Is the move away from Windows difficult? My colleague Sourav was a lifelong Windows user until he started working with us. He shared his experience of completely switching to Linux. Does his story resonate with yours?
Sourav Rudra
💬 Let's see what else you get in this edition
- New Zorin OS and GNOME releases.
- Fixing webcam app in Ubuntu 24.04
- Getting hardware details graphically
- Valve reportedly working on ARM support.
- Flappy Bird making an open-source comeback.
- And other Linux news, videos and, of course, memes!
📰 Linux News
- Someone has created a C-based, open-source clone of the popular Flappy Bird game.
- According to leaks, Valve has been spotted testing out ARM support, we are not sure what the end-result might be.
- You can now use Llama and other open source LLMs in Brave browser.
- The previous Saturday happened to be Software Freedom Day, it should be more widely known if you ask me.
- Zorin OS 17 is now available.
- GNOME 47 was released with support for accent colors, and various UI changes.
Ankush Das
🧠 What We’re Thinking About
A worrying trend has emerged, and we think open-source maintainers deserve better.
Ankush Das
"Fair Source" is the new term in the software industry.
Sourav Rudra
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🧮 Linux Tips, Tutorials and More
- Learn to use Calibre to easily convert and transfer eBooks to your Kindle.
- If you were looking to dual boot Fedora and Windows, our guide can help.
- A handy resource for Arch Linux users who are looking to use PKGBUILD.
- Get hardware composition of your system in Linux with this handy graphical tool.
For long, I ignored the Camera app issue in Ubuntu 24.04. I should not have.
Abhishek Prakash
Spacedrive is a new Rust-based file manager that seems to be doing things quite different from other more traditional options.
Sourav Rudra
👷 Maker's Corner
Know what a compute module is? Fret not, we explain it here:
Abhishek Kumar
📹 Videos we are creating for you
✨ Apps Of The Week
Zen Browser is the latest App Of The Week, it is an interesting Firefox-based web browser which takes a novel approach to tab management.
Sourav Rudra
Screen Time is a simple FOSS app for Android which tracks screen usage times.
Sourav Rudra
🧩 Quiz Time
This time, we have a crossword that focuses on governance in open source.
Ankush Das
💡 Quick Handy Tip
On GNOME Files (Nautilus), you can show additional details for each folder in Icon view. First, go to Menu ➝ Preferences.
Here, scroll down and set the three levels of details from the corresponding drop-down menus.
Now, when you zoom the icon view to a particular level, you can view all of those selected details. You can also choose to go for showing only one or two additional details.
🤣 Meme of the Week
We already know that they can be valued more. 🥹
🗓️ Tech Trivia
Copyrighting computer code became a thing on September 22, 1986, after a federal judge ruled in favor. Imagine how open things would've been if that hadn't happened.
🧑🤝🧑 FOSSverse Corner
Regular FOSSer Paul wonders if tracking someone from their IP address is possible.
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