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Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 24, 2024

Europe Won't be Safe From Russia Until the Last Windows PC is Turned Off (or Switched to BSDs and GNU/Linux)
IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, April 23, 2024
HTTPS image: Cross, Lublin Province, summer 2021, Poland

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EdgeDB 5.0 Launches with Branching Functionality

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EdgeDB 5.0 graph-relational database introduces branching functions to align database and code branches for efficient schema changes

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Tux Machines Party 7 Weeks From Now (Our 20th Anniversary), Celebrating Software Freedom [original]

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There's widespread recognition these days that proprietary cannot be trusted

Windows Falls to 6% Market Share in Africa's (by Far) Biggest Population [original]

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market share of Windows continues to decrease in Nigeria

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Elektrobit Unveils EB corbos Linux To Augment Advanced Automotive Functions

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The open-source framework enhances transparency, flexibility, and security, and significantly reduces time to market by up to 50% through accelerated development cycles, offering substantial cost savings.

today's leftovers

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4 misc. links

Contributing is more than just code (and more)

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Programming centric posts

Open Hardware/Modding: ESP32 and Open Home Foundation

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3 new stories

Fedora, Red Hat, IBM, and Canonical/Ubuntu

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Private companies in community clothing

Security Leftovers

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Security related stories

Audiocasts/Shows: Destination Linux and Late Night Linux

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a couple of new episodes

Applications: Fwupd, Shell Wrapper for sudo, and GNU Parallel 20240422

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3 stories for now

Linux Kernel and Graphics Stack

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3 stories

Security Fix in Istio (ISTIO-SECURITY-2024-003)

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On ISTIO-SECURITY-2024-003

EndeavourOS Gemini Lands with the KDE Plasma 6 Desktop Environment

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The EndeavourOS team announced today the release and general availability for download of EndeavourOS Gemini as the latest stable version and the first release of the Arch Linux-based distro to feature the latest KDE Plasma 6 desktop environment.

today's howtos

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second howtos batch for the day

Slimbook Fedora 2 Laptops Launch with Fedora Linux 40 Workstation

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Linux hardware vendor Slimbook and the Fedora Project announced today the launch of the Slimbook Fedora 2 laptops as the first portable computers to ship with the latest Fedora Linux 40 release pre-installed.

PostgreSQL: pgdsat v1.1 and E-Maj 4.4.0 released

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psql releases

Fedora Linux 40 Officially Released with Linux Kernel 6.8, Here’s What’s New

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Fedora Linux 40 distribution has been officially released and it’s now available for download powered by the latest Linux 6.8 kernel series and featuring the GNOME 46 and KDE Plasma 6 desktop environments.

Tails 6.2 Anonymous Linux OS Improves Mitigation of Spectre v4 Vulnerability

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The Tails project released today Tails 6.2 as the second update to the latest Tails 6.x series of this security-focused Debian-based live system for preserving Internet privacy and anonymity.

today's leftovers

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a mixture or FOSS and GNU/Linux/BSD news

Open Hardware/Modding: Arduino, Adafruit, Raspberry Pi, Purism, and More

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Some devices and hardware news

Games: Steam Deck, Proton Experimental, Dead Island 2, and More

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11 picks for today

Software: A Look at Dool and QSoas 3.3

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a couple of FOSS picks

today's howtos

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only 4 howtos for now (much more later today)

Android Leftovers

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Alphabet enhances YouTube integration with Android TV feature

Windows TCO

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The cost of relying on Microsoft

APT is Getting a Colourful New UI — And It Looks GREAT

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I think most of us are familiar with the way that APT, the package management tool underpinning Ubuntu and all other Debian-based Linux distributions, looks and behaves

Best Free and Open Source: CLI Linux Time Trackers, JSON Tools, and GUI ebook Readers

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Only free and open source software is eligible for inclusion

Louder Raspberry Pi is an open-source home media center that is powered by Raspberry Pi Zero and a TI TAS5805M DAC

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Louder Raspberry Pi is an open-source home media center based on a combination of the Raspberry Pi Zero W or Zero 2 W and the Texas Instruments TAS5805M DAC

Free and Open Source Softwares

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This is free and open source software

Collections of Different Linux Distributions

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Because Linux is an open source operating system, combinations of software vary between Linux distros

Fedora 40 is just around the corner with more spins and flavors than ever

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KDE edition has the most conspicuous changes, and could become future flagship

Today in Techrights

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