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next-20261109: linux-next

Posted: 2026-11-09 15:01:48
Source: https://www.kernel.org/

Asahi Linux Drops MIT and Goes Full GPL After Spotting LLM-Assisted License Laundering

Posted: 2026-11-09 05:35:00
Source: https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/11/09/0440238/asahi-linux-drops-mit-and-goes-full-gpl-after-spotting-llm-assisted-license-laundering?utm_source=atom1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

It's FOSS reports: Asahi Linux is the reason you can run Linux on an Apple Silicon Mac today. For years, the project put most of its own code under the MIT license so that anyone, including the BSDs, could reuse it as needed... They have announced that Asahi is moving all of its repositories to the GNU General Public License version 2 or later. Going forward, all Asahi Linux code will be under strong copyleft licenses only. Asahi Linux compares their dilemma to the 1990s, when "permissively licenced projects were viewed by tech companies as free real estate to pilfer and exploit," adding that "Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it... The malicious practices of the 90s and 2000s have reared their ugly heads once again, this time driven in large part by both the insatiable appetite of frontier AI labs for high-quality training data, and militant animosity toward the Free Software community." In short, they argue that for Asahi Linux, using the permissive MIT license "is no longer viable." Some time ago, we were made aware of multiple attempts to exploit our permissive licensing to hijack our work, with a direct view to replacing the project and aggressively monetising Linux on Apple Silicon. In some extreme cases, in-development feature code was being lifted straight out of our personal forks and published without attribution or lazily rewritten with LLM assistance to obfuscate its origin. The MIT licence explicitly allows this, and has no carveouts to protect against bad faith actors. As such, we made the difficult decision to begin the process of transitioning all of our repositories to the GNU General Public License version 2 or later. Going forward all Asahi Linux code will be licenced under strong copyleft licences only. It's FOSS explains that "Under the GPL, anyone who distributes a modified version has to release the source under the same license. You can't legally build a closed, paid Apple Silicon distro on top of GPL code. And if a product's source has to be public, the copying is easier to spot." And their article also points out that before AI, bad actors attempting code laundering "usually meant manually rewriting code line by line, renaming variables and stuff, and shuffling functions around until it no longer looked like the original. LLMs made it much more easy and cheaper of course." In case you did not know, Asahi Linux forbids AI generated code contribution... As far as I can tell, this is the first time a major open source project has moved to copyleft specifically because of AI-assisted code laundering. Projects have relicensed before, but usually to stop cloud providers from reselling their work as a service. This one is specifically about AI... The move has drawn criticism, particularly from the BSD side, which was one of the main reasons Asahi chose MIT in the first place. OpenBSD's Apple Silicon support relies on Asahi's m1n1 bootloader.

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Distribution Releases: Slax 2026.11

Posted: 2026-11-09 02:58:51
Source: https://distrowatch.com/13033

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Tomáš Matějíček has announced the release of Slax 2026.11, a major new update of the project's minimalist, Debian-based live Linux distribution with a customised Fluxbox window manager. This new version comes with a refreshed desktop look and a built-int AI assistant: "Slax 2026.11 is out. For a while....

DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 1198

Posted: 2026-11-09 01:06:40
Source: https://distrowatch.com/13032

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. This week in DistroWatch Weekly:
Review: Fedora 45
News: Rocky Linux creator directs AI to make a Linux-compatible kernel, aerynOS trials new system installer, GhostBSD publishes fix for repository bug, Alpine explains new OpenSSH exploit
Questions and answers: Preventing users from browsing the Web
Released last week: aerynOS 2026.11. openSUSE 16.1,....

7.4-rc2: mainline

Posted: 2026-11-09 00:22:20
Source: https://www.kernel.org/

Distribution Release: Parted Magic 26.11

Posted: 2026-11-08 21:04:04
Source: https://distrowatch.com/13031

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Parted Magic is a small live CD/USB/PXE with its elemental purpose being to partition hard drives. The project's latest version, 26.11, introduces support for computers running 64-bit ARM processors. "This release adds a second edition of Parted Magic for ARM computers, six new programs and Linux kernel 7.3.....

OS Release: OpenIndiana 2026.10

Posted: 2026-11-07 20:35:50
Source: https://distrowatch.com/13030

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The OpenIndiana project has published a new version of its open source operating system which evolved out of the OpenSolaris family. The new version, 2026.10, updates developer tools, virtual machine utilities and web browsers: "The OpenIndiana Hipster 2026.10 snapshot is available, visit the Downloads page for the Live,....

AlmaLinux Shows Advantages of ABI Compatibility After RHEL Restricted Source Code Access

Posted: 2026-11-07 17:00:00
Source: https://linux.slashdot.org/story/26/11/07/0330255/almalinux-shows-advantages-of-abi-compatibility-after-rhel-restricted-source-code-access?utm_source=atom1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

