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    New

  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
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  17. Immich Celebrates 50K Stars on GitHub with v1.120
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  20. Why we're still waiting for Canonical's immutable Ubuntu Core Desktop
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  21. Forlinx launches NXP i.MX 95 SoM and development board with 10GbE, CAN Bus, RS485, and more
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  22. Andes QiLai quad-core AX45MP RISC-V SoC with NX27V vector processor powers micro-ATX Voyager Development Platform
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  23. Best Free and Open Source Software
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  24. Little Wayland Things
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  25. HDR and color management in KWin, part 5: HDR on SDR laptops
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  28. Games: Vampire Hunters, Bye Sweet Carole, and More
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  29. today's leftovers
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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
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  34. Peropesis 2.8: OpenSSH
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  35. Linuxfx 11.24.04
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  36. Parted Magic 2024.11.03
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  37. NethSecurity project milestone 8.3
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  38. Release of Pisi GNU/Linux 2.4
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  39. BackBox Linux 9 released!
    The BackBox Team is happy to announce the updated release of BackBox Linux
  40. Br OS 24.10
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    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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    614 /n/2024/11/06/Mass_Layoffs_at_Mozilla_Again.shtml
    514 /n/2024/11/04/Linux_6_12_rc6.shtml
    493 /n/2024/11/05/LXQt_2_1_Desktop_Environment_Released_with_Initial_Wayland_Supp.shtml
    488 /n/2024/11/04/Kernel_No_Russians_Performance_Gains_and_VMware_Workstation_to_.shtml
    484 /n/2024/10/28/Raspberry_Pi_OS_Now_Enables_Wayland_by_Default_on_All_Raspberry.shtml
    469 /n/2024/10/29/Fedora_Linux_41_Released_with_Linux_Kernel_6_11_DNF5_GNOME_47_a.shtml
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    456 /n/2024/11/03/today_s_howtos.shtml
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