Open source projects are increasingly garnering equity-free funding from corporations, startups, and venture capitalists.AB Download Manager is a powerful open source downloader for Linux that focuses on the essentials.Mozilla has fired about 30% of their staff, with major units being shut down.
Oh! You also get a free credit to try it out and see if you can rely on PikaPods.One of our FOSSers is experimenting with Proxmox, maybe you can share your insights?
- Mozilla firing more people.
- Local AI Assitant with OpenCoder.
- Fedora getting a new flagship edition.
- And other Linux news, videos and, of course, memes!
- This week’s newsletter is supported by PikaPods.
Table of Contents
- 1 ❇️ PikaPods: Self-hosting Without Hassle
- 2 📰 Linux News
- 3 🧠 What We’re Thinking About
- 4 🧮 Linux Tips, Tutorials and More
- 5 👷 Maker’s and AI Corner
- 6 📹 Videos We are Creating for You
- 7 ✨ Apps of the Week
- 8 🧩 Quiz Time
- 9 💡 Quick Handy Tip
- 10 🤣 Meme of the Week
- 11 🗓️ Tech Trivia
- 12 🧑🤝🧑 FOSSverse Corner
- 13 ❤️ With love
❇️ PikaPods: Self-hosting Without Hassle
By the way, small language models are also gaining popularity and SmolLM is the latest example.Proud of your CLI skills? Show us what you got! 💪
📰 Linux News
Provided Arch Linux users find a supporting partner in the first place. ☠️
🧠 What We’re Thinking About
Enjoy using Linux 😄
🧮 Linux Tips, Tutorials and More
💬 Let’s see what else you get in this edition
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👷 Maker’s and AI Corner
Opt for It’s FOSS Plus membership and support us 🙏Installing Kali Linux on a Raspberry Pi is easy, just follow our latest guide.
Running a local AI assistant in VS Code with the increasingly popular open source LLM OpenCoder.
📹 Videos We are Creating for You
✨ Apps of the Week
Oh! And to give you a glimpse of how we are impacted by AI, please look at the crawling stats (by Cloudflare) for the past 7 days. These many visits would have come to the itsfoss.com website but they didn’t 😭
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🧩 Quiz Time
We’ll keep on creating text content as usual, but we’ll also put extra effort in making videos.
💡 Quick Handy Tip
November 10, 1983, was the day when Microsoft announced Windows to compete against the graphical environments such as the one found on Apple Lisa. However, there were some delays, and the public release happened in 1985.
Just select the correct USB drive, and click on “Write”. If asked for the system password, enter it, and wait for the flashing to complete. After it is done, safely eject the USB drive, and you are done.
We’ll have a mini-series on Hyprland next.
🤣 Meme of the Week
PikaPods allows you to quickly deploy your favorite open source software. All future updates are handled automatically by PikaPods while you enjoy using the software. I use it to self-host Umami analytics. Did I tell you that they also share revenue with the original developers of the software?
🗓️ Tech Trivia
Right-clicking on an ISO in Linux Mint and selecting “Make bootable USB stick” allows you to effortlessly create a bootable USB drive.
🧑🤝🧑 FOSSverse Corner
We have started a new tutorial series on openEuler, the Linux distro out of China.
❤️ With love
In the last edition, I mentioned the negative impact of AI overview on It’s FOSS future and why we want to create more videos. A few people thought we won’t write text content anymore. But that’s not the case.Don’t forget to verify the ISO file before proceeding with this. 🔍Even if video is not your preferred form of content, please help us reach the 60,000 mark by subscribing and encouraging more people to subscribe to our YouTube channel. As I said earlier, we need this moral boost 🙏Do you have moments where your Android smartphone disturbs you? You can use Timed Silence to tackle that.Share the articles in Linux Subreddits and community forums.
