This Week in Linux

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This week in Linux, CERN makes some Linux news revolving around Debian, lawmakers are giving open source a way out of OS-level age verification ... well in California, and Ubisoft found away to make Linux gaming news frustrating right at the same time as we hit a huge milestone for Linux gaming.

Plus, Audacity gets one of its biggest updates in years, OpenShot levels up in a big way, and Linux From Scratch has a brand new release for everyone who thinks installing Linux should require just a little more suffering.

All of this and more on This Week in Linux, the weekly news show that keeps you up to date with what’s going on in the Linux and Open Source world. Now let's jump right into Your Source for Linux GNews!

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Chapters:

00:00 Intro

00:55 CERN is moving some systems to Debian

05:26 California Legislature Passes Open-Source Exemption From OS Age Verification

09:56 30,000 Games Playable on Linux but Ubisoft Is Intentionally Blocking For Honor

16:46 Audacity 4.0 Released With a Completely Rebuilt Interface

20:31 OpenShot 4.0 Brings Major Upgrades

22:47 The Ur Project - A Clear Linux Architect Is Building a New Linux Distro

26:20 Linux From Scratch 13.1 Released

29:57 Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS Released

32:16 Update: NVIDIA confirmed they are buying Hugging Face

34:24 Support the show

35:39 Outro

Links:

CERN is moving some systems to Debian

https://ch2026.mini.debconf.org/talks/6-controlling-cerns-accelerators-with-debian/

https://micronews.debian.org/2026/1788286274.html

https://linux.web.cern.ch/debian/

https://www.phoronix.com/news/CERN-Goes-Debian-Leaving-RHEL

https://itsfoss.com/news/cern-debian-push/

California Legislature Passes Open-Source Exemption From OS Age Verification

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1856

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1856

https://agelesslinux.org/

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/california-bill-ab-1856-passes-exempting-open-source-from-age-verification/

https://www.phoronix.com/news/California-AB-1856-Passes

https://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Linux-Exempt-from-California-s-Age-Verification-Law

30,000 Games Playable on Linux but Ubisoft Is Intentionally Blocking For Honor

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/steam-deck-steamos-hit-over-30-000-verified-playable-games/

https://www.ubisoft.com/en-us/game/for-honor/news-updates/4WKJhG6v6C9sbCOZkFZ6wG/ranked-faq

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/ubisofts-for-honor-will-block-steamos-linux-on-september-10/

Audacity 4.0 Released With a Completely Rebuilt Interface

https://www.audacityteam.org/audacity-4/

https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/audacity-4-is-out-now/153852

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Audacity-4.0-Released

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/09/audacity-4-released

OpenShot 4.0 Brings Major Upgrades

https://www.openshot.org/blog/2026/08/30/openshot-40-record-edit-color-like-never-before/

https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenShot-4.0

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/08/openshot-4-0-release

The Ur Project - A Clear Linux Architect Is Building a New Linux Distro

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7499950666367459328/

https://ur.foo-projects.org/

https://www.phoronix.com/news/The-Ur-Project

https://itsfoss.com/news/the-ur-project-appears/

Linux From Scratch 13.1 Released

https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/news.html

https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/downloads/stable-systemd/LFS-BOOK-13.1-NOCHUNKS.html

https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/13.1-systemd/chapter01/changelog.html

Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS Released

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/08/ubuntu-26041-lts-point-release-download

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-26.04.1-LTS-Released

Update: NVIDIA confirmed they are buying Hugging Face

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-to-acquire-hugging-face/

https://www.reuters.com/business/nvidia-buy-hugging-face-nearly-13-billion-big-bet-open-ai-models-2026-09-03/

https://www.reuters.com/commentary/breakingviews/nvidia-wraps-itself-129-bln-insurance-2026-09-03/

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This week in Linux, we learned that NVIDIA might be buying Hugging Face and this AI community platform reportedly rejected extra investment from NVIDIA because they didn't want one company having too much influence. Now NVIDIA may be buying the entire company. Someone dumped more than 125 bug reports into QEMU in under ten minutes, leading one maintainer to call it an effective denial-of-service attack. Debian finished their debate on what to do with AI contributions and their decision was surprising. LibreOffice has a new release where they made it very clear they aren't interested in adding Ai tools to summarize the document you just wrote. Plus Flatpak is getting more than half a million euros to improve Linux app security and sandboxing, so that's awesome. And all of this is happening while Linux celebrates 35 years of the kernel. This is Your Source for Linux GNews so let's see what happened This Week in Linux.

