So far, Canonical has followed a split kernel SRU cycle for Ubuntu, where regular fixes and security patches lived on separate tracks, with a full update every four weeks and a security-focused release at the two-week midpoint for urgent CVE fixes. If
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First thing first. Yesterday, I mistakenly sent the Local AI Weekly newsletter to everyone. That was not supposed to happen. I’ll be more careful in the future. Let’s go with our regular dose of Linux and open source. Snapdragon X2 processor support
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Qualcomm has put out an early developer preview of Linux for Snapdragon X2 Series laptops, asking kernel developers, distro maintainers, and hardware enablement engineers to get on this hardware and start testing. They have been laying the groundwork for this since Snapdragon
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openKylin is China’s homegrown, open source operating system which is developed by a consortium of companies, research institutes, and individual contributors. We have covered openKylin in the past but that was more than two years ago. There is a new major release
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📋 I mistakenly sent the Local AI Weekly to the subscribers of FOSS Weekly. My bad. A long, tiring day led to this mishap. Won’t happen again (hopefully). Welcome to issue #3. I said weekly last time and here we are, one
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Contrary to what you might expect of a newly launched Linux distribution, Gravity Linux has a long-term goal of not existing as a distro. The project is a Fedora Remix for Apple Silicon Macs that ships with KDE Plasma on Wayland as
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AI is moving fast. Its jargon is moving even faster. Half of it doesn’t mean what you’d guess from the name. After all, tokens are not coins. Terms like harness and quantization are everywhere in local AI conversation, and often people don’t
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If you run a lightweight distro and you do not like the fact that Wayland will probably become the default, PeppermintOS has some news you should know about. It’s switching its display server from the soon-to-be-retired Xorg to XLibre for its next
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That’s very interesting to see considering OpenSearch began as a fork. When Elastic relicensed Elasticsearch and Kibana in 2021, AWS built an open alternative, keeping it under the Apache 2.0 license. Three years later, the project moved to neutral governance after the
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Signal is an end-to-end encrypted messenger that doesn’t really need an introduction in this age of authoritarian overreach. Since the beginning, it has required a phone number at signup, even after it gained username support. It’s been quite weird to see, given
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