This Week in Linux

video: https://youtu.be/8bNh2cciDOE This week in Linux, the Dutch government is building its own Linux desktop using NixOS, and it could have some major implications for digital independence! NVIDIA has revealed ambitious plans for its new open-source Rust driver, while Qualcomm is making a serious push to bring Linux to Snapdragon laptops! And one developer has used AI to build a bunch of open-source alternatives to Adobe's biggest applications, and they're exploding in popularity! Plus, Valve is making Windows gaming on Linux even easier! All of this and more so let's jump into Your Source for Linux GNews and see what's happened This Week in Linux. Download as MP3 Support the Show Become a Patron = tuxdigital.com/membership Store = tuxdigital.com/store Chapters: 00:00 Intro 00:49 Dutch Government Is Building Its Own NixOS-Based Distro 04:05 NVIDIA Wants to Push The Open-Source Rust Nova Driver to Replace Upstream Driver 06:56 Qualcomm Wants First-Class Linux Support for Snapdragon X2 11:01 ArtCraft is Coming After the Entire Adobe Suite with AI 18:29 Steam Now Defaults Non-Steam Windows Games to Proton on Linux 20:46 Firefox 157 Gets Its Biggest Visual Refresh in Years 24:07 KDE Announces Its 3 Big Goals for the Next 2 Years 25:48 F-Droid 2.0 Is Its Biggest App Update in a Decade 26:57 postmarketOS Becomes Nura 28:20 Ubuntu Is Moving to Weekly Kernel Releases Because the CVE Flood 29:29 Support the show 30:26 Outro Links: Dutch Government Is Building Its Own NixOS-Based Distro https://code.overheid.nl/MinBZK/DAWO https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/09/28/dutch-government-turns-to-nixos-for-a-sovereign-desktop/5299501 https://thenextweb.com/news/dutch-government-dawo-nixos-linux-desktop https://www.tomshardware.com/software/the-netherlands-is-rolling-alternative-nixos-based-software-ecosystem-after-u-s-sanctions-on-icc-took-microsoft-off-the-table-trial-programs-running-now-first-release-expected-at-end-of-2027 NVIDIA Wants to Push The Open-Source Rust Nova Driver to Replace Upstream Driver https://lpc.events/event/20/contributions/2346/ https://www.phoronix.com/news/Nova-Driver-LPC-2026 Qualcomm Wants First-Class Linux Support for Snapdragon X2 https://www.qualcomm.com/developer/blog/2026/09/announcing-linux-on-snapdragon-x2-series-early-developer-preview https://canonical.com/blog/ubuntu-coming-soon-to-qualcomm-snapdragon-x2-series-platforms https://www.qualcomm.com/news/onq/2026/09/snapdragon-summit-agentic-ai-pcs-linux https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qualcomm-Talks-Up-X2-Linux https://itsfoss.com/news/snapdragon-x2-linux-developer-preview/ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/09/ubuntu-2610-snapdragon-x2 ArtCraft is Coming After the Entire Adobe Suite with AI https://github.com/storytold https://github.com/storytold/photocraft https://github.com/storytold/filmcraft https://github.com/storytold/vectorcraft https://www.tomshardware.com/software/video-editing-graphic-design/solo-developer-rebuilds-adobe-creative-suite-in-rust-using-claude-releases-it-free-to-all-targets-100-percent-parity-in-one-month-despite-piracy-claims-and-safety-warnings https://www.techradar.com/pro/one-dev-is-recreating-7-adobe-apps-in-rust-for-free-so-i-tested-it-out Steam Now Defaults Non-Steam Windows Games to Proton on Linux https://steamcommunity.com/groups/SteamClientBeta/announcements/detail/719044258722480809 https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/windows-apps-and-games-added-to-steam-on-steamos-linux-now-use-proton-by-default/ https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Beta-Use-Proton-Default Firefox 157 Gets Its Biggest Visual Refresh in Years https://www.firefox.com/en-US/firefox/157.0/releasenotes/ https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2026/09/29/nova-is-here-what-changes-for-your-firefox-theme/ https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/09/30/firefox-157-could-bold-new-look-be-just-what-mozilla-needs/5300059 https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/09/firefox-157-released-nova-theme https://itsfoss.com/firefox-nova-redesign/ KDE Announces Its 3 Big Goals for the Next 2 Years https://discuss.kde.org/t/the-new-kde-goals-for-the-2026-2028-cycle-have-been-announced-at-akademy/50305 https://blogs.kde.org/2026/08/07/kde-goals-last-call-for-submissions/ https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Goals-To-2028 F-Droid 2.0 Is Its Biggest App Update in a Decade https://f-droid.org/2026/09/24/f-droid-2.0-a-new-chapter-for-android-freedom.html https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/09/f-droid-gets-its-biggest-update-in-a-decade-with-new-ui-and-smoother-app-installs/ https://www.androidauthority.com/f-droid-app-store-massive-update-3715335/ postmarketOS Becomes Nura https://nura.eco/blog/2026/09/27/nura-rename/ https://nura.eco/ https://itsfoss.com/news/postmarketos-nura-rebranding/ https://linuxiac.com/postmarketos-is-now-nura-after-major-project-rebrand/ Ubuntu Is Moving to Weekly Kernel Releases Because the CVE Flood https://canonical.com/blog/accelerating-delivery-of-cve-fixes-with-a-new-kernel-release-strategy https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/09/24/cve-flood-pushes-ubuntu-onto-weekly-kernel-release-cycle/5298912 https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/09/ubuntu-kernel-security-updates-faster Support the show https://tuxdigital.com/membership https://store.tuxdigital.com/

video: https://youtu.be/V4r7fCFLP6A This week in Linux, GNOME 51 is here with a faster, more polished desktop and a long list of upgrades across the environment. Asahi Linux pulled off another major Apple Silicon milestone with M3 Macs. Valve is building one of the wildest compatibility stacks we've seen yet for the Steam Frame. And Open Source projects are now setting traps for AI coding agents that can make lazy submissions snitch on themselves. Plus, Jellyfin 12 is a huge upgrade for self-hosted media. All of this and more on this week's episode, so let's jump into Your Source for Linux GNews and see what's happened This Week in Linux. Download as MP3 Support the Show Become a Patron = tuxdigital.com/membership Store = tuxdigital.com/store Chapters: 00:00 Intro 00:47 GNOME 51 Released 04:34 Asahi Linux for M3 Macs 10:52 Valve's Steam Frame Compatibility Stack for Linux Gaming 13:45 Microsoft 365 might come to Linux (unofficially) 17:21 Jellyfin 12 Released 20:55 Open Source Projects Setting Traps for Lazy Ai Submissions 24:20 Raspberry Pi OS Desktop Refresh 26:07 Ubuntu 26.10 completes migration to Rust-based coreutils 27:08 Google is Replacing C-based Android Binder with Rust 28:13 RustFS 1.0 Released 29:04 Support the show 29:58 Outro Links: GNOME 51 Released https://release.gnome.org/51/ https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-51-Released https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/09/gnome-51-released Asahi Linux for M3 Macs https://asahilinux.org/2026/09/m2-episode-1/ https://asahilinux.org/docs/platform/feature-support/m3/ https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora_asahi_remix_45_beta/ https://fedora-asahi-remix.org/ https://www.phoronix.com/news/Asahi-Linux-Official-M3 https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/asahi-linux-now-officially-supports-macs-with-the-m3-series-soc/ Valve's Steam Frame Compatibility Stack for Linux Gaming https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/steamhardware/steamframe/compatibility https://gitlab.steamos.cloud/frame-public/lepton/ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/lepton-from-valve-to-run-android-games-on-linux-is-now-open-source/ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/lepton-and-fex-get-prepared-for-the-steam-frame-release/ Microsoft 365 might come to Linux (unofficially) https://itsfoss.com/news/bottles-microsoft-365-early-look/ https://mprove.de/blogs/rss/index.php?rss=mastodon.bsd.cafe%2Ftags%2FMicrosoft.rss https://github.com/bottlesdevs/Bottles/releases https://usebottles.com/ Jellyfin 12 Released https://jellyfin.org/posts/jellyfin-release-12.0/ https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/releases https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-web/releases Open Source Projects Setting Traps for Lazy Ai Submissions https://github.com/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/blob/main/AGENTS.md https://www.phoronix.com/news/NetworkManager-AI-Canary https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/main/AGENTS.md https://www.phoronix.com/news/systemd-262-rc2 https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/-/merge_requests/2536 https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/-/blob/main/AGENTS.md https://hwbusters.com/news/networkmanager-ai-policy-gets-a-trap-word-and-ci-now-scans-every-commit-for-it/ Raspberry Pi OS Desktop Refresh https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/an-updated-look-for-the-raspberry-pi-desktop/ https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/category/os/raspberry-pi-os/ Ubuntu 26.10 completes migration to Rust-based coreutils https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/09/ubuntu-2610-rust-coreutils-complete https://documentation.ubuntu.com/release-notes/26.10/ https://uutils.org/ https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Completes-Rust-Coreutils Google is Replacing C-based Android Binder with Rust https://lkml.iu.edu/2609.1/12916.html https://lists.openwall.net/linux-kernel/2026/09/12/891 https://www.phoronix.com/news/Google-Binder-C-Goodbye RustFS 1.0 Released https://www.rustfs.com/blog/announcing-rustfs-1-0-0-ga/ https://github.com/RustFS/RustFS https://linuxiac.com/rustfs-1-0-s3-compatible-object-storage-reaches-ga/ Support the show https://tuxdigital.com/membership https://store.tuxdigital.com/

