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💬 Let’s see what you get in this edition of FOSS Weekly:
- A continuation of the Bash Basics series
- Tutanota builds a secure yet quantum cloud storage solution
- And other Linux news and videos, and of course memes!
📰 Linux news
🧠 What we think about
Yeah… you still can’t get over Red Hat’s decision. Here’s an opinion piece on why it’s a bad move in the long run. I’ve been getting quite a buzz these past few days.
Suicide attempt by Red Hat [Opinion]
The recent decision to put Red Hat’s source code behind the firewall of its direct competitors may hurt today, but it will negatively affect Red Hat tomorrow.
🧮 lessons
In the fourth chapter of the Bash Basics series, learn how to do basic math in Bash.
Bash Essentials Series #4: Arithmetic Operations
In the fourth chapter of the series, learn how to use basic math in Bash.
‘ls’ is the most used command in Linux; Learn to use it efficiently.
Using the ls command in Linux
ls is one of the simplest and most commonly used commands in Linux. Learn how to use it effectively in this tutorial.
Remove unwanted software repositories from Ubuntu by following our guide.
Remove software repositories from Ubuntu [3 Easy Ways] 😎
From apt-add-repository to the Software & Updates tool, here are several ways to remove software repositories from Ubuntu.
📹 What we’re watching
If you like video streaming, here’s a good episode of The Linux Cast for Debian fans.
✨ Project highlights
Here’s a nice little generator for Bash prompts.
Bash prompt generator
Create a custom PS1 variable for your Bash
A new terminal written in Rust and coupled with AI? But it needs to create an account to use cloud features. I am not a fan of such an approach.
GitHub – warpdotdev/Warp: Warp is a modern, blazingly fast Rust-based terminal built to make you and your team more productive.
Warp is a modern, ultra-fast, Rust-based terminal designed to make you and your team more productive. – GitHub – warpdotdev/Warp: Warp is a very fast modern GPU acceleration based on Rust…
🧩 Puzzle (Pro members only)
Guess Various file managers in Linux Desktop ecosystems in this puzzle.
Puzzle of the Week: Acrostic #02: File managers
Practice with your “little gray cells” and solve this puzzle.
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💡 Quick and easy to use tip
In GNOME’s Nautilus file manager, you can drop a folder in the terminal and it switches to its absolute path.
For example, cd <drag and drop a folder> will enter the directory.
Best used with files. Let’s say you have a deb file to install.
You write part of it and drop it like this: sudo apt install <drag the deb file>
It will give you the absolute path of the deb file.
Try it.
🤣 Meme of the week
do you agree?
🗓️ Technical trivia
On July 4, 1956, MIT’s Whirlwind became the first computer ever to allow user interaction through a keyboard. Prior to this, user input was provided through dials, switches, and punch cards.
🧑🤝🧑 angle FOSSverse
Interesting thread by two dedicated community members, Neville and Rosica about the inner workings of a “virt-manager package” that uses qemu/KVM to run virtual machines inside a host Linux system.
Communication between host and guest VM when using virt-manager
This is a post shared by @nevj and Rosika that reports on our collaborative investigation of a virt-manager package that uses qemu/KVM to run virtual machines within a host Linux system. We have specifically looked at different ways of communicating between a Linux guest system running…
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