Linus Torvalds created two of the most widely used tools in modern computing: the Linux kernel and Git.

Git, of course, is a version control system primarily used by programmers.

But Theena makes a strong case that Git and plain text are the best tools a writer can use. Not just for backup but for building a writing practice that is truly their own..

At its core, the argument is about breaking free from platform dependency, long-term preservation, and treating your body of work as something worth designing around rather than just storing somewhere convenient.

Here are other highlights of this edition of FOSS Weekly:

• sudo tips and tweaks.
• Apt's new version has useful features.
• Opera GX arriving as a gaming browser for Linux.
• A Linux driver proposal to catch malicious USB devices.
• And other Linux news, tips, and, of course, memes!

📰 Linux and Open Source News

Not open source software but Opera GX, the gaming-focused Chromium browser that's been on Windows and macOS for years, has finally landed on Linux. Sourav took the early access build for a spin and tested the features it's known for, like GX Control for capping RAM and CPU usage while gaming and GX Cleaner for cleaning up junk data.

The Linux kernel is finally dropping i486 support, queued for Linux 7.1. The first patch removes the relevant Kconfig build options, with a fuller cleanup covering 80 files and over 14,000 lines of legacy code still to follow.

Proton has launched two new things: Proton Workspace, a bundled suite of all their services aimed at businesses looking for a privacy-first alternative to Google Workspace or Microsoft 365, and Proton Meet, an end-to-end encrypted video conferencing tool using the open source MLS protocol.

A proposal has been submitted to the Linux kernel mailing list for a new HID driver called hid-omg-detect that passively monitors USB keyboard-like devices for suspicious behavior.

Another proposal, but for Fedora was recently struck down. It looked to move per-user environment variable management from shell RC files into systemd.

Remember the glass UI from the Windows 7 era? KDE is considering bringing back the older classic Oxygen and Air themes. These themes will be optional, of course.

Anthropic, the company behind Claude AI, has donated $1.5 million to Apache Software Foundation. The donation aims to secure the open source stack AI tools depend on.

🧠 What We’re Thinking About

Firefox has been losing ground for a decade, and Mozilla is trying something new. A built-in VPN and a growing set of AI features. Roland's piece looks at whether either of those things is likely to actually work.

Puter, the open source browser-based desktop OS, has added ONLYOFFICE to its app marketplace, giving it a full office suite covering documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and PDF editing.

🧮 Linux Tips, Tutorials, and Learnings

Not many people know that sudo command's behavior can be tweaked as well. Here are a few sudo tweaks.

Tennis is a Zig-written terminal tool that renders CSV files as clean, color-coded tables with solid borders and auto-detected themes.

APT package manager's latest version 3.2 has a rollback feature. Sourav briefly tested it.

📚 Linux eBook bundle (don't miss)

No Starch Press needs no introduction. They have published some of the best books on Linux. And they are running an ebook bundle deal on Humble Bundle.

I highly recommend checking it out and getting the bundle.

Plus, part of your purchase supports Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).

👷 AI, Homelab and Hardware Corner

The Linux kernel dropped i486 support and added GD-ROM driver support for the Sega Dreamcast in the same breath.

✨ Apps and Projects Highlights

Hideout is a minimal GTK4/Adwaita desktop app for file encryption and decryption, powered by GnuPG.

📽️ Videos for You

Here are some Linux terminal tricks to save you time.

💡 Quick Handy Tip

You can copy a file in Nautilus by pressing Ctrl+C, then press Ctrl+M to paste it as a symbolic link instead of an actual copy. This is a handy way to create a symlink without ever needing to open a terminal!

🎋 Fun in the FOSSverse

In this members-only crossword, you will have to name systemd's ctl commands.

An appropriate meme on the OS-level age verification topic.

🗓️ Tech Trivia: On April 8, 1991, a small team at Sun Microsystems quietly relocated to work in secret on a project codenamed "Oak", a programming language that would eventually be renamed Java and go on to become one of the most widely used languages in the world, powering everything from Android apps to enterprise software.

