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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.
  4. KDE Frameworks 6.8.0
    KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 6.8.0

    New

  5. Forlinx FET MX95xx C System on Module for Industrial and IoT Applications
    The module operates on a Linux-based platform, ensuring compatibility with a wide range of software libraries and development tools
  6. After Cyberwar
    many applications labelled as "cybersecurity" and given a veneer of legitimacy are really "weaponised" and abusive code
  7. Slow Weekend Ahead [original]
    It's part of the Web becoming worse and worse each month
  8. Tux Machines Will Hopefully Become Faster Soon [original]
    At the moment we're finishing the last batch of maintenance work

    New

  9. Stable kernels: Linux 6.6.60, Linux 6.11.7, Linux 6.1.116, Linux 5.15.171, Linux 5.10.229, Linux 5.4.285, and Linux 4.19.323
    I'm announcing the release of the 6.6.60 kernel
  10. Android Leftovers
    More Android devices will introduce users to Quick Share during setup, following Pixel
  11. Raspberry Pi News and Projects
    Raspberry Pi picks
  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
    Calibre 7.21 ebook manager introduces an audio overlay for EPUB, enabling immersive reading with sentence tracking & custom voices
  14. Celebrating our top contributors on Firefox’s 20th anniversary
    Firefox was built by a group of passionate developers, and has been supported by a dedicated community of caring contributors since day one
  15. Portwell PJAI-100-ON rugged Edge AI embedded system features NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano for industrial quality control
    While specific operating systems are not confirmed, NVIDIA Jetson modules rely on the Jetpack SDK based on Ubuntu by default, but also supporting other Linux operating systems since version 6.0
  16. Radxa E52C – A Rockchip RK3582 router with dual 2.5GbE, USB 3.0 port, USB serial console port
    On the software side, it’s pretty much the same as for the E20C router with the E52C board running Debian Linux
  17. Kdenlive 24.08.3 Arrives with Subtitle and Timeline Stability Fixes
    Kdenlive 24.08.3 open-source video editor addresses codec crashes, timeline bugs, and clip removal issues
  18. Security Leftovers
    Windows TCO and Integrity
  19. Best Free and Open Source Software
    They are all free and open source goodness
  20. Desktop icons are surprisingly hard!
    I spent past three weeks working on refactoring and fixing legacy code (the oldest of which was from 2013) that handled positioning Plasma desktop icons
  21. Samsung A54 smartphone review, a year later
    This is the sixth long-term report of my usage of one Samsung A54 device
  22. MYC LR3576 SoM with Octa-Core RK3576 for Embedded Applications
    To support developers, the MYC-LR3576 runs on Debian 12 or Linux 6.1 and includes a suite of software resources
  23. This lightweight Linux distro is the best (and easiest) way to revive your old computer. Here's how
    If you want to breathe life back into a slow or aging computer, Linux Lite 7.0 is a lightweight
  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
    Some of his latest
  27. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Friday contains all the text.

    Top-read articles (excluding bot/crawler visits):

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    780 /n/2024/11/06/Mass_Layoffs_at_Mozilla_Again.shtml
    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
    440 /n/2024/11/02/today_s_leftovers.shtml

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