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

There is a new tutorial series and you know what comes next? Hyprland.
Warp Terminal

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 😭

itsfoss websites AI crawler stats

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 🙏

💬 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!
  • This week's newsletter is supported by PikaPods.

❇️ PikaPods: Self-hosting Without Hassle

PikaPods allows you to quickly deploy your favorite open source software. All future updates are handled automatically by PikaPods while you enjoy using the software. I use it to self-host Umami analytics. Did I tell you that they also share revenue with the original developers of the software?

Oh! You also get a $5 free credit to try it out and see if you can rely on PikaPods.

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📰 Linux News

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

Mozilla Boots Staff Yet Again, Advocacy Unit Shut Down
Mozilla is taking these measures citing high stakes. What’s next?

🧠 What We’re Thinking About

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

Open source projects draw equity-free funding from corporates, startups, and even VCs | TechCrunch
A dearth of funding for vital open source tech is leading to a swathe of support from startups, corporations, and even VC firms.

🧮 Linux Tips, Tutorials and More

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

Getting Started With openEuler
openEuler is gaining steady popularity outside its homeland. Let’s see what it is and how you can get started with it.

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.

Running Opencoder LLM in VS Code: A Local, Copilot Alternative
Experiencing a local AI assistant in VS Code with OpenCoder LLM.

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


📹 Videos We are Creating for You


✨ Apps of the Week

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

AB Download Manager: A Simple Open Source Tool With All The Essentials
Want to try a different download manager for a change? Try AB download manager!

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! 💪

Know The Command Line Interface (CLI): Quiz
Want to learn about the command-line interface? Take this quiz to learn and test your knowledge.

💡 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.


🧑‍🤝‍🧑 FOSSverse Corner

One of our FOSSers is experimenting with Proxmox, maybe you can share your insights?

Playing with Proxmox
This is crazy! I just found out that there’s CT (container) on Proxmox for Gentoo. I’ve played with Proxmox a bit to get a self host “feeling” with it. I’ve been trying to get Nextcloud working but no luck yet. Got Owncloud running and managed to send one email to my box with it but didn’t get the 2FA working. Then got bored and “installed” a Gentoo container just because why not if it takes 5 mins. Won’t upgrade it though… 225 packages to go so I just kill it and delete from Proxmox. This is fu…

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About the author
Abhishek Prakash

Abhishek Prakash

Created It's FOSS 11 years ago to share my Linux adventures. Have a Master's degree in Engineering and years of IT industry experience. Huge fan of Agatha Christie detective mysteries 🕵️‍♂️

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