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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

↺ Cross, Lublin Province, summer 2021, Poland

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EdgeDB 5.0 Launches with Branching Functionality

↺ EdgeDB 5.0 Launches with Branching Functionality

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]

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

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

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

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

market share of Windows continues to decrease in Nigeria

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Elektrobit Unveils EB corbos Linux To Augment Advanced Automotive Functions

↺ Elektrobit Unveils EB corbos Linux To Augment Advanced Automotive Functions

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.

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today's leftovers

↺ today's leftovers

4 misc. links

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Contributing is more than just code (and more)

↺ Contributing is more than just code (and more)

Programming centric posts

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Open Hardware/Modding: ESP32 and Open Home Foundation

↺ Open Hardware/Modding: ESP32 and Open Home Foundation

3 new stories

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Fedora, Red Hat, IBM, and Canonical/Ubuntu

↺ Fedora, Red Hat, IBM, and Canonical/Ubuntu

Private companies in community clothing

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Security Leftovers

↺ Security Leftovers

Security related stories

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Audiocasts/Shows: Destination Linux and Late Night Linux

↺ Audiocasts/Shows: Destination Linux and Late Night Linux

a couple of new episodes

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

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

3 stories for now

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Linux Kernel and Graphics Stack

↺ Linux Kernel and Graphics Stack

3 stories

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

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

On ISTIO-SECURITY-2024-003

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EndeavourOS Gemini Lands with the KDE Plasma 6 Desktop Environment

↺ EndeavourOS Gemini Lands with the KDE Plasma 6 Desktop Environment

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.

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today's howtos

↺ today's howtos

second howtos batch for the day

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Slimbook Fedora 2 Laptops Launch with Fedora Linux 40 Workstation

↺ Slimbook Fedora 2 Laptops Launch with Fedora Linux 40 Workstation

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.

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

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

psql releases

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

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

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.

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Tails 6.2 Anonymous Linux OS Improves Mitigation of Spectre v4 Vulnerability

↺ Tails 6.2 Anonymous Linux OS Improves Mitigation of Spectre v4 Vulnerability

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.

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today's leftovers

↺ today's leftovers

a mixture or FOSS and GNU/Linux/BSD news

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

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

Some devices and hardware news

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

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

11 picks for today

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Software: A Look at Dool and QSoas 3.3

↺ Software: A Look at Dool and QSoas 3.3

a couple of FOSS picks

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today's howtos

↺ today's howtos

only 4 howtos for now (much more later today)

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Android Leftovers

↺ Android Leftovers

Alphabet enhances YouTube integration with Android TV feature

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Windows TCO

↺ Windows TCO

The cost of relying on Microsoft

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

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

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

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

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

Only free and open source software is eligible for inclusion

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

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

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

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Free and Open Source Softwares

↺ Free and Open Source Softwares

This is free and open source software

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Collections of Different Linux Distributions

↺ Collections of Different Linux Distributions

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

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

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

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

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Today in Techrights

↺ Today in Techrights

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