The “12 Days of Tuxmas” have begun 🎄
I’ll share 12 new content, features or changes to It’s FOSS platform during the holiday period.
On the first day of Tuxmas, you get holiday themed wallpapers for your Linux desktop.
On the second day of Tuxmas, you can enjoy holiday-themed Linux quizzes and puzzles.
Stay tuned for the rest of Tuxmas days.
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By the way, this is the 52nd newsletter of 2024. One for each week of the year. If you read all the 52 editions this year, you and me both, deserve some sort of award for the consistency 😊
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💬 Let’s see what else you get in this edition
- A trip down memory lane.
- Mozilla partnering with Ecosia.
- Defining moments of open source and Linux in 2024.
- And other Linux news, videos and, of course, memes!
Table of Contents
- 1 📰 Linux and Open Source News
- 2 🗓️ Year End Specials
- 3 🧠 What We’re Thinking About
- 4 🧮 Linux Tips, Tutorials and More
- 5 👷 Maker’s and AI Corner
- 6 📹 Videos We are Creating for You
- 7 ✨ Apps of the Week
- 8 🧩 Quiz Time
- 9 💡 Quick Handy Tip
- 10 🤣 Meme of the Week
- 11 🗓️ Tech Trivia
- 12 🧑🤝🧑 FOSSverse Corner
- 13 ❤️ With love
📰 Linux and Open Source News
Following its rebranding, Mozilla has now teamed up with Ecosia.
🗓️ Year End Specials
As we end this memorable year, let’s take a look back at some of the most notable Linux applications and FOSS apps for Android.
Beyond that, the year 2025 has some interesting Linux distributions to watch out for.
There were many important events in the world of open source and Linux, but eight such occurrences caught our eye.
🧠 What We’re Thinking About
We can start preparing our wishlist for 2025, right?
You’ll relate to some of these if you have been using Linux for a long time.
🧮 Linux Tips, Tutorials and More
👷 Maker’s and AI Corner
No need to surrender documents to online AI tools for basic tasks, you can do the same locally.
Retro tech, major impact—meet AGC that powered the Apollo missions.
📹 Videos We are Creating for You
✨ Apps of the Week
Is Betterbird a “better” alternative to Thunderbird? Find out:
If you find yourself searching for the meaning of words, then freeDictionaryApp can be a great fit.
🧩 Quiz Time
Can you guess the year of release for these distros?
💡 Quick Handy Tip
In Thunar file manager, you can enable sidebar image preview. For doing that, click on “View” and then hover over the “Side Pane” option. Here, click on “Image Preview”, and Thunar should start showing image previews.
In some cases, you might have to enable it each time you use Thunar.
🤣 Meme of the Week
Santa got no chill. ☠️
🗓️ Tech Trivia
Charles Babbage, born on December 26, 1791, designed the Analytical Engine, a mechanical computer ahead of its time. He also developed the Difference Engine to automate polynomial calculations. His work laid the foundation for modern computing, influencing future generations.
🧑🤝🧑 FOSSverse Corner
A FOSSer is wondering about the state of VR support in Linux; care to share your thoughts?
❤️ With love
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