Linux 7.1: Kicinski Called It 'LLM-pocalypse.' Then Deleted 138,000 Lines.
The Linux networking maintainer wrote about an ‘LLM-pocalypse’ in the same pull request that deleted 138,000 lines from the kernel.
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📬 Open Source & Linux Weekly - W18_2026
CopyFail: 732-byte script roots every Linux since 2017. Fedora 44 enforces 99% reproducible builds. pgBackRest archived, pgxbackup fork ships in 4 days.
Fedora 44: An Open Linux Release Ubuntu Cannot Copy
Zero telemetry, packages you can host yourself, and a community that overruled Red Hat in 2023. IBM still pays the engineers.
A Dorm Room in 1993. The International Space Station Today. One Person the Industry Forgot.
Deb and Ian. A 20-year-old's act of love is now the foundation on which billions of lines of code run. The relationship lasted 14 years. The name will last forever.
35 Years of Linux Principles. Ubuntu Just Threw Them Away in One Snap.
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS just shipped the fastest developer setup Linux has ever seen. It is hidden in a roadmap Canonical published one day before public release.
📬 Open Source & Linux Weekly - W17_2026
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS ships Rust coreutils, sudo-rs, post-quantum TLS by default. Vercel breach traces to one OAuth grant. Marimo CVE exploited in 9h 41m.
30 Billion+ Devices. Their Maintainers Split 3 Ways on AI.
The curl maintainer said AI was drowning open source in slop. Nine weeks later, he said the opposite. Open source governance split three ways in one quarter.
📬 Open Source & Linux Weekly - W162026
Cal.com pulls AGPL over AI scanning. OpenSSL 4.0 adds post-quantum TLS. NTFS rewrite gains 35 to 110 percent. Fedora 44 slips a second time to April 28.
GNOME 50 Drops X11. The GNOME Foundation Drops Trust.
GNOME 50 shipped March 18 without X11. Three directors burned. 33% of staff cut. $105,000 on payroll. Fedora 44 and Ubuntu 26.04 LTS will deliver it next week.
Linux 7.0: One Bash Script. One Weekend. 23 Years of Kernel Bugs.
Linux 7.0 shipped on April 12. Rust is official. AI is now a kernel coworker. Linus Torvalds calls this the new normal.