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The forty first release of Fedora GNU/Linux is here. It's released on Tuesday, 29 October 2024 or two weeks after Ubuntu Oracular Oriole release date. It is available in a lot of editions, mainly: Workstation, Server, IoT, Cloud and many more. We make a summary of the downloads for you below to mention only editions we believe most readers will be interested to try (and links to find the rest). Finally, congratulations to all computer users and thank you to Fedora developers. Happy downloading!

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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 01, 2024

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Updated This Past Day

  1. The War on Free Software Reporters - Part I - Why Techrights Cannot be Censored (and Won't be Censored)
    Microsoft remains by far the biggest culprit

    New

  2. The War on Free Software Reporters - Part II - Antisocial Mobs
    how various GNU/Linux bloggers got "canceled" over the years
  3. Microsoft's Share of Physical Web Servers Fell From 9.14% to 9.04% in One Month
    What's interesting to us is how Microsoft continues moving down in everything measured
  4. Links 31/05/2024: Escalations in Ukraine and Russia, National Reporter's Shield Law in US
    Links for the day
  5. Links 31/05/2024: Generating and Using Identifiers, Why Unicode
    Links for the day
  6. [Meme] Never "Missing Out" in FOSS Conferences
    The sexists who objectify women and bully women are going to FOSS events in pursuit of sex, according to themselves
  7. Racism, Ageism, and Ableism at IBM/Red Hat and Kyndryl
    IBM's Kyndryl is now accused of "racial, age, disability discrimination"
  8. In Spite of Boot-locking (Trying to Make It Hard If Not Impossible to Install BSDs and GNU/Linux on New PCs) Microsoft's Grip is Rapidly Slipping
    Escaping the Microsoft prison
  9. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  10. IRC Proceedings: Thursday, May 30, 2024
    IRC logs for Thursday, May 30, 2024
  11. Microsoft's Problem in Puerto Rico
    Notice how much Windows has fallen
  12. Gemini Links 31/05/2024: MNT Pocket Reform and Benben v0.5.0
    Links for the day
  13. "I once preached peaceful coexistence with Windows. You may laugh at my expense

    New

    I deserve it." -Be's CEO Jean-Louis Gassée
    Execution of Red Hat: But I helped promote Azure and .NET
  14. In Many Countries Vista 11's Market Share Goes Down, Not Up (Even Microsoft-Funded Mainstream Media Admits This)
    More people are moving to GNU/Linux
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Friday contains all the text.

    Top-read articles (excluding bot/crawler visits):

    Span from 2024-05-25 to 2024-05-31
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    1976 /n/2024/05/27/What_is_Secure_Boot.shtml
    1784 /n/2024/05/26/In_the_Pacific_Mostly_Islands_Around_Oceania_GNU_Linux_Grew_a_L.shtml
    1552 /n/2024/05/30/The_Campaign_to_End_Richard_Stallman_Part_III_The_Reddit_Mob_So.shtml
    985 /n/2024/05/26/Links_26_05_2024_Google_Search_Morphing_Into_Disinformation_Fac.shtml
    816 /n/2024/05/27/A_3_Year_Campaign_to_Coerce_Intimidate_Us_Into_Censorship_Targe.shtml

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