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• Linux Mint Teases A Kernel Cleanup Trick That Fedora Figured Out Years Ago
  August 11, 2026

  The work-in-progress feature would clear out old, unused kernels automatically every week.

• CachyOS is Laying Groundwork for The Server Edition
  August 10, 2026

  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
  August 10, 2026

  openJiuwen is an open-source AI agent platform to help developers build production-grade AI agents and enable large-s...

• AI Can No Longer Rampage Through Rust's Code Repo
  August 10, 2026

  The new rust-lang/rust policy allows AI-written code only under a narrow, disclosed experiment, and doesn't apply to ...

• OpenSearch Is Done Being Called "the Elasticsearch Fork"
  August 08, 2026

  An interview with Bianca Lewis of OpenSearch, conducted at Open Source Summit India.

• Illinois Just Told Every Operating System to Start Reporting Your Kid's Age
  August 07, 2026

  The Children's Online Social Media Safety Act has device makers collect the age bracket, but apps still have to act o...

• Proxmox Virtual Environment Officially Runs on ARM64, But Your Raspberry Pi Isn't Supported Yet
  August 07, 2026

  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
  August 07, 2026

  Moxa confirmed the Intellio hardware was discontinued back in 2021, but the driver only left the kernel recently afte...

• FOSS Weekly #26.32: Kittens, Feed Readers, Free Bash Course, No AI in Kernel Staging and More
  August 06, 2026

  RSS feed is one way to escape the clutches of algorithms.

• After Nearly a Decade of Distro Hopping, I Realized It Was Never About the Distro
  August 06, 2026

  Some lessons are learned the hard way....or in this case, the looong way.

• This New Open Source Project Wants to Be the AI-First Alternative to Microsoft Office
  August 05, 2026

  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)
  August 05, 2026

  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
  August 04, 2026

  The release also adds lrclib.net, sidecar .lrc files, and embedded Ogg lyrics as new sources.

• Escape the Algorithm: 10 RSS Feed Readers You Can Self Host in Your Homelab
  August 04, 2026

  Create your own feed. Read from the websites you follow. Cut the noise. Ditch the big tech algorithms. Self-host your...

• GNOME Boxes Won't Look Ancient Anymore Thanks to a Glow-Up
  August 04, 2026

  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
  August 03, 2026

  The same low-quality AI patterns kept showing up in submissions even after GNOME updated its review guidelines in Dec...

• Exploring Kittens With Kitty Terminal Emulator
  July 31, 2026

  Kitty terminal's functionality can be enhanced with kittens. You can create your own or use the default ones.

• Keychron Built Open Source Firmware for Gaming Mice, and Linux Users Stand to Gain the Most
  July 30, 2026

  Built on Zephyr RTOS and licensed under GPL-3.0, the firmware is scheduled to ship first on the Keychron G6 HE next y...

• FOSS Weekly #26.31: Ubuntu 26.10 Features, OpenUK, Graphene Trouble, Vibe Coded Linux and More
  July 30, 2026

  Ubutnu 26.10 is shaping up nicely.

• And Folks, We Have a Vibe Coded Linux Distro!
  July 30, 2026

  Don't get your hopes high; there are many rough edges and incomplete features.