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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 03, 2025

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Another Celebration This Month [original]

The year started well for us
Fedora and IBM: Filipe Rosset's Bug Fixes and Mark J. Wielaard Shills a Front Group of His Employer

Some Red Hat things

New
Kernel, GNU/Linux Distributions and Operating Systems

some more leftovers
Why I'm Not Sold on Linux Tiling Window Managers

Many hardcore Linux users love tiling window managers meant to optimize screen space for productivity
Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers

FOSS picks for today
Security, Radio, and Hardware

hacking and broadcast
Programming Leftovers

Development and Debian focus
Audiocasts/Shows: FLOSS Weekly and GAFAM Discrimination

2 new episodes
today's howtos

mostly idroot
Games: Steam Deck, Gaming With Public Domain, and DOOM

3 stories for now
My Linux and Open Source Resolutions for 2025

Here's what I have decided for 2025. What are your resolutions
Sparky news 2024/12

The 12th monthly Sparky project and donate report of the 2024
NerdFetch – fetch script using Nerdfonts

NerdFetch is a simple shell script which fetches information about your system
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Whilst commit numbers aren't a perfect measure of anything whatsoever
Programming Leftovers

Development picks
Algol 68 GCC Front-End

This WIP is a GCC front-end for Algol 68
This Year in Linux, Liam Proven on Retro, and SCALE 22x’s Colocated Events

today's leftovers
today's leftovers

GNU/Linux focus
Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers

FOSS links
Security and Windows TCO

Security leftovers
Programming Leftovers

Development news
Updates From GNU Projects

GNU CTT and more

New

Today in Techrights

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