Linux NewsFamFS Hopes To Go Upstream In 2026
The FamFS file-system being developed by Micron hopes to go upstream for Linux in "early-ish 2026"...
YouTube’s AI is Breaking the Creator Ecosystem
A moderation system that leans on automation just knocked legitimate tech tutorials and even entire channels offline. The appeals felt automated, too. Creators are powerless against opaque enforcement and the incentives that should favor craft and trust are tilting toward noise.
Kernel prepatch 6.19-rc1
Linus has released 6.19-rc1, perhaps a bit earlier than expected. So it's Sunday afternoon in the part of the world where I am now, so if somebody was looking at trying to limbo under the merge window timing with one last pull request and is taken by surprise by the slightly unusual timing of the rc1 release, that failed. Teaching moment, or random capricious acts? You be the judge.
FFmpeg Lands Initial Support For JPEG-XS
The widely-used FFmpeg open-source multimedia library has merged initial support for JPEG-XS...
Rust Coreutils 0.5 Released - Inching Toward Full GNU Compatibility
Rust Coreutils 0.5 is now available as the latest milestone for this Rust-based alternative to GNU Coreutils. Rust Coreutils 0.5 continues moving closer to "full GNU compatibility" with nearly a 90% pass rate on the GNU test suite...
Linux 6.19-rc1 Released From Japan
The Linux 6.19-rc1 kernel is out to cap off the Linux 6.19 merge window. The kernel release is coming the better part of a day earlier due to Linus Torvalds being in Japan for this past week's Linux Plumbers Conference and Linux Kernel Maintainer Summit...
Conill: Rethinking sudo with object capabilities
Ariadne Conill is exploring a capability-based approach to privilege escalation on Linux systems. Inspired by the object-capability model, I've been working on a project named capsudo. Instead of treating privilege escalation as a temporary change of identity, capsudo reframes it as a mediated interaction with a service called capsudod that holds specific authority, which may range from full root privileges to a narrowly scoped set of capabilities depending on how it is deployed.
GNOME Will Reject Shell Extensions With AI-Generated Code
GNOME is tightening its extension review process after a surge in AI-generated submissions filled with unnecessary code and bad practices.
TrixiePup64 11.2 Released For Debian-Based Puppy Linux With Wayland & X11 Options
For those with fond memories of the original Puppy Linux as a lightweight Linux distribution that used to run well back in the day on systems with less than 1GB of RAM, TrixiePup64 is out with a new release of this Puppy Linux based distribution with Debian GNU/Linux components. The new TrixiePup64 11.2 release is based on the latest Debian Trixie sources while continuing to offer separate builds for either X11 or Wayland usage...
How open source quietly won the software wars
An open relationship with plenty of benefits for all.
Exciting Laptop & Gaming Handheld Device Improvements Merged For Linux 6.19
Merged during this second week of the Linux 6.19 feature merge window were the many x86 platform driver changes. As usual, much of the x86 platform driver activity surrounds bettering Linux hardware laptop support but also a growing number of handheld computers / gaming devices...
Plex server changes, the new Visual Studio Code, and more: News roundup
All the tech news you may have missed this week.
Oracles Releases Updated "bpftune" For BPF-Based Auto-Tuning Of Linux Systems
The past few years Oracle has been working on bpftune as a solution for BPF-based, automatic tuning of Linux systems. Bpftune has been available via Oracle Linux and GitHub while finally their open-source GitHub code has seen the first new tagged release in a while...
COSMIC's big release, the new Kali Linux, and more: Linux news roundup
Some of the Linux news you may have missed this past week.
FOSS Force’s Top Five Articles — For the Week Ending December 12, 2025
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