KDE Plasma 6 is released. Upcoming distributions Fedora 40 should provide it. GNOME 46 will be releasing in the coming weeks too. April onwards, you’ll see newer versions being released for Ubuntu and most major Linux distributions. Exciting times ahead! 💬 Let’s
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It seems that Fedora is gearing up for more novel variants. Last week, I shared the news about Fedora Atomic spin and now they are considering a COSMIC spin. COSMIC is a new, Rust-based desktop environment by Pop!_OS. The more, the merrier?
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Twitter’s open source rival BlueSky is now open for all. It is based on the AT Protocol. And It’s FOSS is already on this new platform. We got to try new things, right? Speaking of new things, there is a new Rust-based
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I’ll open the newsletter with good news. Damn Small Linux is back from a long slumber, features a new antiX base. It’s one of the smallest Linux distros out there. Damn Small Linux Release Makes a Comeback After 16 Long Years Damn
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I promised at the beginning of 2024 that you’ll see more exploring, homelab and hobbyist open source AI stuff this year along with the regular beginner-friendly tutorials. In that regard, we have our first AI article published. It is about setting up
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You may not have noticed but there was a little theme redesign that took place this week. Thanks to the efforts of Thimira, some tutorial series are now organized in ‘course format’. Which means you can easily follow all the tutorials in
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Linux Mint has released version 21.3. This is the last release based on Ubuntu 22.04. The next major release will be version 22.0, probably in June. It will be based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS that is scheduled to come at the end
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We are finally settling down in 2024 with impressive updates to popular Linux distributions, and new open-source projects. I hope you started what you planned with some new year resolutions! 😁 In this newsletter, we have a quiz unit to help new
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New year, new same old me 😄 What do we have in the first edition of FOSS Weekly in 2024? Some year end special articles. But an important and surprising development came from Gentoo just before 2023 ended. That could take away
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