Linux & open source archive
Linux & open source pieces on Soursen, grouped by year and month, with the date and a link to the full article.
2026
November
Flathub Closed Its Forum. Chat Apps Are a Poor Replacement.
Asahi Linux Dropped MIT for GPL After Alleged AI Code Laundering
For 15 Years, KDE Told You a USB Copy Was Done When It Had Barely Started
Linux 7.4 Had the Biggest Merge Window in History, and Linus Torvalds Wrote Some of It With Claude
Linux Deleted a $10 Billion Intel Chip in One Commit. Itanium Took 23 Years to Die
October
AI Is Quietly Dismantling the Thing That Kept People on Windows and macOS
How Intel, Microsoft, and Linux Took Down the UNIX Server Kingdoms
The 23-Year Lawsuit That Claimed to Own Part of Linux Just Died
Siemens Deleted a Popular Open Source Project on Its Way Out the Door, and the AGPL Made Sure That…
MacOS Quietly Vanished From the Official Unix Registry
The Linux Kernel Just Dropped Its AI Disclosure Tag, and the Fight Over It Says More Than the…
Linux 7.3 Made BTRFS Up to 5.7x Faster, and It Did It by Deleting Code. Here Is How
systemd Wants to Know Which App Is Talking to It. That Is a Bigger Deal Than It Sounds
The Internet Runs on Code Maintained by People You Have Never Heard Of.
The Linux Kernel Just Stopped Labeling Its AI Code. The Real Story Is Who Pays for the Compute.