LightDM 1.33.0 is out after a four-year gap, now under community maintainership rather than Canonical's. Two new maintainers, one behind Ubuntu Cinnamon Remix and the other a long-time Fedora and openSUSE contributor, have stepped up.Nitrux has given a name to what it's been building since dropping Plasma for Hyprland last year. The Workspace Environment brings four in-house QML components together, a workspace bar, a dock, a settings app, and a lock screen.A busy point release for Linux has just landed. AMD Radeon picks up HDMI 2.1 support, Apple M3 MacBooks can boot Linux for the first time, and Btrfs large folio support is on by default.Canonical's VP of Engineering has said that Ubuntu's growth rate inside WSL is outpacing its growth rate on native desktops, which got picked up everywhere (including here 🤐) as "Ubuntu is growing faster on Windows than Linux." He's since clarified that the comparison was about growth rate only.The Xen Project recently launched a Safety Committee to build the shared documentation, test evidence, and certification artifacts that companies deploying Xen in automotive, avionics, and industrial automation keep having to produce independently.Privacy company Murena now offers Fairphone Gen 6 with its /e/OS, a private alternative to Android.PINE64 is halting the production of its Linux-based tablets. Reason? The soaring RAM prices have made it impossible to keep the pricing reasonable for such hobbyist devices. And the RAM prices are increasing due to AI boom. Big Tech has already put their hands on the supply with bulk orders for their data centers and now the consumers are struggling as prices for disks and RAMs have gone up multiple folds.🧠 What We’re Thinking AboutDon't remember if I shared it in the newsletter or not. A few days ago, it was found that some AI companies are buying rare books to train their LLMs. And in the process, they were also cutting (read destroying) the books because it is easier to scan the books page by page that way.404 Media (paywalled content) has tracked one such shipment to the Amazon AI training facility. So at least we have one culprit identified.🧮 Linux Tips, Tutorials, and LearningsMost people look no further than Tmux and Screen. But what if I told you there were terminal multiplexers that shared sessions over SSH, restored your workspace exactly as you left it, or brought tiling WM concepts straight into your terminal?A detailed guide on apt that covers updating the package database, installing and removing packages, searching, showing package info, listing upgradable software, and cleaning up leftover dependencies.Want your GNOME desktop to look like those Catppuccin or Nord riced screenshots without spending an afternoon in config files? Rewaita is a Flatpak app that applies color palettes to GTK and Libadwaita apps through CSS overrides. Desktop Linux is mostly neglected by the industry but loved by the community. For the past 14 years, It's FOSS has been helping people use Linux on their personal computers. And we are now facing the existential threat from AI models stealing our content. If you like what we do and would love to support our work, please become It's FOSS Plus member. It costs $49 a year (less than the cost of a McDonald's burger a month), and you get an ad-free reading experience with the satisfaction of helping the desktop Linux community. And there are also free Linux ebooks. Join It's FOSS Plus 👷 AI, Homelab and Hardware CornerProton has come up with a tool that tells you how many secrets you have spilled over to an AI chatbot.✨ Apps and Projects HighlightsstillOS is a new distro that's built on an AlmaLinux base with atomicity as its main selling point.📽️ Videos for YouI show you a wonderful dock for GNOME users. See it in action in this week's video.Subscribe to It's FOSS YouTube Channel💡 Quick Handy TipOn GNOME inside the Nautilus file manager (aka Files), press CTRL+F to start a search in the current directory and CTRL+SHIFT+F to search everywhere. You can also select the result and use CTRL+ALT+O to open that location in file manager. 0:00 /0:14 1× 🎋 Fun in the FOSSverseIf you went through the apt guide earlier, why not test your knowledge with a quick quiz?The beginning is always simple. 😆🗓️ Tech Trivia: On August 22, 1955, representatives from seventeen companies that had bought IBM's new 704 mainframe met at RAND Corp in Santa Monica and formed SHARE, the first computer user group, so members could trade code and documentation instead of duplicating each other's work.🧑‍🤝‍🧑 From the Community: A long-time FOSSer has returned, kicking off a thread on how Windows enabled bitlocker without asking him, resulting in considerable wear on the attached storage disks.