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Updated This Past Day

  1. Debian Linux 12 bookworm receives eighth update with crucial security fixes
    The Debian project has announced its latest point release for Debian Linux 12, codenamed “bookworm,” marking the eighth update to this stable distribution
  2. Sparky 2024.11
    This is the November update of Sparky semi-rolling iso images of the Debian testing line

    New

  3. CachyOS ISO Release for November Improves Support for AMD and NVIDIA Users
    The development team behind the Arch Linux-based CachyOS distribution released today a new ISO snapshot that brings various improvements for AMD and NVIDIA GPUs, as well as other changes.
  4. CachyOS Boosts Performance with New THP Shrinker and AMD Cache Optimizer
    CachyOS November 2024 release: Performance boosts, NVIDIA fixes, and AMD Cache Optimizer updates enhance gaming and laptop efficiency
  5. Niri 0.1.10: Interactive Window Moving, Tablet Mode Switch, and More
    The latest Niri release, v0.1.10, brings window moving, pointer options, input enhancements, and fixes to Wayland's scrollable-tiling compositor
  6. today's leftovers
    GNU/Linux and Free software picks
  7. Security Leftovers
    only 3 for now
  8. Fedora and More
    Fedora coverage and reminder of the past
  9. Programming Leftovers
    Development related picks
  10. today's howtos
    many for today
  11. Android Leftovers
    Android will soon make it easier to connect to some public Wi-Fi networks
  12. Hyprland 0.45: Smoother Rounding, New Configs, and Key Fixes
    Hyprland 0.45, a tiling Wayland compositor, has been released with smoother edges, bug fixes, and breaking changes to optimize your experience
  13. Free and Open Source Software
    This is free and open source software
  14. New Steam Client Ups the Ante for Linux
    The latest release from Steam has some pretty cool tricks up its sleeve
  15. Open Hardware/Modding: Raspberry Pi, Amiga, and More
    gadgets and hardware
  16. Games: Steam Games with Native GNU/Linux Clients, team Next Fest, and More
    4 gaming picks
  17. September and October in KDE PIM
    Here's our bi-monthly update from KDE's personal information management applications team
  18. Windows TCO Leftovers
    The real cost of Windows
  19. This Week in Plasma: Everything You Wanted and More
    This week was full of major feature work and UI polishing
  20. HowTos and Programming
    only 3 more links for now
  21. Microsoft persuades Mail and Calendar users to migrate to Outlook - Mail and Calendar app will cease to work after December 31
    Even real-time click-tracking
  22. Open Hardware/Modding: RISC-V, Mini PC, and Raspberry Pi
    Some more hardware stories
  23. SysLinuxOS, A Linux Distro for System Administrators
    SysLinuxOs also serves as yet another demonstration of the power of Linux and how open source operating systems have a superpower
  24. Open Hardware/Modding: Raspberry Pi, Other SBCs, Unraid, and Plex
    hardware projects/components
  25. These Linux Command Line Shortcuts Will Boost Your Efficiency
    Typing commands in a Linux terminal window can be slow and error-prone
  26. HowTos: scp and rsync, Wine vs. VMs, Symbolic Links (aka Symlinks)
    Latest from howtogeek.com
  27. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Sunday contains all the text.

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

    Span from 2024-11-04 to 2024-11-10
    877 /n/2024/11/06/Windows_Gets_Infected_Media_Blames_Linux.shtml
    852 /n/2024/11/06/Mass_Layoffs_at_Mozilla_Again.shtml
    658 /n/2024/11/06/What_s_new_for_Fedora_Atomic_Desktops_in_Fedora_41.shtml
    628 /n/2024/11/06/The_Bitcoin_Mailing_List_and_its_history_is_erased_from_Linux.shtml
    575 /n/2024/11/08/todaay_s_howtos.shtml
    555 /n/2024/11/05/LXQt_2_1_Desktop_Environment_Released_with_Initial_Wayland_Supp.shtml
    551 /n/2024/11/01/EA_removes_Apex_Legends_from_Steam_Dec.shtml
    551 /n/2024/11/03/Linux_Mint_Is_Getting_a_Night_Light_Feature_in_Cinnamon_Framewo.shtml
    526 /n/2024/11/04/Linux_6_12_rc6.shtml
    522 /n/2024/11/08/After_Cyberwar.shtml
    508 /n/2024/11/04/Kernel_No_Russians_Performance_Gains_and_VMware_Workstation_to_.shtml
    507 /n/2024/11/05/Manjaro_Considers_Embedding_a_Telemetry_Tool.shtml
    500 /n/2024/11/05/KDE_Plasma_6_2_3_Brings_Better_Support_for_HDR_Displays_Various.shtml
    500 /n/2024/11/02/This_week_in_Plasma_moved_to_KDE_infrastructure.shtml
    466 /n/2024/11/07/today_s_leftovers.shtml
    463 /n/2024/11/07/Canonical_Ubuntu_Leftoverss.shtml
    460 /n/2024/11/07/today_s_howtos.shtml
    457 /n/2024/11/04/today_s_howtos.shtml
    453 /n/2024/11/07/GIMP_3_0_Release_Candidate_Is_Now_Available_for_Public_Testing.shtml
    446 /n/2024/11/08/Calibre_7_21_Adds_Read_Aloud_with_Sentence_Tracking_for_EPUBs.shtml

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GNU/Linux Rises to 4% in Ireland, ChromeOS Grows and Android Takes Windows' Lunch
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Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
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Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
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Nom nom nom
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