FOSS Weekly #24.43: Coreboot Fiasco, Joplin Tips, Android-Linux Connect, Fedora Offline Update and More

Deepen your understanding of cybersecurity, whether you’re a novice or a seasoned professional. Gain expert insights on practical cloud security, web application security, building a cyber risk management program, and more.GSConnect is an implementation of KDE Connect for GNOME users. It lets you seamlessly connect your Android phone to a Linux system.

7 Discontinued Linux Distros I Still Miss in 2024Some popular Linux distributions did not make it. Let’s take a look at some of them!

Support Code for America with your purchase!A weird thing happened recently, where a laptop manufacturer boycotted the coreboot project and some countries.

• OSI calling out Meta for misleading people.
• Updating Fedora without internet.
• Clementine Music Player making a silent comeback.
• And other Linux news, videos and, of course, memes!
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OSI Calls Out Meta for its Misleading ‘Open Source’ AI ModelsMeta’s AI models are not truly open source. But, they still use the term to get on the good side of users. Shouldn’t they change the license?

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By the way, you are not the only one who is having bad experience with Google Search lately. Google Search is the new Yahoo.

MALIBAL Boycotts The Coreboot Project: What Just Happened?This is something very interesting, and weird at the same time. What do you think?

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🧮 Linux Tips, Tutorials and More

Is there a distro you still miss?

Seamlessly Connect Your Android Phone and Linux Using GSConnectLet’s improve the ‘relation’ between your Linux computer and the Android smartphone.

👷 Maker’s Corner

I have been using Linux since 2009. Over the past 15 years, I have come across numerous distributions. I have also seen the demise of several interesting Linux distros and websites (I Love Ubuntu, Muktware, Webupd8 and many more).

Pi-Apps: The Better App Store for Raspberry PiYou can improve your application installation smoother and efficient on Raspberry Pi with the Pi Apps.

• Creating real-time, multimodal AI agents is easy work with TEN AI, learn.
• A new open source project that turns your Android smartphone into a ham radio.

📹 Videos for You

One of your young FOSSers is looking to create a Linux distro for their college project, can you guide them?

Last week, Ankush and I were discussing Crunchbang, a popular distro that got discontinued around 2014. That discussion led to this quick article to remember some of the discontinued that were quite popular back then.

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The Open Source Initiative (OSI) has called out Meta for misleading people with their AI models.

I Switched from Standard Notes to Notesnook: My Thoughts!It was time for me to try a new note-taking app that suits my requirements. Let’s give Notesnook a try!

🧩 Quiz Time

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🗓️ Tech Trivia

Open it and click on the settings button near the tiling assistant extension.

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Creation of a distro for college project!So im in 11th grade rn and we are gonna have INHOUSE EXHIBITION of our college. In this we can participate in a grp of max 4 people or less than that. Im doing solo. We can do project of any subject from Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Computer Science. So I have decided to do a CS project! And the people who do good in the exhibition get selected for intercollege competiton. Till now no project has been done related to linux. And I love linux, and absolutely wanted to do something related to it.…

Another thing to think about is the missing IPv5.

Retirement, the end of work or the start of a new adventure?Just got my papers through for my retirement… Age, health, time to do something better. So, many of our members are similar ages, already done it, coming up to it, miles away… Comments on the future with all this free time and no restrictions. Just for info, i will continue contributions here, still work on linux boxes, repair things just not officially

❤️ With love

If you have a Raspberry Pi, you should definitely install Pi-Apps, an unofficial app store that is extremely useful.Switching from one open source note taking app to another and sharing the experience.Enjoy using Linux 😄And, if you do, the user data-hungry nature of Windows will make you return ASAP.Ubuntu has a default tiling assistant installed, but it has limited customization possibilities. If you have extension manager installed, then you can do something about it.