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01:46 Affinity confirms Linux version is coming
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/11/affinity-linux-release-confirmed

03:36 Proton apologizes, publishes AI manifesto
https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-services/proton-apologizes-to-community-after-internal-memo-shows-force-behind-proposed-ai-use-in-building-its-privacy-products
https://proton.me/blog/ai-manifesto

07:13 Cutefish runs native macOS apps now
https://cutefish.org/blog/running-mac-apps/
https://cutefish.org/blog/mac-apps-first-milestone/

10:24 SUSE to let go of 10% of their workforce
https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/11/02/suse-to-cut-one-in-ten-employees-because-of-ai/5306950

12:28 Fedora 45 released
https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-linux-45/

14:00 Linux Mint shows more of their new apps
https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=5093

16:11 OpenAI found about 1000 flaws in the kernel
https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenAI-948-Linux-LPE-Bugs

18:10 Nvidia drivers update with better Wayland support
https://9to5linux.com/nvidia-620-linux-graphics-driver-released-with-wayland-improvements

19:27 Discord ditches elenctron for their client, for Rust
https://www.theverge.com/news/1027379/discord-ditching-electron-web-app

20:49 News publishers sue Brave for selling heir content to AI providers
https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/02/new-york-times-and-other-outlets-sue-web-browser-brave-over-alleged-content-scraping/

22:40 France’s stupid tax on data transfers
https://itsfoss.com/news/vlc-outrage-at-french-internet-tax/
https://www.tomshardware.com/software/social-media/french-lawmakers-approve-usd11-2-billion-internet-tax-based-on-traffic-usage-costs-usd0-65-per-gigabyte-of-content-accessed-us-tech-giants-like-google-and-meta-face-new-levies-on-content-delivered-to-french-subscribers
https://www.techradar.com/pro/frances-new-internet-tax-which-was-meant-to-stop-tech-giants-from-sending-huge-amounts-of-data-to-your-smartphone-has-been-killed-off

25:12 Macs get their Apple Silicon Proton in the form of Hadron
https://github.com/Broyojo/hadron

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01:46 Proton makes worrying move stowards AI
https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-services/proton-is-re-interviewing-staff-about-how-they-use-ai-and-their-jobs-could-depend-on-the-answers
https://www.404media.co/manifestos-fear-and-loser-thinking-inside-protons-ai-reckoning/

07:02 Ubuntu pushes Core Desktop again
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/accelerating-ubuntu-core-desktop/90547

10:02 Firefox 159, 160, and ad campaign
https://linuxiac.com/mozilla-firefox-159-improves-linux-wayland-support-adds-new-tab-search/
https://9to5linux.com/mozilla-firefox-160-enters-public-beta-testing-heres-what-to-expect
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/come-back-to-firefox/

12:48 X.org dev praises the design of Wayland
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Jamey-Sharp-Praises-Wayland

14:57 SystemD adds Rust support for new modules
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/44324

16:21 Rocky Linux creator wrote his own kernel using AI
https://itsfoss.com/news/ginux/

19:14 Bottles dev talks vibe cloned software, AI and other projects
https://itsfoss.com/interview/mirko-brombin-raven/
https://useraven.org

22:46 Fedora 45 delayed again
https://linuxiac.com/fedora-linux-45-delayed-again-new-release-date-set-for-november-3/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/EWDOYT6TOMFY4XPL5MJC2QWCDJBOR6MU/

23:59 Spotify Client for GNOME

https://linuxiac.com/meet-riff-an-open-source-spotify-client-built-for-gnome/

25:14 Flathub shuts down their Forums
https://docs.flathub.org/blog/discourse-deprecation

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01:47 Kernel devs agree to remove AI disclosure, Torvalds goes off on A.I.
https://www.xda-developers.com/linus-calls-banning-ai-generated-code-utterly-stupid-as-linux-submissions-no-longer-need-llm-disclosure/

04:17 Kernel 7.3 released
https://itsfoss.com/news/linux-kernel-7-3-release/

05:46 Big influx of Rust code in Kernel 7.4
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-Rust

07:02 Bitwarden moves to a commercial license, mostly
https://community.bitwarden.com/t/published-version-update-in-app-stores/102750

09:28 KeePassXC supports auto-type on Wayland now
https://keepassxc.org/blog/2026-10-21-2.8.0-released/

10:35 Mint shows more of their new apps
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/10/linux-mint-new-system-monitor

12:23 LibreOffice is getting record download numbers
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/10/21/8-weeks-9-4-million-downloads/
https://linuxiac.com/libreoffice-hits-9-4-million-downloads-in-just-eight-weeks/

14:11 Proposed AI assistant prototype for Ubuntu
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/10/ubuntu-ai-launcher-prototype