video: https://youtu.be/A_1UeqFux-Q This week in Linux, CERN makes some Linux news revolving around Debian, lawmakers are giving open source a way out of OS-level age verification ... well in California, and Ubisoft found away to make Linux gaming news frustrating right at the same time as we hit a huge milestone for Linux gaming. Plus, Audacity gets one of its biggest updates in years, OpenShot levels up in a big way, and Linux From Scratch has a brand new release for everyone who thinks installing Linux should require just a little more suffering. All of this and more on This Week in Linux, the weekly news show that keeps you up to date with what’s going on in the Linux and Open Source world. Now let's jump right into Your Source for Linux GNews! Download as MP3 Support the Show Become a Patron = tuxdigital.com/membership Store = tuxdigital.com/store Chapters: 00:00 Intro 00:55 CERN is moving some systems to Debian 05:26 California Legislature Passes Open-Source Exemption From OS Age Verification 09:56 30,000 Games Playable on Linux but Ubisoft Is Intentionally Blocking For Honor 16:46 Audacity 4.0 Released With a Completely Rebuilt Interface 20:31 OpenShot 4.0 Brings Major Upgrades 22:47 The Ur Project - A Clear Linux Architect Is Building a New Linux Distro 26:20 Linux From Scratch 13.1 Released 29:57 Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS Released 32:16 Update: NVIDIA confirmed they are buying Hugging Face 34:24 Support the show 35:39 Outro Links: CERN is moving some systems to Debian https://ch2026.mini.debconf.org/talks/6-controlling-cerns-accelerators-with-debian/ https://micronews.debian.org/2026/1788286274.html https://linux.web.cern.ch/debian/ https://www.phoronix.com/news/CERN-Goes-Debian-Leaving-RHEL https://itsfoss.com/news/cern-debian-push/ California Legislature Passes Open-Source Exemption From OS Age Verification https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1856 https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1856 https://agelesslinux.org/ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/california-bill-ab-1856-passes-exempting-open-source-from-age-verification/ https://www.phoronix.com/news/California-AB-1856-Passes https://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Linux-Exempt-from-California-s-Age-Verification-Law 30,000 Games Playable on Linux but Ubisoft Is Intentionally Blocking For Honor https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/steam-deck-steamos-hit-over-30-000-verified-playable-games/ https://www.ubisoft.com/en-us/game/for-honor/news-updates/4WKJhG6v6C9sbCOZkFZ6wG/ranked-faq https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/ubisofts-for-honor-will-block-steamos-linux-on-september-10/ Audacity 4.0 Released With a Completely Rebuilt Interface https://www.audacityteam.org/audacity-4/ https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/audacity-4-is-out-now/153852 https://www.phoronix.com/news/Audacity-4.0-Released https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/09/audacity-4-released OpenShot 4.0 Brings Major Upgrades https://www.openshot.org/blog/2026/08/30/openshot-40-record-edit-color-like-never-before/ https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenShot-4.0 https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/08/openshot-4-0-release The Ur Project - A Clear Linux Architect Is Building a New Linux Distro https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7499950666367459328/ https://ur.foo-projects.org/ https://www.phoronix.com/news/The-Ur-Project https://itsfoss.com/news/the-ur-project-appears/ Linux From Scratch 13.1 Released https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/news.html https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/downloads/stable-systemd/LFS-BOOK-13.1-NOCHUNKS.html https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/13.1-systemd/chapter01/changelog.html Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS Released https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/08/ubuntu-26041-lts-point-release-download https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-26.04.1-LTS-Released Update: NVIDIA confirmed they are buying Hugging Face https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-to-acquire-hugging-face/ https://www.reuters.com/business/nvidia-buy-hugging-face-nearly-13-billion-big-bet-open-ai-models-2026-09-03/ https://www.reuters.com/commentary/breakingviews/nvidia-wraps-itself-129-bln-insurance-2026-09-03/ Support the show https://tuxdigital.com/membership https://store.tuxdigital.com/

