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The Fedora Council began a process to create a policy on AI-assisted contributions in 2024, starting with a survey to ask the community its opinions about AI and using AI technologies in Fedora. On September 25, Jason Brooks published a draft policy ...

The openSUSE Leap 16 release is now available. This major version update of our fixed-releas [...]

Version 1.5.0 of the Radicle peer-to-peer Git collaboration platform has been released. This re [...]

Klint is a Rust compiler extension developed by Gary Guo to run some kernel-specific lint rules, which may also be useful for embedded system development. He spoke about his recent work on the project at Kangrejos 2025. The next day, Alejandra Gonz?

After marking bcachefs 'externally maintained' in 6.17, Linus Torvalds has removed it entirely [...]

The 6.17 development cycle ended on September 28 with the release of the 6.17 kernel. This cycle brought in 13,089 non-merge changesets, a slowdown from its predecessor but still within the normal bounds for recent kernels. The time has come for a ...

The NixOS moderation team, which is theoretically in charge of ensuring that community par [...]

As with a mobile phone, a portable gaming device like the Steam Deck can contain lots of personal information that the owner would like to keep secret--especially given that such devices can do far more than gaming. Alberto Garcia worked with his ...

The F-Droid project has posted an urgent message regarding Google's plan to require developer r [...]

Linus Torvalds has released the 6.17 kernel. He notes that the shortlog for the changes since [...]