FOSS Weekly #24.44: Fedora 41 Release, Russia in Linux Kernel, System Monitoring and More

It's Halloween and it's time for scary stuff. How about knowing some spooky Linux commands that you should not run on your system?

Last year, we had created a few Halloween themed quizzes. It's time to revisit them.

And if you are feeling too festive, you can give your Linux desktop a Halloween makeover.

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

Some hardware focused tips for Linux.
Kali Linux moving away from 32bit builds.
Windows install on Raspberry Pi.
Halloween themed quizzes
And other Linux news, videos and, of course, memes!
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📰 Linux News

Raspberry Pi OS has moved to being Wayland by default.
Vivaldi 7.0 was recently introduced with a futuristic redesign.
Digital Ocean has made available one-click AI model deployments.
Syncthing's Android app will not receive any new updates after 2024.
Google has open sourced their watermarking tech for AI-generated text.
Edera has introduced OpenPax, an open source kernel patch that focuses on security.
32-bit builds for Kali Linux are no more, the developers have shared the rationale behind this move.
The OSI has finally unveiled the definition for open source AI. But it leaves out something important.

And Fedora 41 is here, a few days ahead of the schedule which is something new for Fedora releases 😀

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Did you know that It's FOSS has a Spanish section, with some evergreen tutorials translated into Spanish language? Check it out here.

🧠 What We’re Thinking About

Politics surely divides! The geopolitics has now reached the Linux kernel development.

🧮 Linux Tips, Tutorials and More

Run GPU-heavy tasks? Check GPU usage by using the command line.
Checking the temperature of NVMe SSD is easy, just follow our guide.
And if you have Rockchip device, you can check its NPU usage, too.
Similarly, you can do the same for checking the CPU temperature on Ubuntu.
Need something more elaborate? Then you could give CPU-X a try, it is a CPU-Z alternative for Linux.

Finally, you can rest easy when it comes to monitoring your Linux system, just use one of these GUI task managers. 👇

👷 Maker's Corner

Considering a switch from the Raspberry Pi 4 to 5? Let us help you make an informed decision.
If you were looking for some good OS picks for your Raspberry Pi, then we have a handy list for you.

Our in-house tinkerer has done something very spooky (before Halloween, that too). He has been running Windows on a Raspberry Pi.

📹 Videos We are Creating for You

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✨ Apps of the Week

PeaZip is a versatile cross-platform file archiver which has proven to be a great app of the week.

On the other hand, for Android, there's Eternity, a cool Lemmy client that doesn't disappoint.

🧩 Quiz Time

There are many GitHub alternatives, can you identify them in this puzzle?

💡 Quick Handy Tip

In Firefox, if you have many tabs opened, you can close all the duplicate tabs in one go. Click on the List all tabs button in the title bar and select “Close all duplicate tabs”.

🤣 Meme of the Week

Windows weeps, Linux reaps. 😈

🗓️ Tech Trivia

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) was signed into law by US President Bill Clinton on October 28, 1998. It was, and still is a controversial copyright law that has misused by many big corporations.