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Chapters:

00:00 Intro

01:09 Happy 35th Birthday Linux

03:54 NVIDIA Reportedly Agrees to Buy Hugging Face for .9 Billion

07:16 Announcing €500K Sovereign Tech Agency Investment in Flatpak

09:38 Debian's AI Decision

12:07 AI Bug Reports Become a “Denial of Service” Against Open Source Maintainers

14:45 LibreOffice 26.8 Makes “No AI” a Feature

17:25 Support the show

18:40 Outro

Links:

Happy 35th Birthday Linux

https://bsky.app/profile/tuxdigital.bsky.social/post/3mtyonwnwvk2w

https://9to5linux.com/happy-35th-birthday-linux

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/linux-was-announced-by-linus-torvalds-35-years-ago-today-humble-os-started-with-10-000-lines-of-code-but-has-now-grown-to-40-million-dominates-global-infrastructure

NVIDIA Reportedly Agrees to Buy Hugging Face for $12.9 Billion

https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2026/08/27/nvidia-has-reportedly-agreed-to-buy-ai-model-hosting-platform-hugging-face-for-13-billion/

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/nvidia-agrees-buy-open-source-model-repository-hugging-face-12-9-billion

https://www.reuters.com/technology/nvidia-talks-acquire-hugging-face-13-billion-deal-business-insider-reports-2026-08-27/

https://www.businessinsider.com/hugging-face-nvidia-deal-reshape-ai-landscape-2026-8

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/what-to-know-about-hugging-face-the-open-source-ai-startup-reportedly-catching-nvidias-eye-243771f8

Announcing €500K Sovereign Tech Agency Investment in Flatpak

https://modal.cx/blog/announcing-flatpak-sta/

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/sovereign-tech-agency-makes-a-big-investment-into-flatpak/

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Sovereign-Tech-Agency-Flatpak

Debian's AI Decision

https://www.debian.org/vote/2026/vote_002#texte

https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2026/08/msg00360.html

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-Votes-On-LLM-Usage

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-Votes-Responsible-AI-Use

AI Bug Reports Become a “Denial of Service” Against Open Source Maintainers

https://www.phoronix.com/news/AI-DoS-Attack-Maintainers

https://hachyderm.io/@berrange/117155755806497654

https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/work_items?author_username=anwardawa981&first_page_size=20&sort=created_date&state=all

https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/work_items/4348

LibreOffice 26.8 Makes “No AI” a Feature

https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/08/26/libreoffice-26-8/

https://lwn.net/Articles/1090606/

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/08/libreoffice-268-released

https://itsfoss.com/news/libreoffice-26-8-release/

https://www.phoronix.com/news/LibreOffice-26.8

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Linux 7.2 is here with a ton of new kernel improvements. Desktop Linux has crossed a major milestone for usage with more than 10% in North America and 7% globally. Arch Linux has announced some changes they are making to the way the AUR works because of the latest Malware attacks. Plus there's some big KDE news this week. KDE is bringing back LTS support with a much bigger "Bullet-Proof KDE" approach, and Framework has announced the next edition of the Framework Laptop 12 and it's coming with a preinstalled option of Fedora KDE.

There is a LOT happening in the Linux world right now, and some of these stories get pretty wild. So here's Your Source for Linux GNews and see what's happened This Week in Linux.

