This week in open-source news, GNOME 51 was released, with Arch-based distributions expected to receive it soon, and major releases like Ubuntu 26.10 and Fedora 45 to follow. Mišo Oroz shared a success story of migrating a transport and logistics company in Bergamo, Italy to Linux and open source to reduce costs and technical issues.
The Rune IDE transitioned to the GPLv3 license, foregoing CLA requirements and introducing a revenue-sharing plan for contributors. Accepted contributions will earn credits, which will be used to distribute a portion of eligible service revenue among contributors.
Ubuntu has completed migrating its coreutils to Rust, resolving 44 CVEs identified during a Canonical-commissioned audit of 113 problems. Mirko Brombin, creator of Bottles, has achieved a preliminary installation of Microsoft 365 Word on Linux, though the software remains experimental.
The Linux kernel is progressing with the removal of support for 32-bit ARM platforms, including hardware like the Acorn RiscPC and STM32 microcontrollers. Broadcom’s revocation of public access to the VDDK SDK is complicating VMware departures. Uruky, a privacy-focused search engine, is sponsoring this edition of FOSS Weekly.
Bruce Schneier and EFF’s Cindy Cohn co-authored a piece arguing that mass surveillance has expanded beyond its original terrorism justification and is now used to violate constitutional rights. A LibreOffice tip suggests saving documents as HTML to easily extract all images. Additionally, a one-line change to visudo can alter Ubuntu’s default sudo timeout of 15 minutes. Seven open-source Trello alternatives were tested and compared, with recommendations based on specific use cases: Kan for migrating existing boards, Fizzy for minimal setups, and Vikunja for full self-hosting. Finally, resources are available to learn about keyrings in Linux distributions.
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