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Microsoft Booster Boasting About Buying Windows

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Red Hat (IBM): RHEL Alternatives, Fedora CoreOS, OpenShift, and Kubernetes

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A selection of new articles/pages

Links 20/10/2023: A Lot More Censorship and Net Neutrality Milestone

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Links for the day

Happy 19th Birthday, Ubuntu

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Today is Ubuntu’s 19th birthday

Raspberry Pi Imager Gets New Tabbed OS Customization UI, Raspberry Pi 5 Support

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Raspberry Pi Imager 1.8.1 has been released today as the latest stable version of this official image flashing utility for Raspberry Pi single-board computers that adds new features and improvements.

Countdown to KDE Plasma 6: Release Date Announced

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Find out when you can experience KDE Plasma 6, the next-generation Linux desktop environment, and learn about its impressive new features.

GNOME Foundation Welcomes Holly Million as Executive Director

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Holly holds a Master of Arts in Education from Stanford University and a Bachelor of Arts in English from Harvard University

Meet ONLYOFFICE Docs v7.5: a built-in PDF editor, automatic hyphenation, Morph transitions and more

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ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors, a free desktop application for Linux

New

Android Leftovers

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What is HyperOS? Xiaomi’s new Android software explained

What’s Your Ubuntu 24.04 Codename Prediction

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A new Ubuntu release cycle is about to get underway which means a new Ubuntu codename is needed

Security and Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt (FUD) Leftovers

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7 links for now

Free, Libre, and Open Source Software vs Openwashing (Linux Foundation)

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Some FOSS and Openwashing links

Education: Software Design, Istio, and More

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FOSS learning and coding

Many Events for GNU/Linux and Free Software

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Long list for today

Canonical/Ubuntu: Codenames, Lock Screens, and Local Communities Council

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several stories

Security and Windows TCO

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Incidents and more

openSUSE Board Cautions Against Free Speech Using Its Code of Censorship, SUSE Promotes 'Clown Computing' (Outsourcing)

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SUSE/OpenSUSE news

Mozilla and Firefox Leftovers

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3 stories

Open Hardware: Arduino, SparkFun, Reverse-Engineering, RISC-V, Retro, and Mor

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Various hardware projects and such

Raspberry Pi Projects and News

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4 stories

Programming Leftovers

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Rust and more

today's howtos

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many howtos for today

Software: Top 13 Free and Open Source Linux Painting Tools, Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS), and More

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FOSS options

Audiocasts/Shows: Linux in the Ham Shack and BSD Now

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2 new episodes

Mixtile Cluster Box supports four Rockchip RK3588 SBCs connected over PCIe

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The Rockchip RK3588 boards come preloaded with a customized Linux system

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Adobe Media Encoder

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Media Encoder is proprietary software and not available for Linux. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives

Games: Stellaris, Vampire Survivors, and More

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9 articles from Liam Dawe

Android Leftovers

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Google will start scanning for Android malware in real time

LibreWolf is Better Than Firefox

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There's a lot of spying, hence the many forks or derivatives, and the roadmap does not look encouraging

We Don't Need One 'Universal' GNU/Linux (But It's What Ruthless Corporations Want)

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It is out job, collectively, to ensure communities remain in charge of GNU/Linux

Stable kernels: Linux 6.5.8, Linux 6.1.59, and Linux 5.15.136

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I'm announcing the release of the 6.5.8 kernel

Krita's Artistic Canvas Expands: Now Available on macOS

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Krita is now available on the macOS App Store. Unleash your creativity and download Krita today.

Tux Machines is Still Enhancing and Improving Readers' Experience (Latest Changes Outlined)

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we might soon have a new front page

Today in Techrights

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one day's articles

ASEAN and GNU/Linux: 5% in Singapore (Compared to 1% a Decade Ago)

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one can see GNU/Linux share growing in Singapore over time, based on statCounter

Security Leftovers

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half a dozen stories/lists

Ardour 8.1 Open-Source DAW Improves Launchpad Pro Support, Fixes Bugs

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Ardour 8.1 open-source DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) has been released today as a hotfix update to the latest Ardour 8 series of this open-source and cross-platform music production software.

