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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 17, 2024

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Slackware-based PorteuX 1.8 is out today as what appears to be the very first GNU/Linux distribution to ship with the recently released Xfce 4.20 desktop environment.
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If you're looking for a beautiful, user-friendly Linux distribution
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a lot of progress had been made
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9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: December 15th, 2024

The 218th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on December 15th, 2024.
Free and Open Source Software

This is free and open source software
Review: GhostBSD 24.10.1

GhostBSD is a desktop-oriented member of the FreeBSD family
Over 20 years of bug squashing

The open source project I work on for the longest time is KDE and there more specific Kate
Your input requested for DAW Live

Life interfered and priorities shifted
Linux 6.13-rc3

Earlier this week it felt to me like things might have already started to quiet down in prep for the holidays
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The SLAPPs From Microsofters Distract From Serious Copyright Infringement by Microsoft and Apparent Business Crimes: Aside from other issues, such as strangling women
Enshittification is Everywhere: You Pay More, the Services Get Worse: "Enshittification" is a term coined by an online friend; I increasingly use this term to describe what's happening even outside the realm of technology (which it was adopted to describe)
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