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{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ↑ Bauduin, Sven (27 March 2020). "Plasma Bigscreen: KDE bringt den Linux-Desktop auf den Fernseher". ComputerBase (in German). Retrieved 2021-08-03.
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