FOSS Weekly #26.22: Win for Linux, Firefox New AI Feature, AMD Betrayal, Rust Linux Commands and More
Good news on the age verification front, though. California and Colorado have both moved to exempt open source software from their age verification laws after neither bill originally made any concessions for community-run projects.
Warp's Oz platform has been updated with multi-harness support, meaning teams can now run Claude Code, Codex, and Warp's own agent side by side under unified access controls and audit logs.
The SFC has formally accused Bambu Lab of two AGPLv3 violations, shipping a proprietary networking library alongside AGPLv3 code without releasing its source, and threatening a developer with a cease-and-desist for building a compatible fork that didn't even touch the proprietary parts.
For a few days, German rail operator Deutsche Bahn's website was turning away Linux users, treating them as bot users. DB blamed overzealous bot filtering and says it's now fixed. Many Linux users still complain.
AMD let students, academics, and hardware tinkerers build FPGA workflows around free Linux support in Vivado, then quietly moved Linux to a $1,800 paid tier.
Intel engineers have submitted a driver for Linux 7.2 that turns a USB4 cable into a direct data pipe between two machines. It doesn't interact with the networking stack.
Raspberry Pi 6 won't be coming before 2028 and it won't have NPU. Guess we just have to wait.
Here are other highlights of this edition of FOSS Weekly:
- What LTS releases entail.
- Alternatives to MS Planner.
- Nanoclaw setup.
- Firefox introducing a very useful feature.
- And other Linux news, tips, and, of course, memes!
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🧠 What We’re Thinking About
A KDE developer makes the case that rolling distros often have fewer bugs in practice since upstream fixes actually reach you.
🧮 Linux Tips, Tutorials, and Learnings
You can get kanban without the Microsoft tax. We have covered six open source Planner alternatives, from Mattermost's Focalboard to the Penpot team's Taiga. Most are self-hostable; a couple have free cloud tiers if you'd rather not run your own server.
Getting Rust on Linux comes down to two options. The official installer via rustup gives you the latest version without needing root access. Installing through your package manager is simpler and covers all users on the system.
Speaking of Rust, how about experimenting with Rust alternatives of the classic Linux commands?
Ever wondered why the internet went from IPv4 straight to IPv6? IPv5 actually existed as an experimental streaming protocol for voice and video, but it inherited IPv4's 32-bit address space and its 4.3 billion address ceiling.
By the time a real IPv4 successor was needed, the only sensible move was a complete overhaul, and IPv6 with its 128-bit addressing was the result.
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✨ Apps and Projects Highlights
Firefox is not a new app per se, but its new PDF merging feature is a must-try if you are fed up of those signup-walled online services.
That's not the only new Firefox offering. Sourav also tried the AI browsing mode, called Smart Window, in Firefox. This is an upcoming feature for which we got a bit early access. Here's his experience with Firefox Smart Window.
📽️ Videos for You
I am trying local AI and open source LLMs these days. And I thought of sharing my exploration with you. To begin with, I share how you can set up Nanoclaw on a Raspberry Pi. Nanoclaw gives you an AI agent that you can use as a personal assistant. More on its usage later.
💡 Quick Handy Tip
If you are using the Ghostty terminal emulator in GNOME Desktop, you can install the ghostty-nautilus package to get a "Open in Ghostty" option in the right-click context menu on Files.
This works on Arch Linux and its derivatives. You just have to run this command:
sudo pacman -S ghostty-nautilus
🎋 Fun in the FOSSverse
How up-to-date are you on Linux kernel trivia?
Winslop will make you run to the nearest trash can. 🚮
🗓️ Tech Trivia: On May 29, 1985, Eastman Kodak introduced the Ektaprint Electronic Publishing System, a $50,000 machine assembled from Sun, Canon, and Interleaf parts that let companies professionally edit and print graphics—capabilities that today come standard on any laptop costing far less.
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