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- Ubuntu making a major change.
- A long-time KDE contributor leaving.
- The Apache Software Foundation’s rebranding.
- And other Linux news, tips, and, of course, memes!
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📰 Linux and Open Source News
You can easily save sessions in KDE Plasma. First, go into KDE Settings -> Session -> Desktop Session. Here, under the “Session Restore” section, toggle on the “When session was manually saved” button.
🧠 What We’re Thinking About
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🧮 Linux Tips, Tutorials, and Learnings
👷 AI, Homelab and Hardware Corner
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✨ Project Highlight
What’s in a Container? A lot, if you can solve it.
📽️ Videos I Am Creating for You
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🧩 Quiz Time
We hit a major milestone on our Mastodon account. We crossed the 40,000 mark. It’s a pleasant surprise. We have a lot more people on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and even YouTube. But seeing this number on a non-mainstream platform like Mastodon gives a positive uplift🕺
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💡 Quick Handy Tip
Running local LLMs on your phone isn’t science fiction! You can try running a local AI on your Android smartphone. Don’t expect a superb experience, but it can help in some cases.
Learn about using and managing AppImages in Linux in our latest YouTube video.The Rustification of Ubuntu has some performance hurdles to tackle.
🤣 Meme of the Week
Turn your Pi into a powerhouse with the Pironman 5 Max.
🗓️ Tech Trivia
The Association for Computing Machinery was founded on September 15, 1947. Today it has over 100,000 members worldwide and organizes conferences and workshops to advance computing knowledge and technology.
🧑🤝🧑 FOSSverse Corner
Readest is a solid eBook reader choice that runs great on Linux (but is not limited to).
❤️ With love
One of our readers has sent over a reimagination of what Tux, the mascot of Linux, can be.GNOME 49 is released. Ubuntu 25.10 and Fedora 43 will have them. Rolling distros like Arch should have them in a week or so, hopefully.This will add a new “Save Session” button to your Power Menu, as shown in the screenshot above (on the right). Click on it to make Plasma remember the apps that are open and restore them on the next login. 💬 Let’s see what you get in this edition:Enjoy FOSS 😄
