FOSS Weekly #23.48: New rlxOS Distro, Wave Terminal, Paru 2.0, Data Recovery in Linux and More

FOSS Weekly #23.48: New rlxOS Distro, Wave Terminal,  Paru 2.0, Data Recovery in Linux and More

A modern Linux terminal I discovered this week took me by surprise. I was not expecting it to be this different!

It’s like VS Code or a modern code editor. It is aimed primarily at developers but people who are not comfortable with traditional terminals would also be happy with it.

Wave: A Modern New Linux Terminal that You’ll Love if You Hate Command Line
The VS Code of Linux Terminals is here and it has the potential to become popular among the gen z of coders and Linux users.
FOSS Weekly #23.48: New rlxOS Distro, Wave Terminal,  Paru 2.0, Data Recovery in Linux and More

💬 Let’s see what you get in this edition of FOSS Weekly:

  • AUR helper Paru sees a major release after years
  • A popular CMS has gone open-source.
  • Data recovery tutorial
  • And other Linux news, videos, Puzzles and, of course, memes!

📰 Linux news

  • TinaCMS has joined the open-source CMS club.
  • Fractal 5 was released with a GTK 4/Adwaita remake.
  • Paru 2.0 is here with support for non-AUR PKGBUILD repos.
  • Red Hat has revealed their plans for RHEL 10 and Wayland.

The latest version of P2P YouTube alternative adds several new features.

PeerTube Gets Better Features Than YouTube With Version 6 Release
Decentralized open-source platform PeerTube gets a big upgrade, making it a good YouTube alternative.
FOSS Weekly #23.48: New rlxOS Distro, Wave Terminal,  Paru 2.0, Data Recovery in Linux and More

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FOSS Weekly #23.48: New rlxOS Distro, Wave Terminal,  Paru 2.0, Data Recovery in Linux and More

🧠 What we’re thinking about

Clearly, not everyone is happy about it.

Microsoft is Locking Down Search for Public Code on GitHub
Microsoft, what are you up to with GitHub?
FOSS Weekly #23.48: New rlxOS Distro, Wave Terminal,  Paru 2.0, Data Recovery in Linux and More

🧮 Linux Tips, Tutorials and More

LibreOffice is awesome and yet a few people look for alternatives. This article is for them.

6 LibreOffice Alternatives for Linux
LibreOffice is awesome but if you are still looking for some other office, here are some options.
FOSS Weekly #23.48: New rlxOS Distro, Wave Terminal,  Paru 2.0, Data Recovery in Linux and More

Revamped tutorial. Just so that you know, these tools work with data on external disk only.

Recover Deleted Files Using Linux [Beginner’s Guide]
Learn to attempt data recovery on external disks and SD cards using TestDisk and PhotoRec tools in Linux.
FOSS Weekly #23.48: New rlxOS Distro, Wave Terminal,  Paru 2.0, Data Recovery in Linux and More

A simple tutorial on having multiple keyboard layouts and changing between them.

How to Change Keyboard Layout in Ubuntu
It’s quite easy to have multiple keyboard layouts in Ubuntu and switch between them. Here’s how to do that.
FOSS Weekly #23.48: New rlxOS Distro, Wave Terminal,  Paru 2.0, Data Recovery in Linux and More

📹 What we are watching


✨ Project highlights

rlxOS is a independent immutable Linux distro offering with an Xfce touch to it.

rlxOS: An Independent Immutable Linux Distro With Xfce Desktop
An independent, immutable distribution with a nice look and feel.
FOSS Weekly #23.48: New rlxOS Distro, Wave Terminal,  Paru 2.0, Data Recovery in Linux and More

🧩 New quizzes

KDE fan? How about a quick trivia quiz?

KDE Trivia Quiz
How much do you know about the KDE project?
FOSS Weekly #23.48: New rlxOS Distro, Wave Terminal,  Paru 2.0, Data Recovery in Linux and More

It’s FOSS Plus users can play this crossword focusing on terminal emulators.

Puzzle of the Week: Crossword #5: Linux Terminal Emulators
Exercise those ‘little gray cells’ of yours and solve this puzzle.
FOSS Weekly #23.48: New rlxOS Distro, Wave Terminal,  Paru 2.0, Data Recovery in Linux and More

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FOSS Weekly #23.48: New rlxOS Distro, Wave Terminal,  Paru 2.0, Data Recovery in Linux and More

🤣 Meme of the week

Just Ubuntu Things 😁

FOSS Weekly #23.48: New rlxOS Distro, Wave Terminal,  Paru 2.0, Data Recovery in Linux and More

🗓️ Tech Trivia

November 30th is the National Computer Security Day. It was proposed by the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) under Carnegie Mellon University created the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) so that more people could talk about computer security.


🧑‍🤝‍🧑 FOSSverse corner

A FOSSers shares their experience of setting up secure boot in an Arch-based distro.

Setting up Secure Boot in Arch-based Distributions
I’ve learned how to successfully boot most Arch-based distributions with Secure Boot enabled by using the rEFInd boot loader (rEFIND generates the keys for me so I can sign it using MOK registration) and sign the installed kernel(s) image(s) with the same keys. The location of the packages required…
FOSS Weekly #23.48: New rlxOS Distro, Wave Terminal,  Paru 2.0, Data Recovery in Linux and More

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