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Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 13, 2024

Kathy Lette on Julian Assange Staying at Her Attic, Why His Release Matters So Much, and Jen Robinson Staying Over Yesterday
IRC Proceedings: Friday, July 12, 2024
HTTPS image: Waterfront landscape with a kayak in Aguanish, Quebec, Canada

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Links 12/07/2024: EU/China Tensions and Ukraine War Updates

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Change to FreeBSD release scheduling and support period

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We are making two changes related to the release engineering process

OpenShot 3.2.1 Video Editor: Smoother, Faster, Better

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OpenShot 3.2.1 open-source video editor is here with new themes, UI/UX improvements, and bug fixes

Mozilla Thunderbird 128 ESR Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New

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The Mozilla Thunderbird 128 open-source email client has been released as a major update that introduces many new features, improvements, and bug fixes.

KDE Frameworks 6.4 Is Out Now with ColorScheme-Accent and JXR Support

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The KDE Project released today KDE Frameworks 6.4 as a new update to this open-source collection of more than 70 add-on libraries to Qt that provide a wide range of commonly needed functionality for the KDE Plasma desktop environment and KDE applications.

New

OBS Studio 30.2 Released with NVENC AV1 Support on Linux, Unified PipeWire Source

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OBS Studio 30.2 has been officially released today as the second update to the OBS Studio 30 series of this powerful, open-source, cross-platform, and free video recording and live streaming software.

Security Leftovers

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Security links for the day

Games, Mozilla, and HowTos

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half a dozen of 3 pairs of news

Programming Leftovers

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Programming related news

Ubuntu: Robotics and App Center Updated

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Some Ubuntu newss

Linux Graphics: Arm and the GPU stack

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some graphics news

Security Leftovers

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Updates, Taler, and more

RHEL, Red Hat, and Fedora

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some IBM leftovers

Audiocasts/Shows: BSD Now and Bad Voltage

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2 new episodes

China's homegrown OS fires back at AI PCs - openKylin gets AI assistant, text-to-image generation, and local LLM support

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Newest version of homegrown Chinese OS openKylin

TUXEDO InfinityBook Pro 14 Gen9 Linux Laptop Brings Fast Intel and AMD CPUs

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German hardware vendor TUXEDO Computers announced today in a press release the availability for pre-order of the 9th generation (Gen9) of the TUXEDO InfinityBook Pro 14 Linux-powered laptop.

Open Hardware: Raspberry Pi, ESP32, Orange Pi, and More

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7 new projects or stories

Android Leftovers

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This Open-Source Android Podcast App is What You Need in 2024

The review-work balance, and other dilemmas

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"There are things I’ve taken up in Gentoo simply because I’ve found them interesting or enjoyable. However, there are also some things that I’ve taken up, because they needed to be done and nobody was doing them."

COSMIC Updates (feat. Community)

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We’re back with more updates for COSMIC

The GNOME Maps and Geo Blog: Summer Maps

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Since version 45 we had an “Explore POIs” interface that is accessed via a menu button next to the main search entry

TUXEDO launches InfinityBook Pro 14 Gen9 Linux laptop

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TUXEDO Computers has launched the 9th generation of its InfinityBook Pro 14

FreeBSD Announces Major Changes to Release Schedule and Support Duration

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Breaking: FreeBSD announces a more predictable release pattern and a cut in support duration from five to four years

PipeWire 1.2.1 Update Fixes Audio Bugs Across Multimedia Apps

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PipeWire 1.2.1 multimedia framework update brings better audio with KODI

openEuler 24.03 LTS: I Try This New Specialized Open-Source Distro

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openEuler is an interesting Linux distribution

Ubuntu 23.10 “Mantic Minotaur” Reached End of Life, Upgrade to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

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This is your friendly reminder that Ubuntu 23.10 “Mantic Minotaur” reached end-of-life yesterday, July 11th, 2024, which means that it will no longer be supported with software and security updates.

