Welcome to the first issue of Local AI Weekly. A lot of It’s FOSS readers have been curious about local AI but didn’t want it mixed into FOSS Weekly. So here we are. A separate space for people who want to explore
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The entire debate in the Linux and open source world these days is if AI generated code should be used or not. As Linus told AI critics to fork the project or walk away, GKH took a more surgical approach. AI patches
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Let’s see what’s happening in the Linux and open source world this week. Ubuntu 26.04 quietly stopped notifying users about available updates, and it turns out that was intentional. The tray icon was switched off by design, and without it, the notifier
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Ready for another round of latest happenings in Linux world? Here, we go. Vocalinux 0.14 beta adds custom recording shortcuts, fixes Wayland text injection on GNOME, and handles CPU usage better on hybrid laptops. It didn’t run cleanly during testing, but it’s
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Linux Mint has taken the slow road to Wayland while everyone else rushed ahead, and it looks like that paid off. Cinnamon’s Wayland session is dropping the experimental label with Mint 23 this Christmas, shipping alongside X11 as a fully supported option.
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Recently, Microsoft reluctantly agrred that a bug was eating up uo to 500 GB of disk space in Windows 11. They knew about the bug for months, no fix came. Germany may not have kicked right in the Paraguay match, but it
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I recently had a very interesting conversation with a reader who suggested that I should not ignore AI. Because this is the next new normal and we have to adapt. I agree but in the context of local AI. Local AI is
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Brave browser released Origin, a striped down, non-crypto version of the Brave browser. It’s basically Brave browser without the bloat but still with ad-block and anti-tracking. Here’s the good thing which you will lke a s Linux user. This Brave Origin costs
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Last week I shared something personal and something I was way too hesitatnt to share. It was the fact that the ad-driven model that kept It’s FOSS running for 14 years is breaking down, and that YOUR support is the most direct
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It’s FOSS turns 14 tomorrow. Incidentally, my son turns 1 tomorrow as well. Two milestones the same day call for celebration, right? But there is something important that I wanted to share with you and it relates to the future of It’s
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