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The Quiet War Over AI’s Plumbing: Why Tech Giants Just Handed the Pipes to Linux  CTOL Digital Solutions

AerynOS 2025.12 is available today as the latest installment of this from-scratch Linux distribution originally known as Serpent OS...

AerynOS 2025.12 Brings Many Package Updates  Phoronix

AerynOS 2025.12 Released with GNOME 49.2, Mesa 25.3, and KDE Plasma 6.5.4  9to5Linux

Overwatch 2 with Season 20 has some very annoying crash-bugs on Linux / SteamOS  GamingOnLinux

Big Tech joins forces with Linux Foundation to standardize AI agents  Ars Technica

MCP joins the Linux Foundation: What this means for developers building the next era of AI tools and agents  The GitHub Blog

Linux Foundation Unites Major Tech Firms to Launch Agentic AI Foundation  Redmond Channel Partner

This security-focused Linux distro is switching to KDE  How-To Geek

Linux Foundation Announces the Formation of the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), Anchored by New Project Contributions Including Model Context Protocol (MCP), goose and AGENTS.md  PR Newswire

Linux Foundation aims to become the Switzerland of AI agents  theregister.com

OpenAI, Anthropic, and Block Join Linux Agent Initiative  findarticles.com

Revolutionary Alliance: OpenAI, Anthropic and Block Unite Under Linux Foundation to Standardize AI Agents  CryptoRank

OpenAI, Anthropic and Block Set up Agentic AI Foundation Under Linux Foundation  Analytics India Magazine

AMD previously talked of simplifying the in-box Linux support for ROCm during the second half of 2025. So far we haven't seen any groundbreaking changes from that initiative besides AMD working on various package archives/repositories to make it easier to install the latest ROCm on different Linux distributions. But today a big announcement is now public that Canonical with next year's Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release will provide official ROCm packages along with other libraries...

Canonical To Distribute AMD ROCm Libraries With Ubuntu 26.04 LTS  Phoronix

The Linux Foundation today announced it's formed another foundation under its growing umbrella that extends well beyond the traditional "Linux" landscape: the Agentic AI Foundation...

OpenAI, Anthropic, and Block join new Linux Foundation effort to standardize the AI agent era  TechCrunch

With Firefox 146 released, which is exciting for delivering fractional scaling on Wayland, Firefox 147 Beta is now available and it's also quite exciting to Linux users for another reason...