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Chapters:

00:00 Intro

00:52 Support the show (Become a Member)

01:43 Linux 7.2 Released

04:50 Linux crosses 10% in Desktop Market Share

10:53 Arch Linux changes how AUR Adoptions work after Malware waves

13:06 "Bullet-Proof KDE" brings LTS Support back to KDE

16:29 Framework Laptop 12 with Fedora Linux Preinstalled

19:39 NVIDIA, GOG, & Epic Games to compete with Valve on Linux Gaming Ecosystem

23:01 Steam Deck 1% lows improve by as much as 32%

25:27 Ubuntu Touch 24.04-2.0 Released

27:28 NVIDIA Becomes a Premier Sponsor of LVFS/Fwupd

28:48 FFmpeg 9.0 Released

29:56 Support the show

31:21 Outro

Links:

Linux 7.2 Released

https://lwn.net/Articles/1089033/

https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_7.2

https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-72-features

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-Released

Linux crosses 10% in Desktop Market Share

https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/north-america#monthly-202505-202606

https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&dt=2026-07-01_2026-07-31&loc=north-america&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP%252CbotClass%253DLIKELY_AUTOMATED

https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/

https://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Linux-Surpasses-Double-Digit-Market-Share

Arch Linux changes how AUR Adoptions work after Malware waves

https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/aur-general%40lists.archlinux.org/thread/DRDEU3JUSC72CB265XHXPFA3DFSLXPBP/

https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/aur-general%40lists.archlinux.org/thread/P5C7GZ4C3OJIH4EXJ62JAF6X6PY2BCQ4/

https://archlinux.org/news/active-aur-malicious-packages-incident/

https://lists.archlinux.org/hyperkitty/list/aur-general%40lists.archlinux.org/latest?count=200

https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/aur-general%40lists.archlinux.org/message/NNNGQYXYGBYGESV35AEQV2PLAVMMLW64/

"Bullet-Proof KDE" brings LTS Support back to KDE

https://www.kubuntu.org/news/plasma-6.6-lts/

https://pointieststick.com/2026/08/

https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Bullet-Proof-Software

Framework Laptop 12 with Fedora Linux Preinstalled

https://frame.work/blog/framework-laptop-12-now-with-core-series-3

https://frame.work/laptop12

https://youtu.be/459a7YBmBOE

https://youtu.be/yE48_MN8Ng4

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Framework-Laptop-12-WCL

NVIDIA, GOG, & Epic Games to compete with Valve on Linux Gaming Ecosystem

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/geforce-now-thursday-linux-native-app/

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/the-native-linux-app-for-nvidia-geforce-now-is-now-in-beta/

https://www.phoronix.com/review/nvidia-geforce-now-linux

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/gog-confirm-they-are-working-towards-gog-galaxy-on-linux/

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/epic-games-store-will-get-a-linux-version-sometime-soon/

https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/the-epic-games-launcher-will-be-available-on-linux-soon-says-dev-after-its-had-a-bit-of-work

Steam Deck 1% lows improve by as much as 32%

https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-P-State-Better-1p-Lows

https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/handheld-gaming-pcs/linux-kernel-patch-can-boost-the-steam-decks-1-percent-low-frame-rate-by-as-much-as-31-percent-in-early-testing/

Ubuntu Touch 24.04-2.0 Released

https://ubports.com/blog/ubports-news-1/ubuntu-touch-24-04-2-0-and-24-04-1-4-release-4007

NVIDIA Becomes a Premier Sponsor of LVFS/Fwupd

https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-foundation-announces-key-industry-support-for-linux-vendor-firmware-service

https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-Premier-Sponsor-LVFS

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/nvidia-now-supporting-the-linux-vendor-firmware-service-lvfs-as-a-premier-sponsor/

https://www.fwupd.org/

FFmpeg 9.0 Released

https://www.ffmpeg.org/

https://ffmpeg.org/releases/

https://www.phoronix.com/news/FFmpeg-9.0-Released

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This week in Linux, hundreds of Linux security alerts landed but the headlines leave out the most important part. Codeberg, a major open-source code hosting platform, is drawing a new line around AI-generated code, Valve is stretching out their ARM for a new Frame of mind for running Linux, and Jellyfin is entering a major new chapter behind the scenes. All of this and more on This Week in Linux, Your Source for Linux GNews!

