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Proton apologizes, publishes AI manifesto https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-services/proton-apologizes-to-community-after-internal-memo-shows-force-behind-proposed-ai-use-in-building-its-privacy-products https://proton.me/blog/ai-manifesto

Cutefish runs native macOS apps now https://cutefish.org/blog/running-mac-apps/ https://cutefish.org/blog/mac-apps-first-milestone/

SUSE to let go of 10% of their workforce https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/11/02/suse-to-cut-one-in-ten-employees-because-of-ai/5306950

Fedora 45 released https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-linux-45/

Linux Mint shows more of their new apps https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=5093

OpenAI found about 1000 flaws in the kernel https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenAI-948-Linux-LPE-Bugs

Nvidia drivers update with better Wayland support https://9to5linux.com/nvidia-620-linux-graphics-driver-released-with-wayland-improvements

Discord ditches elenctron for their client, for Rust https://www.theverge.com/news/1027379/discord-ditching-electron-web-app

News publishers sue Brave for selling heir content to AI providers https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/02/new-york-times-and-other-outlets-sue-web-browser-brave-over-alleged-content-scraping/

Macs get their Apple Silicon Proton in the form of Hadron https://github.com/Broyojo/hadron

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Links Proton makes worrying move stowards AI https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-services/proton-is-re-interviewing-staff-about-how-they-use-ai-and-their-jobs-could-depend-on-the-answers https://www.404media.co/manifestos-fear-and-loser-thinking-inside-protons-ai-reckoning/

Ubuntu pushes Core Desktop again https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/accelerating-ubuntu-core-desktop/90547

Firefox 159, 160, and ad campaign https://linuxiac.com/mozilla-firefox-159-improves-linux-wayland-support-adds-new-tab-search/ https://9to5linux.com/mozilla-firefox-160-enters-public-beta-testing-heres-what-to-expect https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/come-back-to-firefox/

X.org dev praises the design of Wayland https://www.phoronix.com/news/Jamey-Sharp-Praises-Wayland

SystemD adds Rust support for new modules https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/44324

Rocky Linux creator wrote his own kernel using AI https://itsfoss.com/news/ginux/

Bottles dev talks vibe cloned software, AI and other projects https://itsfoss.com/interview/mirko-brombin-raven/ https://useraven.org

Fedora 45 delayed again https://linuxiac.com/fedora-linux-45-delayed-again-new-release-date-set-for-november-3/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/EWDOYT6TOMFY4XPL5MJC2QWCDJBOR6MU/

Spotify Client for GNOME

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Flathub shuts down their Forums https://docs.flathub.org/blog/discourse-deprecation

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Links Kernel devs agree to remove AI disclosure, Torvalds goes off on A.I. https://www.xda-developers.com/linus-calls-banning-ai-generated-code-utterly-stupid-as-linux-submissions-no-longer-need-llm-disclosure/

Kernel 7.3 released https://itsfoss.com/news/linux-kernel-7-3-release/

Big influx of Rust code in Kernel 7.4 https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-Rust

Bitwarden moves to a commercial license, mostly https://community.bitwarden.com/t/published-version-update-in-app-stores/102750

KeePassXC supports auto-type on Wayland now https://keepassxc.org/blog/2026-10-21-2.8.0-released/

Mint shows more of their new apps https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/10/linux-mint-new-system-monitor

LibreOffice is getting record download numbers https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/10/21/8-weeks-9-4-million-downloads/ https://linuxiac.com/libreoffice-hits-9-4-million-downloads-in-just-eight-weeks/

Proposed AI assistant prototype for Ubuntu https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/10/ubuntu-ai-launcher-prototype

OpenBSD gets Wine and runs Windows games https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=179236125692175 https://linuxiac.com/wine-on-openbsd-yes-and-it-can-already-run-the-witcher-3/

Cutefish desktop revived as a vibe coded MacOS Clone https://itsfoss.com/news/cutefishos-vibe-coded-desktop/

Epic Game Stores new preview looks pretty bad https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/21/epic-rolls-out-vibe-coded-launcher-update-its-absolute-trash/ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/epic-games-launcher-preview-is-slowly-becoming-actually-usable-on-linux/

Big Tech funds study to warn against digital sovereignty https://itsfoss.com/news/eu-cloud-sovereignty-cada-cost-study/

Massive PHP flaw discovered, and patched https://www.wiz.io/blog/php2shell-php-rce https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cw98z6qlyvg3o

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GNOME OS released in Preview https://os.gnome.org/

Epic Games Store has a Linux client, EAC will support Linux too https://onlineservices.epicgames.com/news/introducing-easy-anti-cheat-linux-v2 https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/epic-games-launcher-preview-arrives-native-linux-support-fortnite-for-linux-is-coming-and-upgraded-easy-anti-cheat/ https://codon.org.uk/~mjg59/blog/p/epics-eac2-v2-seems-fairly-easily-bypassable/

Torvalds' AI generated kernel patches & talks more about AI https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linus-Torvalds-Claude-Code

https://www.techradar.com/pro/linux-founder-linus-torvalds-says-ai-is-a-gateway-drug-into-programming-but-cautions-about-using-ai-for-serious-work