video: https://youtu.be/tksoVnYTz1c This week in Linux, we learned that NVIDIA might be buying Hugging Face and this AI community platform reportedly rejected extra investment from NVIDIA because they didn't want one company having too much influence. Now NVIDIA may be buying the entire company. Someone dumped more than 125 bug reports into QEMU in under ten minutes, leading one maintainer to call it an effective denial-of-service attack. Debian finished their debate on what to do with AI contributions and their decision was surprising. LibreOffice has a new release where they made it very clear they aren't interested in adding Ai tools to summarize the document you just wrote. Plus Flatpak is getting more than half a million euros to improve Linux app security and sandboxing, so that's awesome. And all of this is happening while Linux celebrates 35 years of the kernel. This is Your Source for Linux GNews so let's see what happened This Week in Linux. Download as MP3 Support the Show Become a Patron = tuxdigital.com/membership Store = tuxdigital.com/store Chapters: 00:00 Intro 01:09 Happy 35th Birthday Linux 03:54 NVIDIA Reportedly Agrees to Buy Hugging Face for .9 Billion 07:16 Announcing €500K Sovereign Tech Agency Investment in Flatpak 09:38 Debian's AI Decision 12:07 AI Bug Reports Become a “Denial of Service” Against Open Source Maintainers 14:45 LibreOffice 26.8 Makes “No AI” a Feature 17:25 Support the show 18:40 Outro Links: Happy 35th Birthday Linux https://bsky.app/profile/tuxdigital.bsky.social/post/3mtyonwnwvk2w https://9to5linux.com/happy-35th-birthday-linux https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/linux-was-announced-by-linus-torvalds-35-years-ago-today-humble-os-started-with-10-000-lines-of-code-but-has-now-grown-to-40-million-dominates-global-infrastructure NVIDIA Reportedly Agrees to Buy Hugging Face for $12.9 Billion https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2026/08/27/nvidia-has-reportedly-agreed-to-buy-ai-model-hosting-platform-hugging-face-for-13-billion/ https://www.theinformation.com/articles/nvidia-agrees-buy-open-source-model-repository-hugging-face-12-9-billion https://www.reuters.com/technology/nvidia-talks-acquire-hugging-face-13-billion-deal-business-insider-reports-2026-08-27/ https://www.businessinsider.com/hugging-face-nvidia-deal-reshape-ai-landscape-2026-8 https://www.marketwatch.com/story/what-to-know-about-hugging-face-the-open-source-ai-startup-reportedly-catching-nvidias-eye-243771f8 Announcing €500K Sovereign Tech Agency Investment in Flatpak https://modal.cx/blog/announcing-flatpak-sta/ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/sovereign-tech-agency-makes-a-big-investment-into-flatpak/ https://www.phoronix.com/news/Sovereign-Tech-Agency-Flatpak Debian's AI Decision https://www.debian.org/vote/2026/vote_002#texte https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2026/08/msg00360.html https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-Votes-On-LLM-Usage https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-Votes-Responsible-AI-Use AI Bug Reports Become a “Denial of Service” Against Open Source Maintainers https://www.phoronix.com/news/AI-DoS-Attack-Maintainers https://hachyderm.io/@berrange/117155755806497654 https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/work_items?author_username=anwardawa981&first_page_size=20&sort=created_date&state=all https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/work_items/4348 LibreOffice 26.8 Makes “No AI” a Feature https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/08/26/libreoffice-26-8/ https://lwn.net/Articles/1090606/ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/08/libreoffice-268-released https://itsfoss.com/news/libreoffice-26-8-release/ https://www.phoronix.com/news/LibreOffice-26.8 Support the show https://tuxdigital.com/membership https://store.tuxdigital.com/

