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It’s that time of year where we look back at our 2025 predictions, and make some new ones for 2026.
Will mentioned The Enshittifinancial Crisis and an article about solar panels.
Late Night Linux – Episode 366
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It’s our 2025 review of Linux and open source news including great gaming news, the impact of AI, the disappointments from Mozilla, the year of Wayland on the desktop, the politics of open source, Intel’s lack of interest, and wins for KDE.
Gaming
Steam Machine, controller, VR headset incoming from Valve
Steam Deck LCD production is ending
AI bullshit
Open source devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries
Wikimedia Foundation bemoans AI bot bandwidth burden
ardour.org has banned 1.2M distinct IP addresses for trying to slurp from our git repository
Introducing CC Signals: A New Social Contract for the Age of AI
You should enforce your own existing licenses against AI mass crawling
Anubis guards gates against hordes of LLM bot crawlers
It seems like the AI crawlers learned how to solve the Anubis challenges
Mozilla
Updates on Mozilla’s Leadership and Growth Planning
Introducing a terms of use and updated privacy notice for Firefox
Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic
Investing in what moves the internet forward
Firefox is fine. The people running it are not
Mozilla Slammed Over Battery-Draining “Garbage” AI in Firefox
Firefox Adds CoPilot Chatbot, New Tab Widgets in Nightly Builds
Introducing AI, the Firefox way: A look at what we’re working on and how you can help shape it
Rewiring Mozilla: Doing for AI what we did for the web
Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company
Wayland
Fedora 43 Cleared To Ship With Wayland-Only GNOME
GNOME Dropping X11 Support May Complicate Next Ubuntu LTS
Ubuntu 25.10 drops support for GNOME on Xorg
Ubuntu 25.10 and Fedora 43 to drop X11 in GNOME editions
An update on the X11 GNOME Session Removal
Wayback Is Now Hosted On FreeDesktop.org
GNOME Mutter Now “Completely Drops The Whole X11 Backend”
KDE Going all-in on a Wayland future
Politics
The price of software freedom is eternal politics
Framework flame war erupts over Linux controversy
PSF Gets a Donor Surge After Rejecting Anti-DEI Federal Grant
Intel
All good things come to an end: Shutting down Clear Linux OS
Intel’s Open-Source Strategy Is Changing At Odds With The Ethos Of Open-Source
The Death Of Clear Linux, Other Intel Linux Engineering Setbacks In 2025
KDE
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Late Night Linux – Episode 365
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Good news for custom Android ROMs, Rust is here to stay in the kernel, an open source success story in Germany, and a new version of elementary OS is out. Plus discoveries is back including better Firefox history, migrating from Windows to Linux, automating telescopes, turning old tablets into clocks, and more.
News
Good news for custom ROMs: Google just released the Android 16 QPR2
The (successful) end of the kernel Rust experiment
New Linux Patch Confirms: Rust Experiment Is Done, Rust Is Here To Stay
Goodbye, Microsoft: Schleswig-Holstein relies on Open Source and saves millions
elementary OS 8.1 Available Now
Discoveries
Making History: Signing the Commodore Contract + C64 Ultimate Production Update
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Late Night Linux – Episode 364
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The Steam machine will use an older HDMI standard because of arbitrary rules, more details about running X86 Windows games on Arm Linux, and the Steam Controller lives on. Plus Calibre is adding “AI”, and we laugh at another LLM.
News
Why won’t Steam Machine support HDMI 2.1? Digging in on the display standard drama
Steam Machine today, Steam Phones tomorrow
Remember Google Stadia? Steam finally made its gamepad worth rescuing
Talk to your Fedora system with the linux-mcp-server!
Calibre adds AI “discussion” feature
Because the Calibre ebook library software just acquired AI garbage it has *already* been forked
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Late Night Linux – Episode 363
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Arduino’s new ToS has some people worried, some projects are starting to move away from GitHub for technical reasons, Raspberry Pi has a new model and prices are going up because of RAM costs, great news for OpenPrinting, old text adventure games get open source, and Joe’s foldable phone breaks in an unexpected way.
News
Arduino’s new terms of service worries hobbyists ahead of Qualcomm acquisition
Migrating from GitHub to Codeberg
1GB Raspberry Pi 5 now available at $45, and memory-driven price rises
Sovereign Tech Agency is investing in OpenPrinting
Preserving code that shaped generations: Zork I, II, and III go Open Source
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Late Night Linux – Episode 362
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KDE Plasma is finally moving on from X11, Tuxedo Computers abandons their Arm laptop project, Mozilla completely loses the room, but there might be a glimmer of hope.
News
Going all-in on a Wayland future
Help us reach the inflection point
Discontinuation of ARM Notebook with Snapdragon X Elite SoC
Linux Device Trees For Cancelled Products? Don’t “Waste Time”
Rewiring Mozilla: Doing for AI what we did for the web
Mozilla’s ‘Rewiring’ to AI – Saving the Web or Saving Itself?
Servo Announces Sponsorship Tiers To Get More Organizations Backing This Browser Engine
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Late Night Linux – Episode 361
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Ubuntu get 15 years of support, Google finally releases Android source code and backs down on “sideloading”, more steps to move on from X11, IKEA launches a range of Matter IoS gear, and more.
News
Canonical expands total coverage for Ubuntu LTS releases to 15 years with Legacy add-on
The wait is over: Android 16 QPR1’s source code is now available on AOSP
Google will let expert Android users to sideload all apps
GNOME Mutter Now “Completely Drops The Whole X11 Backend”
PSF Gets a Donor Surge After Rejecting Anti-DEI Federal Grant
IKEA launches new smart home range with 21 Matter-compatible products
Ikea’s new smart home collection is entirely Matter-compatible
KDE Korner
Help us reach the inflection point
Google Summer of Code 2025 Conclusion – KDE Mentorship
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Late Night Linux – Episode 360
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We are excited and enthusiastic about Valve’s new Linux hardware, and then angry and disappointed about Mozilla’s latest nonsense.
News
Steam Machine, controller, VR headset incoming from Valve
Introducing AI, the Firefox way: A look at what we’re working on and how you can help shape it
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Late Night Linux – Episode 359
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What we all learned at the recent Ubuntu Summit including open source as a counter to insular nationalism, Canonical taking RISC-V very seriously, TPM-backed full disk encryption getting a lot easier, what the post-AI-bubble will probably look like, and more.
We mentioned the Rubik Pi 3.
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Late Night Linux – Episode 358
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Mark Shuttleworth recently spoke to us about what he’s apprehensive and excited about in the tech world, and more. Plus in the news: Ubuntu Unity needs help to survive, the Python Software Foundation turns down a large government grant, Fedora allows AI contributions, SUSE goes all in on AI, and KDE hits its fundraising goal.
News
Regarding Ubuntu Unity and a call for help
The Python Software Foundation has withdrawn a $1.5 million proposal to US government grant program
Fedora agrees policy allowing AI-assisted contributions
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16 – AI-Ready, Long-Term Support
SUSE Goes Agentic: The First Linux That Thinks for Itself
Awesome fundraiser news: €53,000 raised!
Mark Shuttleworth
Joe sat down with Mark at the recent Ubuntu Summit to discuss what he’s apprehensive and excited about in the tech world, what we should look forward to in Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, and more.
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