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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 23, 2024

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Updated This Past Day

  1. Canonical/Ubuntu Leftovers
    security and commercial bits

    New

  2. Android Leftovers
    Android finally getting ability to restore credentials in phone move
  3. ReiserFS Reaches Its Final Chapter
    Linux kernel 6.13 says goodbye to ReiserFS
  4. Stable kernels: Linux 6.12.1, Linux 6.11.10, Linux 6.6.63, and Linux 6.1.119
    All users of the 6.12 kernel series must upgrade
  5. Cybershow News Autumn 2024
    The sad reality is that beyond SE-Linux and Apparmor Free and Open Source offerings for effective application whitelisting is still quite thin on the ground and difficult to use. We need some better UX around that.
  6. Khronos Group takes over cross-platform Slang shading language from NVIDIA
    Interesting industry news here for you, especially for developers
  7. Programming Leftovers
    Development picks
  8. Security and Windows TCO Leftovers
    news about patches and incidents
  9. today's howtos
    many howtos for now
  10. IBM and Red Hat Leftovers
    IBM stuff and mostly RedHat.com
  11. Android Leftovers
    Android will soon instantly log you in to your apps on new devices
  12. Proxmox VE 8.3 Released with Enhanced Features
    Proxmox Virtual Environment 8.3 is here with faster backups, SDN-firewall integration, webhook notifications, and improved hypervisor migration
  13. Anti-Cheat: A Thorny Problem For Linux Gamers
    The anti-cheat situation on Linux is getting worse. Let's see what you can do about it
  14. Rhino Linux: The Unique Distro That Combines Ubuntu and Rolling Releases Needs Your Support!
    The ambitious project is now asking for help. Let's try helping them
  15. Huion Kamvas Pro 19 - review on GNU/Linux
    This blog post here is a list of my installation method, scripts and tweaks to install the device under a GNU/Linux operating system
  16. Free and Open Source Software, howtos and Installations
    This is free and open source software
  17. How RHEL and Fedora Shape Red Hat’s Linux Offerings
    Not all Linux distributions provide platforms for enterprise and non-business adopters
  18. Games: Dungeon Clawler, Steam Deck, and More
    Latest from GamingOnLinux
  19. Security Leftovers
    Security related picks
  20. Distributions and Operating Systems: Kali Linux, BSD, SUSE, and More
    BSD and GNU/Linux leftovers
  21. OSI Openwashing (Funded by Microsoft) and Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
    Some FOSS and fake FOSS picks
  22. POSETTE and PGConf.dev 2025 Preparations (Postgres Events)
    Postgres news
  23. Programming Leftovers
    Development related news picks
  24. Open Hardware/Modding: Arduino, Raspberry Pi, ESP32, and More
    some devices and more
  25. Red Hat / CentOS / IBM / Oracle Linux / Alma Leftovers
    RHEL camp and IBM
  26. Games: Proton Experimental and Bug in CS2
    a pair of gaming picks
  27. today's howtos
    long batch for Friday
  28. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles

    New

  29. 11 Reasons Why You Should Switch from Windows to Linux
    Here are a number of reasons why you should consider GNU/Linux as your next operating system
  30. libtool-2.5.4 released
    The Libtool Team is pleased to announce the release of libtool 2.5.4

    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Friday contains all the text.

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

    Span from 2024-11-16 to 2024-11-22
    785 /n/2024/11/17/Linux_Kernel_6_12_Officially_Released_This_Is_What_s_New.shtml
    608 /n/2024/11/18/AlmaLinux_OS_9_5_Is_Here_as_a_Free_Alternative_to_Red_Hat_Enter.shtml
    547 /n/2024/11/19/Blender_4_3_Open_Source_3D_Graphics_App_Introduces_Experimental.shtml
    531 /n/2024/11/16/today_s_howtos.shtml
    519 /n/2024/11/20/Linux_HowTos_Fedora_and_Debian_13.shtml
    509 /n/2024/11/16/today_s_howtos.1.shtml
    491 /n/2024/11/16/Security_Leftovers.shtml
    484 /n/2024/11/16/today_s_leftovers.shtml
    481 /n/2024/11/16/Programming_Leftovers.shtml

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