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Updated This Past Day

  1. today's howtos
    many howtos for Friday
  2. Kubernetes 1.32 sneak peek and Istio 1.24.0
    Server level releases
  3. Ubuntu Touch OTA-6 Rolls Out with Wireless Display Improvements, Bug Fixes
    The UBports Foundation announced today the release and general availability of Ubuntu Touch OTA-6 as the sixth update to the Ubuntu Touch mobile operating system based on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.
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    New

  5. Forlinx FET MX95xx C System on Module for Industrial and IoT Applications
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  6. After Cyberwar
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  8. Tux Machines Will Hopefully Become Faster Soon [original]
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    New

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  12. KDE Frameworks 6.8 Adds Breeze Icons for Typst Files And Fixes Many Bugs
    The KDE Project released today KDE Frameworks 6.8 as a new monthly update to this collection of more than 70 add-on libraries to Qt providing commonly needed functionality for KDE applications and the KDE Plasma desktop.
  13. Calibre 7.21 Adds Read Aloud with Sentence Tracking for EPUBs
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  14. Celebrating our top contributors on Firefox’s 20th anniversary
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  15. Portwell PJAI-100-ON rugged Edge AI embedded system features NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano for industrial quality control
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  16. Radxa E52C – A Rockchip RK3582 router with dual 2.5GbE, USB 3.0 port, USB serial console port
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  19. Best Free and Open Source Software
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  20. Desktop icons are surprisingly hard!
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  21. Samsung A54 smartphone review, a year later
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  22. MYC LR3576 SoM with Octa-Core RK3576 for Embedded Applications
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  23. This lightweight Linux distro is the best (and easiest) way to revive your old computer. Here's how
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  24. Games: Steam Deck, The Spell Brigade, and More
    GamingOnLinux: the latest eight articles
  25. today's leftovers
    only half a dozen for now
  26. BarryK's Latest Development Updates From EasyOS
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  27. Today in Techrights
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    725 /n/2024/11/02/This_week_in_Plasma_moved_to_KDE_infrastructure.shtml
    704 /n/2024/11/03/Linux_Mint_Is_Getting_a_Night_Light_Feature_in_Cinnamon_Framewo.shtml
    573 /n/2024/11/06/Windows_Gets_Infected_Media_Blames_Linux.shtml
    543 /n/2024/11/05/LXQt_2_1_Desktop_Environment_Released_with_Initial_Wayland_Supp.shtml
    518 /n/2024/11/04/Linux_6_12_rc6.shtml
    499 /n/2024/11/04/Kernel_No_Russians_Performance_Gains_and_VMware_Workstation_to_.shtml
    492 /n/2024/11/05/Manjaro_Considers_Embedding_a_Telemetry_Tool.shtml
    487 /n/2024/11/05/KDE_Plasma_6_2_3_Brings_Better_Support_for_HDR_Displays_Various.shtml
    469 /n/2024/10/28/Raspberry_Pi_OS_Now_Enables_Wayland_by_Default_on_All_Raspberry.shtml
    468 /n/2024/11/02/today_s_howtoos.shtml
    463 /n/2024/11/03/today_s_howtos.shtml
    462 /n/2024/11/03/Another_Party_This_Week.shtml
    451 /n/2024/11/04/today_s_howtos.shtml
    444 /n/2024/11/03/today_s_leftovers.shtml
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