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  3. Games: Steam's November 2025 Hardware Survey and Microsoft Ranting About GNU/Linux Growing Among Gamers
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  7. Android Leftovers
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  17. Distributions and Operating Systems: GNU/Linux, BSD, and More
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  18. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
    Some more FOSS picks for today
  19. A Look at Collabora Office and Collabora’s XDC 2025 presentations
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  20. Devices and Hardware Hacking: Raspberry Pi, 3Duino, and More
    Some hardware leftovers
  21. Red Hat and Fedora Leftovers
    some Red Hat buzzwords
  22. Debian and Ubuntu Updates and News
    Debian and Ubuntu leftovers
  23. Kernel: BSD, QEMU, Linux
    Linux and more
  24. New Releases of Applications: TLP 1.9.0, VLC 3.0.22, PowerDNS DNSdist 2.0.2 , and Various GNU Projects (Coreutils, Gnuastro Etc.)
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  27. Security Leftovers
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  28. Release of WordPress 6.9 “Gene”
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  29. today's howtos
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  31. New Issue of Linux Magazine
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  32. Red Hat Promoting AWS, Canonical Promoting Windows/Microsoft
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  33. today's howtos
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  34. Mozilla's Latest Moves
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  35. Android Leftovers
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  42. Last Two Weeks in KDE Apps: Performance improvement in Krita, Trust and Safety in NeoChat and files actions in Photos
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