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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 31, 2025

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  3. Arch Linux Installer Archinstall 3.0.3 Improves Limine Bootloader Support
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  5. Android Leftovers
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  11. today's leftovers
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  12. Confessions of a hardcore tiler
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  13. Distro War: Choosing the Best Linux Distribution
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  14. Open Hardware/Modding: ESP32, FPGA, and More
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  15. Videos: This Week in Linux and how to use the Sed command
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  16. Benchmark Anything With This Powerful Linux Tool
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  17. HP Printer Driver HPLIP 3.25.2 Added Ubuntu 24.04 & New Printers Support | UbuntuHandbook
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  18. DeaDBeef Music Player 1.10.0 Released with FFmpeg 7.0 & EAC3 Support
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  19. Check Out Debian, the ’Mother of All Linux Distributions’
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  20. Theora 1.2.0 released
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  21. GNU patch 2.8 released
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  22. today's howtos
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  23. EasyOS Daedalus-series version 6.6.5 released
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  24. Android Leftovers
    Galaxy S25 benchmarked running Android 16 (One UI 8.0)!
  25. Shotcut 25.03 Video Editor Brings New Filters, Smarter UI, and Fixes
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  26. New to Linux? Focus on the Desktop Environment, Not the Distro
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  27. Low-Cost Luckfox Pico Pi Boards Offer Linux Development with Ubuntu Support
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  28. Free and Open Source Software
    This is free and open source software
  29. Stable kernels: Linux 6.13.9, Linux 6.12.21, Linux 6.6.85, and Linux 6.1.132
    I'm announcing the release of the 6.13.9 kernel
  30. Programming Leftovers
    Development picks
  31. GNU/Linux Leftovers
    only 2 this Sunday
  32. Security and More
    Security leftovers mostly
  33. Linux Devices/Embedded Leftovers
    hardware picks
  34. Today in Techrights
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  35. Shotcut 25.03 Open-Source Video Editor Released with Various New Features
    Shotcut 25.03 has been released today as the latest stable version of this open-source, cross-platform, and free video editing software for Linux, macOS, and Windows written in Qt.

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