FOSS Weekly #24.44: Fedora 41 Release, Russia in Linux Kernel, System Monitoring and More

It’s Halloween and it’s time for scary stuff. How about knowing some spooky Linux commands that you should not run on your system?

10 Destructive Linux Commands You Should Never RunLearn some common dangerous Linux commands that mischievous people often use to trick new Linux users.

Last year, we had created a few Halloween themed quizzes. It’s time to revisit them.

And if you are feeling too festive, you can give your Linux desktop a Halloween makeover.

💬 Let’s see what else you get in this edition

• Some hardware focused tips for Linux.
• Kali Linux moving away from 32bit builds.
• Windows install on Raspberry Pi.
• Halloween themed quizzes
• And other Linux news, videos and, of course, memes!
• This week’s newsletter is supported by GitPod.

❇️ Announcing Gitpod Flex

Gitpod Flex automates your full dev environment—yes, including tools and secrets. Speed up work, boost productivity, and collaborate securely with zero-trust security whether coding locally, in the cloud, or on-prem.

Introducing Gitpod Flex: Automating the software development lifecycle – BlogIntroducing the building blocks for automating and securing your software development lifecycle. Learn more about Automations, Gitpod Desktop, and Dev Container support.

📰 Linux News

And Fedora 41 is here, a few days ahead of the schedule which is something new for Fedora releases 😀

Fedora 41 is Here: 10 Sweet Features That You Get With The UpgradeFedora 41 is available to download. Learn about its best features before you upgrade or install.

🧠 What We’re Thinking About

Politics surely divides! The geopolitics has now reached the Linux kernel development.

No Russians in my Kernel! Geopolitics Reaches Linux ProjectSo, geopolitics into the mix, and it is a US-thing, or not?

🧮 Linux Tips, Tutorials and More

Finally, you can rest easy when it comes to monitoring your Linux system, just use one of these GUI task managers. 👇

Best GUI-based Task Managers for Linux DesktopWant a task manager for Linux but don’t want to go the terminal way? Here are the GUI ones I explored recently.

👷 Maker’s Corner

• Considering a switch from the Raspberry Pi 4 to 5? Let us help you make an informed decision.
• If you were looking for some good OS picks for your Raspberry Pi, then we have a handy list for you.

Our in-house tinkerer has done something very spooky (before Halloween, that too). He has been running Windows on a Raspberry Pi.

He He 😆 Running Windows on Raspberry Pi … Because Why Not?Sometimes I feel too adventurous to try new and weird things. This one is one of those adventures.

📹 Videos We are Creating for You

✨ Apps of the Week

PeaZip is a versatile cross-platform file archiver which has proven to be a great app of the week.

PeaZip: A Versatile Open Source File Archiver and Encryption UtilityA free and open source file archiver with various useful abilities.

• On the other hand, for Android, there’s Eternity, a cool Lemmy client that doesn’t disappoint.

🧩 Quiz Time

There are many GitHub alternatives, can you identify them in this puzzle?

GitHub Alternatives: PuzzleSolve this puzzle by figuring out the alternatives to GitHub!

💡 Quick Handy Tip

In Firefox, if you have many tabs opened, you can close all the duplicate tabs in one go. Click on the List all tabs button in the title bar and select “Close all duplicate tabs”.

🤣 Meme of the Week

Windows weeps, Linux reaps. 😈

🗓️ Tech Trivia

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) was signed into law by US President Bill Clinton on October 28, 1998. It was, and still is a controversial copyright law that has misused by many big corporations.

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 FOSSverse Corner

FOSSers are discussing the early days of Linux with Linus, care to chime in?

Early days in Linux with LinusI don’t know if this has been posted here before – but it’s the first time I’ve read this : https://lwn.net/Articles/928581/ Resulted from google search prompted by curiosity about Linus’ first x86 computer. In a nutshell – it was a 386 (DX33? It would have been a DX ’cause Linus didn’t want to faff around with 386SX – which had a 16 bit address space) and a tiny 4 MB RAM… Interestingly – this was only a few months before I bought my first x86 PC – I didn’t know ANYTHING about PCs other than…

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