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Updated This Past Day

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  2. This Week in GNOME: #177 Scrolling Performance
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  3. GNU/Linux Leftovers
    kernel, software, and more
  4. Security Leftovers
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  5. today's howtos
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  6. GNOME 47.2 Officially Released with Various Bug Fixes and Improvements
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  7. Programming Leftovers
    Development related picks
  8. Games: Proprietary Titles and Flathub Changes
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  9. Open Hardware/Modding/Retro: Remington Standard, Macintosh LC III, Arduino, and "Name that Ware"
    hardware picks
  10. OBS Studio 31.0 Released with NVIDIA Blur Filter and Background Blur
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  11. Android Leftovers
    Samsung's One UI 7 Based On Android 15 Arrives With AI Upgrades For Galaxy S24 Devices
  12. OBS Studio 31 Debuts With New NVIDIA Blur Features
    The open-source broadcasting software OBS Studio
  13. This Linux Theme Gave Me the Windows 95 Experience in 2024
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  14. Sparky 2024.12
    This is an unplanned December update of Sparky semi-rolling iso images of the Debian testing line
  15. Best Free and Open Source Software
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  16. Kumander Linux – Debian-based distribution
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  17. This Week in Plasma: Oodles of features!
    I promised new features soon, and here they are
  18. My 4 favorite open-source apps for personal finance - that run on Linux, MacOS, and Windows
    These open-source options are some of the most popular - and for good reason
  19. Archcraft is a solid, super fast distro for anyone ready to move beyond beginner Linux
    I spent a week with the distribution and found it to be a lot of fun to use
  20. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software and Openwashing Leftovers
    FOSS and fakes
  21. Mozilla Run by Marketing People and Buzzwords Agenda, Acts Accordingly
    goodbye, geeks
  22. Programming Leftovers
    Development related stuff
  23. Debian-based Apertis and Robotic Vision in Debian
    Some Debian picks
  24. Open Hardware/Modding: MIPS, AmpereOne, Raspberry Pi, and More
    devices related news
  25. Red Hat Swimming in Buzzwords and Other Nonsense (Not a Geeks-Run Company Anymore)
    latest from or about Red Hat
  26. Operating Systems: FreeDOS, frood, and ZephyrOS
    Alternatives to GNU/Linux
  27. Latest From Peter Czanik and syslog-ng Insider
    syslog-ng news
  28. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles
  29. today's howtos
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  30. Game Streaming on Raspberry Pi 5, Godot 4.4 dev 6, Flight Simulator, SteamOS (ArchLinux)
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