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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 29, 2025

Updated This Past Day

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4. OBS Studio 32.0 Enters Public Beta Testing with a Basic Plugin Manager

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5. Omarchy, Free Software, and More

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6. Audiocasts/Shows: OpenWRT, FLOSS Weekly, and "Protecting Privacy in Your Brain"

   3 new episodes

7. LibreOffice 25.8 in Numbers and One week to the LibreOffice Conference in Budapest

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8. Applications: syslog-ng, Lists in Linux Links, Wayfire, and More

   software leftovers

9. Mobile Systems: PINE64, Android, and More

   mostly Linux related

10. Programming Leftovers

    Development related news and posts

11. Security Leftovers

    patches, incidents, and FUD

12. Games and Bottles in GNU/Linux

    gaming leftovers

13. Open Hardware/Modding: Arduino, DongshanPi, Raspberry Pi, and Lots More

    many hardware picks

14. Red Hat, RHEL, and CentOS Leftovers

    mostly from Red Hat's site

15. OpenSUSE: Agama, OBS, and GSoC

    OpenSUSE leftovers

16. Orphaned Linux drivers for floppy disks gets first patch of any significance in three years - cleanup effort implies floppies spared the axe for a few more years

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17. Rosenzweig Defects to Intel (Defective Chips Maket), Mesa 25.1.9 Released

    Graphics picks

18. today's howtos

    Instructionals/Technical posts

19. Ubuntu Pro Minimal 22.04 LTS, Jetson Thor, New Software, and Promoting of Proprietary Software

    Canonical/Ubuntu leftovers

20. These 5 lightweight operating systems can make any slow PC fast

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21. A Decade of Kubernetes and v1.34 Release

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22. First Look at KDE’s Initial System Setup (KISS) Tool in KDE Plasma 6.5

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23. Games: PEAK, No Man's Sky, Vintage Story, and More

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24. Free and Open Source Software

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25. Today in Techrights

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26. LWN Latest

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27. Lucky 13: a look at Debian trixie

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    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Thursday contains all the text.