FOSS Weekly #23.50: BSOD on Linux, Mint 21.3 Beta, Xonsh Shell and More
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💬 Let’s see what you get in this edition of FOSS Weekly:
- Early sneak peek at Cinnamon 6.0 with Mint 21.3 beta
- New Kali Linux and Armbian releases.
- Arrival of ‘Blue Screen of Death’ on Linux.
- And other Linux news, videos, Puzzles and, of course, memes!
📰 Linux news
- Introduction of Armbian 23.11 that brings about support for more boards.
- Kali Linux 2023.4 release is here with support for the Raspberry Pi 5.
- Interactive C++ interpreter Cling version 1.0 released.
- Ardour DAW released a new version.
- The LVFS project (fwupd) has supplied 100 million firmware updates to Linux machines.
You can try Cinnamon 6.0 right now with the Linux Mint 21.3 Beta.
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Brace yourself, BSODs will be arriving early next year in Linux distros near you!
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🧠 What we’re thinking about
A new AI alliance has been formed; includes some big names.
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🧮 Linux Tips, Tutorials and More
For simple, text-based PDFs, LibreOffice has the editing capability.
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This is an interesting shell for the people who use Linux and work on Python application development.
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Learn how to create and work with links in Obsidian, the knowledge base tool everyone is talking about these days.
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📹 What we are watching
Time for some silliness before this year ends, a different take on monitoring your CPU.
✨ Project highlights
Jami is a really cool communication app if you are looking for something serverless.
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🧩 New quizzes
It’s time to look back into the history.
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It’s FOSS Plus users can play this Word Search on Debian release names.
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💡 Quick handy tip
A quick VirtualBox tip. You can use: Right CTRL (Host Key) + F1-F6 to access the TTY of a distribution.
🤣 Meme of the week
Seems like I found the perfect Christmas Gift 🤣
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🗓️ Tech Trivia
Google released the first stable public release of its flagship browser Chrome on 11th December 2008. Little did we know that it will completely eclipse over any other web browser out there.
🧑🤝🧑 FOSSverse corner
FOSSers are discussing GRUB parameters.
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