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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 21, 2025

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  1. Asahi Linux loses another prominent dev as GPU guru calls it quits
    Fedora Asahi Remix 42 still scheduled for release in about a month

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  2. GNU/Linux Leftovers
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  3. Programming Leftovers
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  4. Retro and Linux Hardware
    Raspberry Pi and more
  5. Audiocasts/Shows: Risky Business on Risky Microsoft, LinDoz 2025 Beta 2 Teaser, and FLOSS Weekly
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  6. Canonical/Ubuntu Leftovers
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  7. Red Hat / IBM Leftovers
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  8. today's howtos
    many howtos
  9. Security Leftovers
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  10. PeerTube v7.1 is out!
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  11. Dinit on antiX now possible
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  12. Ikey Doherty’s Serpent OS Changes Name to AerynOS
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  13. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
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  14. Open Hardware: Raspberry Pi, RISC-V, Arduino, and More
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  15. Programming Leftovers
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  16. Android Leftovers
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  18. Ubuntu 25.10 plans to swap GNU coreutils for Rust
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  19. Mecha Comet modular Linux handheld gets pre-launch upgrade, coming to Kickstarter in Q3, 2025
    After making its debut at CES in January, the Mecha Comet has undergone some changes...
  20. Chimera Linux ghosts RISC-V because there's no time for sluggish hardware
    Dev behind the GNU-free distro says boards too slow for serious work
  21. Best Free and Open Source Software
    This is free and open source software
  22. LWN Articles About Kernel: Module Integrity Checking and More
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  23. Today in Techrights
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