30 Billion+ Devices. Their Maintainers Split 3 Ways on AI.
The curl maintainer said AI was drowning open source in slop. Nine weeks later, he said the opposite. Open source governance split three ways in one quarter.
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Linux
A collection of 98 issues
GNOME 50 Drops X11. The GNOME Foundation Drops Trust.
GNOME 50 shipped March 18 without X11. Three directors burned. 33% of staff cut. $105,000 on payroll. Fedora 44 and Ubuntu 26.04 LTS will deliver it next week.
Linux 7.0: One Bash Script. One Weekend. 23 Years of Kernel Bugs.
Linux 7.0 shipped on April 12. Rust is official. AI is now a kernel coworker. Linus Torvalds calls this the new normal.
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Breaks Backward Compatibility on Purpose
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS ships three changes that will break existing workflows on upgrade day
The Field Is Optional. The Death Threats Were Not.
Fraudulent takeout orders. Mormon missionaries at the door. A Social Security number posted on an imageboard.
Open Source & Linux Weekly - W13_2026
X11 died without a funeral. Canonical bets on post-quantum crypto and Rust. TeamPCP hacks four supply chain targets in ten days. Weekly OSS & Linux roundup.
Mozilla. WordPress. Now Manjaro. Open Source Keeps Dying the Same Way.
He fired the only person watching the money. Made himself treasurer. 2 years later, his own 50/50 business partner signed a public manifesto against him.
Every Line Looked Clean. The Malware Was Hiding in Characters No Editor on Earth Can Render.
You could stare at the infected file for hours and see nothing. The attack hit 200 Python repos, 151 JS/TS repos, 72 VS Code extensions, and 10 npm packages. A researcher traced 50 blockchain transactions spanning three months. Nobody noticed.
A Child Safety Nonprofit Filed Taxes as a Lemonade Stand. Then It Wrote Laws in 20 States.
86 lobbyists. 45 states. $2B in nonprofit grants. One company in the USA. A GitHub researcher pulled IRS filings, WHOIS records, and Senate disclosures.
27 Years, 50 Releases, 1 Breakup: How GNOME 50 Just Changed the Way Your Desktop Works
GNOME and X11 were together for 27 years and 50 releases. GNOME 50 Tokyo ended the relationship. Ubuntu and Fedora ship it next month. Here is who gets hurt.