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 From the Community: A FOSSer is wondering if anyone has ever jailbroken a Kindle for KOReader use.

The open source office space has turned unusually dramatic this week, with multiple conflicts unfolding at the same time.

First, there is a new entrant called Euro-Office. While it is being presented as a European alternative, it is essentially a fork of ONLYOFFICE. That has not gone down well. ONLYOFFICE has accused Nextcloud of violating its license, turning what could have been a routine fork into a full-blown controversy.

And then there is the situation around LibreOffice. The Document Foundation, the organization behind LibreOffice, has removed all Collabora developers and partners from its membership. This is a significant move, considering Collabora builds the online version of LibreOffice and has long been one of its biggest contributors.

Both stories point to a larger pattern. Even in open source, where collaboration is the default expectation, disagreements over governance, licensing, and control can quickly escalate. It is shaping up to be an interesting and important moment for the future of open source office suites.

Here are other highlights of this edition of FOSS Weekly:

• GNOME dropping Google Drive support.
• A major Wayland bug finally being addressed.
• Systemd's sysext feature for immutable distros
• Ubuntu 26.10 potentially having a controversial change.
• And other Linux news, tips, and, of course, memes!
• This edition of FOSS Weekly is supported by GroupOffice.

📰 Linux and Open Source News

GNOME 50 ships without Google Drive integration, and it turns out it's been effectively dead for a while. The library powering it, libgdata, went without a maintainer for four years, got archived after no one answered a 2022 call for help, and was the last thing keeping a CVE-ridden deprecated library in the stack.

Ubuntu 26.04 is bringing deb packages back into the App Center properly. You can test out the beta release for it right now if you can't wait for the stable release.

Nextcloud and IONOS have forked ONLYOFFICE into a project called Euro-Office, citing concerns about its Russian development team, opaque contribution process, and the trust issues that come with the current geopolitical situation.

A Canonical engineer has proposed stripping down GRUB significantly for Ubuntu 26.10's Secure Boot signed builds. The cuts would remove filesystem support for Btrfs, XFS, ZFS, and HFS+, along with LVM, most RAID modes, LUKS encryption, and image format support.

Archinstall 4.0 swaps out its curses-based interface for Textual, making the whole installation flow noticeably cleaner and more responsive.

Ubuntu MATE founder Martin Wimpress has announced he's looking for someone to take over the project. Says he no longer has the time or passion for the project and is looking to hand it over to contributors who do.

Wayland has finally gotten session management. The xdg-session-management protocol was merged into wayland-protocols after sitting as an open pull request for six years.

🧠 What We’re Thinking About

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS has raised its minimum RAM requirement for the desktop install to 6 GB, up from 4 GB in 24.04. Windows 11 minimum RAM requirement suggest only 4GB. But the truth is not in the number on the paper.

The Document Foundation has published an open letter to European citizens arguing that the current shift toward digital sovereignty is only meaningful if Europe actually understands what sovereignty requires.

🧮 Linux Tips, Tutorials, and Learnings

If you've ever hit a "Read-only file system" error while trying to install a troubleshooting tool on Fedora Silverblue or another immutable distro, systemd-sysext is worth knowing about.

We now have a detailed comparison of LibreOffice and ONLYOFFICE covering the full suite: word processors, spreadsheets, presentations, PDF editing, format support, and online availability.

If Markdown feels a bit limited for serious documentation work but LaTeX feels like overkill, AsciiDoc sits nicely in between. Our guide covers what it is, and why you might prefer it over other text formats.

You can use conky to get system details as well as make your desktop look beautiful.

📚 Linux eBook bundle (don't miss)

No Starch Press needs no introduction. They have published some of the best books on Linux. And they are running an ebook bundle deal on Humble Bundle.

I highly recommend checking it out and getting the bundle.

Plus, part of your purchase supports Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).

👷 AI, Homelab and Hardware Corner

PINE64 has revealed the PineTime Pro, the long-awaited follow-up to its open source smartwatch.

✨ Apps and Projects Highlights

Nocturne is a new Adwaita-styled music player for GNOME that works as a Navidrome/Subsonic client. The interesting part is that it doesn't just connect to an existing Navidrome instance; it can also install and manage its own.

