Linus Torvalds Says He Likes Using AI, While His New Kernel Branch Credits Claude Code
His eight-patch series takes advantage of AI assistance to cut the extra work the kernel does when many threads read the same file.
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openEuler is Revamping the Development Experience of the Open Source Community With an AI Toolchain
AI now reviews code and fixes CVEs in the community's pipelines, DevStation moves to a 2-week update cycle, and openEuler is layering an agent-native OS on top.
Linux May Get a New Home for AI Agent Skills
A proposed agents directory would hold skills and other resources for coding assistants, starting with one that finds the commit behind a bug.
Gentoo Needs Your Help! Several Sponsors Have Pulled Out
They will accept VMs, physical servers, rack space, donated machines, or funds for hosting.
Google Has Shut Down Part of its Open Source Bounty Program
Submitting product vulnerability reports is no longer possible. You can thank AI for that.
Red Hat's Lightwell Doesn't Wait for Upstream Maintainers to Act
A status update shows it clearing 400 vulnerabilities from Java libraries and a key service now being generally available.
Siemens Abruptly Takes Down OpenRadioss, But a Fork is Already Live
Another reminder of why open source saves software from being lost forever.
Ubuntu 26.10 Will Have a Rust-based GnuPG Replacement
The Rust-based OpenPGP tool lands in Ubuntu 26.10's main archive, with sq and sqv available alongside gpg and gpgv.
DigitalOcean Quietly Ends Open Source Credits Program
Some project maintainers have received emails that they will no longer get any more free credits from Digital Ocean.
YT-DLP is Being Treated as a Piracy Tool By The IFPI
Their submission to the EU's piracy watchlist places the open source tool in the same category as illegal downloading websites.
F-Droid's New App Shows it Isn't Going Anywhere
The Compose-based 2.0 app release marks the largest update in the storefront's history.
Microsoft Has Made WSL Containers Available to Everyone
Previously in public preview, it now offers new commands, Consommé networking, and Intune registry controls.
The Netherlands Picked NixOS. France Was Already Using It
France’s digital agency has been using NixOS on internal workstations for months through Sécurix, its open-source, security-hardened configuration.
openSUSE Leap is The Immutable Distro Now, Leap Micro is Out
Starting with Leap 16.1, the separate immutable flavor will cease to exist.
Firefox in a New Skin! Nova Redesign Has Become The Default
Six months after the mockups leaked, the Firefox 157 release is the one that got it done.
postmarketOS is No More, At Least Under That Name
It took the project 1.5 years before settling on 'Nura' as its new identity.
GhostBSD is Replacing MATE With a New Desktop Named After a Typo
Eric Turgeon has shown off a new desktop environment that would ship with custom components in GhostBSD.
AlmaLinux Puts Software Certification in the Hands of Users
You can now certify the machine you already own and check the public catalog to see what else is validated.
The Netherlands Built a Nix-Based Linux Desktop Because Microsoft Cut Off the ICC
Eight municipalities are already testing DAWO, the government's NixOS-powered work environment.
This Tiny SBC Lets You Swap Interface Modules for Voice, Vision or Sensing
Vicharak's Axon-Lite packs a Rockchip RK3576, a 6 TOPS NPU and swappable modules into a tiny SBC.
How openEuler Is Reinventing the OS Foundation for the AI Era with SuperPoD and UnifiedBus
openEuler 24.03 LTS SP3 is the first version built for SuperPoD, and the project says its UnifiedBus interconnect can lift application performance by 30 to 50 percent.
Ubuntu is Tightening its Kernel SRU Cycle to Two Weeks, and Clankers Are to Blame
Ubuntu users will get kernel security fixes faster thanks to this.
Qualcomm Announces Snapdragon X2 Linux Developer Preview
They have put out an early developer preview for Snapdragon X2 laptops, with Debian 13 as the reference environment.
openKylin 3.0 Release Makes it a "AI first" Linux Desktop
The built-in skills allow you to control and change system settings via AI agent. Is this the beginning of AI assistant for desktop computers?
