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Updated This Past Day

  1. today's leftovers
    GNU/Linux and more
  2. FuguIta 7.7 Released
    I made a demo version of FuguIta with a desktop environment. This demo version demonstrates that FuguIta can be used with a desktop environment as easily as a regular live system.
  3. Ubuntu Touch OTA-9 Focal Release
    buntu Touch 20.04 OTA-9 contains only minimal changes due to our current focus on Ubuntu base OS upgrade
  4. blendOS: Our Gitlab migration is now underway
    After a long wait, we've begun the migration process
  5. Oracle Linux 9.6 Now Generally Available
    By Gursewak Sokhi
  6. NST Version 42-14476 Released
    based on Fedora 42 using Linux Kernel
  7. GNU/Linux and Free Software Leftovers
    today's leftovers (basically)
  8. Security Leftovers
    Security related picks
  9. Programming Leftovers
    coding related articles
  10. Audiocasts/Shows: Hackaday Podcast and Going Linux
    new episodes
  11. Open Hardware/Modding: Raspberry Pi 5, Arduino, and More
    Hardware picks
  12. Games: Crosswords 0.3.15 and Timberborn Review
    gaming pair
  13. Thomas ‘alphacc’ Oulevey Leaves CentOS Board of Directors, New PHP RPMs
    some IBM stuff
  14. today's howtos
    many howtos for the weekend
  15. FreeBSD Leftovers
    3 FreeBSD stories
  16. today's leftovers
    2 more links
  17. This Week in Plasma: Plasma 6.4 is nigh
    This week we continued to focus on bug fixing and user interface polish for Plasma 6.4
  18. Open Hardware/Modding: Luckfox Pico 2, Jetway PIC-ASL1, and More
    Hardware leftovers
  19. Vendor Security: Red Hat, Canonical, and Windows TCO
    some more security picks
  20. "Technology sovereignty" and "Get back the cost of your Windows License!" by Microsoft front group FSFE (Misleading Name)
    latest 3
  21. Security Leftovers
    Security news
  22. Games: Sparkball, World Ocean Day Sale, Near-Mage, and More
    GamingOnLinux stories
  23. These 5 Lightweight Linux Distros Go Easy on Your Old Windows PC
    If your aging Windows PC is struggling and you want to give it a new lease of life
  24. Forget Proxmox, here's how I set up a home lab server with Ubuntu
    When planning out and setting up your home lab
  25. Ubuntu Devs Debate Splitting Linux Firmware to Reduce Size
    To the majority of Ubuntu users
  26. Fooyin – Foobar2000 Like Music Player Designed for Qt Desktop
    Here’s a similar music player designed for Linux with KDE Plasma, LxQt, etc Qt based desktop environments
  27. Free and Open Source Software
    This is free and open source software
  28. HardenedBSD is a fork of FreeBSD
    HardenedBSD is a security-enhanced fork of FreeBSD
  29. EndeavourOS: A Distro That’s All Things to All People
    Our look at the popular Dutch Linux distribution EndeavourOS reveals an impressive distro that’s both easy to use and powerful enough for experienced users
  30. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Saturday contains all the text.

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