📽️ Videos for You

Archinstall 4.0 is here. Want to see what's changed in video format? Checkout the latest video on YouTube.

💡 Quick Handy Tip

GNOME comes with a dark panel by default. To switch it to a light panel, you can use the command:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface color-scheme 'prefer-light'

This will make the panel bright, too bright. If you don't like it, you can revert to the dark panel with:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface color-scheme 'prefer-dark'

🎋 Fun in the FOSSverse

Think you know your chmod from your chown? This quick quiz tests your knowledge of Linux file permissions.

Meme of the Week: Is this what they call divine intervention? 😶‍🌫️

🗓️ Tech Trivia: On March 31, 1939, Harvard and IBM signed an agreement to build the Mark I, one of the first machines that could automatically run complex calculations without human intervention.

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 From the Community: A long-time FOSSer has posted their experience switching from Hyprland to COSMIC.

Age verification has suddenly become the most heated topic in the Linux world and it’s not slowing down anytime soon.

Distributions are already picking sides. Void and Garuda Linux have outright rejected the idea. The privacy-focused Android distro GrapheneOS isn’t entertaining it either. Meanwhile, Fedora is exploring whether an Apple-style API could be a compromise, though whether that satisfies anyone is another question.

Right in the middle of this, systemd introduced an optional birthDate field in its user records. On paper, it’s just metadata. In practice, it could become the foundation for age verification across Linux systemd and that’s exactly why it has triggered such a strong reaction.

What makes this situation more intense is the human side of it.

The developer behind the change has found himself at the center of the backlash. In our exclusive interview, he talks about the intent, the misunderstandings, and what it feels like to suddenly become the focus of one of the community’s most divisive debates.

And, in true open source fashion, the forks have already begun.

A new project, Liberated systemd, removes the birthDate field entirely. It’s currently more of a statement than a solution, a protest fork rather than something you’d realistically deploy but it shows just how strongly people feel about this direction.

This isn’t just another technical discussion. It’s about where Linux draws the line between compliance, privacy, and control.

And right now, that line is being tested.

Here are other highlights of this edition of FOSS Weekly:

• LibreOffice donation banner change.
• Germany backing the Open Document Format.
• Open source tools for improving docker workflow.
• Yazi file manager in action.
• A new crossword.
• And other Linux news, tips, and, of course, memes!

📰 Linux and Open Source News

LibreOffice is adding a donation banner to its Start Center in the upcoming 26.8 release. It will sit at the bottom of the screen, showing a short message and an image, and the plan is to display it after each update or once a month.

Germany's new Deutschland-Stack, the country's sovereign digital infrastructure framework, has named ODF and PDF/UA as the only permitted document formats for public administrations at every level, federal, state, and municipal.

Canonical has joined the Rust Foundation as a Gold Member, backing the organization with $150,000 a year. Given that Ubuntu 25.10 already shipped with Rust rewrites of sudo and Coreutils, the move formalizes what was already a clear strategic direction.

The Thunderbird team has launched public roadmaps covering Desktop, Mobile, and Services, all written in non-technical language and organized around goals rather than bug lists.

🧠 What We’re Thinking About

Two versions of the LiteLLM Python package, 1.82.7 and 1.82.8, were briefly live on PyPI before being pulled after researchers found a backdoor planted by the hacker group TeamPCP. The payload harvests SSH keys, cloud credentials, Kubernetes secrets, and environment files.

This is another instance where supply chain attacks targeted open source projects.

🧮 Linux Tips, Tutorials, and Learnings

If you've ever hit a full root partition while home sits half empty and wished Linux could just borrow space from where it's available, Btrfs subvolumes are the answer. Unlike fixed partitions, subvolumes share a single storage pool and draw from the same free space as needed.

If you've been meaning to try a shell that doesn't require hours of dotfile tweaking before it feels usable, Fish is worth a look. Syntax errors are highlighted in red as you type, commands autocomplete from history, and tab completion pulls descriptions straight from man pages.

