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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 12, 2024

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    "Linux had a market share of just 0.68% in 2009. In 2023, that share had ballooned to 3.82%."

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    today's leftovers
  4. Programming Leftovers
    R and more
  5. Ubuntu: Colin Watson Leaves Canonical, Ubuntu 22.04 Users Can Now Upgrade to Linux Kernel 6.5
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  6. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software: OpenTofu and “Delayed Open Source Publication” (DOSP), FOSS Weekly
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  7. Open Hardware/Modding: Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and ESP32
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  8. PipeWire Camera Support Is Coming to OBS Studio for Linux Desktops
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  9. Security Leftovers
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  10. Software/'Apps': Mail Transfer Agents, Textual, IRC Clients, Media Downloader, and More
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  11. today's howtos
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  12. Android Leftovers
    How To Check Android Build Number
  13. Firefox: Fixing keyboard navigation in Inspector Rules view
    Starting Firefox 122, when editing a selector, a property name or a property value in the Inspector
  14. Canonical on High Performance Computing and Servers One Can Control
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  15. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
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  16. Programming Leftovers
    Shell, Raku, Rust, and more
  17. Trisquel on arm64: Ampere Altra
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  18. Devices: 'Dumb' Home, Home Screen, Raspberry Pi Zero, and More
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  19. Web Browsers: PSL un Curl, Brave, and Firefox
    3 stories from smaller sites
  20. Software: Introducing Spiel, Fast Image Resizer, and Office Suites
    4 links for applications
  21. today's howtos
    many howtos for now
  22. Games: Valve, Townseek, Usurper, and Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth
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  23. Windows TCO Leftovers
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  24. Android Leftovers
    This new thing happens with Gboard when you connect a physical keyboard to your Android tablet
  25. Gabriel-Cezarin Popovici helps the campaigns team to spread the message that we need to fight for our digital freedom
    My reason for using GNU/Linux up until 2018 was because it was just plain better than Windows
  26. Android Leftovers
    How to take a screenshot on Android? 7 best ways explored
  27. Min 1.31 Released as a New Bug Fix Update for Lightweight Browser
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  28. Kodi 20.3 "Nexus" released as a last bug-fix update
    Discover the improvements in Kodi 20.3, address DVD playback issues, enable automatic recovery in the Music Library, and resolve platform-specific quirks for an all-encompassing media solution.
  29. LWN, Linux, and Benchmarks
    Kernel news
  30. Security Leftovers
    patches, issues, and incidents
  31. Today in Techrights
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