FOSS Force Mostly Open Tech News Quiz—July 4, 2025

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#1. On June 29, Bobby Borisov reported on Wayback, which solves what problem for Linux distros?

Allows software changes that will rollback to the original if an unknown hardware conflict is triggered.

It allows them to play old episodes of Rocky and Bullwinkle royalty free.

It allows X apps to function without a full X server.

Lets devs easly find the cause of a bug they've introduced.

#2. On Thursday it was revealed that System 76’s Cosmic desktop environment can now be downloaded from this distro’s repository.

elementary

Void Linux

Ubuntu

Fedora

#3. On Saturday it was reported that an open letter from a group of authors called on publishers to do what?

To pledge to limit their use of AI tools.

To cover expenses on book signing tours.

To not make edits without consulting writers.

Pay them more.

#4. On Thursday, Copyleft-Next relaunched for what purpose?

To make the long anticipated sequel to the 1990s blockbuster movie "Copyleft."

To get open source devs to sign a pledge to make their next project Copyleft.

To reestablish Steve Jobs old NeXT operating system under a copyleft license.

To develop a copyleft license that address the needs of the current era.

#5. What project did Mozilla formally discontinue this week?

DeepSpeech

Thunderbird

DefaultSearch

Firefox Screensaver

#6. Windows Central reported on Tuesday that Microsoft engineer Anduin Xue has released what open source product?

AnduinOS: A Linux distro designed to give a Windows experience.

Xuem: A modern, feature rich, and open source take on Zune, Microsoft's discontinued MP3 Player.

Anduino: A single board computer optimized for BSD.

#7. For two years in a row, Tesla has done what?

Watched sales rise.

Watched sales decline.

Raised prices.

Sold more vehicles than General Motors.

#8. When NeuroShellOS is released, it promises to be the first Linux distribution to:

Ship with a built-in firewall enabled by default.

Integrate a fine-tuned local LLM directly into its core system architecture.

Support both x86 and ARM architectures out of the box.

Use a rolling release update model.

#9. The struggling EV startup Rivian’s new deal with this company will bring $1 billion into its coffers.

General Motors

Nissan

BMW

Volkswagon

#10. This week the EU was urged to pause the roll out of rules regulating:

Data sovereignty.

Data centers.

AI.

Data collection.

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