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GNOME 50 Ships as the First Major Desktop Environment to Fully Remove X11, Ending a 40-Year Display Server Era
GNOME 50 completely removes X11 from Mutter, Shell, and GDM, making Wayland the sole display protocol. The release stabilizes VRR and fractional scaling, and will ship in Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and Fedora 44.
Linux 7.0 Enters Release Candidate Phase With 14,500 Commits, Intel Nova Lake and AMD Zen 6 Support
Linus Torvalds confirms the next kernel will be 7.0, citing confusion over large numbers, as the first RC ships with one of the largest merge windows on record.
Open Source Projects Splinter into Opposing Camps as AI-Generated Contributions Force a Governance Reckoning
A RedMonk study of 32 organizations reveals a fragmented policy landscape as projects from cURL to the Linux kernel draw competing lines on AI code.
Prominent Open Source Developers Launch Endowment Fund to Permanently Solve OSS Funding Crisis
A new 501(c)(3) nonprofit modeled on university endowments aims to generate sustainable returns for critical open source projects, backed by the founders of HashiCorp, cURL, and Vue.js.
Firefox 148 Ships a Master AI Kill Switch After Users Revolt Against Mozilla's 'AI Browser' Pivot
Mozilla delivers on its kill switch promise: Firefox 148 adds a single toggle to block all current and future AI features, arriving February 24.
Linux 6.19 Expected February 8 with Rust Drivers Moving Beyond Infrastructure Phase
Linux 6.19 brings Rust into 'actual driver development' phase with I2C support and Nova GPU driver progress