FOSS Weekly #23.09: Fedora 38 and GNOME 44 Features, NixOS Guide and More

Lots of interesting development from Ubuntu, Pop OS and Fedora this week. GNOME 44 and KDE Plasma are also gearing up for their next major version release.

💬 Let's see what you have this week:

• Sneak peek into the features of Fedora 38 and GNOME 44
• A funny sudo trick
• Continuation of NixOS and Terminal Basics series
• And more Linux news, open source applications, videos and memes

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📰 Linux News Round-up

• Google Chrome now has a new memory saving mode on Linux.
• Flathub plans to evolve as the Universal Linux app store.
• Fedora might finally drop support for Delta RPMs.
• A 140 MB mini-ISO is in the works for Ubuntu.
• A new file system has been introduced for NVMe ZNS SSDs.
• Slack recently open-sourced their 'Hakana' type checker for Hack.
• The folks over at Pop!_OS are working on a new text editor.
• KDE Plasma is gearing up for its next release with Qt 6.
• The developers of Rhino Linux have shared a development update regarding its current state.

7 Cool GNOME 44 Features To Watch Out For

GNOME 44 is around the corner. Learn more about the features arriving with GNOME 44 release.

It's FOSS NewsAnkush Das

7 Fedora 38 Features That Makes The Upgrade Exciting

Let us take a look at the feature changes arriving with Fedora 38.

It's FOSS NewsAnkush Das

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🧠 What we’re thinking about

Homelabs are getting popular among hobbyists. Self hosted applications are on the rise.

The rise of self-hosted apps

Here’s a sleeper prediction: a new crop of killer consumer apps are coming: self-hosted PWAs, and they will replace cloud services for many uses.

Astro

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On February 26, 1991, Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the World Wide Web, introduced WorldWideWeb, the first web browser. This software was later renamed Nexus to remove confusion from the World Wide Web.

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⛓️️Tutorial series

In this chapter of the Terminal Basics series, learn about displaying the contents of a directory, sorting them and checking file stats.

Listing the Contents of Directory With ls Command in Linux

In this chapter of Terminal Basics series, learn about displaying the contents of a directory, sorting them and checking file stats.

It's FOSSAbhishek Prakash

The first chapter discussed the advantages of NixOS. This one shows the steps for installing it in a VM.

NixOS Series #2: How to Install NixOS on a Virtual Machine?

Want to try NixOS? Get started by installing it on a virtual machine.

It's FOSSSagar Sharma

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👩‍💻 Fun with terminal

In the mood for some crude humor?

Make Sudo Insult User For Each Incorrect Password Attempt

Have fun with sudo. Tweak sudo settings a bit so that it throws insults at users for each incorrect password attempt.

It's FOSSAbhishek Prakash

📹 What we are watching

An old video where Linus Torvalds talks about his first line of code.

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📱Application highlights

A GTK frontend to ImageMagick, Conjure offers an array of graphical tricks and effects.

GitHub - nate-xyz/conjure: Magically transform your images.

Magically transform your images. Contribute to nate-xyz/conjure development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHubnate-xyz

An open source project to turn your rough sketches into AI-generated images.

Scribble Diffusion

Turn your sketch into a refined image using AI

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🤣 Linux Humor

That's deep :)

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