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today's leftovers
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Audiocasts/Shows
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Hackaday ☛ FLOSS Weekly Episode 856: QT: Fix It Please, My Mom Is Calling
This week Jonathan chats with Maurice Kalinowski about QT! That’s the framework that runs just about anywhere, making it easy to write cross-platform applications. What’s the connection with KDE? And how has this turned into a successful company? Watch to find out!
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Applications
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Linuxiac ☛ Tmux 3.6 Update Adds Scrollbars, New Theme Mode
Tmux 3.6 terminal multiplexer adds pane scrollbars, Mode 2031 themes, new variables, and improved query handling across pixel size, palette, cursor, and clipboard data.
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Ubuntu Handbook ☛ FFmpeg 8.0.1 Released with Numerous Improvements (PPA Updated)
FFmpeg, the popular multimedia library released new version 8.0.1 in last week. Here’s the PPA contains the .deb packages for all current Ubuntu users. As a maintenance update, the release includes only minor new features, some improvements, and bug-fixes. And, the FFmpeg website does not even provide an official release note for it.
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Distributions and Operating Systems
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SUSE/OpenSUSE
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OpenSUSE ☛ Hack Week Project Takes Aim at Improving Membership Management
The openSUSE Lounge project proposes a centralized system for maintaining member records, tracking membership status and supporting election-related tasks, all while reducing the manual workload placed on membership and election officials.
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Debian Family
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Debian ☛ Bits from Debian: New Debian Developers and Maintainers (September and October 2025)
The following contributors got their Debian Developer accounts [...]
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Canonical/Ubuntu Family
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[Repeat] Tom's Hardware ☛ In wake of Windows 10 retirement, over 780,000 Windows users skip Win 11 for Linux, says Zorin OS developers — distro hits unprecedented 1 million downloads in five weeks
The timing is hard to ignore. Windows 10 support officially ended in October, and Microsoft has spent the last two years pushing Windows 11 in ways that many users—especially power users like this writer—haven't appreciated. Onerous and arbitrary hardware requirements, absurd background service creep, endless privacy complaints, and the company's aggressive (and aggressively tone-deaf) addition of questionable AI-driven features have created immense user fatigue. The fact that a still-testing build of Zorin OS 18 attracted over three-quarters of a million Windows-initiated downloads suggests that curiosity about alternatives is unusually high.
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