Open Source & Linux Weekly - W13_2026
X11 died without a funeral. Canonical bets on post-quantum crypto and Rust. TeamPCP hacks four supply chain targets in ten days. Weekly OSS & Linux roundup.
Topic
Linux
A collection of 93 issues
Mozilla. WordPress. Now Manjaro. Open Source Keeps Dying the Same Way.
He fired the only person watching the money. Made himself treasurer. 2 years later, his own 50/50 business partner signed a public manifesto against him.
Every Line Looked Clean. The Malware Was Hiding in Characters No Editor on Earth Can Render.
You could stare at the infected file for hours and see nothing. The attack hit 200 Python repos, 151 JS/TS repos, 72 VS Code extensions, and 10 npm packages. A researcher traced 50 blockchain transactions spanning three months. Nobody noticed.
A Child Safety Nonprofit Filed Taxes as a Lemonade Stand. Then It Wrote Laws in 20 States.
86 lobbyists. 45 states. $2B in nonprofit grants. One company in the USA. A GitHub researcher pulled IRS filings, WHOIS records, and Senate disclosures.
27 Years, 50 Releases, 1 Breakup: How GNOME 50 Just Changed the Way Your Desktop Works
GNOME and X11 were together for 27 years and 50 releases. GNOME 50 Tokyo ended the relationship. Ubuntu and Fedora ship it next month. Here is who gets hurt.
$10 Trillion in Market Cap. $12.5 Million for Open Source. I Pulled Their Receipts.
Seven companies worth $10 trillion wrote a $12.5M check for open source. I pulled every receipt. The last one involves five million stolen books.
4 Billion Devices Run His Code. He Said He Was Drowning. A Spy Was Already Inside.
One spy. 849 days of fake patches. A burned-out maintainer who just wanted help. A backdoor almost opened every Linux server on Earth.
Trillion-Dollar Companies Pay $0 for the Software They Cannot Live Without
800 billion downloads run on one charity donation. 60% of maintainers work unpaid. Nobody will fix.
You Cannot Ban AI Code You Cannot Detect
Gentoo tried. NetBSD tried. Debian looked at the 45% false positive rate and walked away.
California's Age Verification Law Has No Idea What Linux Is
A volunteer project banned California rather than comply with an age law meant for Apple, Google, Microsoft. Hundreds of Linux distros with $0 budgets face the same choice.