Follow us on Google News and stay updated in your News feed.As we end this memorable year, let’s take a look back at some of the most notable Linux applications and FOSS apps for Android.Opt for It’s FOSS Plus membership and support us 🙏I’ll share 12 new content, features or changes to It’s FOSS platform during the holiday period.We can start preparing our wishlist for 2025, right?
The “12 Days of Tuxmas” have begun 🎄No need to surrender documents to online AI tools for basic tasks, you can do the same locally.
- A trip down memory lane.
- Mozilla partnering with Ecosia.
- Defining moments of open source and Linux in 2024.
- And other Linux news, videos and, of course, memes!
Table of Contents
- 1 📰 Linux and Open Source News
- 2 🗓️ Year End Specials
- 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
📰 Linux and Open Source News
Can you guess the year of release for these distros?
🗓️ Year End Specials
Beyond that, the year 2025 has some interesting Linux distributions to watch out for.
On the first day of Tuxmas, you get holiday themed wallpapers for your Linux desktop.
In some cases, you might have to enable it each time you use Thunar.
🧠 What We’re Thinking About
Share it with your Linux-using friends and encourage them to subscribe (hint: it’s here).
Retro tech, major impact—meet AGC that powered the Apollo missions.
🧮 Linux Tips, Tutorials and More
👷 Maker’s and AI Corner
In Thunar file manager, you can enable sidebar image preview. For doing that, click on “View” and then hover over the “Side Pane” option. Here, click on “Image Preview”, and Thunar should start showing image previews.
Stay tuned for the rest of Tuxmas days.
📹 Videos We are Creating for You
✨ Apps of the Week
Enjoy using Linux even in 2025 🐧
Is Betterbird a “better” alternative to Thunderbird? Find out:
🧩 Quiz Time
Santa got no chill. ☠️
💡 Quick Handy Tip
By the way, this is the 52nd newsletter of 2024. One for each week of the year. If you read all the 52 editions this year, you and me both, deserve some sort of award for the consistency 😊 Following its rebranding, Mozilla has now teamed up with Ecosia.
🤣 Meme of the Week
If you find yourself searching for the meaning of words, then freeDictionaryApp can be a great fit.
🗓️ Tech Trivia
A FOSSer is wondering about the state of VR support in Linux; care to share your thoughts?
🧑🤝🧑 FOSSverse Corner
On the second day of Tuxmas, you can enjoy holiday-themed Linux quizzes and puzzles.
❤️ With love
💬 Let’s see what else you get in this editionThere were many important events in the world of open source and Linux, but eight such occurrences caught our eye.Also, if you haven’t already, please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and help us reach 60,000 subscribers before 2025. We need nearly 3,000 more people.You’ll relate to some of these if you have been using Linux for a long time.Charles Babbage, born on December 26, 1791, designed the Analytical Engine, a mechanical computer ahead of its time. He also developed the Difference Engine to automate polynomial calculations. His work laid the foundation for modern computing, influencing future generations.
