Hi there!
So this is the first distributions week of the year (2nd one in October as well!) where multiple mainstream Linux distributions get released in the same week. Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, and all its official flavors (Ubuntu MATE, Xubuntu, Kubuntu… etc) have been released, as well as Fedora 40.
Our efforts this week included publishing new guides and updating old ones to suit the new distributions and reflect the changes.
For Ubuntu, we have published the following posts:
For Fedora:
We have also published the following long, detailed review that you will probably not see anything like it in another place on the Internet:
Some FOSS Outpost forum posts that you might be interested in:
Other open-source news include:
Neofetch, the famous terminal information tool, is no longer maintained.
KDE Neon developers talk about their experience with packaging Plasma 6 in their distribution and what issues they have faced.
Microsoft has open-sourced MS Dos 4.0 source code, after many decades of sunsetting it.
Canonical talks about their improvements in Ubuntu for Microsoft Azure users.
That was it for this week’s new articles and FOSS news. Hope you like our newsletter!
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