Share it with your Linux-using friends and encourage them to subscribe (hint: it’s here).It’s the release week. Fedora 42 is already out. Ubuntu 25.04 will be releasing later today along with its flavors like Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Lubuntu etc.Our Guess the Desktop Environment Crossword will test your knowledge.Linus Torvalds was told that Git is more popular than Linux.
- Arco Linux bids farewell.
- Systemd working on its own Linux distro.
- Looking at the origin of UNIX.
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- 2 📰 Linux and Open Source News
- 3 🧠 What We’re Thinking About
- 4 🧮 Linux Tips, Tutorials and More
- 5 👷 Homelab and Maker’s Corner
- 6 ✨ Apps Highlight
- 7 📽️ Videos I am Creating for You
- 8 🧩 Quiz Time
- 9 💡 Quick Handy Tip
- 10 🤣 Meme of the Week
- 11 🗓️ Tech Trivia
- 12 🧑🤝🧑 FOSSverse Corner
- 13 ❤️ With love
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🧠 What We’re Thinking About
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🧩 Quiz Time
You can make Thunar open a new tab instead of a new window. This is good in situations when opening a folder from other apps, like a web browser. This reduces screen clutter.

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💡 Quick Handy Tip
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🤣 Meme of the Week
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🗓️ Tech Trivia
On April 16, 1959, John McCarthy publicly introduced LISP, a programming language for AI that emphasized symbolic computation. This language remains influential in AI research today.
🧑🤝🧑 FOSSverse Corner
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❤️ With love
Overall, a happening week for Linux lovers 🕺If you like what we do and would love to support our work, please become It’s FOSS Plus member. It costs a year (less than the cost of a burger meal each month) and you get an ad-free reading experience with the satisfaction of helping the desktop Linux community.See the new features of Ubuntu 25.04 in action in this video.ParticleOS is Systemd’s attempt at a Linux distribution.First, click on Edit ⇾ Preferences. Here, go to the Behavior tab. Now, under “Tabs and Windows“, enable the first checkbox as shown above or all three if you need the functionality of the other two.