FOSS Weekly #24.15: German State Goes Open Source, Android FOSS App, Tailspin and More

Here’s positive news that should delight most Linux and open-source supporters. German state Schleswig-Holstein has decided to replace Microsoft Office with LibreOffice on over 30,000 employees’ PCs.

Good news indeed, right?

By the way, it appears that some of you did not receive the previous newsletter due to some technical difficulties. No worries. You can still read the Homelab special edition here.

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

Using alias in Linux terminal.
Open source Android keyboard app.
Yet another German state trying to move away from Microsoft.
And other Linux news, videos and, of course, memes!
This edition of FOSS Weekly is supported by Warp.

✨ Warp: Linux Terminal With AI

Warp is a modern terminal emulator built with Rust. It has AI assistant integrated along with IDE like features. Consider it the VS Code of terminal. Although not open source and initially developed for macOS, Warp is now also available for Linux.

📰 Linux news

Great news for users of NVIDIA hardware on Linux. The Explicit Sync protocol is almost here. Learn why it matters:

🧠 What we’re thinking about

For those who may be wondering why Thunderbird is helping maintain the Snap package.

🧮 Linux Tips, Tutorials and More

Aliases are a great way to ease your work in the Linux terminal.

Add a splash of color to your log reading experience with Tailspin.

2024 is shaping up to be yet another year of great distro releases. Check which one may suit you the best:

📹 What we are watching

An interesting infrared-based head tracking mouse made possible using a Raspberry Pi that runs on Linux!

✨ Project highlights

Cartridges is a minimal launcher for your games across various platforms.

In response to your requests, we have started our FOSS Android apps series with Simple Keyboard!

🧩 New quiz

Debian fan? This is for you.

💡 Quick handy tip

View Firefox browsing history neatly by sorting sites. Follow the arrows shown below.

🤣 Meme of the week

Can they ever get to terms?

🗓️ Tech Trivia

The popular version control system Git was released 19 years ago on 7th April 2005. It was created by none other than Linus Torvalds. He was frustrated because the proprietary source control system BitKeeper revoked the free license for Linux kernel development.

Interesting, isn’t it? Torvalds created Linux because he could not afford to purchase UNIX and then he created Git in a somewhat similar situation. That’s why he is a legend.