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FOSS Weekly #18 - GNOME 43, FSF Awards, Systemd in WSL, new releases & more

Hope you had a good week! Here's everything happened this week in open source software. Bunch of fundraisers and interesting updates from projects. Big releases from GNOME, Rust, and a new model from OpenAI.

🐧 Linux updates

  • GNOME 43 ‘Guadalajara’ released [gnome.org]

  • Arch Linux drops Python 2 from its repos [archlinux.org]

  • Windows Subsystem for Linux adds Systemd support [devblogs.microsoft.com]

  • Canonical begins to replace the Ubuntu snap store with a flutter-based store developed by the community [omgubuntu.co.uk]

📰 News

  • Kdenlive announces €15,000 fundraiser to fund development [kde.org]

  • Someone donated $400k to RedoxOS [twitter.com] and Intel gives €30k/year to Krita [krita.org]

  • Nominations for Free Software Awards 2022 are now open [fsf.org]

  • OpenAI open sources "Whisper" - a tool to transcribe audio locally [openai.com]

  • Mozilla Research publishes "Five Walled Gardens" - a report on browser competition [mozilla.org]

  • Framework Laptop introduces Chromebook edition [frame.work] [Hacker News comments]

📝  Releases

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