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  6. today's leftovers
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  10. Hardware: Raspberry Pi, Other SBCs, and non-Apple, non-Google 'Smartphones'
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  14. today's howtos
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  15. Applications: "3 powerful Linux apps to try this weekend", diffoscope (Reproducible Builds), and Abstract
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  20. Titan Neo with some fixes and upstream updates is available
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  21. FSF Blogs: It's May, and we've been keeping busy
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  22. Free and Open Source Software
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  23. ludora – Fedora based gaming spin
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  26. Kirigami forms and configurations
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  27. This Week in Plasma: Background Apps and Zoom Up-Scaling
    This week Plasma 6.7 entered its “soft feature freeze” where we stop merging newly-written features and focus on finishing up and merging the ones that were already in flight
  28. Kubuntu 26.04 Resolute Raccoon review - Surprisingly nice
    It has been a while since I last did a proper distro review. But the occasion warrants it. Canonical has released its latest LTS
  29. Java SDK updates for Slackware all across the board
    Today I pushed fresh Slackware packages (for 15.0 and -current
  30. Today in Techrights
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