LightDM is Back From The Dead, But Canonical isn't in Charge Anymore
It took years of silence, new maintainers, and a release to bring LightDM back.
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Omarchy Bets Its Future on AI Agents While the Linux World Stays Cautious
While some open source projects are locking AI out of their codebases, Omarchy's upcoming v4 release treats AI as part of the system.
VLC is Wrongly Blamed for Microsoft Defender's Clumsiness
VLC takes a long time to play MP3 on Windows? Blame it on Microsoft Defender, not VLC.
SimpleX Chat Wants Its 400K+ Users to Become Investors Too
The funds will go towards keeping the project up and running.
These Open Source Devs Are Reverse-Engineering Xbox Game Pass for Linux
They have already cracked Xbox game downloads, and macOS support is also being worked on.
Linux Mint Teases A Kernel Cleanup Trick That Fedora Figured Out Years Ago
The work-in-progress feature would clear out old, unused kernels automatically every week.
CachyOS is Laying Groundwork for The Server Edition
The CLI installer's new experimental profiles target the upcoming Server Edition, while Shelly gets a full rewrite.
openJiuwen’s Agent Swarm: When AI Agents Finally Work as a Team
openJiuwen is an open-source AI agent platform to help developers build production-grade AI agents and enable large-scale multi-agent collaboration.
AI Can No Longer Rampage Through Rust's Code Repo
The new rust-lang/rust policy allows AI-written code only under a narrow, disclosed experiment, and doesn't apply to the wider Rust project.
Illinois Just Told Every Operating System to Start Reporting Your Kid's Age
The Children's Online Social Media Safety Act has device makers collect the age bracket, but apps still have to act on it.
Proxmox Virtual Environment Officially Runs on ARM64, But Your Raspberry Pi Isn't Supported Yet
The release is powered by Debian 13.5 and Linux 7.0, with NVIDIA Grace and Vera systems fully supported.
Nobody Touched This Linux Driver for Years, Until AI Started Poking Around and It Got Removed
Moxa confirmed the Intellio hardware was discontinued back in 2021, but the driver only left the kernel recently after AI agents started poking at the dead code.
This New Open Source Project Wants to Be the AI-First Alternative to Microsoft Office
Built by a single engineer using open source components, GenOffice bundles editors like Docs, Sheets, Slides, and PDF.
While Torvalds Makes Peace With AI in Linux, Greg Kroah-Hartman Draws a Line (Sort of)
His new policy keeps AI patches out of drivers/staging, the tree meant for newcomers to learn kernel development.
Linux's Favorite Music Player Rhythmbox 3.5 Lands After Nearly a Decade in the 3.4 Series
The release also adds lrclib.net, sidecar .lrc files, and embedded Ogg lyrics as new sources.
GNOME Boxes Won't Look Ancient Anymore Thanks to a Glow-Up
A full rewrite moves it to GTK4 and Libadwaita, with Windows 11 support being tidied up.
AI Slop Keeps Flooding GNOME Extensions, So They Wrote a Manual for Bots Instead
The same low-quality AI patterns kept showing up in submissions even after GNOME updated its review guidelines in December.
Keychron Built Open Source Firmware for Gaming Mice, and Linux Users Stand to Gain the Most
Built on Zephyr RTOS and licensed under GPL-3.0, the firmware is scheduled to ship first on the Keychron G6 HE next year.
GCC Compiler Bans AI Code Contribution But Sensibly
The GCC Steering Committee adopted a new AI policy this week, with a review planned for early 2027.
Good News Gamers! GOG is Officially Coming to Linux
They have hired someone to bring the GOG GALAXY client to the platform.
Ubuntu Now Has a Rolling Release Model! But Not For The Distro
A new virtualization stack is being introduced that gets updated every six months.
A GrapheneOS Privacy Feature Just Became the Basis for a Federal Indictment
Samuel Tunick faces up to five years in prison after the passcode he gave CBP agents wiped his phone.
OpenUK Wants Britain to Stop Giving Away Open Source Creations
They point to MCP, built by two engineers in London, that ended up under US-based governance.
FireDragon Browser Swoops in With New Wings
It's been rewritten from scratch to provide some good gains.
