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  1. Canonical and ESWIN announces EBC77 RISC-V SBC with Ubuntu 24.04 support
    ESWIN Computing, in collaboration with Canonical, has announced the EBC77 Series single board computer (SBC) with support for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and designed for education
  2. What LLMs do to software freedom [original]
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  3. GNU/Linux and Free Software Leftovers
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  4. Security Leftovers
    Security related picks
  5. Red Hat Leftovers (Official Site)
    redhat.com latest
  6. Programming Leftovers
    Development picks
  7. Applications: Camera, Slop, and ProtonUp
    Software news
  8. today's howtos
    lots from idroot
  9. Audacious 4.5 Released with Playback History & LRCLIB Support
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  10. Stable kernels: Linux 6.15.7, Linux 6.12.39, Linux 6.6.99, Linux 6.1.146, Linux 5.15.189, Linux 5.10.240, and Linux 5.4.296
    I'm announcing the release of the 6.15.7 kernel
  11. LibreOffice 25.2.5 Rolls Out with Over 60 Bug Fixes
    LibreOffice 25.2.5 rolls out with over 60 bug fixes
  12. Orange Pi RV2 Single Board Computer Running Linux: Installing to the eMMC
    This is a series of articles focusing on RISC-V single board computers running Linux
  13. LibreOffice 25.2.5 Office Suite Is Now Available for Download with 63 Bug Fixes
    The Document Foundation announced today the general availability of LibreOffice 25.2.5 as the fifth maintenance update to the latest LibreOffice 25.2 office suite series with more bug fixes.
  14. Free and Open Source Software
    This is free and open source software
  15. today's leftovers
    GNU/Linux and Windows stuff
  16. Open Hardware/Modding: Raspberry Pi and More
    some hardware picks
  17. Android Leftovers
    5 reasons I'm finally uninstalling Gmail on Android – and what I'm replacing it with
  18. Hyprland 0.50 Lands with New Render Scheduler and Tons of Fixes
    Hyprland 0.50 tiling Wayland compositor drops legacy rendering
  19. Fastfetch 2.48 System Information Tool Brings Fedora Variant Support
    Fastfetch 2.48 system information tool adds Fedora variant detection
  20. Review: the NovaCustom V54 is an outstanding Linux laptop with Dasharo coreboot firmware
    Truly open source hardware – open down to the firmware level of individual components
  21. Ubuntu 25.10 Fixes Something You Didn’t Know Needed Fixing
    When Ubuntu Dock is in dock mode (not full width), corner radii are out of whack with the corner radius used elsewhere
  22. Org Mode, GNU Guix, Mattermost, and more projects to participate in the FSF's hackathon
    Free Software Foundation (FSF) today announced the projects that will participate in the virtual FSF40 hackathon on November 21-23 and opened general registration
  23. Best Free and Open Source Software
    This is free and open source software
  24. Purism: That one task
    In our last post, we mentioned that there was a key task remaining for gnome-control-center, the GNOME Settings application
  25. Android Advanced Protection - Solid but overcomplicated
    I want to take a look at Android's Advanced Protection mode
  26. Games: Silence of the Siren, Rootkits ("Anticheat"), and More
    half a dozen stories from GamingOnLinux
  27. today's leftovers
    4 more links
  28. Security and Windows TCO Leftovers
    Security mostly
  29. Latest Kernel- and Python-Centric LWN Articles
    and one non-LWN
  30. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles
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