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- GNOME’s website getting a makeover.
- Fedora being threatened with a lawsuit.
- openSUSE making waves with recent moves.
- And other Linux news, tips, and, of course, memes!
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Table of Contents
- 1 ❇️ Sandbox to Rescue
- 2 📰 Linux and Open Source News
- 3 🧠 What We’re Thinking About
- 4 🧮 Linux Tips, Tutorials and More
- 5 👷 Maker’s and AI Corner
- 6 ✨ Apps highlight
- 7 🛍️ Deal You Would Love
- 8 📽️ Video We are Creating for You
- 9 🧩 Quiz Time
- 10 💡 Quick Handy Tip
- 11 🤣 Meme of the Week
- 12 🗓️ Tech Trivia
- 13 🧑🤝🧑 FOSSverse Corner
- 14 ❤️ With love
❇️ Sandbox to Rescue
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📰 Linux and Open Source News
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🧠 What We’re Thinking About
Share the articles in Linux Subreddits and community forums.
🧮 Linux Tips, Tutorials and More
👷 Maker’s and AI Corner
15 Linux and DevOps books for just plus your purchase supports Code for America organization. Get them on Humble Bundle.
And we gear up for the Ubuntu 25.04 release.
✨ Apps highlight
The string of dramas in the Linux space don’t seem to stop, huh? This time, it is Fedora getting threatened with a lawsuit by OBS Studio.
💬 Let’s see what else you get in this edition
🛍️ Deal You Would Love
Sharing my experience of using this unusual device that converts an SBC into a laptop.
📽️ Video We are Creating for You
🧩 Quiz Time
Must-read for all security professionals operating on a tight budget.
💡 Quick Handy Tip
Who needs a GUI to listen to music when you could use kew?And a little about running a LLM locally as a coding assistant in VS Code.
🤣 Meme of the Week
If you have hundreds of Kindle books, there is a script that can be used to download them in bulk. I have not tested it yet.
🗓️ Tech Trivia
Infosec head at an EU bank shared insights on how they:
🧑🤝🧑 FOSSverse Corner
February 15, 1999, marked Windows Refund Day, when Linux users staged protests outside Microsoft offices in the San Francisco Bay Area. The event aimed to raise awareness of Microsoft’s practice of bundling Windows with PCs and not offering refunds.
❤️ With love
Plank Reloaded is a modern successor to the beloved Plank dock.Pay attention if you use Amazon Kindle. Starting 26th Feb, Amazon won’t allow ‘Download and transfer via USB’ feature anymore. That’s the feature people used to download the Kindle books they purchased and convert them to EPUB or PDF to read on other eBook readers like Kobo or their computers. In other words, your Kindle purchases will be restricted completely for Kindle devices.If you want the control of your Kindle purchased books, take action and download the books before the deadline, remove DRM and convert them to PDF or EPUB. Enjoy FOSS 😄Pro FOSSer Neville shares his experience with Meld. Have you used it before?
