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    Solus 4.9 distribution is now available for download with Linux kernel 6.18 LTS, Budgie 10.9.4, KDE Plasma 6.6, GNOME 49.5, and Xfce 4.20.
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    today's leftovers
  3. Security Leftovers and Windows TCO (Windows Breaking Itself)
    security updates
  4. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software and Standards
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  5. Programming Leftovers
    Development picks
  6. Abandoning Free Software While Blaming Slop and Clarifications on Discourse
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  7. BSD Education: AsiaBSDCon and New York City *BSD User Group
    BSD picks
  8. PostgresSQL: PGDay Armenia and Swiss PGDay 2026
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  9. Applications: Office Suites and Nixpilled
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  10. OpenSUSE: Tumbleweed Report and Planet News Roundup
    openSUSE picks
  11. Red Hat, Fedora, and Rocky Linux Leftovers
    mostly Red Hat picks
  12. Open Hardware/Modding: Orange Pi, ESP32, and More
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  13. This Week in GNOME, GNOME Foundation Update, and More GNOME
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  14. today's howtos
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  15. Games: Godot 4.7 Dev 5, Proton Beta, and More
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  17. The Man Who Wrote the Rules of Freedom for Software
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  18. Emulation/Games: RPCS3, Gopher64, and Proton 11 Beta
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  19. Android Leftovers
    Google Blocks 8.3B Policy-Violating Ads in 2025, Launches Android 17 Privacy Overhaul
  20. FRED Comes To Hobby Operating Systems (and Linux)
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  21. Kdenlive 26.04 is Out with Animated Transition Preview & Screen Mirroring
    KDE announced the release of KDE Gear 26.04 on Thursday
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    This is free and open source software
  23. PureOS Crimson Development Report: March 2026
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  24. This Week in Plasma: Per-Screen Virtual Desktops and Wayland Session Restore
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