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

• Rust 1.64 [blog.rust-lang.org]

• Audacity 3.2 [github.com]

• PeerTube 4.3 [joinpeertube.org]

• Mesa 22.0 [docs.mesa3d.org]

• Firefox 105.0 [mozilla.org]

• Caddy 2.6 [github.com]

• Wasmtime 1.0 [bytecodealliance.org]

• Wine 7.18 [winehq.org]

🔗 Also read

• This Week in GNOME [thisweek.gnome.org]

• This Week in KDE [pointieststick.com]

• Apache news round up [news.apache.org]

• Fedora weekly round up [fedoraproject.org]

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