I ran into an issue related to appimage and shared my experience in this troubleshooter.

If you use Docker heavily, these open source tools can help your container workflow.

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👷 AI, Homelab and Hardware Corner

CZ.NIC has launched the Turris Omnia NG Wired, a fanless rack-mountable router running OpenWrt. This is an expansive device and it has come at a time when non-US made routers are being banned in the United States.

✨ Apps and Projects Highlights

Vykar is a new open source backup tool from the BorgBase team that does encrypted, deduplicated backups configured through a single YAML file.

📽️ Videos for You

It’s not every day you find a terminal tool that even non power users can enjoy. In this video, I showcase a terminal-based file manager that makes file navigation and search surprisingly fast.

💡 Quick Handy Tip

In Okular, you can change the highlighting style. Go to Settings -> Configure Okular. Here, in the "Annotations" tab, select the highlighter you want to tweak.

Now, click on the Edit button on the right, and under "Styles," change the highlighter's name, type, color, and opacity.

You can also use the Add button to create a new highlight style. Give it a name, configure its appearance and then click on Ok and Apply to set it.

🎋 Fun in the FOSSverse

A new crossword after ages; this one will test your knowledge of systemd ctl commands.

Meme of the Week: Brave heroes!🗿

🗓️ Tech Trivia: On March 28, 1986, computers made their debut in the fight against AIDS. A team at Roche Laboratories published a groundbreaking paper in Science magazine laying out the theoretical basis for the HIV protease molecule, one of the first times computational methods were used to study the virus.

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 From the Community: One of our FOSSers has started a thread on privacy-focused content creators worth following. If you have any suggestions, be sure to add them!

In the previous newsletter, I discussed how various distros are handling the age verification laws. At the end of the article, I speculated that we would see a few existing or new distros coming up with "no age verification" as their unique feature.

Guess what? We have a new distro called Ageless Linux which is created specifically to refuse compliance with OS-level age verification laws.

But it's more than just a distro; the project also maintains a tracker of where various distros and organizations stand on age verification and a $12 RISC-V hardware project aimed at putting non-compliant devices in the hands of schoolchildren. I am glad that it exists.

Here are other highlights of this edition of FOSS Weekly:

• Things you can do Linux but not on Windows
• Chrome on ARM Linux (aka Raspberry Pi).
• A new web browser for Linux users.
• GNOME 50 and Fedora Ashahi releases
• And other Linux news, tips, and, of course, memes!

📰 Linux and Open Source News

GNOME 50 is here and X11 is not. Wayland is all the way in this new release. Upcoming distros like Ubuntu 26.04 and Fedora 44 will have it. Rolling distros like Arch should also get it soon.

Google has officially announced Chrome for ARM64 Linux, with a release targeted for Q2 2026. That means Raspberry Pi users, Snapdragon laptop owners, and anyone else running ARM hardware will get the Chrome experience on Linux.

Although, not open source, Kagi's Orion browser has made it to Linux as a public beta, and it's genuinely interesting because it's one of the browsers on the platform not built on Chromium or Firefox's engine. It is based on WebKit and works okayish on GNOME.

A significant chunk of the Manjaro team has gone public with the "Manjaro 2.0 Manifesto," signed by 19 members, calling for the project to separate from its parent company and restructure as a nonprofit.

Fedora Asahi Remix 43 arrives with Mac Pro support. In case you did not know, Asahi is the project bring Linux to Apple's Silicon processors.

AI companies like Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta etc have put $12.5M into Open Source Security, managed by Linux Foundation. This is funny in a way. They are putting together a fund to fix the problem their AI tools created in the first place.

🧠 What We’re Thinking About

Google wants every Android developer to register using their real identity before their apps will install on certified devices, but not everyone's on board.

🧮 Linux Tips, Tutorials, and Learnings

A clean beginner's guide to Markdown covering the core syntax: headings, text formatting, links, images, lists, and block quotes. It comes with a downloadable cheat sheet and a few recommendations for online editors if you want to try it without installing anything.

