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more »Enterprise Benefit: openSUSE Brings KDE Update for 11.2
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more »Graphics Application Krita Gets Photoshop Import
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more »Ubuntu's B-Sides: Alternative Apps
Nov 30, 2009In his blog, Canonical coworker Jorge O. Castro announces his so-called "b-sides" of Ubuntu, software that didn't make it into Ubuntu's standard installation.
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Plasma Bigscreen Returns
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Fedora Continues 32-Bit Support
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Linux Kernel 6.17 Drops bcachefs
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