Open-source News

Linux Foundation: $12.5 Million Raised For Open Source Security Initiative  Pulse 2.0

Samba continues strong in 2026 for this leading open-source SMB protocol re-implementation for Microsoft Windows file and print services interoperability. Samba 4.24 brings more features, including remote password management support...

Linux gives users too much choice, and that its biggest weakness  How-To Geek

Google Engineers Launch "Sashiko" For Agentic AI Code Review Of The Linux Kernel  Phoronix

Google engineers have been spending the past number of months developing Sashiko as an agentic AI code review system for the Linux kernel. It's now open-source and publicly available and will continue to do upstream Linux kernel code review thanks to funding from Google...

The widely-used GRUB bootloader is now being developed on FreeDesktop.org with a modern GitLab-based workflow...

Manjaro Linux Team Goes on Strike, Threatens to Fork the Project  It's FOSS

A new platform feature being worked on by Arm engineers for the Linux kernel is Live Firmware Activation to allow for updated firmware components to be deployed without requiring a system reboot...

For those that happen to have the Logitech MX Master 4 wireless mouse or are considering this high-end ~$120 USD Bluetooth mouse, better support for it was merged yesterday to Linux 7.0...

Linux 7.0 Better Supporting The Logitech MX Master 4 Bluetooth Mouse  Phoronix

Major tech companies invest $12.5 million in open source security  Help Net Security

Linux Foundation Receives $12.5 Million for Open Source Security  Techzine Global

Linux Foundation Launches Open Source Defence Against AI Bug Surge  Open Source For You

Linux Foundation wants to shield FOSS devs from AI bug slop  theregister.com

Version 4.3 of the CMake software development tool / build system was released today. Notable with CMake 4.3 is support for importing and exporting packages described using the Common Package Specification (CPS) for greater interoperability in the ecosystem...

Linux phones could get even better with postmarketOS ‘Duranium’  How-To Geek

Systemd 260 was just released as the newest stable version of this widely-used Linux init system and service manager. Systemd 260 brings yet more features to this critical open-source project and to be incorporated into H1'2026 Linux distributions...

OpenJDK 26 is out today as the newest GA reference version for the Java SE platform. With Java 26, it's finally time to say a goodbye to the Java Applet API...

Linux Foundation secures USD $12.5m for AI security  ChannelLife Australia

AMD MLIR-AIE Releases New AIECC C++ Compiler To Help Bring New Workloads To Ryzen AI NPUs  Phoronix