FOSS Weekly #24.46: New OpenEuler Series, VLC Tips, Mozilla Woes, OpenCoder and More

In the last edition, I mentioned the negative impact of AI overview on It's FOSS future and why we want to create more videos. A few people thought we won't write text content anymore. But that's not the case.

We'll keep on creating text content as usual, but we'll also put extra effort in making videos.

Oh! And to give you a glimpse of how we are impacted by AI, please look at the crawling stats (by Cloudflare) for the past 7 days. These many visits would have come to the itsfoss.com website but they didn't 😭

Even if video is not your preferred form of content, please help us reach the 60,000 mark by subscribing and encouraging more people to subscribe to our YouTube channel. As I said earlier, we need this moral boost 🙏

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

Mozilla firing more people.
Local AI Assitant with OpenCoder.
Fedora getting a new flagship edition.
And other Linux news, videos and, of course, memes!
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📰 Linux News

Fedora's Anaconda Web UI installer is shaping up rather well.
Similarly, Fedora has confirmed a new edition, promoting the KDE Spin to the next level.
NVIDIA has listed out the upcoming features and current state of Linux drivers for Wayland.
The PureDarwin project, originally created to bring Apple’s open-source Darwin OS to more people, is heading in a fresh new direction.

Mozilla has fired about 30% of their staff, with major units being shut down.

🧠 What We’re Thinking About

Open source projects are increasingly garnering equity-free funding from corporations, startups, and venture capitalists.

🧮 Linux Tips, Tutorials and More

Installing Arch Linux is a great way to gain the privilege of saying, “I use Arch, btw.”
Are you a regular VLC user? Want to level up your media playback game?
Also, did you know that you can enjoy the Raspberry Pi OS on a regular computer?
A neat trick to hide folders and files without renaming them.

We have started a new tutorial series on openEuler, the Linux distro out of China.

We'll have a mini-series on Hyprland next.

👷 Maker's and AI Corner

Installing Kali Linux on a Raspberry Pi is easy, just follow our latest guide.

Running a local AI assistant in VS Code with the increasingly popular open source LLM OpenCoder.

By the way, small language models are also gaining popularity and SmolLM is the latest example.

📹 Videos We are Creating for You

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✨ Apps of the Week

AB Download Manager is a powerful open source downloader for Linux that focuses on the essentials.

Do you have moments where your Android smartphone disturbs you? You can use Timed Silence to tackle that.

🧩 Quiz Time

Proud of your CLI skills? Show us what you got! 💪

💡 Quick Handy Tip

Right-clicking on an ISO in Linux Mint and selecting “Make bootable USB stick” allows you to effortlessly create a bootable USB drive.

Just select the correct USB drive, and click on “Write”. If asked for the system password, enter it, and wait for the flashing to complete. After it is done, safely eject the USB drive, and you are done.

Don't forget to verify the ISO file before proceeding with this. 🔍

🤣 Meme of the Week

Provided Arch Linux users find a supporting partner in the first place. ☠️

🗓️ Tech Trivia

November 10, 1983, was the day when Microsoft announced Windows to compete against the graphical environments such as the one found on Apple Lisa. However, there were some delays, and the public release happened in 1985.