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    If the future of GNU/Linux is Software Freedom, then this future isn't Red Hat or IBM
  2. Attacking People Accomplishes Nothing [original]
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  3. Publishing Originals is Hard [original]
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  4. Small/Mobile Systems: AOSP (Android), Raspberry Pi, and RISC-V
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  5. Check Point Spreading Fear of Linux, Without Explaining the Real Cause
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  6. GNU/Linux Rose to All-Time High in Bolivia This Year [original]
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  7. GRUB 2.14 Released with EROFS, Argon2 KDF, and Shim Loader Protocol Support
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  8. Wireshark 4.6.3 Released with Updated Protocol and Capture File Support
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  15. Games: Playing Factorio On A Floppy Disk Cluster, Cooking Pot For Doom, and Vanilla OS vs. Bazzite
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  16. Fedora and Red Hat Leftovers
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  17. Debian: Freexian Collaborators Outline, 30,000 FAIme Jobs, and Debian Libre Live 13.3.0
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  18. Canonical/Ubuntu: ‘Mass Rebuild’ of All Archive Packages, Spring Boot, 'Debloated' Ubuntu for a Fee
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  21. today's howtos
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  22. Security and Microsoft Zero-Days Exploited
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  23. Android Leftovers
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  26. Unraid Plans Internal Boot Support and Multiple Arrays for 2026
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  28. KDE Ni! OS – Plasma Login Manager teaser
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