Programming Leftovers

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Programming, focus on shells

Security Leftovers

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Security picks

today's leftovers

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Free software and Ubuntu

today's howtos

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afternoon group of howtos

Open Hardware/Modding: Raspberry Pi and Arduino

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only 3 new picks for today

GNOME 46.3 Desktop Environment Released with Various Improvements

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The GNOME Project released today GNOME 46.3 as the third maintenance update to the latest GNOME 46 “Kathmandu” desktop environment series bringing more bug fixes and small improvements.

Firefox Gets Morre Spyware and Bloat

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worsening over time

Windows TCO: Ransomware, Outlook, JAXA

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Microsoft causing disasters

Manjaro Linux Launches Revamped Website

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Manjaro.org relaunches with a minimalistic, cleaner design and enhanced enterprise offerings

If you're ready to leave Windows 11 behind, this is the distro for new Linux users

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SDesk is a lightweight, open-source alternative to Windows or MacOS

GNOME Extensions Website Redesign: Sneak Preview

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A major overhaul of the GNOME extensions website is in the works

6 Sticky Notes App for Linux Desktop in 2024

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There are quite a few free open-source sticky notes apps for Linux Desktop

howtos, Installations and Free and Open Source Software

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Flatpak is an open source containerized package format similar to Snap

Pine64 Unveils Oz64: An Upcoming SBC Featuring Sophgo SG2000 SoC and Wi-Fi 6

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The T-Head cores support the RISC-V RV64IMAFCV instruction architecture

DietPi July 2024 News (Version 9.6)

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The July 2024 release of DietPi v9.6 introduces new software

AlmaLinux OS 9 Patching for CVE-2024-6409

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At AlmaLinux, we place security first and we are committed to delivering patches to our users as quickly as possible

Red Hat: Still Herding CentOS Users Into Proprietary RHEL and Resorting to Buzzwords for Marketing

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Some of the latest official Red Hat articles

Games: Double Dragon Revive, Drop Duchy, and More

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8 latest articles from gamingonlinux

Lunduke and Ben Cotton Having Disputes Over Politics in FOSS

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here they go again

Programming Leftovers

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Programming picks, only 4 for now

today's leftovers

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mostly GNU/Linux picks

today's howtos

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4 only for now

Security Leftovers

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Security breaches and more

Today in Techrights

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Some of the latest articles

LWN Coverage of Kernel

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now outside the paywall

Redox: An operating system in Rust

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With the Rust-for-Linux project starting to gain some ground, it is worth looking at other operating systems that use Rust in their kernels

PostmarketOS: Linux for phones and more

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In 2016, Oliver Smith reached a point of frustration with the short lifespan of updates for his Android phoneThe corresponding text-only bulletin for Friday contains all the text. Top-read articles (excluding bot/crawler visits):Span from 2024-07-06 to 2024-07-121287 /n/2024/07/02/OpenSSH_9_8_Fixes_Critical_sshd_Vulnerability.shtml 1067 /n/2024/07/06/LocalSend_Share_Files_and_Messages_on_the_Local_Network.shtml 1025 /n/2024/07/08/Mozilla_Firefox_128_Is_Now_Available_for_Download_Here_s_What_s.shtml 965 /n/2024/07/04/Booting_Linux_off_of_Google_Drive.shtml 834 /n/2024/07/07/Ubuntu_23_10_Support_Ends_July_11_Upgrade_Soon.shtml 823 /n/2024/07/06/Medevel_on_Free_Software_for_Healthcare_Service_Providers.shtml 805/n/2024/07/06/today_s_howtos.shtml 785/n/2024/07/10/Linux_6_6_38.shtml 775 /n/2024/07/07/Security_Leftovers.shtml 768 /n/2024/07/08/COSMIC_Desktop_Introduced_Its_Official_Wallpapers.shtml 764 /n/2024/07/01/Linux_Mint_22_Beta_Released_with_Cinnamon_6_2_Based_on_Ubuntu_2.shtml 751/n/2024/07/08/GDB_15_1_released.shtml 742/n/2024/07/06/today_s_leftovers.shtml 740/n/2024/07/06/today_s_howtos.1.shtml 735 /n/2024/07/06/Security_Leftovers.shtml

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