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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.

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.

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.

Two Weeks of Fake Friendship. One Click. A Global Backdoor.

North Korea built a fake company to trick one developer. For three hours, a tool used by banks, hospitals, and governments carried a hidden spy program.

Billions Read His Code. 7 Days in Prison. No Regret.

Four agents. Evin's Ward 2A. Eight-hour interrogations. They wanted an informant on activists in three countries. He refused. Five years later, his code shipped.

The Field Is Optional. The Death Threats Were Not.

Fraudulent takeout orders. Mormon missionaries at the door. A Social Security number posted on an imageboard.

12.5 Million Downloads a Month. She's Never Seen Her Code on a Screen.

A visually impaired developer in Copenhagen maintains pypandoc, a top 1% Python package with 12.5M monthly downloads used by Adobe, Google, and Microsoft

95 Million Downloads. Poisoned by Its Own Security Scanner.

You never installed LiteLLM. CrewAI did. For 5 hours on March 24, every Python process on your machine was stealing your AWS keys, SSH credentials, and Kubernetes tokens.

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.