FOSS Weekly #24.07: Fedora Atomic Distro, Android FOSS Apps, Mozilla Monitor Plus and More

Twitter’s open source rival BlueSky is now open for all. It is based on the AT Protocol. And It’s FOSS is already on this new platform. We got to try new things, right?

Speaking of new things, there is a new Rust-based terminal that is generating quite a buzz in various coding communities on the web. It is called Warp and it brings IDE-styled editor to the terminal.

It is not open source and it is not available to everyone on Linux yet. However, I have got my hands it and soon I’ll be checking if it’s really worth all the hype. Afterwards, I’ll share my experience with you, hopefully next week. If interested, you can check out its other promised features from its website below.

💬 Let’s see what else you get in this edition of FOSS Weekly:

Fedora rebranding some of their spins.
Intel is changing the names of their processors.
Firefox has a new privacy-focused offering.
Ankush switched to Fedora from Ubuntu and now he is going back.
Canonical pushing for more Snaps in Ubuntu 24.04.
And other Linux news, videos and, of course, memes!

📰 Linux news

SparkyLinux 2024.02 is here with important tweaks and fixes.
BlueSky is now open for everyone to join, there’s no need for an invite anymore.
Thunderbird will be offered as a Snap on the upcoming Ubuntu 24.04 LTS release.
Fedora Atomic Desktops is the new family of spins that features some popular existing Fedora spins.
Mozilla has launched a new Plus tier for their Monitor service that deletes personal data from over 190 data brokers.

The Linux Foundation has formed an alliance with some influential organizations to tackle Post-Quantum Cryptography.

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🧠 What we’re thinking about

Linux, but in space! Learn how our favorite kernel is being used to power spacecrafts.

🧮 Linux Tips, Tutorials and More

If you are an Android user, here are some open source Android apps you could explore and use.

Learn how to properly use UARTs to debug a Raspberry Pi.

Thereafter, you can see how the “Cut” command works in Linux.

Learn about the changes Intel is brining to its processor names.

📹 What we are watching

Torvalds talking about Rust (2 months old video).

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✨ Project highlights

This is how Fedora fared for a long-time Ubuntu user. Hint: It didn’t go as planned.

And an interesting AI-based open source project for creating digital avatars.

🧩 New quiz unit

You love Firefox, don’t you? How about playing this quiz and ‘saving Firefox’?

💡 Quick handy tip

Did you know that you could check the memory usage of an active tab on the Brave browser by just hovering on one? I think it’s a recent feature added to Chromium and it probably works with other Chromium-based browsers as well.

Checking memory usage for each tab in Brave

🤣 Meme of the week

K is for KDE. That’s the (k)law, right?

🗓️ Tech Trivia

The first fully electronic computer (as compared to electro-mechanical designs) ENIAC unveiled at the University of Pennsylvania on 14 February 1946. It occupied over 1,500 square feet of space, weighed 30 tons, and used 18,000 vacuum tubes.