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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 03, 2025

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  2. GStreamer 1.26.9 Improves Support for DeckLink Capture Cards, Spotify Integration
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  4. Linux Mint 22.3 Codenamed “Zena”, Planned for Christmas 2025
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  7. VLC 3.0.22 Released with AMD GPU Frame Rate Doubler, dav1d-all-layers Option
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  8. GNU/Linux and BSD Leftovers
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  9. Games: Steam Machine, Godot 4.6 (Dev 5), New Steam Games Playable on the Steam Deck, and Slop Sold as "Games"
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  10. Fedora / IBM / Red Hat Selling Microsoft and Slop
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  11. Sparky GNU/Linux and Debian Free Software Activities
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  12. Canonical: Launchpad Introducing Webhooks for Package Uploads in PPAs and Ubuntu on Qualcomm Dragonwing™ IQ-9075
    some Ubuntu leftovers
  13. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
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  14. Hardware/Modding and Mobile Gadgets With Linux
    some hardware picks
  15. Back End/Databases: "The Computer Wants to Lose Your Data" and Psycopg 3.3 Released
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  16. BrowserOS, Google, and Mozilla/Tor
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  17. Productivity Software: Update From TDF’s Board of Directors (LibreOffice) and ONLYOFFICE 9.2 Released
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  18. Linux Security News and Some Security Incidents
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  19. Programming Leftovers
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  20. Cassidy James Blaede Looking back on GNOME and Federico Mena-Quintero Still Pushing Rust
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  21. today's howtos
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  22. Software in the News: PhotoPrism, e2ecp
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  23. Zorin OS 18 Might Be The Way Out Of Microsoft's AI Nightmare
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  24. Ryan Walker's Blackpants Turn the Flipper Blackhat Board Into a Standalone Linux Terminal
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  25. The Handheld Linux Platform Kit Is "Capable of Practically Anything," Its Creators Promise - Hackster.io
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  27. Intel NPU Driver Now Available in openSUSE Versions and SUSE Selling Server Trends/Hype
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  28. Linus Torvalds and Another Linus (Sebastian) Build GNU/Linux PC
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  29. NVIDIA 590 Linux Graphics Driver Enters Public Beta with Better Wayland Support
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  30. Android Leftovers
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  31. Announcing Incus 6.19
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  32. Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.1 and 20.04 OTA-11 Bring VoLTE Expansion
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  33. The top 2 Linux distros Windows 10 users are fleeing to right now - and why
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  34. Tumbleweed Monthly Update - November 2025
    Software package updates for openSUSE Tumbleweed in November had a steady rhythm and delivered both user-visible improvements and deeper technical fixes across the stack
  35. GNU Guile 3.0.11 released
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  38. ObsidianOS Review: A New, Innovative Linux Distro Built Around A/B Partitioning
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  39. Slimbook Executive report 11 - Many twists and turns
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  41. Free Software: The Key to Freedom
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  43. Arch Linux’s December 2025 ISO Is Out Now with the Archinstall 3.0.14 Installer
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  44. Ubuntu Touch OTA-1.1 Rolls Out with VoLTE Support for Fairphone 4, Volla Phone 22
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