Mint 20 Upgrade and Installation, Inclusive Language in Linux Code and More Stuff

[View in browser]( Weekly Newsletter #2020.27 Hi , Let's start this newsletter with news first. As per the latest industry trend, [Linux kernel development is also opting for inclusive language](. Which means new code changes in the Linux kernel can't use words like 'blacklist' and 'slave'. [Google is bringing its cross-platform Flutter apps to desktop Linux](. This means that developing GUI applications for Linux could become easier. Fedora 33 will be using Nano as the default text editor instead of Vi. You can find some more news in the [weekly release round up](. As promised in the previous newsletter, I have [updated the Mint upgrade tutorial with steps to upgrade to Linux Mint 20 from 19.3](. If you are new to it, I also wrote a [tutorial on installing Linux Mint 20](. I even made a video of the steps that you can [watch on YouTube](. Open source software highlight of this week is [espanso](. It is a text expander that can help you save time if you type a lot. When we covered open source video calling [Jitsi Meet](, several readers asked for more such applications. And thus we created this [list of open source video conferencing software](. The list of [best note taking applications for Linux]( has also been updated with readers suggestions. If interested, you can learn about [using eopkg commands in Solus Linux]( for package management. I am collaborating with Ahmed Alkabary, author of Learn Linux Quickly book, to [create Bash Beginner Series on Linux Handbook](. Each week, a new Bash beginner tutorial is published. If you are interested in learning bash scripting, you may follow the tutorials [here](. So far, we have three tutorials published in this series. Enjoy Linux :) DRM-free eBooks from Humble Bundle Leadership, Productivity and Business Strategy for Geeks Learn data science essentials with this book bundle by Taylor & Francis! Get ebooks like Frontiers in Data Science, Testing R Code, The Essentials of Data Science, Implementing Reproducible Research, and more. [Get it from $1]( If you want to jump between locations, use: cd - This will change the directory to the last directory you were in. Pretty handy and time saving. For a long time Google used a custom Linux distribution based on Ubuntu called Goobuntu. It [switched to Debian a couple of years ago and named it gLinux](. You cannot get it because it is used internally in Google. It's FOSS 2:18 PM - Jul 12, 2020 [Facebook](#) Looks exactly like Linux from Scratch! 😆🐧😆 [Like]( [Comment]( [Share]( [facebook]( [twitter]( [linkedin]( [youtube]( It's FOSS SA 14/96-55, Sarangnath Colony, Sarnath, Varanasi India You received this email because you signed up on our website. If you don't want to receive the emails anymore, click on the unsubscribe link below: [Unsubscribe](