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Updated This Past Day

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    Hardware vendor ZOTAC have announced they're working on a new ZOTAC GAMING ZONE Handheld, with a prototype that will be shown off at COMPUTEX 2025 running Linux
  2. NordVPN Linux App Updated with New GUI
    NordVPN has announced a major update to its Linux app
  3. Games: Handhelds, Godot, XBox Mass Layoffs, and More
    gaming leftovers

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  4. Android Leftovers
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  5. Grafana 12 Observability Platform Released with Major Upgrades
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  6. RHEL 10 quietly leaks ahead of Red Hat Summit
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  7. GNOME 49 Finally to Use Showtime as Default Video Player
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  9. Free and Open Source Software
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  10. Proprietary Traps and Openwashing
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  11. Security Leftovers
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  12. Programming Leftovers
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  13. GNU/Linux and BSD Leftovers
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  15. KDE GSoC 2025 and KDE India Conference 2025
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    FreeBSD is available free of charge and comes with the source code
  17. Fedora Reports and New Version of Flatpak Released
    some Fedora leftovers
  18. Open Hardware/Modding: PicoEMP, Arduino, and More
    Hardware leftovers
  19. Applications: Syslog-ng, Kubernetes, Istio, and More
    leftovers about software
  20. Desktop/Laptop GNU/Linux
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  21. The 5 most customizable Linux desktop environments - when you want it your way
    What makes Linux the most flexible operating system on the planet
  22. today's howtos
    one last batch tor today
  23. today's howtos
    Instructionals/Technical leftovers, 10 total
  24. Red Hat Leftovers and Purchase of Hype/Buzzwords (Jounce)
    mostly redhat.com
  25. Open Hardware/Modding: Raspberry Pi, Purism, and ESP32
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  26. Mozilla on Firefox Accessibility and Future Features
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  27. Linus Torvalds returns to a mechanical keyboard
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  28. Wintel TCO (Windows and Intel)
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  29. Android Leftovers
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  30. Games: Saleblazers, Granvir: Zero Front, DOOM: The Dark Ages, and More
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  31. Fedora-Based Nobara Linux Goes Rolling
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  36. GNU/Linux Leftovers
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  37. Updates From the 'Debian Family'
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  38. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
    FOSS picks
  39. Security Leftovers
    Security related picks
  40. Events: FOSSY, Superbooth, FOSDEM, LinuxFest Northwest
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  41. Programming Leftovers
    Development related picks
  42. Open Hardware/Modding: RISC-V, ESP32, and More
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  43. Audiocasts/Shows: Late Night Linux and Destination Linux
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  44. Kernel: Bcachefs Benchmarks, CVE-2024-26809, AMD GPU driven via USB3
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  45. Applications: Kubernetes, asciinema, Newsflash, and Traefik Proxy
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  46. today's howtos
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  47. Today in Techrights
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    697 /n/2025/05/08/System76_Refreshes_Serval_WS_Linux_Laptop_with_NVIDIA_GeForce_R.shtml
    685 /n/2025/05/08/today_s_howtos.shtml
    682 /n/2025/05/07/New_Planet_GNOME_and_GNOME_Foundation_s_New_Executive_Director.shtml
    673 /n/2025/05/10/Stable_kernels_Linux_6_14_6_Linux_6_12_28_Linux_6_6_90_Linux_6_.shtml
    673 /n/2025/05/07/This_is_what_I_m_doing_with_my_old_Windows_10_PC_instead_of_tra.shtml
    657 /n/2025/04/24/Kubernetes_v1_33_and_Kiwi_TCMS_14_2.shtml
    642 /n/2025/05/12/Linux_6_15_rc6.shtml
    641 /n/2025/05/08/Linux_Mint_22_2_Codenamed_Zara_LMDE_7_Will_be_Called_Gigi.shtml
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