Windows users have been conditioned to ask, "But can Linux do X?" This piece by Roland flips it around and asks what Linux can do that Windows can't. The answers range from practical (live sessions, moving installs between machines, reviving old hardware) to genuinely impressive (swapping kernels, choosing filesystems, replacing every layer of your stack).

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Inside this 20+ eBook library, you’ll gain expert insights from practical lessons like Learn Python Programming, 4E and the LLM Engineer's Handbook. These massively efficient tools save you time and effort so you can prioritize other important tasks and systems.

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👷 AI, Homelab and Hardware Corner

If your Raspberry Pi homelab is freezing up under load, the default 200 MB swap is probably the first thing worth looking at.

✨ Apps and Projects Highlights

If your GNOME top panel has turned into a wall of icons, Veil is worth a look. It's a shell extension that lets you hide panel items behind a toggle arrow.

📽️ Videos for You

You could move away from Google today if you wanted to, and DuckDuckGo is one of the good ones to consider.

💡 Quick Handy Tip

In Nautilus file manager, you can press CTRL+F to start a search in the current directory and CTRL+SHIFT+F to search across the other system folders. To go even further, you can add new search locations via the Search settings.

And, if you use the shortcut CTRL+ALT+O after selecting a file or folder, you can go to it's location in the file manager. Do note that this works in the Search and Recent pages of the file manager.

🎋 Fun in the FOSSverse

Do you know the brain behind Debian? This Ian Murdock quiz will test your knowledge.

🤣 Meme of the Week: We must protect it at all costs!

🗓️ Tech Trivia: On March 17, 1988, Apple sued Microsoft for copyright infringement over the look and feel of the Windows GUI. Apple's argument was that Windows borrowed too heavily from the Macintosh interface it had debuted in 1984. The case dragged on for years before a judge ruled that Apple had only limited rights to the design elements in question.

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 From the Community: One of our regular Pro FOSSers is having an issue with CUPS on antiX Linux; can you help?

If rumors and Reuters are to be believed, SUSE Linux us up for sale again. Again because it has changed owners several times in the past. IBM bought Red Hat Linux for $34 billion 6 years ago. It would be interesting to see who grabs SUSE. I hope it's not Microsoft.

By the way, not seeing new articles from It's FOSS in your feed reader? That's because there is an ongoing issue with the RSS feed as I am migrating to FeedPress. Please bear it with me.

Here are other highlights of this edition of FOSS Weekly:

• EA slowly moving towards Linux.
• Firefox's redesign has been leaked.
• Linux Mint keyboard shortcut video.
• MidnightBSD saying no to age verification.
• And other Linux news, tips, and, of course, memes!

📰 Linux and Open Source News

EA is hiring an anti-cheat engineer to bring Javelin to ARM64, and tucked into the job listing is a mention of exploring Linux and Proton support in the future. After ditching Linux for Apex Legends in 2024, it's a surprising turn. But I wouldn't hold my breath on this.

Firefox's Proton UI has been around since 2021 and honestly looks it. Leaked internal mockups show Mozilla is working on something called "Nova," a significant visual overhaul. Tabs, the address bar, and the toolbar are merged into a single floating strip; rounded corners are everywhere; flat grays are out in favor of gradients, and the private window gets a full dark-purple makeover.

MidnightBSD has updated its license to bar residents of Brazil and California from using the project, with Colorado, Illinois, and New York on the list if their respective pending age verification bills pass.

🧠 What We’re Thinking About

The age verification laws spreading across US states are making distro maintainers uncomfortable, and responses are all over the place. Ubuntu and Fedora are working on minimal local APIs to tick the compliance box without doing anything too invasive. MidnightBSD is outright banning people from using it (as mentioned above).

🧮 Linux Tips, Tutorials, and Learnings

Wordcloud is a Python tool that turns any list of words into a visual word cloud image, right from the terminal. You can feed it a text file, tweak the resolution, swap the font, change the background color, or use a mask image to shape the output around a custom silhouette.

Some practical privacy tips that don't require a computer science degree or a paranoia spiral. Our article covers the basics well, from securing your email and browser to picking better cloud storage and messaging apps.

