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.
- And other Linux news, tips, and, of course, memes!
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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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📰 Linux and Open Source News
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🧠 What We’re Thinking About
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✨ Apps Highlight
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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.
You can download YouTube videos using Seal on Android.
💡 Quick Handy Tip
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🤣 Meme of the Week
Alternatively, guess all of these open source privacy tools correctly?
🗓️ 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
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