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    Today, the KDE Project released KDE Gear 25.12.3 as the third and final maintenance update to the latest KDE Gear 25.12 series of this collection of open-source applications for the KDE ecosystem and other platforms.
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  7. KeePass Released 2.61 with One-Time Password & Other Improvements
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  8. Free and Open Source Software
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  9. Why Linux Users Love to Hate Ubuntu
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  10. Security Leftovers
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  11. today's leftovers
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  15. FSF on LibreLocal Events and Talks by Its Founder
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  17. Programming Leftovers
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  19. today's howtos
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  20. After decades of Windows, Linux made me love using an OS again
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  22. Games: House of Tesla, Shapez 2, and More
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  23. Android Leftovers
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  24. 7 things I stopped installing on Linux (and my system is better for it)
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  25. Free and Open Source Software
    This is free and open source software
  26. Escuelas Linux is a distribution based on Bodhi Linux
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  28. LWN's Latest: Kernel, PostgreSQL Insider Works for Microsoft, and Network Time Protocol (NTP)
    outside paywall today
  29. Open-source Discord alternatives
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