17:05 OpenBSD gets Wine and runs Windows games
https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=179236125692175
https://linuxiac.com/wine-on-openbsd-yes-and-it-can-already-run-the-witcher-3/

18:35 Cutefish desktop revived as a vibe coded MacOS Clone
https://itsfoss.com/news/cutefishos-vibe-coded-desktop/

20:28 Epic Game Stores new preview looks pretty bad
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/21/epic-rolls-out-vibe-coded-launcher-update-its-absolute-trash/
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/epic-games-launcher-preview-is-slowly-becoming-actually-usable-on-linux/

22:18 Snapdragon X2 Linux support is apparently pretty good
https://www.phoronix.com/review/snapdragon-x2-linux/10

23:58 Big Tech funds study to warn against digital sovereignty
https://itsfoss.com/news/eu-cloud-sovereignty-cada-cost-study/

26:20 Massive PHP flaw discovered, and patched
https://www.wiz.io/blog/php2shell-php-rce
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cw98z6qlyvg3o

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02:03 Epic Games Store has a Linux client, EAC will support Linux too

https://onlineservices.epicgames.com/news/introducing-easy-anti-cheat-linux-v2
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/epic-games-launcher-preview-arrives-native-linux-support-fortnite-for-linux-is-coming-and-upgraded-easy-anti-cheat/
https://codon.org.uk/~mjg59/blog/p/epics-eac2-v2-seems-fairly-easily-bypassable/

06:02 Torvalds’ AI generated kernel patches & talks more about AI
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linus-Torvalds-Claude-Code

https://www.techradar.com/pro/linux-founder-linus-torvalds-says-ai-is-a-gateway-drug-into-programming-but-cautions-about-using-ai-for-serious-work

09:43 Kernel devs ponder removing mandatory AI use disclosure

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Dropping-Assisted-By-Req

11:32 KDE Plasma 6.8 is released
https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.8.0/

13:14 Ubuntu 26.10 released
https://ubuntu.com//blog/canonical-releases-ubuntu-26-10-stonking-stingray

15:16 Mint 27 looks like a big release
https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=5086

17:27 Steam Client is finally moving to 64bit
https://steamcommunity.com/groups/SteamClientBeta/announcements/detail/703282384630448403

18:28 Netherlands backs away from MS365 rollout

https://www.zdnet.com/business/dutch-tax-authorities-cancel-microsoft-365-cloud-rollout/

20:17 Dev behind vibe coded Adobe suite bashes FOSS projects
https://www.techradar.com/computing/office-suites/developer-who-vibe-coded-free-adobe-clones-reveals-apps-to-take-down-microsoft-office-next-and-says-there-is-no-reason-to-save-broken-software

21:58 Framework triples their funding for CachyOS
https://discuss.cachyos.org/t/announcement-framework-is-tripling-its-support-for-cachyos/37042

23:11 Firefox releases a commercial Enterprise version

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/introducing-firefox-enterprise/

24:57 New EuroOffice fork that looks like MS Office

https://itsfoss.com/news/elixiroffice-euro-office-fork/
https://github.com/leag1234/elixiroffice

26:55 Valve releases CAD files for Steam Frame

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/steam-frame-cad-files-released-plus-an-update-on-reservation-waiting-times/

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02:02 Entire Adobe Suite supported with custom Wine now
https://neutronproject.org/

03:42 Open source clean room implementations of the entire Adobe Suite
https://github.com/storytold/photocraft

07:24 Flathub now accepts apps that used AI, with disclosure
https://linuxiac.com/flathub-reverses-ai-generated-app-ban-now-requires-disclosure/

10:08 Cosmic will reject LLM generated submissions
https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-epoch/blob/master/.github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md

11:25 Steam Frame now has 200 verified games
https://store.steampowered.com/greatonframe?tab=1
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/theres-now-over-200-steam-frame-verified-games/

12:53 More Kernel and AMD performance improvements
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Better-Zswap-Performance
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Boost-Recently-Busy-CPUs

15:32 Digital Ocean stops hosting credits for FOSS as they donate to Omacom
https://itsfoss.com/news/digitalocean-open-source-credits-end/

17:40 Gentoo asking for help for hosting after sponsors dried up
https://itsfoss.com/news/gentoo-infrastructure-sponsors-call/

19:04 Orion stops development of its Linux browser
https://blog.kagi.com/update-orion-linux-windows

20:34 EU Commission doesn’t seem pleased with their Teams replacement
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-microsoft-teams-alternative-bad-reviews-element-pro/

22:21 Googlebooks don’t look like they’ll help Linux much
https://www.androidauthority.com/linux-apps-on-googlebook-3719936/

24:13 Mesa looking at a more formal governance model
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-Governance-Model

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