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  19. GNOME Shell Gets a Proper Desktop Photo Widget (Finally)
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  21. The XP-Pen Artist 22R Pro works on Linux now
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  23. Banana Pi BPI-R4 Lite Released with MediaTek MT7987A and Wi-Fi 7 Support
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  25. LWN's Kernel Coverage
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