FOSS Weekly #25.17: Ubuntu 25.04 and Fedora 42 Release Follow-ups, Logseq, ZimaBoard and More

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• New Ubuntu flavor release.
• Exploring pages, links, and tags in Logseq.
• Ubisoft doing something really unexpected.
• And other Linux news, tips, and, of course, memes!
• This edition of FOSS Weekly is supported by Valkey.

❇️ Valkey – The Drop-in Alternative to Redis OSS

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What is Valkey? – Valkey Datastore Explained – Amazon Web ServicesValkey is an open source, high performance, in-memory, key-value datastore. It is designed as a drop-in replacement for Redis OSS.

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Stewarded by the Linux foundation, Valkey serves as an open source drop-in alternative to Redis OSS – no code changes needed, with the same developer-friendly experience. For your open source database, check out Valkey.

Initial Impressions of the ZimaBoard 2 Homelab DeviceApart from the silver exterior, I have nothing to complain about in ZimaBoard 2 even if it is a prototype at this stage.

🧠 What We’re Thinking About

Can you help a newbie FOSSer with their search for a Linux distribution chart?

Android 16 lets the Linux Terminal use your phone’s entire storageAndroid 16 Beta 4 uncaps the disk resizing slider, allowing you to allocate your phone’s entire storage to the Linux Terminal.

🧮 Linux Tips, Tutorials and More

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13 Things to do After Installing Ubuntu 25.04Just installed Ubuntu 25.04? Here are some neat tips for you.

👷 Homelab and Maker’s Corner

See Fedora 42 in action in the latest video. By the way, that weird default wallpaper has a significance.

Tuning Local LLMs With RAG Using Ollama and LangchainInterested in taking your local AI set up to the next step? Here’s a sample PDF-based RAG project.

✨ Apps Highlight

If you just installed or upgraded to the Ubuntu 25.04 release, here are 13 things you should do right away:

Online Docs… but Sovereign: This is Europe’s Open Source Answer to Big TechDocs is an open source, self-hosted document editor that allows real-time collaboration and gives users control over their data.

📽️ Videos I am Creating for You

ZimaBoard 2 crowdfunding campaign is live on Kickstarter. I had the early prototype sent a few days ago and I share my experience with ZimaBoard 2 in this article.

🧩 Quiz Time

With the change of Redis licensing in March of 2024 came the end of Redis as an open source project. Enter Valkey – the community driven fork that preserves and improves the familiar high-performance, key-value datastore for improving application performance.

Guess the Popular Linux Command: CrosswordTest your Linux command line knowledge with this simple crossword puzzle. All you have to do is to correctly guess the essential Linux command.

Build a real-time knowledge retrieval system with our step-by-step RAG guide.

💡 Quick Handy Tip

Try your hand at our Essential Linux Commands crossword.

🤣 Meme of the Week

In GNOME File Manager (Nautilus), you can invert the selection of items using the keyboard shortcut CTRL + SHIFT + I.

🗓️ Tech Trivia

Hah, this couldn’t be more true. 😆

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 FOSSverse Corner

Docs is a self-hostable document editor solution with many neat features.

Looking for a Linux distribution chartI’m wondering if there’s ever been a table/spreadsheet created to provide a basic breakdown of most, if not all, distros at a glance. I’m not talking about subjective metrics like some charts display (e.g. user friendliness, cutting edge, community, etc.), but about objective criteria like the following: Available architecture Desktop environments (possibly with individual categories for filing system, window manager, terminal, etc.) Shell Package manager Installation (e.g. CLI, Calamares, etc…

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