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Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 16, 2024

Next Week Marks a Year Since Red Hat Mass Layoffs, Another Round Would be "Consistent With Other Layoffs at IBM."
IRC Proceedings: Monday, April 15, 2024
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Go "Static" [original]

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We recommend such a move because it makes life a lot easier and reduces so-called 'technical debt'

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Games: Wordle, DOOM, and ScummVM

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3 stories about games

Mastodon Tale

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social control media in action

Arch Linux Installer Archinstall 2.8 Increases ESP Size to 1 GiB, Fixes More Bugs

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Archinstall 2.8 has been released today as the latest version of Arch Linux’s text-mode installer to address various bugs, update translations, and also add a few improvements.

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HowTos and Technical Links

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howtos and more

Audiocasts/Shows: This Week in Linux, LINUX Unplugged, and Enterprise Linux Security

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Episodes ready for download/tune-in

Don Marti: planning for SCALE 2025

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Southern California GNU/Linux Expo

Security Lefovers

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Security links for the day/week

New Updates in PCLinuxOS

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Some PCLinuxOS patches of interest

Mozilla Firefox 125 Is Now Available for Download, This Is What’s New

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Today, Mozilla published the final build of Firefox 125 as the latest stable release for their popular open-source and cross-platform web browser that introduces new features and many improvements.

Browsers, BSD, KDE, and Debian

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today's leftovers

Programming Leftovers

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Coding focus

Security Leftovers

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Security related stories for now

Audirvāna announces a Linux beta program - Alpha Audio

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French company Audirvāna creates software for playing music files and from streaming services Qobuz, Tidal and HighResAudio. The latter service is a German music shop with a streaming service.

Sparky CLI Installer Introduces Autopartitioning in the Latest Update

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The new Sparky CLI Installer now supports autopartitioning to speed up setups

Android Leftovers

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Here’s how Android 15 could help your phone connect to a satellite

Open Hardware: Arduino, ESP32, and HealthyPi

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Some hardware projects for hacking

Linux 6.9-rc4

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new RC is out

Kate on all Platforms - 2024

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All Unix like systems with either X11 or Wayland are well supported since ever

Windows TCO Stories

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in the news...

today's howtos

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some howtos for the day

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: April 14th, 2024

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The 183rd installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on April 14th, 2024.

Ardour 8.6 DAW Targets Stability with Critical Bug Fixes

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Ardour 8.6 Digital Audio Workstation fixes crucial bugs

Blanket Ambient Sounds App for Linux Gets Calming New Look

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Blanket is a free, open-source GTK4/libadwaita app that comes packaged with a variety of ambient looping sounds

Qualcomm RB3 Gen 2 Platform with Qualcomm QCS6490 AI SoC targets robotics, IoT and embedded applications

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While the press release mentions support for Linux only

Ubuntu – elegant and easy to use Linux distribution

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Ubuntu is based on the Debian distribution

postmarketOS in 2024-04: Grant applications and again, more TCs!

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It is always fascinating to learn where postmarketOS ends up being used

Review: Fun projects with the Raspberry Pi and PinePhone

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I tend toward the minimal side of things when it comes to computer hardware

Today in Techrights

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