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  2. KaOS 2025.03 Linux Distro Released with KDE Plasma 6.3 and Linux Kernel 6.13
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  4. On March 24th, 2025 EmmaDE5 1.04 maintenance and documentation updates
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  5. deepin 25 Alpha Released
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  6. today's leftovers
    Linux, GNU, and Free software
  7. Release of Flowblade Video Editor 2.20 and Autobase 2.2.0
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  8. Programming Leftovers
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  9. Events and 'Follow the Money'
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  10. Open Hardware: Raspberry Pi and More
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  11. BSD: powerd++ not always saving power, BSD Now has new episode
    BSD leftovers
  12. Fedora, Flatpak, Red Hat Puff Pieces, and Mass Layoffs at IBM
    Some IBM leftovers
  13. Security Leftovers
    Security news and more
  14. today's howtos
    many howtos
  15. Buzzword-Ready Linux Distributions To Watch in 2025
    powering everything from natural language processing to autonomous vehicles
  16. State of Linux Windowing Systems: Is Wayland Good in 2025?
    X.Org vs. Wayland in 2025
  17. GNOME/GTK: Christian Hergert on libdex, Robert Roth on GNOME Calculator, and GNOME Foundation on GUADEC 2025
    GNOME news
  18. Proton VPN in Proprietary Web Browsers Sold as "Privacy"
    Proton VPN bundled
  19. Contribute to Fedora 42 KDE, Virtualization, and Upgrade Test Days
    Fedora test days are events where anyone can help make certain that changes in Fedora Linux work well in an upcoming release
  20. Debian-Based Q4OS Has a New Release
    Distribution Release: Q4OS 5.8
  21. Open Hardware: Raspberry Pi, 3-D Printing, FPGAs, and More
    hardware-centric stories
  22. Security Leftovers and Windows TCO
    mostly Windows TCO
  23. openSUSE’s Zypper Package Manager Gets an Exciting New Feature
    Zypper adds experimental parallel downloads and a faster media backend
  24. Linux for Windows Users? There’s No Such Thing!
    Want Linux to feel like Windows
  25. These 5 Companies Make Linux-First PCs
    If you want to use a Linux computer, you may assume you need to buy a Windows PC and install Linux on it
  26. air is a live-reloading utility for developing Go applications
    This is free and open source software
  27. Games: Warfare Legacy Collection, ENA: Dream BBQ, Geo Mythica, and More
    some of the latest from GamingOnLinux
  28. today's leftovers
    IBM layoffs and more
  29. Security Leftovers
    and Debian stuff
  30. Announcing Istio 1.25.1 and Neovim 0.11
    two new releases
  31. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles
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