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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 10, 2025,
updated Nov 10, 2025

Walked up on this young elk, not knowing mother was bedded down in the woods nearby, Elk County Pa on Rt 555 in September

Updated This Past Day

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    New

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  12. OpenIndiana Snapshot 2025.10 Available
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  13. Sculpt OS release 25.10
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  14. Besgnulinux JWM 3-1 version is ready for use
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  17. Open Hardware/Modding: Homelab projects, OPNsense on Proxmox, and Raspberry Pi projects to try this weekend
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  18. 4 Arch Linux myths that need to stop spreading
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  19. GNU/Linux Leftovers
    Debian, Oracle, and more
  20. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software, Real Ownership, and Sharing
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  21. Google Summer of Labour in NetBSD, Swift Programming Language Now Available for FreeBSD
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  22. Security Leftovers
    Security news and morwe
  23. Hardware: BeagleBoard, Raspberry Pi, and More
    hardware hacking and Linux
  24. today's howtos
    a handful of Sunday howtos
  25. I made a portable Linux drive that boots on nearly any computer
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  26. WINE or Emulation: Bottles 52.1 Released and Retro PC Gaming the Easy Way with DOSBox Pure Unleashed
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  27. Android Leftovers
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  28. The original Raspberry Pi's end-of-life countdown has just started
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  29. Crystal Linux: An Avant-garde Mix of Arch Linux and GNOME
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  35. LibraZiK – Debian-based Linux distribution for music production
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  36. 5 reasons I’ve never used Arch Linux as a daily driver and never will
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  38. I'm finally jumping on the CachyOS bandwagon this weekend
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  39. KDE Plasma 6.6 and KDE Plasma Automatic Time Zone
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  40. Free and Open Source Software
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  41. Luberri – Linux Mint-based distro for Basque speakers
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  42. Building Chromium for Slackware
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  43. Proton Experimental and Hardware Leftovers
    3 misc. links for today
  44. Today in Techrights
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