It seems like Pip is changing its behavior to avoid conflicts with native Linux packages. The change is now present in Ubuntu 23.10 and Fedora 38, where you’ll run into an error while using Pip. And we have new badges for Pro
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FOSSverse? What’s that? It’s basically the idea of unifying all things It’s FOSS with a single member account. When logged in to It’s FOSS, you can automatically log in to the comment section with the same profile. That was the first part.
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A few readers have notified me that they end up with Cloudflare errors while visiting It’s FOSS webpages on Google Chrome. I have investigated the issue and cleaned up the cache. Nothing conclusive was found. So, I doubled up the CPU strength
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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS is reaching its end of life by the end of the month. What to do now? We have a few suggestions. Debian 12 is gearing up for next month’s launch. Time to check its features. The motto of It’s
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Last week you saw a slew of Ubuntu 23.04-based releases; this week, we get the Linux kernel 6.3. This week also sees the continuation of our Rust Basics series! 💬 Let’s see what else you have in this edition of FOSS Weekly:
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A day late? I deliberately delayed the newsletter so that you get all big releases in the form of Ubuntu 23.04 and Fedora 38. All official flavors of Ubuntu 23.04 are available as well. The interesting news is that the educational distro
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The next week will see some big releases in the form of Ubuntu 23.04, Fedora 38 and Linux Kernel 6.3. The Terminal Basics series will be concluded as well. For this week, we’ve covered two new open source projects; CatchyOS and Atlas.
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There is a new ‘breed’ of Linux distros that has gotten popular in the last couple of years. They are ‘immutable’ by nature. Initially created for containers (used in DevOps), they are also coming for the general-purpose desktop. By the way, I
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The NixOS series was concluded last week. Though NixOS is a lesser-known, niche distro, the series was appreciated by many FOSSers (It’s FOSS readers). This has given us the confidence boost to work on more tutorial series. openSUSE and Gentoo are on
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GNOME 44 is out now. The upcoming Ubuntu 23.04 and Fedora 38 will feature this new release. Rolling release distros will offer it sooner than other distros. There are a few new distros that have come up lately. One interesting distribution is
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