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  10. today's howtos
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  11. Bcachefs may be headed out of the kernel
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  20. Free and Open Source Software
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  21. Indoor building mapping in OSM
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  22. This Week in Plasma: inertial scrolling, RDP clipboard syncing, and more session restore
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  26. KDE will drop Qt5 CI Support and Second beta for Amarok 3.3 available
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  28. Open Hardware: Raspberry Pi, Fairphone, GameCube Modding
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  29. Linux Kernel Leftovers
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