Ever wanted a desktop that looks like it belongs on r/unixporn? We have an i3 customization guide that covers a lot, from basic keybindings and color schemes to transparent status bars and per-workspace app assignments.

GSConnect is the GNOME-friendly way to link your Android phone and Linux machine, built on top of KDE Connect. Once paired, you can transfer files, share the clipboard, get phone notifications on your desktop, and use your phone as a remote mouse.

👷 AI, Homelab and Hardware Corner

Prefer your local AI neatly containerized? This guide shows how to get Ollama running in Docker.

✨ Apps and Projects Highlights

FRANK OS is a full desktop operating system, complete with a Start menu, overlapping windows, Alt+Tab switching, and a ZX Spectrum emulator, running on an RP2350 microcontroller.

Foot is a minimal Wayland-native terminal emulator that focuses on speed and simplicity. A hidden gem worth exploring.

Keith Curtis spent a week building what he calls "Cursor for LibreOffice," an AI extension that lives in a sidebar and actually edits your documents.

📽️ Videos for You

Sharing some of the essential keyboard shortcuts for Linux Mint, this time in video format.

💡 Quick Handy Tip

On GNOME, first install Tiling Shell. Then, when you right-click on the titlebar of a window, you get various tiling options. Do keep in mind that not all apps will support this.

🎋 Fun in the FOSSverse

Match Linux apps with their functions in this puzzle. And yes, fresh new puzzles are coming soon 😄

🤣 Meme of the Week: Winslop doesn't know what consent means.

🗓️ Tech Trivia: On March 9, 1955, a program called "Director" was demonstrated on MIT's Whirlwind computer—automatically managing system resources while user code ran. It's considered one of the earliest rudimentary operating systems ever created.

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 From the Community: Can you help one of our regular FOSSers decide whether to keep Secure Boot enabled or not?

U.S. states keep passing age-verification laws that sound reasonable until you read the fine print. Colorado, for example, wants operating systems to broadcast age data to every app you install, and California has already passed a similar bill.

As governments push age checks deeper into apps and operating systems, what once sounded like a safety measure is starting to feel a lot like surveillance.

And it’s not just happening in the U.S. Reports suggest Brazil is also moving toward similar regulations. While this model may fit ecosystems like Apple and Microsoft, where operating systems are tightly tied to online accounts, the Linux world works very differently. Yet developers from projects like Fedora and Ubuntu are already discussing how such requirements might affect Linux.

We’ll be keeping close eye on how this evolves. Stay tuned.

Here are other highlights of this edition of FOSS Weekly:

• Longer support for certain Linux kernels.
• systemd troubleshooting tools
• Xfce customization.
• Microsoft hates Microslop.
• LibreOffice quick tip.
• A new consortium to unify the Arm software ecosystem.
• And other Linux news, tips, and, of course, memes!

📰 Linux and Open Source News

The web's most popular UI library has outgrown Meta's ownership. React is now part of the Linux Foundation with neutral governance and eight platinum members on board. Technical decisions are independent from the board, of course.

Arm software got too complex for any one company to handle alone. CoreCollective just launched to fix that fragmentation problem. Free membership for anyone building on Arm. AMD, Google, Microsoft and Red Hat are already in.

LTS kernel support windows just got extended after being cut to two years back in 2023. Linux 6.6 and 6.12 now get four-years of support instead. Greg Kroah-Hartman updated the schedule after discussions with companies and maintainers.

AI's RAM appetite just killed another hardware project. Orange Pi and Manjaro spent two years building a Linux gaming handheld, cleared regulatory approvals, and got everything ready to ship. Now it's sitting on ice because DDR5 chip prices are absurd.

Motorola just partnered with the GrapheneOS Foundation, and it was announced at MWC 2026. The two plan to collaborate on research, software improvements, and new security features in the coming months. If you did not know already, Graphene is an Android distribution that ditches Google's data collection layer entirely and has long been the go-to for anyone serious about privacy.

And a funny thing happened this week when Microsoft locked down its Discord server because people kept on calling it Microslop.

