FOSS Weekly #25.49: Kernel 6.18 'LTS', Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, Linus Torvalds on BSOD, Obsidian Distro and More Linux Stuff
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Thu, 04 Dec 2025 04:17:06 GMT
Recently, Linus Torvalds and Linus Sebastian come together for a YouTube video collaboration. There, Torvalds said that the infamous blue screen of death in Windows is not a software issue in most cases. Hard to disagree with him.
Abhishek Prakash
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Here's the highlight of this edition of FOSS Weekly:
- A new open source font by Google.
- KDE Plasma dropping X11 in the future.
- The Linux kernel 6.18 release.
- Ubuntu 26.04 LTS is dropping some default apps.
- Firefox based browsers.
- And other Linux news, tips, and, of course, memes!
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📰 Linux and Open Source News
- Linux kernel 6.18 arrives with "less bugfixing noise."
- KDE Plasma 6.8 will drop support for the X11 session.
- ONLYOFFICE Docs 9.2 lands with an AI grammar checker tool.
- A group of Swiss data protection officers has declared US cloud giants can't meet privacy standards.
- Google just open-sourced its Sans Flex font and launched a new AI tool for automated documentation creation.
🧠 What We’re Thinking About
Are self-hosting and homelabbing the logical next step for Linux users? It does seem so as Linux users are already leading the revolution of self-hosting.
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🧮 Linux Tips, Tutorials, and Learnings
Not every web browser needs to be based on Chromium. Here are some great alternatives.
Pulkit Chandak
Ubuntu 26.04 is a few months away, but it doesn't hurt to take an early look at what's coming, does it?
Abhishek Prakash
And a quick tip on checking the temperature of your NVMe SSD from the command line.
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👷 AI, Homelab and Hardware Corner
Raspberry Pi 5's 1GB variant has arrived, but who is it for in 2025?
Sourav Rudra
Fitbit couldn't keep Pebble down. It is now on course for a big return!
✨ Project Highlights
Most new distros don't offer anything of substance other than a few themes perhaps. This is why ObsidianOS is different as it offers the innovative concept for system wide rollback with the classic Ext filesystem..
Neville Ondara
Think you know the best Linux system monitor? This showdown may surprise you.
Roland Taylor
📽️ Videos I Am Creating for You
It is nearly a year since I have been using Zen as my primary browser. It is based on Firefox but feels so different to use. Watch me use Zen in the latest video.
💡 Quick Handy Tip
In Firefox, you can use @ in the address bar to access various searching areas.
These search areas include things like searching among tabs, your bookmarks, the history, a different search engine, and more. This works in other browsers too, but the availability of search areas will differ.
🎋 Fun in the FOSSverse
Governance in open source is an important thing. Can you beat this crossword to prove your knowledge?
Ankush Das
🤣 Meme of the Week: Musings of a wise ape... No offense to Manjaro users or users of other Arch-based distros.
🗓️ Tech Trivia: On December 3, 1968, Control Data Corporation unveiled the CDC 7600, a machine often hailed as the first true supercomputer. Engineered by Seymour Cray, the system pushed boundaries with performance nearing 40 megaflops, an extraordinary achievement for its era.
🧑🤝🧑 From the Community: A tutorial on how to setup LVM with dedicated /mnt/data_backups by one of our regular FOSSers.
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