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  1. [$] An ongoing 3D-printer AGPL violation

    At FOSSY 2026, several people from the Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC), which organizes the conference, gave a presentation about an ongoing violation of the Affero General Publ [...]

    lwn.net/Articles/1089390/

    #LWN #Linux

  2. [$] Old-school calendaring at the command line with Remind

    Remind is a command-line calendar and alarm program, with an optional Tk-based graphical interface, for Linux and Unix-like operating systems. It has its own scripting language tha [...]

    lwn.net/Articles/1090376/

    #LWN #Linux #Debian #ArchLinux #Python #Perl #Git

  3. [$] How to be safe from quantum computing

    Practical quantum computers have been ten years away for the last several decades. Now, however, it's beginning to look as though they will be possible in just a few years. Recent [...]

    lwn.net/Articles/1088305/

    #LWN #Linux #security #Debian #RedHat #ArchLinux #Git #Firefox #OpenSSH

  4. [$] Considering the OpenMDW license

    The open-source world has been struggling for a few years now to understand how to approach large language models (LLMs) and the licensing applied to them. What constitutes "freed [...]

    lwn.net/Articles/1089251/

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  5. [$] A look at the Quickshell desktop-component toolkit

    Quickshell is a toolkit for building desktop components, such as toolbars or menus. It uses QML, which is a declarative language for designing GUI applications. Quickshell helps de [...]

    lwn.net/Articles/1083090/

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  6. [$] The beginning of the 7.3 merge window

    As of this writing, 2,346 non-merge changesets have been pulled into the mainline repository for the 7.3 kernel release. That, clearly, is a mere down payment on the flood that is [...]

    lwn.net/Articles/1089244/

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  7. [$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for August 20, 2026

    The LWN.net Weekly Edition for August 20, 2026 is available.

    lwn.net/Articles/1088565/

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  8. [$] Debian weighs eight options in vote on LLM usage

    The Debian Project is voting on the usage of large language models (LLMs) to make contributions to the project. The first proposal, sent in late July by Matthias Geiger, would expr [...]

    lwn.net/Articles/1087134/

    #LWN #Linux #Debian #Gentoo #GCC #Rust #Python #systemd

  9. [$] Representing Python paths using pathlib

    At the outset of his PyCon US 2026 talk, Trey Hunner said that his goal was for attendees to stop representing filesystem paths as strings and to use pathlib instead. That's kind [...]

    lwn.net/Articles/1088781/

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  10. [$] Fedora prepares for the end of AF_ALG

    The Linux kernel's user-space interface (AF_ALG) to the Crypto API has been linked to a number of recent high-profile security problems, including Copy Fail and successor vulnerabi [...]

    lwn.net/Articles/1088489/

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