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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 18, 2026

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  2. Tux Machines Gets Kudus From LibreTech at Georgia Tech [original]
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  4. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software and the Net
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  12. Kernel Space: Snagboot v2.6, Slop NPUs, and a "Wayland-native RDP server for Linux"
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  14. today's howtos
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  16. Debian: Freexian Collaborators' Reports, Debian Democracy Reduced to Sruthi Chandran or "None of the Above"
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  17. System76 Launches New COSMIC-Powered Thelio Mira High-Performance Linux PC
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  21. KDE Plasma 6.6.3 Makes KWin’s Screencasting Feature More Robust for PipeWire 1.6
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  24. Android Leftovers
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  25. The Myth of Linux Optimization Tools, and Why You Really Don’t Need Them At All
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