🧠 What We’re Thinking About

Few Linux distributions attract as much criticism as Ubuntu. From Snap complaints to Canonical decisions, the internet seems to have a long list of reasons to dislike it. But Ubuntu may not deserve nearly as much hate as it gets.

🧮 Linux Tips, Tutorials, and Learnings

When stuff breaks on Linux, systemd already knows what happened. Systemctl shows which services crashed, journalctl has the error messages, and systemd-analyze tells you what's hogging boot time. Coredumpctl keeps snapshots of apps that died completely.

Got an old PC or Raspberry Pi collecting dust? Batocera, Lakka, and RetroPie turn them into plug-and-play retro consoles via USB or SD card.

A quick tip if you love to use LibreOffice. If a document has way too many images and you have to save multiple or all images from it, save it as an HTML document in a new folder. You'll get all the images from the document. Pretty neat 😄

By the way, we are working on a "Linux Mint Starter Pack" series for beginners. I'll share with you when it is done. In the mean time, you can get familiar with the Linux command line.

👷 AI, Homelab and Hardware Corner

Tired of feeding your photos to Google's AI? PhotoPrism runs locally on Docker, handles face recognition and tagging on your hardware.

✨ Apps and Projects Highlights

A Czech-based dev built a data center sim where you rack servers and run cables. No native Linux support but works with some FPS issues

📽️ Videos for You

Xfce can be customized to look (more) beautiful. This video shows how:

💡 Quick Handy Tip

Brave browser allows you to set a shortcut to copy the URL of the current tab. For this, go to Brave Settings -> System -> Shortcuts. Here, search for Copy URL and add a keybind to it.

In the screenshot above, CTRL+SHIFT+C is added as the shortcut. This overwrites the default inspect function, which it was mapped to earlier. So tread with caution and try to add a non-conflicting shortcut.

If your browser does not support this, you can use CTRL+L to access the address bar and then CTRL+C to copy the URL of the current tab.

📚 Don't Miss! Linux eBook bundle

Humble Bundle has brought back the "Linux for Seasoned Admins" ebook bundle offer (partner link). From the classic Linux Pocket Guide and my favorite, Efficient Linux at the Command Line, the bundle also has ebooks on Docker, Ansible, Kubernetes and other devops aspects of Linux.

And your purchase also supports the Code for America initiative.

🎋 Fun in the FOSSverse

Can you beat this crossword and become the Daemon Hunter?

🤣 Meme of the Week: The pain is real. 🥲

🗓️ Tech Trivia: On March 1, 1960, the first LISP Programmer's Manual was released by John McCarthy's group at MIT. McCarthy had built a recursive, symbolic language that would go on to become the foundation of AI programming and outlast nearly every other high-level language of its era.

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 From the Community: FOSSers are talking about the upcoming secure boot changes, and how it might affect those on Linux.

I know not everyone wants to hear about AI all the time. But at this point, it’s impossible to ignore what’s happening.

It has been just a year since Anthropic launched Claude Code and the impact has been staggering.

In recent months, engineers at Anthropic reportedly stopped writing code manually for large parts of their workflow. Instead, they’ve been shipping feature after feature with AI-assisted development. The velocity is unlike anything we’ve seen before.

And the market noticed. Claude’s latest model release this month reportedly wiped out trillions of dollars from IT stocks globally within a single week.

Then came another shock.

A week later, Anthropic published a blog post claiming its AI can now modernize legacy COBOL codebases. IBM’s stock dropped 16% in a single day. Why? Because IBM still generates significant revenue maintaining mainframe systems that power banks, airlines, and critical financial infrastructure.

And don’t assume this only affects programmers. This shift touches all of us.

A recent research paper showed that tools like Claude and ChatGPT can de-anonymize your anonymous online identity with surprising ease.

The barrier to uncovering digital identities is collapsing. AI isn’t just changing how code is written. It’s changing privacy, security, and the economics of entire industries.

But here’s the important part.

Every major computing shift felt destabilizing at first; from assembly to high-level languages, from physical servers to the cloud. We’re witnessing the beginning of a new era. And we’re still early.

