SUSE To Cut One In Ten Employees Because of AI
Posted: 2026-11-03 17:00:00 Source: https://linux.slashdot.org/story/26/11/03/0620205/suse-to-cut-one-in-ten-employees-because-of-ai?utm_source=atom1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
SUSE plans to cut roughly 10% of its 1,900-person workforce, with CEO Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen saying "automation and AI" are reducing the need for some roles and allowing the open source software company to operate with less overhead and flatter management structures. "We are announcing a reduction of SUSE's global workforce of approximately 10 percent," said Van Leeuwen in an email. "These decisions are painful for our people, our culture, and our open source community, but they are necessary for us to adapt and build a sustainable, resilient SUSE for the long term." The Register reports: Van Leeuwen says the business, bought by Swedish private equity provider EQT, decided to cut jobs after scrutinizing its "future strategy, required capabilities, and team structures." The rest of the organization will get a look at the fiscal year 2027 strategy on November 16. He said in the message to staff: "What is clear is that automation and AI are fundamentally shifting how software companies operate. AI capabilities are advancing exponentially, forcing us to radically reimagine our work. We have seen this trend already both inside our sector and in the wider economy. This means that the organizational design and cost base that SUSE is built on today will not carry us forward successfully. "We are adapting. Across SUSE, modern tooling is already changing our daily workflows, enabling teams to move faster with less operational overhead and flatter reporting lines. The requirement for some existing roles has greatly diminished. Other roles will evolve over the next few years. This means we are accelerating investments in high priority areas, and deprioritizing others. These are hard, painful decisions to make, but necessary for our future." [...] The specific roles at risk of redundancy were not outlined but SUSE claims it has considered where the people in those positions are "able to evolve, what they can stop doing, what they need to do more of - and decisions have been made on that basis." Staff caught up in the redundancies will be informed by November 4, employee representatives nominated the following day, and one to one meetings will begin at the start of next week. Van Leeuwen says in the internal memo that the job cuts are a "reflection of shifting organizational needs, not your talent or commitment. You have tackled hard infrastructure and open source challenges that power critical enterprise systems around the world. "Any organization will be fortunate to have your expertise."
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Distribution Release: Asahi Linux 45
Posted: 2026-11-03 16:36:11 Source: https://distrowatch.com/13019
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The Asahi Linux project, which makes it possible to run Linux on M-powered Apple computers, has a new release based on Fedora 45. The release announcement in Fedora Magazine reports: "Fedora Asahi Remix is developed in close collaboration with the Fedora Asahi SIG and the Asahi Linux project.....
next-20261103: linux-next
Posted: 2026-11-03 15:22:51 Source: https://www.kernel.org/
| Version: | next-20261103 (linux-next) |
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| Released: | 2026-11-03 |
Distribution Release: Fedora 45
Posted: 2026-11-03 14:49:12 Source: https://distrowatch.com/13018
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The Fedora project has announced the release of Fedora 45. The new version includes updates to the KDE Plasma and GNOME desktops, updated kernels, and developer tools. There are also some changes to the system installer: "We have a lot of excellent content under the hood in this....
Distribution Release: openSUSE 16.1
Posted: 2026-11-03 14:23:49 Source: https://distrowatch.com/13017
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The openSUSE project has published a minor update to the distribution's Leap branch. The new version, 16.1, is the first to merge the classic Leap distribution with the project's immutable server branch. "Immutable Mode with transactionally updating a system with a read-only root filesystem is a big change....
Distribution Release: aerynOS 2026.11
Posted: 2026-11-02 23:02:20 Source: https://distrowatch.com/13016
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The aerynOS development team has announced the availability of aerynOS 2026.11, the latest update of the project's independent Linux distribution built from the ground up, with its own tooling and package management. Besides delivering a long list of package and stack updates, this release also updates the distribution's....
next-20261102: linux-next
Posted: 2026-11-02 17:11:23 Source: https://www.kernel.org/
| Version: | next-20261102 (linux-next) |
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| Released: | 2026-11-02 |
Rocky Linux Creator Built a New 'Not Linux' Kernel in 11 Days Using AI
Posted: 2026-11-02 05:04:00 Source: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/11/02/0317207/rocky-linux-creator-built-a-new-not-linux-kernel-in-11-days-using-ai?utm_source=atom1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
From the blog It's FOSS Gregory Kurtzer is no stranger to the Linux world. He created CentOS, and when Red Hat messed it up, he started Rocky Linux as the community replacement. He also co-founded CIQ, the company offering enterprise support around Rocky. His latest project has nothing to do with rebuilding another Linux distro, though. He has built an entirely new operating system kernel, and he didn't write most of the code himself. An AI agent did. Meet Ginux, Linux userspace without Linux underneath... It's an independent, Rust-first x86-64 kernel. Which simply means it is NOT a fork of the Linux kernel. It has its own memory management, scheduler, process model, filesystems, networking, and device support, all written from scratch. The most interesting part is that even though it is not Linux, it is Linux-compatible. Ginux implements the Linux ABI (the binary interface compiled programs use to talk to the kernel), so existing Linux binaries can run on it unmodified. In the project's own terms, Linux is a "personality" that Ginux exposes, not the kernel running underneath... Right now, Ginux runs only in a QEMU virtual machine, with no physical hardware profile, no GPU or NVMe support, and no independent security audit.
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DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 1197
Posted: 2026-11-02 01:02:34 Source: https://distrowatch.com/13015
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. This week in DistroWatch Weekly:
Review: Super Lite Linux 24.6
News: Redox OS introduces performance improvements, NetBSD includes new text editor, Canonical resumes work on Ubuntu Core Desktop, Mint reintroduces hibernation, Linux patches exFAT flaw
Questions and answers: Running untrusted applications
Released last week: Kali Linux 2026.3, Maze Linux 2026.10.26, ZelixOS....
