Public Money? Public code. This movement is picking up in the European Union. The new Swiss law is a proof of that. Hope more states follow this 😍
Sourav Rudra
💬 Let's see what else you get in this edition
- Mint 22 features
- A new OpenMandriva release.
- CrowdStrike not sparing Linux distros.
- Microsoft controlling software installs.
- Firefox's privacy-preserving ad plans backfiring.
- And other Linux news, videos and, of course, memes!
🛒 Don't miss this ebook deal
Abhishek
📰 Linux news
- Netflix has open-sourced their secret sauce for recommending content.
- Proton Mail has caved to the AI craze, introduces an AI writing assistant.
- OpenMandriva ROME 24.07 was recently released with some important upgrades.
- Google has introduced an open-source framework for creating AI agents with the goal of handling project maintenance.
Who would've expected CrowdStrike to take down the global IT infrastructure, that too in such scale. But, Linux too had to suffer, a few weeks prior.
Sourav Rudra
Linux Mint 22 will be released in the next few days. Time to look at what new features it offers.
Ankush Das
🧠 What we’re thinking about
Another controversy that was the talk of the town, before the Friday blues happened, was the backfiring of Mozilla's plan to introduce privacy-preserving adtech.
Sourav Rudra
🧮 Linux Tips, Tutorials and More
Is gaming on Linux really improved? My colleague Sourav, who has been a long time Windows gamer, tried games that are available officially on Linux. He shares his experience.
Sourav Rudra
Want a cow in your Linux terminal?
Sreenath
Some robust alternatives to GitHub's Copilot. 👇
Community
📹 What we are watching
Enjoying 90's Linux on 90's PC in 2024.
Though it's not a video created by us, we also create videos regularly. Please join us on YouTube.
✨ Project highlights
Battery life problems on your Android smartphone? Maybe this app can help.
Ankush Das
There are many Fedora-based distros out there, but this one focuses on a simple user experience.
Sourav Rudra
🧩 New quiz
Welcome to the Gentoo side.
Ankush Das
💡 Quick handy tip
You can do some basic PDF manipulation in the Firefox browser. Like highlighting text with colors, drawing colorful lines, inserting text, inserting images, etc.
All these actions are available on the toolbar when you open a PDF file in Firefox.
While it is not a comprehensive editor, you can use it for your basic PDF editing purposes. Don't forget to save after editing!
🤣 Meme of the week
Arch Linux fans are easy to impress. 😝
🗓️ Tech Trivia
An unholy alliance between IBM and Microsoft was born on July 22, 1980, and it continued to dominate the personal computer market in the 80s and 90s.
🧑🤝🧑 FOSSverse corner
FOSSer Paul is not impressed with how Microsoft tries to gatekeep anyone who wants to install software on Windows.
callpaul.eu (Paul)
Some humor over the recent Windows outage by one of our regular FOSSers Dan.
daniel.m.tripp
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