video: https://youtu.be/lBJDyzkJbCI Linux 7.2 is here with a ton of new kernel improvements. Desktop Linux has crossed a major milestone for usage with more than 10% in North America and 7% globally. Arch Linux has announced some changes they are making to the way the AUR works because of the latest Malware attacks. Plus there's some big KDE news this week. KDE is bringing back LTS support with a much bigger "Bullet-Proof KDE" approach, and Framework has announced the next edition of the Framework Laptop 12 and it's coming with a preinstalled option of Fedora KDE. There is a LOT happening in the Linux world right now, and some of these stories get pretty wild. So here's Your Source for Linux GNews and see what's happened This Week in Linux. Download as MP3 Support the Show Become a Patron = tuxdigital.com/membership Store = tuxdigital.com/store Chapters: 00:00 Intro 00:52 Support the show (Become a Member) 01:43 Linux 7.2 Released 04:50 Linux crosses 10% in Desktop Market Share 10:53 Arch Linux changes how AUR Adoptions work after Malware waves 13:06 "Bullet-Proof KDE" brings LTS Support back to KDE 16:29 Framework Laptop 12 with Fedora Linux Preinstalled 19:39 NVIDIA, GOG, & Epic Games to compete with Valve on Linux Gaming Ecosystem 23:01 Steam Deck 1% lows improve by as much as 32% 25:27 Ubuntu Touch 24.04-2.0 Released 27:28 NVIDIA Becomes a Premier Sponsor of LVFS/Fwupd 28:48 FFmpeg 9.0 Released 29:56 Support the show 31:21 Outro Links: Linux 7.2 Released https://lwn.net/Articles/1089033/ https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_7.2 https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-72-features https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-Released Linux crosses 10% in Desktop Market Share https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/north-america#monthly-202505-202606 https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&dt=2026-07-01_2026-07-31&loc=north-america&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP%252CbotClass%253DLIKELY_AUTOMATED https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/ https://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Linux-Surpasses-Double-Digit-Market-Share Arch Linux changes how AUR Adoptions work after Malware waves https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/aur-general%40lists.archlinux.org/thread/DRDEU3JUSC72CB265XHXPFA3DFSLXPBP/ https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/aur-general%40lists.archlinux.org/thread/P5C7GZ4C3OJIH4EXJ62JAF6X6PY2BCQ4/ https://archlinux.org/news/active-aur-malicious-packages-incident/ https://lists.archlinux.org/hyperkitty/list/aur-general%40lists.archlinux.org/latest?count=200 https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/aur-general%40lists.archlinux.org/message/NNNGQYXYGBYGESV35AEQV2PLAVMMLW64/ "Bullet-Proof KDE" brings LTS Support back to KDE https://www.kubuntu.org/news/plasma-6.6-lts/ https://pointieststick.com/2026/08/ https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Bullet-Proof-Software Framework Laptop 12 with Fedora Linux Preinstalled https://frame.work/blog/framework-laptop-12-now-with-core-series-3 https://frame.work/laptop12 https://youtu.be/459a7YBmBOE https://youtu.be/yE48_MN8Ng4 https://www.phoronix.com/news/Framework-Laptop-12-WCL NVIDIA, GOG, & Epic Games to compete with Valve on Linux Gaming Ecosystem https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/geforce-now-thursday-linux-native-app/ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/the-native-linux-app-for-nvidia-geforce-now-is-now-in-beta/ https://www.phoronix.com/review/nvidia-geforce-now-linux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/gog-confirm-they-are-working-towards-gog-galaxy-on-linux/ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/epic-games-store-will-get-a-linux-version-sometime-soon/ https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/the-epic-games-launcher-will-be-available-on-linux-soon-says-dev-after-its-had-a-bit-of-work Steam Deck 1% lows improve by as much as 32% https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-P-State-Better-1p-Lows https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/handheld-gaming-pcs/linux-kernel-patch-can-boost-the-steam-decks-1-percent-low-frame-rate-by-as-much-as-31-percent-in-early-testing/ Ubuntu Touch 24.04-2.0 Released https://ubports.com/blog/ubports-news-1/ubuntu-touch-24-04-2-0-and-24-04-1-4-release-4007 NVIDIA Becomes a Premier Sponsor of LVFS/Fwupd https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-foundation-announces-key-industry-support-for-linux-vendor-firmware-service https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-Premier-Sponsor-LVFS https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/nvidia-now-supporting-the-linux-vendor-firmware-service-lvfs-as-a-premier-sponsor/ https://www.fwupd.org/ FFmpeg 9.0 Released https://www.ffmpeg.org/ https://ffmpeg.org/releases/ https://www.phoronix.com/news/FFmpeg-9.0-Released Support the show https://tuxdigital.com/membership https://store.tuxdigital.com/