7.4-rc1: mainline
Posted: 2026-11-01 21:26:31 Source: https://www.kernel.org/
| Version: | 7.4-rc1 (mainline) |
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| Released: | 2026-11-01 |
| Source: | linux-7.4-rc1.tar.gz |
| Patch: | full |
AI Makes Linux 7.4 Merge Window the Largest in Kernel History
Posted: 2026-11-01 20:14:00 Source: https://linux.slashdot.org/story/26/11/01/2012246/ai-makes-linux-74-merge-window-the-largest-in-kernel-history?utm_source=atom1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
"On a Git commit basis, the Linux 7.4 merge window has been the busiest on record," writes Phoronix," with 19,671 commits since Linux 7.3: As of this morning in Linux Git ahead of v7.4-rc1, the kernel source tree is up to 41,605,120 lines. That's from 5,193,578 blank lines, 4,993,604 lines of comments, and 31,417,938 lines of detected code. Or nearly half a million lines of code added during the Linux 7.4 merge window, ignoring comments and blank lines [as detected by cloc ]. A historical graph of commits shows a clear spike for Linux 7.4, which Phoronix argues shows the definite recent uptick due to AI/LLM activity." With Linux kernel maintainers being "completely overwhelmed" due to both AI generated bug reports and patches/fixes, the Git commit activity has been surging as a result... The upward trend has continued building the past several kernel releases. Typically the merge windows saw 13~14k commits or less and now we are pushing 20k.... Linux 6.14: 10,034 Linux 6.15: 13,568 Linux 6.16: 13,805 Linux 6.17: 12,289 Linux 6.18: 12,910 Linux 6.19: 13,229 Linux 7.0: 12,468 Linux 7.1: 13,963 Linux 7.2: 14,395 Linux 7.3: 16,267 Linux 7.4: 19,671 And "we could still see a few more trickle in today for Linux 7.4 ahead of the expected Linux 7.4-rc1 kernel release later in the day." UPDATE: "People are expecting 7.4 to be the next long-term support release," Linus Torvalds wrote today in his weekly state of the kernel update, saying that's also "another independent reason why some releases tend larger than others. So it may not *just* be the flood of AI patches." The Register reports: Torvalds also seems not to be completely convinced that all AI submissions are entirely helpful, by describing this release as "Large, and full of fixes for issues found by AI (and more and more the patches have been suggested by AI too, although they often get rewritten)."
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Distribution Release: LCOS 1.0.0
Posted: 2026-11-01 18:02:02 Source: https://distrowatch.com/13014
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Bryan Lunduke has announced the availability of the first stable release of LCOS (Lunduke Computer Operating System), a privacy-focused, minimalist desktop Linux distribution based on Devuan. It promises to provide a traditional operating system with no ID or age verification, no built-in artificial intelligence features and no software....
Distribution Release: PorteuX 2.9
Posted: 2026-11-01 13:21:07 Source: https://distrowatch.com/13013
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. PorteuX is a Linux distribution based on Slackware Linux. The project offers several desktop editions, with the 2.9 version focusing on improved stability. "This release is mostly about stability. All of our runtime code (initrd, rc scripts, porteux-scripts and installer) went through an in-depth review, fixing many bugs....
7.2.15: stable
Posted: 2026-11-01 12:44:56 Source: https://www.kernel.org/
| Version: | 7.2.15 (EOL) (stable) |
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| Released: | 2026-11-01 |
| Source: | linux-7.2.15.tar.xz |
| PGP Signature: | linux-7.2.15.tar.sign |
| Patch: | full (incremental) |
| ChangeLog: | ChangeLog-7.2.15 |
Distribution Release: Linux Lite 8.2
Posted: 2026-10-31 20:32:17 Source: https://distrowatch.com/13012
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Jerry Bezencon has announced the release of Linux Lite 8.2, an updated build of the project's user-friendly, Ubuntu-based Linux distribution featuring the Xfce desktop. The new release updates the Linux kernel to the very latest version 7.3: "Linux Lite 8.2 final is now available for download. This is....
OS Release: Sculpt OS 26-10
Posted: 2026-10-31 16:35:14 Source: https://distrowatch.com/13011
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Genode has announced the release of Sculpt OS 26-10, the latest version of the project's minimalist, general-purpose, open-source operating system based on Genode's own microkernel: "Sculpt OS release 26.10. Sculpt OS 26.10 uses Genode's custom microkernel by default, drops XML, hosts virtual machines in VirtualBox 7, and turns....
Working Exploit for a Linux Kernel Flaw Made Public
Posted: 2026-10-30 19:37:15 Source: http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Working-Exploit-for-a-Linux-Kernel-Flaw-Made-Public
Even before a bug received its CVE identifier or an upstream fix, the local privilege escalation vulnerability exploit found its way into the wild.
next-20261030: linux-next
Posted: 2026-10-30 14:27:11 Source: https://www.kernel.org/
| Version: | next-20261030 (linux-next) |
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| Released: | 2026-10-30 |
r/opensource Bans AI-Assisted and AI-Related Projects
Posted: 2026-10-30 13:57:21 Source: http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/r-opensource-Bans-AI-Assisted-and-AI-Related-Projects
The de facto subreddit for all things open source has not only banned AI-related projects but also users who "don't speak English."
7.3.1: stable
Posted: 2026-10-30 12:09:58 Source: https://www.kernel.org/
| Version: | 7.3.1 (stable) |
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| Released: | 2026-10-30 |
| Source: | linux-7.3.1.tar.xz |
| PGP Signature: | linux-7.3.1.tar.sign |
| Patch: | full |
| ChangeLog: | ChangeLog-7.3.1 |