Here's the highlight of this edition of FOSS Weekly:

• Red Hat open-sourcing a tool.
• Some dock options for your system.
• Lightweight OpenClaw alternatives.
• New KDE Plasma release with many upgrades.
• And other Linux news, tips, and, of course, memes!

Humble Bundle has brought back the "Linux for Seasoned Admins" ebook bundle offer (partner link). From the classic Linux Pocket Guide and my favorite, Efficient Linux at the Command Line, the bundle also has ebooks on Docker, Ansible, Kubernetes and other devops aspects of Linux.

And your purchase also supports the Code for America initiative.

📰 Linux and Open Source News

Here's a summary of the news this week.

Red Hat has open-sourced a digital sovereignty assessment tool under the Apache 2.0 license. It asks 21 questions across 7 domains and scores organizations on a four-level maturity scale.

KDE Plasma 6.6 just landed with some practical upgrades. Spectacle now does OCR so you can pull text straight from screenshots, there's a new setup wizard for fresh installs, and WiFi QR code scanning works if you've got a camera.

Colorado's pushing a bill that would force operating system makers to ask users their age at setup, then share that info with every app they install. The bill never explains how age gets verified. Anyone could just lie.

Independent web browser Ladybird just ported 25,000 lines of its JavaScript engine from C++ to Rust in two weeks using Claude Code and Codex AI. The code passed 52,000+ tests with zero failures.

Australia's cyber agency recently open-sourced Azul, a malware analysis platform for incident responders. It stores samples indefinitely, automates reverse engineering with reusable plugins, and clusters patterns across malware families.

ONLYOFFICE's latest desktop editor release brings improvements to its PDF editing capabilities among other things.

🧠 What We’re Thinking About

App stores work great until you need real package control. This opinion piece by Roland argues Linux needs a modern Synaptic replacement for power users, but built with the Wayland security model in mind instead of running everything as root.

🧮 Linux Tips, Tutorials, and Learnings

Our comprehensive guide to keyboard shortcuts in Linux Mint covers everything from basics like Super for the start menu and Ctrl+Alt+T for the terminal to workspace management, window tiling, screenshots, and session control.

Looking to replace your Linux desktop's default dock? We covered seven options ranging from lightweight Plank to the heavily customizable Latte and the old-school Cairo. Also includes a window manager-friendly pick like Tint2.

Linux distros are switching to Wayland by default, but legacy apps still need Xorg, so knowing which display server you're running matters when troubleshooting. A quick terminal command reveals whether you're on Wayland or X11.

echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE

👷 AI, Homelab and Hardware Corner

OpenClaw's memory hunger kills it on Raspberry Pi and cheap SBCs. Here are some projects that remedy it by building an AI agent architecture for constrained hardware.

✨ Apps and Projects Highlights

To-do apps usually mine your data for ads. Super Productivity doesn't collect anything, just asks for notification access. It also offers Jira sync, Pomodoro timers, and time tracking.

📽️ Videos for You

In the llatest video, I share how I clean up systemd logs on my Linux systems, both desktop and servers.

💡 Quick Handy Tip

In Linux Mint (Cinnamon desktop), you can right-click the title of a window and enable "Always on Top" and "Always on Visible Workspace". This ensures that the currently open window stays on your current workspace, and will be above every other app window.

You will also find this on other modern desktop environments like KDE Plasma and GNOME as well.

🎋 Fun in the FOSSverse

Can you correctly guess these legendary open source projects?

🤣 Meme of the Week: Oh, how the times change. From Arch Linux to Debian.

🗓️ Tech Trivia: On February 25, 1959, MIT and the U.S. Air Force debuted APT (Automatically Programmed Tool) (I know you thought about the Linux one). It was the world’s first "English-like" programming language for machinery, effectively birthing Computer-Aided Manufacturing (CAM).

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 From the Community: The Apache Software Foundation is looking for people to present at Community Over Code 2026 in Glasgow. Are you up for it?

If that's not your cup of tea, why not talk with a fellow FOSSer about their kernel panic issue.