FOSS Weekly #23.13: New blendOS Linux Distro, New Rust Series, Ubuntu Cinnamon and More

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 our target for the next distro series.

We are also starting a Rust tutorial series for beginners this week. For those who are into coding, this will provide a solid learning base for Rust programming.

💬 Let's see what else you have this week:

blendOS, a blend of all kinds of distributions
Beginning of Rust tutorial series
And more Linux news, open source applications, videos and memes

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📰 Linux News Round-up

Open source accounting software GnuCash released version 5.0.
Accent colors are coming to GNOME.
Modular laptop company Framework unveils a new laptop with upgradeable graphics and customizable keyboard modules.
Mozilla's getting into the A.I. game with a ChatGPT like solution.
A new major version of Ubuntu Touch based on 20.04 is out now.

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🧠 What we’re thinking about

Layoffs in the tech industry show no sign of stopping. Not just in the US, it's happening even in cost-effective geographies. This is the case when AI is still at the doorstep. As it picks up pace, Goldman Sachs predicts it will cut over 300 million jobs in the next ten years.

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⛓️️Tutorial series

This is the beginning of a new series. Rust is an increasingly popular programming language. It is also the only language other than C to be allowed in Linux Kernel.