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Let’s see what else you get in this edition
- New Ubuntu flavor release.
- Exploring pages, links, and tags in Logseq.
- Ubisoft doing something really unexpected.
- And other Linux news, tips, and, of course, memes!
- This edition of FOSS Weekly is supported by Valkey.
Table of Contents
- 1
Valkey – The Drop-in Alternative to Redis OSS
- 2
Linux and Open Source News
- 3
What We’re Thinking About
- 4
Linux Tips, Tutorials and More
- 5
Homelab and Maker’s Corner
- 6
Apps Highlight
- 7
Videos I am Creating for You
- 8
Quiz Time
- 9
Quick Handy Tip
- 10
Meme of the Week
- 11
Tech Trivia
- 12
FOSSverse Corner
- 13
With love
Valkey – The Drop-in Alternative to Redis OSS
With the change of Redis licensing in March of 2024 came the end of Redis as an open source project. Enter Valkey – the community driven fork that preserves and improves the familiar high-performance, key-value datastore for improving application performance.
Stewarded by the Linux foundation, Valkey serves as an open source drop-in alternative to Redis OSS – no code changes needed, with the same developer-friendly experience. For your open source database, check out Valkey.
Linux and Open Source News
ZimaBoard 2 crowdfunding campaign is live on Kickstarter. I had the early prototype sent a few days ago and I share my experience with ZimaBoard 2 in this article.
What We’re Thinking About
Android’s Linux Terminal just got a noteworthy power up.
Linux Tips, Tutorials and More
If you just installed or upgraded to the Ubuntu 25.04 release, here are 13 things you should do right away:
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Homelab and Maker’s Corner
Build a real-time knowledge retrieval system with our step-by-step RAG guide.
Apps Highlight
Docs is a self-hostable document editor solution with many neat features.
Videos I am Creating for You
See Fedora 42 in action in the latest video. By the way, that weird default wallpaper has a significance.
Quiz Time
Try your hand at our Essential Linux Commands crossword.
Alternatively, can you match the Linux distros with their logos?
Quick Handy Tip
In GNOME File Manager (Nautilus), you can invert the selection of items using the keyboard shortcut CTRL + SHIFT + I.

Meme of the Week
Hah, this couldn’t be more true.

Tech Trivia
On April 20, 1998, during a demonstration of a beta version of Windows 98 by Microsoft’s Bill Gates, at COMDEX, the system crashed in the live event. Gates jokingly said, “That must be why we’re not shipping Windows 98 yet”. If you ever used Windows 98, you know that it should have never been shipped
FOSSverse Corner
Can you help a newbie FOSSer with their search for a Linux distribution chart?
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