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FOSS Weekly #26.45: Fedora 45, Immutable Ubuntu, Mint New Feature, Dual Boot Without USB and More Linux Stuff
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FOSS Weekly #26.45: Fedora 45, Immutable Ubuntu, Mint New Feature, Dual Boot Without USB and More Linux Stuff

Abhishek PrakashNovember 5, 2026

Fedora 45 arrived about two weeks late, but it’s packed. You get Linux 7.2, GNOME 51, and Plasma 6.7, plus kmscon replacing the old text

Local AI Weekly #8: All Your RAM Are Belong to Us
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Local AI Weekly #8: All Your RAM Are Belong to Us

Abhishek PrakashNovember 4, 2026

Sam Altman, the OpenAI CEO, said it’s “quite terrible” that so much of the world’s limited DRAM sits in personal computers that use it maybe

Killed by Ubuntu, Linux Mint is Bringing This Classic Feature Back
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Killed by Ubuntu, Linux Mint is Bringing This Classic Feature Back

Abhishek PrakashNovember 2, 2026

Okay, killed by Ubuntu is an exaggeration, as Ubuntu is not the only Linux distro doing this. Still, the big news is that Linux Mint

Here’s How You Can Use VPNs for FREE on Linux
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Here’s How You Can Use VPNs for FREE on Linux

Abhishek PrakashNovember 1, 2026

“If you are not paying for the product, you are the product.” That’s often true, and it’s doubly true for VPNs. A VPN service could

FOSS Weekly #26.44: Ginux, Dead Distros, Resurrected Projects, Dangerous Commands and More (Scary) Linux Stuff
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FOSS Weekly #26.44: Ginux, Dead Distros, Resurrected Projects, Dangerous Commands and More (Scary) Linux Stuff

Abhishek PrakashOctober 29, 2026

Amutable has opened signups for design partners to test an immutable, image-based system that ships every change as a signed update. Built by the engineers

openEuler New Releases Come With a Heavy Dose of AI and Agents
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openEuler New Releases Come With a Heavy Dose of AI and Agents

Abhishek PrakashOctober 29, 2026

openEuler has two fresh releases out. 24.03 LTS SP4 arrived in July 2026, and the short-term 26.09 innovation release followed on October 1. We covered

Jadens JD-166 Review: Portable, Inkless Thermal Printer on Linux
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Jadens JD-166 Review: Portable, Inkless Thermal Printer on Linux

Abhishek PrakashOctober 28, 2026

For Linux veterans, printers can induce nightmares. Although, lately, printer support has vastly improved on Linux, at least for the newer models. Last week, I

Local AI Weekly #7: Bubble or Not?
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Local AI Weekly #7: Bubble or Not?

Abhishek PrakashOctober 28, 2026

The Reuters proclaimed that the AI bubble has already burst in China. Chinese AI and chip stocks have lost about $480 billion in value. In

Rocky Linux Creator Built a New “Not Linux” Kernel in 11 Days Using AI
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Rocky Linux Creator Built a New “Not Linux” Kernel in 11 Days Using AI

Abhishek PrakashOctober 27, 2026

Gregory Kurtzer is no stranger to the Linux world. He created CentOS, and when Red Hat messed it up, he started Rocky Linux as the

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Bottles Creator Mirko Brombin Wants Microsoft Office on Linux, Not Its Clones

Abhishek PrakashOctober 25, 2026

Mirko Brombin is working to get Microsoft Office running reliably on Linux. He also thinks the apps cloning Office and Photoshop pixel for pixel cross

RAID Calculator
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RAID Calculator

Abhishek PrakashOctober 24, 2026

How to use this RAID calculator It’s quite simple, actually. Pick the RAID level or ZFS layout you are considering. Enter how many drives you

FOSS Weekly #26.43: Kernel 7.3, Non-Linux OS, de-Googled Phone, DuxOS, Podcasts, De-bloating TVs, KDE Dock and More
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FOSS Weekly #26.43: Kernel 7.3, Non-Linux OS, de-Googled Phone, DuxOS, Podcasts, De-bloating TVs, KDE Dock and More

Abhishek PrakashOctober 24, 2026

Steam’s Linux client is going 64-bit and containerized. Running the client inside Steam Runtime containers, like its games already do, should make it behave more

ArmSoM Sige7s Puts the RK3588S on a Raspberry Pi-Sized Board, and There’s a Compute Module Too
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ArmSoM Sige7s Puts the RK3588S on a Raspberry Pi-Sized Board, and There’s a Compute Module Too

Abhishek PrakashOctober 23, 2026

If you’ve followed It’s FOSS for a while, you probably have seen our previous coverage of ArmSoM devices. I reviewed the Sige7 a while back

Local AI Weekly #6: If You Can Reverse Engineer It, It’s Open Source!
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Local AI Weekly #6: If You Can Reverse Engineer It, It’s Open Source!

Abhishek PrakashOctober 21, 2026

What I realized in the past week or so is that if you can reverse engineer it, any software is open source software. Not in

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