How to Install Fonts in Linux Mint Cinnamon

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Elevate your Linux Mint Cinnamon desktop appeal with this tutorial on downloading and installing fonts, making your desktop truly yours.

Geany 2.0 Open-Source IDE Released with UI Improvements, Initial Meson Support

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Geany 2.0 has been released today as a major update to this fast and lightweight GTK-based open-source IDE (Integrated Development Environment).

News Sites Are Dying. Maybe Google News Too Will Die.

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It's going to be a cold, cold winter for Google News employees

GNOME, Gear, Pipewire update in Tumbleweed

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Snapshots of openSUSE Tumbleweed this week ranged from small- to medium-sized updates

An Interesting Bluetooth App for Linux Just Appeared!

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All things Bluetooth with this brand new app!

today's leftovers

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7 more assorted stories

Security Leftovers

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Patches and incidents

KDE Snaps, KDE Frameworks, KDE Plasma, and KDE Gear

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A couple of updates

today's howtos

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many howtos from this morning/last night

A New WordPress Showcase and More

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Some Content Management Systems (CMS) stories

KDE Frameworks 5.111 Is Out and KDE Plasma 6 Now Has a Release Schedule

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With a bit of delay, the KDE Project released KDE Frameworks 5.111 as the latest version of this collection of more than 80 add-on libraries to Qt that provide commonly needed functionality for the KDE Plasma desktop environment and KDE software.

Top 13 Free and Open Source Linux Painting Tools

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The purpose of this article is to identify the finest open source painting software available for Linux

Microsoft Layoffs, Nokia Layoffs, and Proprietary/Blackbox TCO

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LinkedIn, Nokia etc.

Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers

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FOSS news, inc. openwashing

Programming Leftovers

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C++, Java, and more

Games: 10 Best GNU/Linux Gaming Distributions, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, Cyber Knights: Flashpoint, and More

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8 stories, mostly Liam Dawe's

today's howtos

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only 4 more for now

Android Leftovers

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Teclast T45 HD: New tablet with Android, jack, HD display and dual-SIM

Ubuntu: Canonical and NVIDIA/Jetson, Plasma 5.27 LTS in Kubuntu

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3 stories

Krita in Stores — Update

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or quite some time now Krita has been available in various app stores

KDE Frameworks 5.111.0

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KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.111.0

Sparky 2023.10 Special Editions

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There are new iso images of Sparky 2023.10 Special Editions out there

Microsoft gives unexpected tutorial on how to install Linux

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You may need it – Windows 10 is no longer a free upgrade

Generative AI on NVIDIA Jetson Orin, Jetpack 6 SDK to support multiple OSes

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NVIDIA Jetson Orin module and the Jetpack 6 SDK will be released next month (November 2023) with supports for Ubuntu as usual, but also other operating systems and platforms such as Debian, Yocto

Security Leftovers and Windows TCO

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a few on Windows TCO

Proprietary/Artificial Intelligence (AI) Leftovers

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Many stories, Microsoft focus

Kubernetes Leftovers

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2 stories for now

Programming Programming

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Kernel and more

Fedora 39 is Preparing for Release

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The latest release from the Fedora team is about to be unleashed and it includes plenty to excite users of all types

Rethinking multi-grain timestamps

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Outside paywall now

Open Hardware: Raspberry Pi and Arduino Projects/News

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3 stories

GNU/Linux-centric Devices: NAS Software, Pickup, RISC-V, and More

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5 stories

GNU/Linux Versus Windows: 2 New Articles

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What is Better to Choose for Programming: Linux or Windows? (and more)

Firefox Focus and "Mercury is an Optimized Variant of Firefox"

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Some Firefox stuff

Software for GNU/Linux: Authenticator, Uh-Halp, VPNs, and Lynis

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4 items that are new

Release of Cockpit 303 and Krita in Stores

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Some software news

today's howtos

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many from last night

Medevel's Review/Overview of Some Free Software

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Many new posts yesterday

GNU: poke now available in PTXdist, Texinfo 7.1 and MediaGoblin 0.13.0 released

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Some GNU news

Still Enhancing the Web Site

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we'll try to make further enhancements and improvements

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