Kernel devs ponder removing mandatory AI use disclosure https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Dropping-Assisted-By-Req

KDE Plasma 6.8 is released https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.8.0/

Ubuntu 26.10 released https://ubuntu.com//blog/canonical-releases-ubuntu-26-10-stonking-stingray

Mint 27 looks like a big release https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=5086

Steam Client is finally moving to 64bit https://steamcommunity.com/groups/SteamClientBeta/announcements/detail/703282384630448403

Netherlands backs away from MS365 rollout https://www.zdnet.com/business/dutch-tax-authorities-cancel-microsoft-365-cloud-rollout/

Dev behind vibe coded Adobe suite bashes FOSS projects https://www.techradar.com/computing/office-suites/developer-who-vibe-coded-free-adobe-clones-reveals-apps-to-take-down-microsoft-office-next-and-says-there-is-no-reason-to-save-broken-software

Framework triples their funding for CachyOS https://discuss.cachyos.org/t/announcement-framework-is-tripling-its-support-for-cachyos/37042

Firefox releases a commercial Enterprise version https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/introducing-firefox-enterprise/

New EuroOffice fork that looks like MS Office https://itsfoss.com/news/elixiroffice-euro-office-fork/ https://github.com/leag1234/elixiroffice

Valve releases CAD files for Steam Frame https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/steam-frame-cad-files-released-plus-an-update-on-reservation-waiting-times/

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Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:38 Sponsor: Internxt 02:12 Entire Adobe Suite supported with custom Wine now 03:53 Open source clean room implementations of the entire Adobe Suite 07:35 Flathub now accepts apps that used AI, with disclosure 10:18 Cosmic will reject LLM generated submissions 11:35 Steam Frame now has 200 verified games 13:03 More Kernel and AMD performance improvements 15:43 Digital Ocean stops hosting credits for FOSS as they donate to Omacom 17:50 Gentoo asking for help for hosting after sponsors dried up 19:14 Orion stops development of its Linux browser 20:45 EU Commission doesn't seem pleased with their Teams replacement 22:31 Googlebooks don't look like they'll help Linux much 24:23 Mesa looking at a more formal governance model 26:53 Sponsor: Tuxedo Computers

Links Entire Adobe Suite supported with custom Wine now https://neutronproject.org/

Open source clean room implementations of the entire Adobe Suite https://github.com/storytold/photocraft

Flathub now accepts apps that used AI, with disclosure https://linuxiac.com/flathub-reverses-ai-generated-app-ban-now-requires-disclosure/

Cosmic will reject LLM generated submissions https://linuxiac.com/cosmic-stops-accepting-llm-generated-content-in-pull-requests/ https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-epoch/blob/master/.github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md

Steam Frame now has 200 verified games https://store.steampowered.com/greatonframe?tab=1 https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/theres-now-over-200-steam-frame-verified-games/

More Kernel and AMD performance improvements https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Better-Zswap-Performance https://www.phoronix.com/news/Boost-Recently-Busy-CPUs

Digital Ocean stops hosting credits for FOSS as they donate to Omacom https://itsfoss.com/news/digitalocean-open-source-credits-end/

Gentoo asking for help for hosting after sponsors dried up https://itsfoss.com/news/gentoo-infrastructure-sponsors-call/

Orion stops development of its Linux browser https://blog.kagi.com/update-orion-linux-windows

EU Commission doesn't seem pleased with their Teams replacement https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-microsoft-teams-alternative-bad-reviews-element-pro/

Googlebooks don't look like they'll help Linux much https://www.androidauthority.com/linux-apps-on-googlebook-3719936/

Mesa looking at a more formal governance model https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-Governance-Model

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Ubuntu 26.10 beta released https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/10/ubuntu-2610-beta-released

Ubuntu 24.04 to 26.04 upgrade now possible https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/09/ubuntu-2604-upgrades-live-2404

Toolpak introduced as the Flatpak for dev tools https://blogs.gnome.org/alatiera/2026/09/26/introducing-toolpak/

F-Droid launches full rewrite of the app https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/09/f-droid-gets-its-biggest-update-in-a-decade-with-new-ui-and-smoother-app-installs/

Firefox 157 adds the new Nova theme https://linuxiac.com/firefox-157-nova-released-with-its-biggest-visual-refresh-in-years/

Igalia working on Firefox for SteamOS https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Deck-Better-Firefox

PostmarketOS changes name https://nura.eco/blog/2026/09/27/nura-rename/

Dev proposes that GNOME accepts AI contributions https://arunraghavan.net/2026/09/on-llms-and-free-software/

Ubuntu 26.10 has an image for Snapdragon laptops https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/09/ubuntu-2610-snapdragon-x2

New minimalist FOSS web browser https://blancbrowser.com/

Meta found guilty of lying on data protection and moderation https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/new-mexico-wins-second-suit-against-meta/article_e4a95a15-5303-473d-9005-fdedb1ebd619.html https://www.reuters.com/world/us/new-mexico-wants-meta-pay-up-40-billion-penalties-after-data-privacy-trial-2026-10-01/