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    Linux hardware vendor System76 announced today a refreshed version of its Serval WS laptop featuring important upgrades for engineering and gaming.

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  3. Linux Mint 22.2 Codenamed “Zara”, LMDE 7 Will be Called “Gigi”
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  4. KDE Gear 25.04.1 Fixes Session Restore in the Dolphin File Manager and Other Bugs
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  5. Removal of Deepin Desktop from openSUSE due to Packaging Policy Violation
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  7. Security and Fake Security
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  11. Web Browsers and Web Site Building
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  12. Security and Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt (FUD) Leftovers
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  13. Fedora / Red Hat / IBM Leftovers
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  14. Canonical (Ubuntu) Requiring Applicants Take "DEI and Belonging" and Brian Fagioli's Latest LLM Slop About Linux Mint
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  15. BSD: OpenBSD in Focus
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  16. Databases: PGDay, Neo4j, and More
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  17. Open Hardware/Modding: Interrupt, Home Assistant, Raspberry Pi Projects, and More
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  18. Mozilla: Spying@Mozilla, Sinful Debugging, and Mozilla's Tantek Çelik Running For Re-election in the 2025 W3C Advisory Board (AB) Election
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  19. today's howtos
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  25. CatOS is an open-source Arch-based out-of-the-box Linux distribution
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  30. Red Hat Getting Fanatical About Misleading Buzzwords
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  31. today's howtos
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  32. Games: Humble Bundle, Proton, and More
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  34. LWN on Linux Kernel and Programming
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  35. Debian debates AI models and the DFSG
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