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00:00 Intro

00:30 Become a Member of the channel by July 31st

01:39 Codeberg bans mostly AI-generated projects

05:31 Valve and Collabora develop Arch Linux for ARM64

08:08 Jellyfin Leadership Departures

11:57 Linux publishes 432 kernel CVEs in 2 days

14:53 Canonical fixes 3 Snap vulnerabilities

17:26 Firefox 153 adds Containers and Vulkan Video

21:11 TWIL Speedrun or Linux Lightning Round

21:37 AMD’s open-source AI and robotics announcements

22:34 Final MPEG-4 Visual patent expiration

23:31 OBS Studio 32.2 Released

24:05 Raspberry Pi launches a 10-inch Touch Display 2

25:18 Outro

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Codeberg bans mostly AI-generated projects

https://blog.codeberg.org/protecting-our-floss-commons-from-llms.html

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/07/codeberg-bans-ai-generated-code

https://itsfoss.com/news/codeberg-bans-ai-contributions/

OpenAI on Vibe Coding - https://x.com/karpathy/status/1886192184808149383

Valve and Collabora develop Arch Linux for ARM64

https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/building-an-arch-linux-aarch64-port-for-holo-core.html

https://gitlab.steamos.cloud/holo/holo-core-aarch64-preview

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/collabora-announce-a-preview-of-holo-core-an-aarch64-port-of-arch-linux-for-steam-frame/

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Holo-Core-Experimental-ARM64

https://9to5linux.com/valve-and-collabora-announce-official-arch-linux-arm64-port-for-steam-frame

Jellyfin Leadership Departures

https://www.boniface.me/posts/on-my-jellyfin-resignation/

https://itsfoss.com/news/jellyfin-leadership-crisis/

https://linuxiac.com/jellyfin-loses-project-leader-and-core-team-member-in-major-shake-up/

https://jellyfin.org/posts/state-of-the-fin-2026-05-24/

Linux publishes 432 kernel CVEs in 2 days

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/

https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2026/q3/198

https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2026/q3/210

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/07/22/linux_kernel_team_publishes_432_cves_in_two_days/5276497

https://docs.kernel.org/process/cve.html

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/KernelBugfixCVEsAStory

Canonical fixes 3 Snap vulnerabilities

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8579-1

https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2026/q3/191

https://blog.qualys.com/vulnerabilities-threat-research/2026/07/21/cve-2026-8933-snap-confine-local-privilege-escalation

https://cdn2.qualys.com/advisory/2026/07/21/snap-confine-set-capabilities.txt

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-15226

Firefox 153 adds Containers and Vulkan Video

https://www.firefox.com/en-US/firefox/153.0/releasenotes/

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/firefox-containers-preview/

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Releases/153

https://brave.com/blog/containers/

TWIL Speedrun or Linux Lightning Round

which do you prefer of those names?

AMD’s open-source AI and robotics announcements

https://www.amd.com/en/corporate/events/advancing-ai.html

https://www.amd.com/en/blogs/2026/rocm-ai-the-ai-native-developer-experience-for-building.html

https://www.amd.com/en/products/system-on-modules/kria/ai.html

https://www.amd.com/en/products/system-on-modules/kria/ai/robotics-developer-platform.html

Final MPEG-4 Visual patent expiration

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Last-MPEG-4-Patent-Expired

https://itsfoss.com/news/mpeg-4-visual-patent-expiry/

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Have_the_patents_for_MPEG-4_Visual_expired_yet%3F

