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Audiocasts/Shows: BSD Now and Destination Linux

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Two new episodes for today

Debian: Upgrades, Steve McIntyre Turns 50, and Rust Becoming "an unmaintainable mess for stable-minded distribution vendors."

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3 items about Debian for today

Games: Elder Scrolls Online, EmuDeck, Halls of Torment, Steam Deck, and More

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8 latest stories from GamingOnLinux

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Perl Programming Leftovers

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From the official site this past week

Software: Vivaldi, Barman, and More

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new releases

Security Leftovers

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Security stories for the day

GNUnet 0.22.0 and MediaGoblin 0.14.0 released

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two GNU releases

libtool-2.5.2 released [beta]

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The Libtool Team is pleased to announce the release of libtool 2.5.2, a beta release

today's leftovers

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BSD, GNU/Linux, and more

Security Leftovers

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Security picks

Programming Leftovers

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a mix of languages

Fedora / Red Hat / IBM Leftovers

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Red Hat mostly, even PR fluff

today's howtos

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second batch of howtos for today

Android Leftovers

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How to bring Google’s remarkable Pixel 9 reminder system to any Android device

Vantron HCAM26 WiFi HaLow IP camera offers up to 1km range

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Vantron Technology provides a Yocto-based Linux SDK for the camera and a mobile app for remote view, but no other publicly available details are available about software support

Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W, Raspberry Pi Pico 2, 2GB Pi 5, and More

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Raspberry Pi news

To a tiling WM user, apparently other GUIs are like wearing handcuffs

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The result is that all the GNU/Linux tiling WMs I've tried annoy me, because they don't respect the existing Windows-based keystrokes for manipulating windows

You can run a minimal Linux distro on Raspberry Pi’s new RP2350 microcontroller

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Raspberry Pi’s new RP2350 microcontroller is a small cheap chip that powers the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 and other inexpensive development boards

Best Free and Open Source Software, howtos and Installations

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All of these tools are released under a freely distributable license

A Detailed Introduction To Fedora Copr Repository

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Understanding Copr: The Community-Driven Fedora Software Repository

On Rust, Linux, developers, maintainers

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There's been a couple of mentions of Rust4Linux in the past week or two, one from Linus on the speed of engagement and one about Wedson departing the project due to non-technical concerns

7 things I never do with a new Linux installation (and why)

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Linux is a powerful and user-friendly operating system that allows you to do far more than you can with Windows

Plan Less, Do More: Introducing Appointment By Thunderbird

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We’re excited to share a new project we’ve been working on at Thunderbird called Appointment

Windows TCO: Olympics, Ransomware, Phishing, Dick’s Sporting Goods

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Microsoft incidents

today's howtos

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first batch for today

GNU Taler 0.13

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elease of GNU Taler v0.13

Mesa 24.2.1 and Mesa 24.1.7, Direct3D Support in Vulkan

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Some graphics news

Security Perils and Windows TCO

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mostly Windows TCO tales

Pop!_OS Lead: Linux Developers are "Patronizing Pedantic Megalomaniacs"

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And this all seems to stem... from Rust

Today in Techrights

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