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  18. Power Profiles Daemon 0.30 Preps Support for Linux 6.14
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  20. Ubuntu LTS Users Could Soon Get Frequent Intel GPU Updates
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  24. New Releases: Alpine 3.18.12, 3.19.7, 3.20.6 and 3.21.3; Chimera Linux 20250214
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