Don’t stop learning 😄How sharp are your Grep skills? This quiz will test that.
Preserving the knowledge by self-hosting a part of the internet archive.And something on setting up a DIY panel for Home Assistant with Raspberry Pi.Pro FOSSer pdecker wonders why more people don’t use Linux.
- Playtron receiving a monetary boost.
- Red Hat offering a new GenAI-focused product.
- Ubuntu’s Security Center nearing a stable release.
- And other Linux news, videos and, of course, memes!
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📰 Linux News
- Playtron, the company behind PlaytronOS has onboarded a new investor.
- Hugging Face has introduced LightEval, an evaluation tool for AI models.
- Ubuntu’s Security Center has been spotted gearing up for a stable release.
- Red Hat has entered the GenAI space with its latest offering.
- Roblox has teased a new open-source, AI-powered 3D world creator.
💬 Let’s see what else you get in this edition
🧠 What We’re Thinking About
Enjoy using Linux 😄
🧮 Linux Tips, Tutorials and More
👷 Maker’s Corner
September 9, 1945, was the day when the first computer “Bug” was discovered by operators of the Harvard Mark II, who found a moth trapped in one of the relays. The famed Grace Hopper is attributed to coining the term ‘debugging’. I also came across an amusing old video of her from 1982. You may find it interesting as well.While typing fast, there’s high chance you will accidentally hit the Caps Lock key and continue typing, only to go back and delete the words.Interested in improving your Linux command line knowledge? Our other project, Linux Handbook, launched a learning portal with a course covering all the essential concepts, command-line operations, and system administration tasks.
📹 Videos we are watching
Being forced to use Windows at workplace is painful!
✨ App Of The Week
Share it with your Linux-using friends and encourage them to subscribe (hint: it’s here).
In the latest GNOME releases, you can make pressing Caps Lock and Num Lock key produce a sound so that you know you didn’t press those keys accidentally.
🧩 Quiz Time
An old video of Linus Torvalds introducing Linux 1.0 at the University of Helsinki. The video is 30 years old and, unsurprisingly, not in HD and not in the English language. Still, it’s good to look back at one of the defining moments of tech history.
💡 Quick Handy Tip
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This is the same content that It’s FOSS Plus members got in the form of an eBook a few weeks back.
🤣 Meme of the Week
Share the articles in Linux Subreddits and community forums.
🗓️ Tech Trivia
Despite the name ‘Linux for DevOps’, it is a good resource for anyone who wants to sharpen their skills.
🧑🤝🧑 FOSSverse Corner
The founder of Ente recently had a chat with us, and pointed out that privacy is worth paying for:
❤️ With love
elementary OS is slowly getting back up, it will take time, but it is alive.Follow us on Google News and stay updated in your News feed.We have started a new segment over on It’s FOSS News called “App Of The Week”, where we cover notable open-source apps for Linux. This week’s app is RustDesk, check it out!To enable this, go to Settings ➝ Accessibility ➝ Seeing, then turn on the “Sound Keys” option.Migrating your Raspberry Pi OS installation to another SD card is really effortless.
