The world of open source is split when it comes to AI, while a big project like Linux is seeing its leader warming up to it, telling those who object on the mailing list that Linux “is not one of those anti-AI
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Linux Mint is getting automatic old kernel cleanup in the next release, a feature Fedora has handled through DNF’s installonly_limit for years. And I did not even know that Mint doesn’t do it. The Document Foundation has put up a write-up (part
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It all started with a tweet by video game designer Jonathan Blow. Blow is the developer behind games like Braid and The Witness. He mentioned that he had stopped using VLC on Windows because it took about 33 seconds to start playing
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The world is in a messed-up state where surveillance and eroding people’s rights are rewarded, and those who oppose are labeled unpatriotic, anti-national, radicals, criminal sympathizers, and what not. Yet, that doesn’t stop people from investing time and money in securing their
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Xbox Game Pass has never really worked on Linux beyond laggy cloud streaming, but an open source project called Xodus is trying to change that. Earlier this week, replying to a thread on Reddit, Paweł Lidwin (imLinguin), project lead of Xodus, confirmed
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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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My agent harnessing journey started with Nanoclaw. Which is super simple to setup and use. It works for a few simpler tasks through Telegram. But I wanted something to work on my main computer. Out of all claw like agents, I find
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The Linux Mint project regularly puts out monthly news that gives us a look at what the developers are working on and where the overall project is headed towards. Their July update has shown us how the distribution intends to handle kernels
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Love them or hate them, rolling release distros have managed to take a slice out of the Linux desktop market share. They provide a bleeding-edge experience that stays quite stable if cared for and bites a user’s a** if handled poorly. CachyOS
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The Rust project has implemented a formal LLM policy, which pushes people to use LLMs to analyze/think through code, not write it. With how it is written right now, the policy only covers the core code repo for Rust. It lays out
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