The summer holiday season starts. Time to hit the beach, mountains, or the couch š
My teammate Sourav is an avid gamer, and he is working on several game suggestion articles. If you play computer games, you’ll find some good suggestions to enjoy your summer holidays.
š¬ Let’s see what else you get in this edition
- A new Linux kernel release.
- Review of OpenMandriva Lx ‘Rock’.
- Managing startup applications.
- Open source apps for quick file transfers.
- And other Linux news, tips, and, of course, memes!
š° Linux and Open Source News
š§ What Weāre Thinking About
Sourav took OpenMandriva Lx ‘Rock’ for a spin to see how it stacks against Fedora.
š Linux courses on Humble Bundle
Games are one way to spend the holidays, improving your Linux skills could be another. There is an ongoing course bundle sale on Humble Bundle that might be worth checking out. Part of your course bundle purchase is donated to Alzheimer’s Research UK.
š§® Linux Tips, Tutorials, and Learnings
Here are five open source apps that you can use for quick wireless transfers between Linux and Android:
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š· AI, Homelab and Hardware Corner
Lumo is Proton’s privacy-focused AI assistant that looks to take on offerings by Big Tech.
TUXEDO Computers has launched the InfinityBook Pro 15 (Gen10)!
āØ Project Highlight
My Expenses is a capable finance tracking app that just works.
š½ļø Videos I am Creating for You
The latest video discusses system monitoring tools in Linux.
š§© Quiz Time
Can you match Ubuntu releases with their respective mascots?
š” Quick Handy Tip
In KDE Plasma’s Klipper clipboard manager, you can quickly generate a QR code. With this, if you have a link in your clipboard, you can scan the generated QR code with your phone and open it.
To create a new QR code, head into the Clipboard and click on the “Show QR code” button. This will give you a QR code to scan; most text entries can be shared this way for quick transfers to your phone.
š¤£ Meme of the Week
Big Tech is greedy. š
šļø Tech Trivia
On August 1, 1967, the U.S. Navy recalled Grace Hopper to help standardize COBOL, a revolutionary programming language. Hopper, a computing pioneer, also developed one of the first compilers and helped popularize the term “computer bug.”
š§āš¤āš§ FOSSverse Corner
Doron has posted the first part of his tutorial on building reliable storage infrastructure.
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