OBS Studio 32.2 Released

https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/releases/tag/32.2.0

https://9to5linux.com/obs-studio-32-2-released-with-new-filter-to-compose-sdr-into-hdr

https://linuxiac.com/obs-studio-32-2-makes-adding-sources-easier/

Raspberry Pi launches a 10-inch Touch Display 2

https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/a-new-10-raspberry-pi-touch-display-2-available-now-at-80/

https://pip-assets.raspberrypi.com/categories/1083-raspberry-pi-touch-display-2

https://www.phoronix.com/news/10-inch-Raspberry-Pi-Touch-2

https://www.theregister.com/2026/07/22/raspberry-pi-goes-large-with-101-inch-touch-display-2/

https://9to5linux.com/raspberry-pi-launches-10-inch-raspberry-pi-touch-display-2-at-80

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Ubuntu is shipping a kernel that can make certain AMD workloads up to 42 times slower. Linus Torvalds is drawing clearer boundaries around AI-generated code in the kernel. Secure Boot just passed a major certificate expiration deadline. COSMIC Desktop 1.3 brings a polished new Frosted Glass design. And one developer decided to add another place and that's a Sega Genesis from 1994.

All of this and more on This Week in Linux. Now let’s jump right into Your Source for Linux GNews!

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Chapters:

00:00 Intro

00:44 Ubuntu publishes Update that introduces regression for AMD users

03:52 Linus Torvalds talks on AI Code in Linux

07:12 Secure Boot Linux Certificates Expired?

09:27 COSMIC 1.3 with Frosted Glass

11:33 AppManager for AppImages

14:51 FreeBSD Removes All GPL Code

17:16 Rapid Fire Lightning Round

17:40 stillOS 10.2 Released

18:32 Blender 5.2 LTS Released

19:00 Clonezilla Live 3.3.3 Released

19:31 Linux on Sega Genesis and 32X Addon

20:26 Outro

Links:

Ubuntu publishes Update that introduces regression for AMD users

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/amdgpu-performance-regression-in-kernel-7-0-0-28-28/85237

Linus Torvalds talks on AI Code in Linux

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-media/CAHk-=wi4zC+Ze8e+p3tMv8TtG_80KzsZ1syL9anBtmEh5Z40vg@mail.gmail.com/

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Is-Not-Anti-AI

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/linux-creator-linus-torvalds-puts-foot-down-on-anti-ai-comments/

https://itsfoss.com/news/linus-torvalds-on-ai/

Secure Boot Linux Certificates Expired?

https://lwn.net/Articles/1079808/

https://almalinux.org/blog/2026-07-14-secure-boot-2023-certificates/

https://linuxiac.com/debian-13-6-released-with-120-security-fixes-and-124-stability-updates/

COSMIC 1.3 with Frosted Glass

https://9to5linux.com/cosmic-1-3-desktop-environment-released-with-frosted-glass-effect

https://www.phoronix.com/news/COSMIC-Epoch-1.3

AppManager for AppImages

https://github.com/kem-a/AppManager

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/07/appmanager-appimage-installer-linux

https://github.com/VHSgunzo/uruntime

FreeBSD Removes All GPL Code

https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-16-Goes-GPL-Free

https://fossforce.com/2026/07/freebsd-16-cleans-house-no-gpl-left-in-the-base-system/

https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-Intern-AMD-ROCm

https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-Laptops-June-2026

https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-Desktop-Install-NVIDIA

stillOS 10.2 Released

https://stillhq.io/stillos-gets-gnome-49-a-better-first-boot-and-major-swai-improvements/

Blender 5.2 LTS Released

https://www.blender.org/download/releases/5-2/

Clonezilla Live 3.3.3 Released

https://clonezilla.org/downloads/stable/release-notes.php

Linux on Sega Genesis and 32X Addon

https://cakehonolulu.github.io/linux-on-32x/

https://github.com/LinuxMD/linuxmd

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/developer-successfully-ports-linux-to-1994-sega-32x-genesis-and-megadrive-expansion-runs-open-source-os-on-paltry-23mhz-processors-and-256kb-of-ram

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