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  2. NVIDIA 570 Linux Graphics Driver Released with New Features and Improvements
    Today, NVIDIA published the stable version of the NVIDIA 570 graphics driver series for Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris systems, with new features and performance improvements.
  3. LibreOffice 25.2.1 Office Suite Is Now Available for Download with 77 Bug Fixes
    The Document Foundation announced today the general availability of LibreOffice 25.2.1 as the first maintenance update to the latest LibreOffice 25.2 office suite series with various bug fixes.
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  5. GNU/Linux and BSD Leftovers
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  6. Document Freedom Day, Microsoft Lockin, and Free Software
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  7. Programming Leftovers
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  8. Stable kernels: Linux 6.13.5, Linux 6.12.17, and Linux 6.6.80
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  9. Openwashing by Linux Foundation, Microsoft Hijacks the 'Sudo' Brand/Name
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  11. Games: GOG Caesar III, Godot 4.4 RC 2, MS-DOS Games, and Android Gaming Handheld
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  12. Red Hat and Fedora Leftovers
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  13. Open Hardware/Modding: Raspberry Pi, RISC-V, and More
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  14. Security Leftovers
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  15. GNU/Linux, Openwashing, and More
    today's leftovers
  16. Programming Leftovers
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  17. IBM: Red Hat Purchasing 'Articles', Fedora DEI Events Policy, and More
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  18. today's howtos
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  19. Every project is a software project
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  20. Nextcloud Hub 10 Released, Here’s What’s New
    Nextcloud Hub 10, an open-source suite of collaboration and productivity tools
  21. Android Leftovers
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  22. Immich 1.127 Introduces Face Tagging & Memory Enhancements
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  23. EdgeDB Rebrands as Gel, Brings Full SQL Support
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  24. Mozilla: Firefox/Geckodriver 0.36.0 Released, $1 Million from US Taxpayers
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  25. Open Hardware/Modding: Raspberry Pi, Reverse-Engineering, and More
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  26. Games: Godot, Steam, and More
    mostly from GamingOnLinux
  27. Security Leftovers
    Security news for this week/today
  28. Best Free and Open Source Software, howtos and Installations
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  29. Kiwi SOM Featuring Wi-Fi 7 Qualcomm IPQ-9570 Dual USXGMII and PCIe Expansion
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  30. Wayland vs. Xorg: The Ongoing Display Server Battle
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  31. FSF/GNU: Free Software Directory Meetings, GNU gettext 0.24 Released
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  32. Trisquel 5.5 STS Brigantia release announcement
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  33. GNU/Linux and Free Software Leftovers
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  34. Web Browsers: curl, Comet, and More
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  35. Canonical on Kubernetes and Valkey
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  36. GNOME in GSoC 2025 and App Grid Wizard Puts GNOME Shell Shortcuts into Folders
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  37. Today in Techrights
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