"AlmaLinux OS charted a new path in 2023 when Red Hat restricted source code access to Red Hat Enterprise Linux," remembers Linux Magazine. "Rather than pursue 1:1 compatibility with RHEL like other Enterprise Linux alternatives, the AlmaLinux OS Foundation chose application binary interface (ABI) compatibility, which guarantees that applications and kernel modules that work on RHEL will work on AlmaLinux OS." No longer constrained by the 1:1 promise, AlmaLinux can offer new features, or add back deprecated ones, while still remaining a stable, drop-in replacement for RHEL... The release of AlmaLinux OS 10.2 in May 2026 reveals just how far AlmaLinux has come.... When RHEL 10 increased the x86-64-v2 architecture baseline to x86-64-v3, many older server platforms (and some new ones) were left in the lurch. These older servers couldn't support the modern CPU feature sets in x86-64-v3, including AVX2 CPU instructions. AlmaLinux recognized that many community members employed older hardware that relied on x86-64-v2. While x86-64-v3 is enabled by default in AlmaLinux OS 10 and AlmaLinux OS Kitten 10, an additional x86-64-v2 build is also available. The x86-64-v2 build works best for environments that rely on standard OS packages or that can rebuild any additional packages required by x86-64-v2. For users with older hardware, the additional x86-64-v2 build allows continued use of current hardware, saving money and keeping servers from the landfill. AlmaLinux OS 10 is actively supported through 2030 with security support through 2035, significantly extending the life of older hardware.... Many legacy applications and containerized workloads still run on i686, a 32-bit computer processor architecture belonging to the Intel x86 family, including software that only ships as i686, CI pipelines that require a specific 32-bit glibc, and seemingly normal looking containers that require a 32-bit environment. RHEL 10 completely removed 32-bit application support and multilib libraries after deprecating support in earlier releases... AlmaLinux OS 10.2 has added package repos and official container images for 32-bit x86 (but not a 32-bit kernel or installer)... NVIDIA GPUs, ubiquitous in modern computing, have been a pain point for Linux users. Getting the closed-source NVIDIA drivers has required extra steps and manual installation. When NVIDIA released an open source version of their graphics driver, AlmaLinux integrated the drivers, along with the associated CUDA components, into the AlmaLinux repository starting with AlmaLinux OS 9 and 10. AlmaLinux also signs the open source drivers, allowing secure boot with the NVIDIA drivers they ship. Unlike RHEL users, AlmaLinux users now have native support, allowing them to skip manual installation. AlmaLinux users can now enjoy a fully integrated NVIDIA experience. In addition, "Thanks to ABI compatibility, AlmaLinux can sometimes deliver patches more quickly than RHEL," the article points out. And it lists other points where AlmaLinux OS 10.2 diverges from RHEL 10: Re-enabling frame pointers disabled by default in RHEL and CentOS Stream to provide system-wide, real-time tracing and profiling to diagnose and optimize code. Enabling both kernel and userspace components that allow installation of AlmaLinux on a Btrfs filesystem Adding SPICE support dropped in RHEL 9, allowing users to interact with a virtual machine's desktop remotely instead of just from the host server. Restoring support for older storage and network drivers disabled upstream, including Adaptec, Dell PERC, HP, Mellanox, QLogic, Emulex, LSI, and Broadcom.

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Private AI at Home: Olares One Full Review and Setup

Posted: 2026-11-06 23:14:57
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQEnUik_kik

OpenAI's New Cyber Model Found Ways to Attack Nearly 1,000 Linux Flaws

Posted: 2026-11-06 20:00:00
Source: https://it.slashdot.org/story/26/11/06/1755247/openais-new-cyber-model-found-ways-to-attack-nearly-1000-linux-flaws?utm_source=atom1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

OpenAI says its new GPT-6 Cyber model helped an automated system identify 1,724 security flaws in the Linux kernel and exploit 948 of them to gain administrator-level access during testing, including at least 10 previously unknown techniques. Axios reports: During testing, the system identified 1,724 security flaws and found ways to use 948 of them to gain administrator-level access to Linux systems for about $1.2 million in API credits. At least 10 of the techniques the model used were previously unknown, according to OpenAI. Human researchers reviewed the Linux findings before reporting vulnerabilities and proposed fixes to maintainers. The model also uncovered 81 previously unknown, high-severity flaws in Mozilla's Firefox browser.

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7.3.3: stable

Posted: 2026-11-06 18:19:19
Source: https://www.kernel.org/

6.18.62: longterm

Posted: 2026-11-06 18:17:43
Source: https://www.kernel.org/

6.12.116: longterm

Posted: 2026-11-06 18:16:50
Source: https://www.kernel.org/

6.6.162: longterm

Posted: 2026-11-06 18:16:02
Source: https://www.kernel.org/

6.1.192: longterm

Posted: 2026-11-06 18:15:26
Source: https://www.kernel.org/

5.15.225: longterm

Posted: 2026-11-06 18:14:43
Source: https://www.kernel.org/

5.10.274: longterm

Posted: 2026-11-06 18:14:07
Source: https://www.kernel.org/

Distribution Release: CapivaraOS 2.0.0

Posted: 2026-11-06 18:08:43
Source: https://distrowatch.com/13029

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. CapivaraOS, a Fedora-based Linux distribution with a choice of GNOME, KDE Plasma and Xfce desktop, has received a major update to version 2.0.0. Derived from Fedora 45, the new release promises continuous in-place upgrades and adds new custom applications: "Marsh, Pup and Snout 2.0.0 are available for download.....

7.3.2: stable

Posted: 2026-11-06 17:12:22
Source: https://www.kernel.org/

6.18.61: longterm

Posted: 2026-11-06 17:08:26
Source: https://www.kernel.org/