Debian is the latest in an ever-growing list of projects to wrestle (again) with the question of LLM-generated contributions; the latest debate stared in mid-February, after Lucas Nussbaum opened a discussion with a draft general resolution (GR) on whether Debian should accept AI-assisted contributions. It seems to have, mostly, subsided without a GR being put forward or any decisions being made, but the conversation was illuminating nonetheless.
Security updates have been issued by Debian (imagemagick), Fedora (chromium, matrix-synapse, mingw-zlib, perl-Net-CIDR, polkit, and rust-pythonize), Mageia (coturn, firefox, and thunderbird), Oracle (delve, git-lfs, gnutls, go-rpm-macros, image-builder, kernel, libsoup, nfs-utils, nginx:1.24, osbuild-composer, postgresql, thunderbird, udisks2, and valkey), Red Hat (grafana, image-builder, and opentelemetry-collector), SUSE (c3p0 and mchange-commons, corepack24, go1, ImageMagick, python-Flask, tomcat, tomcat10, tomcat11, virtiofsd, and weblate), and Ubuntu (apache2 and yara).
KDE Plasma 6.5.6 arrives as the final maintenance update for the Plasma 6.5 series, delivering multiple bug fixes across KWin, Discover, Powerdevil, and more.
KDE Plasma 6.5.6 is now available as the sixth and last maintenance update to the latest KDE Plasma 6.5 desktop environment series with more bug/crash fixes.
The first alpha release of OpenSSL 4.0 is now available for testing. With OpenSSL 3.0 they are removing support for SSLv3 that has been deprecated for over one decade while also dropping OpenSSL engines and other removals while also adding in some new features...
Fedora Linux 44 distribution is now available for public beta testing powered by Linux kernel 6.19 and featuring the GNOME 50 desktop environment. Here’s what to expect from the final release.
Over the past two decades SUSE Linux has been passed around several times. From Novell's acquisition of SUSE back in 2003 to then being acquired by The Attachmate Group to then merging with Micro Focus and then the SUSE business being acquired by private equity firm EQT back in 2018. A report out today indicates that EQT may now be looking to sell off SUSE...
The Free Software Foundation is hiring a new engineering and certification manager for leading the Respect Your Freedom "RYF" hardware certification program. The FSF RYF program is about certifying hardware that respects the user's freedom and privacy for control over the device, such as no proprietary firmware blobs needed to be loaded at run-time, no digital rights management / digital restrictions, and complies with their other free software ideals...
Following Intel archiving various open-source projects that they are no longer maintaining amid open-source setbacks due to reduced staffing and other corporate restructuring, another round of Intel open-source projects were formally archived on Monday...
Intel Linux engineers are preparing the Linux kernel's Intel Thermal driver for supporting Directed Package Thermal Interrupts as a new feature of recent Intel CPUs...
The Fedora Linux 44 Beta is now available for public testing! This release brings major updates across Fedora Workstation, KDE Plasma, Server, IoT, and Cloud editions. Highlights include a unified KDE setup, Anaconda installer network profile improvements, and automatic DTB selection for ARM devices. Under the hood, F44 introduces 99% reproducible package builds, GNU Toolchain updates, and the latest software packages like Go 1.26 and MariaDB 11.8. Help shape the final release by testing today.
The March 2026 Steam client update allows users to attach hardware specifications to reviews, introduces optional framerate data reporting, and provides several fixes.
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