FOSS Weekly #25.07: KDE Plasma 6.3, Arch with BTRFS, Flexpilot IDE, Terminal Tips and More Linux Stuff

by: Abhishek Prakash

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The more you use it as your daily driver, the more you explore it and the more you learn. You won't even realize how much you have improved from day zero 💪

💬 Let's see what else you get in this edition

• New LibreOffice and ONLYOFFICE releases.

• DeepSeek making its way into a Linux terminal.

• New EndeavourOS release

• And other Linux news, tips and, of course, memes!

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📰 Linux and Open Source News

• EndeavourOS Mercury shows up as a modest release.

• DeepSeek support lands in the latest Warp Terminal release.

• Proxmox has been made a toplevel platform for Fedora CoreOS.

• The Open Euro LLM initiative is Europe's bet on achieving transparent AI.

• LibreOffice 25.2 and ONLYOFFICE Docs 8.3 have arrived with many notable improvements.

KDE Plasma 6.3 arrives with some digital artist-focused changes.

KDE Plasma 6.3 Release Aims to Be the Ultimate Desktop for Digital Artists

KDE Plasma 6.3 has arrived with some pretty exciting changes for digital artists.

It's FOSS NewsSourav Rudra

🧠 What We’re Thinking About

After the recent Linux kernel drama, a new policy has been introduced for Rust.

After Recent Kernel Drama, Rust for Linux Policy Put in Place

The recent Linux kernel drama over Rust code has resulted in the creation of a Rust kernel policy.

It's FOSS NewsSourav Rudra

🧮 Linux Tips, Tutorials and More

• Dual-booted and now Windows is not showing in Grub? You can fix that.

• Installing Arch Linux with BTRFS and disk encryption is fairly straightforward.

• If you are not up for that, why not get started with Fedora for your next distrohop?

Here are some elementary but necessary tips on using the Linux commands in terminal.

19 Basic But Essential Linux Terminal Tips You Must Know

Learn some small, basic but often ignored things about the terminal. With the small tips, you should be able to use the terminal with slightly more efficiency.

It's FOSSAbhishek Prakash

👷 Maker's and AI Corner

Ditch the cloud with these five local AI tools for image creation.

Tailscale makes SSHing into your Raspberry Pi simple and secure.

SSH into Raspberry Pi from Outside Home Network Using Tailscale

Learn how you can use Tailscale to secure connect to your Raspberry Pi from outside your home network.

It's FOSSAbhishek Kumar

✨ Apps highlight

Feeling the winds change? Time to check out a cool open source weather app. 🌤️

Another day, another IDE with AI features. Flexpilot joins the list.

Flexpilot is an Open Source IDE for AI-Assisted Coding Experience 🚀

Flexpilot is almost like VS Code, only a bit better with built-in AI features. Learn why I created it and how you can use it.

It's FOSSCommunity

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🧩 Quiz Time

In the most intelligent photo ever taken, do you know all the people?

The Most Intelligent Photo for Curious Minds

Did you know about the individuals in this photo? We help you here.

It's FOSSAnkush Das

💡 Quick Handy Tip

In KDE Plasma, you can assign a temporary shortcut to a window so that you can bring it to the foreground when needed. For this, right-click on the title bar of the required window and select More Actions → Set Window Shortcut…

Now, enter a shortcut by activating the desired keyboard shortcut combination and press OK.

And, that's it. Now you can see that the title of the window is modified to show the new temporary window shortcut. Use the keyboard shortcut combination to bring the window to the foreground.

🤣 Meme of the Week

The clock's ticking, Windows 10 users! ⏰

🗓️ Tech Trivia

On February 10, 1996, IBM’s Deep Blue became the first computer to defeat a reigning world chess champion, Garry Kasparov, in a single game. Kasparov won the match 4–2.

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 FOSSverse Corner

Have you heard of the Haiku Project? It is an open source operating system that focuses on personal computing. Join other FOSSers in the discussion over it!

Haiku Project looks interesting!

So, there’s this other OS, it’s not Linux, nor a *BSD. It’s Haiku. A continuation of BeOS, which was meant as a competitor to Windows, it has quite some interesting features. It boots fast, REALLY fast, and I only tried its live mode in a VM! Yes, it’s rough around the edges (that’s why it hasn’t got a 1.0 yet), but already it looks promising. Its GUI is really responsive and looks and behaves quite different than the Windows or MacOS-esque GUIs, so takes some getting used to. So, what do you…

It's FOSS Communityxahodo

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