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KDE makes its own Linux distribution, based on Arch (but don't call it as such): https://kde.org/linux/

Debian 13 has been released. https://www.debian.org/News/2025/20250809

StarDict sends X11 clipboard to remote servers https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1032732/3334850da49689e1/

Writing a new article has been a challenge for us since the beginning of this new AI age. You may not have heard it, but AI has absolutely destroyed content websites across all categories. People now use ChatGPT or Perplexity or Google AI Overview to get direct answers (which are stolen from content websites) directly from these search engines rather than reading a blog post. This means we are not getting visitors to our website, which removes the point of publishing a new piece of content on that website in the first place. We are literally feeding AI companies and algorithms free content, curated from our own experiences. This introduces yet another block on our way in publishing new content: Why do so, only for AI companies to come and steal our content for free and present it for their users while we get $0? Web publishing is absolutely hard at this age, and I am not sure where to go from here. Ad revenues were pennies anyways even before the AI age, and now they have gone to near zero. Other small blogs have either already disappeared, or doubled down on cheap content making with AI in order to continue playing the game.

LibreOffice 25.8 has been released. https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/08/20/libreoffice-25-8/

ffmpeg 8.0 has been released. https://ffmpeg.org/index.html#pr8.0

Someone is DDoS'ing Arch Linux infrastructure. Must be someone who couldn't install it. 👻 https://archlinux.org/news/recent-services-outages/

Linux Mint 22.2 has been released. https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4881

The TDF 2024 report is here, which highlights the current status of LibreOffice development and its financial situation. They have received around $1.3 million in in funding, 90% of which were from donations. https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/09/15/tdf-annual-report-2024/

Firefox DNS privacy: Faster than ever, now on Android https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/dns-android/

openSUSE 16.0 has been released. https://news.opensuse.org/2025/10/01/next-chapter-opens-with-leap-release/

Ubuntu 25.10 has been released. https://canonical.com/blog/canonical-releases-ubuntu-25-10-questing-quokka

Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) 7 has been released. Based on Debian 13, away from Ubuntu so that if it pulls the trigger one day Linux Mint will always continue to exist. 👻 https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4924

Firefox 145 has been released: https://www.firefox.com/en-US/firefox/145.0/releasenotes/ It adds support for a number of multimedia codecs to be played from inside the browser, as well as editing/commenting on PDF files. The browser is the new OS nowadays. 👻

Blender 5.0 has been released https://www.blender.org/download/releases/5-0/

Linux Kernel 6.18 released. Check the changes here: https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_6.18

Pop!_OS 24.04 has been released https://blog.system76.com/post/pop-os-letter-from-our-founder/

Transmission 4.1.0 has been released after 3 slow steady years of changes. https://github.com/transmission/transmission/releases/tag/4.1.0

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS has been released. https://canonical.com/blog/canonical-releases-ubuntu-26-04-lts-resolute-raccoon