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today's leftovers
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Linux.org ☛ Linux.org laptop stickers
I'm biased, but I'm loving the new logo/stickers! Perfect size for laptops!
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Linux.org ☛ Happy Thanksgiving!
Fun bit of GNU/Linux history: On Thanksgiving Day 2011, Linus Torvalds released Linux 3.2-rc3 kernel with this delicious recipe: "One quarter arch updates, two quarters drivers, and one quarter random changes. Shake vigorously and serve cold.."
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Hackaday ☛ Google Is Building A New OS
Windows, macOS, and Linux are the three major desktop OSs in today’s world. However, there could soon be a new contender, with Google stepping up to the plate (via The Verge).
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Security
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LWN ☛ Security updates for Thursday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (kdeconnect, libssh, and samba), Fedora (7zip, docker-buildkit, and docker-buildx), Oracle (bind, buildah, cups, delve and golang, expat, firefox, gimp, go-rpm-macros, haproxy, kernel, lasso, libsoup, libtiff, mingw-expat, openssl, podman, python-kdcproxy, qt5-qt3d, runc, squid, thunderbird, tigervnc, valkey, webkit2gtk3, xorg-x11-server, and xorg-x11-server-Xwayland), SUSE (buildah, cloudflared, containerd, expat, firefox, gnutls, helm, kernel, libxslt, mysql-connector-java, ongres-scram, openbao, openexr, openssh, podman, python311, python312, ruby2.5, rubygem-rack, runc, samba, sssd, tiff, unbound, and yelp), and Ubuntu (edk2, ffmpeg, h2o, python3.13, rust-openssl, and valkey).
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Audiocasts/Shows
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The BSD Now Podcast ☛ BSD Now 639: Reproducible Builds
Reproducible builds, Highly available ZFS Pools, Self Hosting on a Framework Laptop, and more...
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Linux.org ☛ This Week's Linux.org YouTube Video - Friday Recording + T-SHIRT GIVEAWAY!
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Desktop Environments (DE)/Window Managers (WM)
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K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt
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KDE @ IndiaFOSS 25
Its been quite a while since I attended the IndiaFOSS 25 event late September. I have been meaning to write the blog post for a while but didn’t get time. A lot has happened since then, I have moved continents and am now in Germany pursuing my masters at Philipps University of Marburg. I’ll write lot more about my new experiences in Germany in upcoming blog posts but for now back to IndiaFOSS 25. This was a very exciting event for me since this was the first time I was representing KDE booth at a conference. This event occurs yearly in the city of Bangalore which is also known as the Silicon Valley of India. I discovered IndiaFOSS after watching a talk by Kovid Goyal, creator of Calibre and Kitty - two programs I have used heavily in my day to day life so regardless to say I was excited about the conference.
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Distributions and Operating Systems
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Raspberry Pi ☛ Cloud-init on Raspberry Pi OS
Cloud-init is a cross-platform, distribution-agnostic tool used to automatically configure systems on first boot. (Definition adapted from the official cloud-init documentation.) With it, you can provision your Raspberry Pi images with users, network settings, SSH keys, storage configurations, and much more — all without manually logging in after flashing the image.
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Debian Family
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Distro Watch ☛ Distribution Release: Pardus 25.0
Pardus 25.0 has been released. This is a major new update from the project that prioritises the adoption of open-source and free software within the public sector in Türkiye. Pardus 25.0 continues to offer a choice of Xfce and GNOME desktops on its desktop flavours, while also providing a specialist edition for servers, all based on Debian's latest "stable" release, version 13. [...]
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Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications
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Bitdefender ☛ State-backed spyware attacks are targeting Signal and WhatsApp users, CISA warns
CISA, the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, has issued a new warning that cybercriminals and state-backed [cracking] groups are using spyware to compromise smartphones belonging to users of popular encrypted messaging apps such as Signal, WhatsApp, and Telegram.
In an advisory released this week, CISA warns that malicious [crackers] are not trying to crack the end-to-end encryption used by the apps directly to secure conversations, but are instead targeting the devices themselves.
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