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Updated This Past Day

  1. Security Leftovers
    Security related stories and some FUD, too

    New

  2. PINE64’s New Smart Camera Runs Linux
    Pine64 shared some information about new products and updates in its latest community announcement
  3. Mesa 24.3 Open-Source Graphics Stack Adds Vulkan 1.3 Conformance for V3DV
    The Mesa 24.3 open-source graphics stack for Linux-based operating systems has been officially released as the third major update in the Mesa 24.x series.
  4. Why I Ditched Linux for Samsung DeX
    Canonical pursued convergence with the Ubuntu Phone, an effort to make a phone that was also a PC
  5. MYiR Tech MYC-LR3576 Rockchip RK3576 LGA SoM offers 6 TOPS NPU and 8K video support for AIoT applications
    MYiR Tech’s Rockchip RK3576 SoM also supports Linux 6.1 and Debian 12 along with software resources like kernel and driver source code
  6. SolidRun unveils HummingBoard i.MX8M IIOT SBC and the IIOT-200-8M Gateway for Edge AI and industrial IoT applications
    In terms of software support the company mentions that the SBC supports Yocto and Debian BSPs, with drivers for peripherals like TPM 2.0, RTC, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and various I/O interfaces
  7. Android Leftovers
    10 Features You No Longer Need to Root Your Android Phone For
  8. Ubuntu? That’s a Bullfinch, Not an Oriole
    Here’s something lighthearted for you—unless you’re pedantic about ornithology
  9. Windows TCO and Microsoft Imprisonment of Developers
    Microsoft as a risk
  10. Tools and Emulators
    Linux is an excellent platform for retro gaming
  11. Best Free and Open Source Software, howtos and Installations
    Many of these desktop clients are a complete solution as they include a server
  12. Slimbook Executive, long-term report 6
    Let me define deja-vu for you. In my fourth Slimbook Titan article
  13. Thelio Astra Native ARM64 Platform with 128 Core Ampere Altra CPU 512GB ECC RAM and 40TB Storage
    System76 indicates that the Thelio Astra runs Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and 24.04 LTS
  14. Upgrade to Freedom! The Switch from Windows 10
    This looming transition sets the stage for Linux communities to embrace the Upgrade to Freedom
  15. Leap Micro 6.1 Alpha is now available. Get ready for Leap Micro 5.5 End of Life
    Leap Micro 6.1 Alpha images can be found at get.opensuse.org
  16. Games: GamingOnLinux's Latest 10
    articles from GamingOnLinux
  17. today's leftovers
    with GNU/Linux focus
  18. Programming Leftovers
    Programming stuff, some Python
  19. today's howtos
    first batch of today
  20. Red Hat Helping Microsoft's Attack on Linux and Privacy
    among other things
  21. Media Unable to Tell the Difference Between Proprietary VMware and "Linux"
    FUD tactics
  22. Linux Foundation Openwashing Foundations
    Fake openness as a product
  23. EasyOS Scarthgap and Daedalus 6.4.4 releases
    Bringing both of these to the same version number
  24. Back In Time back from the dead
    Back In Time is a GPL-2.0-licensed backup tool based on rsync and written in Python
  25. Today in Techrights
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    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Thursday contains all the text.

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

    Span from 2024-11-15 to 2024-11-21
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    639 /n/2024/11/15/mesa_24_3_0_rc2.shtml

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