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The Top Five — For the Week Ending May 16, 2025

Did you miss this week’s top articles? Here are the five most read article on FOSS Force for the week that just ended.
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FOSS Force Mostly Open Tech News Quiz — May 16, 2025

After taking the quiz and seeing your score, you’ll be given the option to view the headlines — with links — behind the quiz questions! This week there are 11 questions. Good luck!
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elementary OS Preview Some Cool Upcoming Features

The elementary OS 8.0.1 release back in March brought an appreciable set of improvements with it, including a much-improved Files app, but as ever in development: the work never stops! Project founder, Danielle Foré, recently recapped a few smaller fea…

FSF Events: Community meetup in Moscow, Russia

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Play With Words in Linux Terminal With This Bookmark Inspired Game

Remember the classic Bookworm game? You can have similar fun in the terminal with Sausage.

Welcome Back to the Open-Source Family, Redis

Discover the power of Redis in the open-source community. Join us as we explore features, tutorials, and resources to enhance your development journey.

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Ubuntu is Replacing its Image Viewer and Terminal Apps

Ubuntu 25.10 ‘Questing Quokka’ will ship Loupe and Ptyxis as default image viewer and terminal apps in the upcoming October release.
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Firefox Now Lets You Add Custom Images to New Tab Page

A number of new personalisation features have been added to the Firefox New Tab page in the past year, including the ability to pick a background image from a small set of hand-picked pics and solid colours. Pleasant though those curated images are, th…

Rocky Linux from CIQ Launches Optimized Platform for AI

CIQ is now offering Rocky Linux especially purposed for large-scale AI deployments.
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KDE Plasma 6.4 Desktop Environment Enters Beta Testing with Many New Features

KDE Plasma 6.4 desktop environment is now available for public beta testing with many new features and improvements. Here’s what to expect in the final release!
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‘End of 10’ to Windows 10 Users: The Environment Wants You to Use Linux

It’s almost like the good ol’ days of install fests and the like! ‘End of 10’ is an organization that’s making it easy for Windows 10 users with computers that can’t upgrade to Windows 11, to install Linux instead of sending good hardware to the landfi…

Beyond Basics: Unlocking the Power of Advanced Bash Scripting

by George Whittaker

Bash scripting is often seen as a convenient tool for automating repetitive tasks, managing simple file operations, or orchestrating basic system utilities. But beneath its surface lies a trove of powerful features that allow for complex logic, high-performance workflows, and robust script behavior. In this article, we’ll explore the lesser-known but incredibly powerful techniques that take your Bash scripting from basic automation to professional-grade tooling.

Mastering Arrays for Structured Data

Indexed and Associative Arrays

Bash supports both indexed arrays (traditional, numeric indexes) and associative arrays (key-value pairs), which are ideal for structured data manipulation.

# Indexed array fruits=("apple" "banana" "cherry") # Associative array declare -A user_info user_info[name]="Alice" user_info[role]="admin"

Looping Through Arrays

# Indexed for fruit in "${fruits[@]}"; do echo "Fruit: $fruit" done # Associative for key in "${!user_info[@]}"; do echo "$key: ${user_info[$key]}" done

Use Case: Managing dynamic options or storing configuration mappings, such as service port numbers or user roles.

Indirect Expansion and Parameter Indirection

Ever needed to reference a variable whose name is stored in another variable? Bash allows this with indirect expansion using the ${!var} syntax.

user1="Alice" user2="Bob" var="user1" echo "User: ${!var}" # Outputs: Alice

Use Case: When parsing dynamically named variables from a configuration or runtime-generated context.

Process Substitution: Piping Like a Pro

Process substitution enables a command’s output to be treated as a file input for another command.

diff

Instead of creating temporary files, this technique allows on-the-fly data streaming into commands that expect filenames.

Use Case: Comparing outputs of two commands, feeding multiple inputs to grep, diff, or custom processors.

Using Traps for Cleanup and Signal Handling

Traps let you capture signals (like script termination or interruption) and execute custom handlers.

temp_file=$(mktemp) trap "rm -f $temp_file" EXIT # Do something with $temp_file

Common signals:

• EXIT: Always triggered when the script ends

• ERR: Triggered on any command failure (with set -e)

• INT: Triggered by Ctrl+C

Use Case: Cleaning up temporary files, resetting terminal states, or notifying external systems on exit.

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FSF Events: Community meetup Tunis, Tunisia and online

Round table with FSF executive director Zoë Kooyman to celebrate FSF40

Musicus – New Classical Music player & Organizer for GNOME

Looking for an application to play and organize classical music in Linux? Here’s one working in process. It’s Musicus, a free open-source application written in Rust programming language, and uses GTK4 plus LibAdwaita for modern user interface that’s designed for GNOME Desktop. This is a local-first application. No cloud, no account required. And, it comes […]

Distribution Release: Grml 2025.05

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Michael Prokop has announced the release of Grml 2025.05, a new stable release of the project’s Debian-based live Linux system focusing on the needs of system administrators. This versio…

Arch Linux Installer Now Supports Labwc, Niri, and River Wayland Compositors

Archinstall 3.0.5 Arch Linux menu-based installer is now available with support for the Labwc, Niri, and River Wayland compositors, XMonad tiling X11 window manager, and other changes.
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Midori: Lightweight, Fast, and Privacy-Focused Web Browser for Linux

The post Midori: Lightweight, Fast, and Privacy-Focused Web Browser for Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .Midori is an open-source, lightweight, and fast web browser designed for people who want a simple but efficient w…

OpenSnitch: The Must-Have Application Firewall for Linux

The post OpenSnitch: The Must-Have Application Firewall for Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .When it comes to protecting your Linux system from unwanted network connections, having a good firewall is essential. While m…

FOSS Weekly #25.20: KDE Widgets, Deepin Security Issues, New GNOME Player and More Linux Stuff

openSUSE is not happy with Deepin desktop team.