FOSS Weekly #24.36: Best Linux Terminals, Arch Repos, Windows Recall Fiasco and More

Have you ever had an eerie feeling that your smartphone is listening to you? You discuss a product with your friends and family and start seeing advertisements related to that soon after. Your worst fear might have come true as this leaked report says.

This Company Says It Uses Your Phone’s Mic to Serve Ads for Facebook, Google, and More

Creepy behavior confirmed.

It’s FOSS NewsSourav Rudra

By the way, I am adding a ‘Maker’s Corner‘ section to the newsletter to share Raspberry Pi, Self-hosting and Homelab stuff. Let’s take geeking to the next level 🕺

💬 Let’s see what else you get in this edition

• A new Rhino Linux release.
• Orange Pi venturing into RISC-V waters.
• Elasticsearch and Kibana returning to their open-source roots.
• And other Linux news, videos and, of course, memes!
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📰 Linux News

• Rhino Linux’s second release of 2024 is here.
• The Mono project is now part of the Wine family.
• Orange Pi RV is a RISC-V SBC for various use cases.
• Microsoft has replaced CentOS in favor of Azure Linux to power LinkedIn.
• Elastic is now offering Elasticsearch and Kibana under an open-source license.

🧠 What We’re Thinking About

Surprised? I am not. That’s classic Microsoft 🤷

You Can’t Remove Windows 11’s ‘AI’ Recall Feature, But You Can Install Linux Instead

Alexa, play BYE BYE BYE soundtrack by NSYNC. It’s time to install Linux!

It’s FOSS NewsSourav Rudra

🧮 Linux Tips, Tutorials and More

• Brush up on your man page knowledge before someone tells you to RTFM.
• After the abrupt demise of Neofetch, a really capable Rust-based alternative has taken its place.
• Core, Extra, Multilib? Unraveling the Arch Linux Repositories.
• New to Linux command line? Start with our series.
• A new extension has appeared that lets you stream Netflix in Full-HD on Firefox.

Check out some of the interesting terminals.

Top 14 Terminal Emulators for Linux (With Extra Features or Amazing Looks)

Want a terminal that looks cool or has extra features? Here are the best Linux terminal emulators you can get.

It’s FOSSAnkush Das

👷 Maker’s Corner

Here are some tips about resetting forgotten password on Raspberry Pi. And question

Self Hosting Web IRC Clients: What are Your Options?

Looking to host your own IRC? Here are the options you can explore.

It’s FOSSAnkush Das

📹 Videos we are watching

This tinkerer demonstrates getting Debian on Galaxy Book

✨ Project Highlights

Valv is a gallery app for Android that helps with the creation of encrypted backups/folders.

You Can Create An Encrypted Gallery on Android With ‘Valv’ App

Easily create encrypted backups/folders for your gallery with this Android app.

It’s FOSS NewsAnkush Das

🧩 New Quiz

Test out your command knowledge in this crossword puzzle.

Commands to Work With Text Files: Crossword

Solve this crossword with commands for text processing.

It’s FOSSAnkush Das

💡 Quick Handy Tip

On GNOME Tweaks, you can manage the appearance of the wallpaper using Appearance ➝ Adjustment ➝ Select Style.

If you are on a multi-monitor setup, with a sufficiently large wallpaper, use the “Spanned” option to spread the same wallpaper across the monitors.

If you don’t have GNOME Tweaks, our guide can help.

🤣 Meme of the Week

The pain is real. ☠️

🗓️ Tech Trivia

September 2, 1993, marked the day when one of the world’s earliest web search engine, W3 Catalog, started.

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 FOSSverse Corner

FOSSer Jurgen asks how others handle schools requiring pupils to run proprietary programs from Google and Microsoft.

How do you handle schools requiring a MS or Google account for children?

Here in Europe – and I think it’s no different in the rest of the world – a lot of schools require their pupils to have a computer running Windows and to have an account at MS or Google so they can work with Office 365 or Google Docs. Is everyone okay with this? If you were (or are currently) in that situation, how did you (or do you plan to) react? Did you reach out to the school? Did you just let it happen for the least fuss? Are you actually happy with this decision? Curious to hear your op…

It’s FOSS CommunityJurgen

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