GNOME 44 is out NOW. The next Ubuntu 23.04 And Fedora 38 will present this new version. Streaming distros will offer it sooner than other distros.
There are a few new distros that have appeared recently. An interesting distro is carbonOS featured in this edition of the FOSS Weekly newsletter.
💬 Let’s see what else you have this week:
- The final chapter in the one-of-a-kind NixOS tutorial series
- Continuation of the Terminal Basics Series for Linux Beginners
- A quick introduction to LUKS encryption
- And more Linux news, open source apps, videos and memes
ONLYOFFICE open source office suite now integrates ChatGPT to perform office tasks easily. With this you can:
- generate texts for your presentations;
- translate words and sentences;
- find information;
- get answers to your questions;
- correct errors and structure the texts;
- write code snippets;
- find images and more.
What is ChatGPT and how to use it | ONLYOFFICE Blog
Now you can get accurate answers to your questions, quickly find information, generate texts and even create your code with the help of the famous AI assistant, directly in ONLYOFFICE Docs.
📰 Linux News Roundup
GNOME 44 is here with new tricks up its sleeve
GNOME 44 is finally here with revamped Settings, updated Quick Settings, accessibility improvements, and more.
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🧠 What we think about
THE Internet Archive has been in a legal battle with some major book publishers for some time now; decide whether the digital loan violates copyright laws. The interesting part is that publishers can’t prove digital lending hurts their sales, and a federal judge is expected to hand down the final verdict on that soon.
Book publishers with rising profits struggle to prove the Internet Archive hurt sales
A federal judge will soon decide whether the digital loan violates copyright laws.
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On March 20, 1800, Italian scientist Alessandro Volta announced the very first electric battery. The electrical unit of the Volt is named in honor of Volta. He also discovered methane gas.
⛓️️Tutorial series
All good things eventually come to an end. The final chapter in the five-part NixOS tutorial series is here. Hope you enjoyed this series. We plan to create more tutorial series like this in the future. Suggestions are welcome.
NixOS Series #5: How to configure home-manager on NixOS?
Here is how you can easily configure the home-manager to install/remove packages on NixOS.
The terminal basics series is still ongoing. The last chapter teaches deleting files and folders in the terminal.
Delete files and folders in Linux command line
You learned how to create files and directories. Now is the time to learn how to delete files and folders in the command line.
✨ Fees on It’s FOSS
Bill shares a brief overview of LUKS encryption in the Linux Jargon Buster series.
What is LUKS encryption?
LUKS is a popular disk encryption mechanism among Linux users. Learn more about LUKS in this lingo article.
We don’t come across independent distros every day. Take a look at the interesting distribution of carbonOS.
carbonOS: This upcoming indie distro is all about UX and a robust experience
carbonOS is a new distro coming to the radar. Find out more here.
📹 What we watch
More power for FOSS
📱 Application Highlights
A handy Linux application for storing your desktop configuration.
Effortlessly save your Linux desktop settings with SaveDesktop
A handy Linux application for storing your desktop configuration. Yes, to that!
🤣 Linux Humor
They can’t Right?, Right?
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