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FOSS Weekly #26.37: Swiss Linux Move, Flyline, PPA Guide, Fedora Win Over Windows and More
Let's start with the good news. Switzerland is on track to kick out Microsoft across 3,000 workstations in its Federal Chancellery.
The Firefox Nova redesign lands for everyone in Firefox 157 on September 29, six months after it leaked. The version shipping is noticeably less aggressive than the March mockups.
And we have a robot pitting Fedora against Windows 11 on identical hardware. PhoneBuff ran the same real-world tasks on two Dell XPS 13s, and Fedora won six of eleven tests while Windows took one.
Bottles, the tool that makes running Windows software on Linux easier now has an experimental ARM64 build, delivered through cpak rather than Flatpak for now.
KDE is considering replacing the Gwenview image viewer with Photos, a proposed replacement that would perform better, be mobile-friendly, and offer a bunch of really cool features.
Elon Musk's X Corp sent out a cease-and-desist letter to Nitter, ordering them to shut down. Two weeks later, after legal advice, the project and at least one popular instance are back, with a proper announcement following soon.
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