3.6 Released, Perl, and More
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  31. Today in Techrights
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  32. Audiocasts/Shows/Videos About GNU/Linux
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  33. LWN Articles About Linux Kernel
    Now outside the paywall
  34. Peropesis 2.8: OpenSSH
    Peropesis 2.8 is released
  35. Linuxfx 11.24.04
    new version of the operating system based on Kubuntu 24.04.1 LTS
  36. Parted Magic 2024.11.03
    This version of Parted Magic updates the kernel to linux-6.11 and adds/updates various program
  37. NethSecurity project milestone 8.3
    We are excited to announce the release of NethSecurity project milestone 8.3
  38. Release of Pisi GNU/Linux 2.4
    Inspired by the rare flowers of Anatolia, Pisi GNU/Linux delivers the 2.4 version 'Karagül' to its users
  39. BackBox Linux 9 released!
    The BackBox Team is happy to announce the updated release of BackBox Linux
  40. Br OS 24.10
    Brazilian Linux distribution based on Ubuntu

    New

  41. 4MLinux 46.1 STABLE released.
    This is a minor (point) release in the 4MLinux STABLE channel
  42. Release of Dr.Parted 24.11
    This release is based on the Debian testing repository (2024/November/01).

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