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• From Brussels to the World: Open Source as a Global Asset Members Newsletter - February 2026 Dear OSI supporters, In late January, members of OSI staff and board members joined d

• VibeOps Folks Rejoice! • Warp Launches Oz for Managing AI Coding Agents in the Cloud Warphas established itself as a known name in modern developer tooling. • The company’s termi

• Shift from physical to streaming reduces ownership; Linux users turn to self-hosting. • An eBook server organizes collections, offers web access, syncs progress. • Calibre remain

• Says Ubuntu to The Software and Updates Tool Desktop builds of the upcomingUbuntu 26.04 LTSwon’t ship with the Software & Updates application (software-properties-gtk) pre-instal

• CodeWeavers has announced the release of CrossOver 26, the latest version of their paid software that lets you run Windows games and apps on Linux and macOS. • CrossOver 26 ships

• This Tool Brings macOS-Style Installer for AppImages on Linux AppImagesare portable Linux applications packaged in a single file that you can download and run without installatio

• News Jordan Maris Europe’s Open Source Opportunity: our vision for the EU Open Digital Ecosystems strategy Last week, the OSI submitted its feedback to the Open Digital Ecosystem

• Ubuntu 26.04 LTS will drop the Software & Updates utility from default desktop installs, with developers saying many of its features are ‘dangerous or too complex’ for regular us

• Cine is a new(ish) MPV-based Linux video player built with GTK4/libadwatia and Python, designed specifically for the GNOME desktop environment. • Rather like blockbuster superher

• Seeed Studio’s Open Source Robotic Arm Promises to Lower the Barrier to Embodied AI Robotic arms are everywhere in modern manufacturing. • From automotive assembly lines to elect

• There was once a time when the only thing different about your terminal was which monitor you were running it on. • Everything was a CRT, so beyond refresh rates, size, and resol

• This Lesser-Known Nextcloud Alternative’s Latest Release Makes it More Suitable for Small Businesses andGroup-Officeis an open source collaboration platform developed by Intermes

• Linus Torvalds has released Linux 6.19 kernel, moving legacy AMD Radeon GPUs to the modern amdgpu driver and enabling larger block sizes in ext4 for improved storage performance.

• This is a roundup of articles from the openSUSE community listed on planet.opensuse.org . • The community blog feed aggregator lists the featured highlights below from Jan. • Blo

• If you followed along with my blog, you’d have a chatbot running on your local Fedora machine. • (And if not, no worries as the scripts below implement this chatbot!) Our chatbot

• Events OSI Policy Team Open Source at the Heart of Europe’s (and the World’s) Digital Future Every year, FOSDEM - the Free and Open Source Developers’ European Meeting - turns Br

• A new version of the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B has been (quietly) introduced. • It now uses a dual-RAM configuration. • The Raspberry Pi 4 Model B (PCB 13a) adopts a dual-RAM config

• TheUbuntu 24.04.4 LTS hardware enablement stack(HWE) has finally hit the updates repo, bringing Linux kernel 6.17 and Mesa 25.2.7 to users on the current long-term support releas

• JetBrains enables native Wayland support by default in IntelliJ 2026.1, eliminating X11 layers. • Linux developers can now run IntelliJ IDEs without XWayland, reducing blurry HiD

• News 2026 February 04 Community to Discuss New Governance Proposal Members of theopenSUSE communitywill have a virtual meeting onFeb. • UTCto discuss a proposed governance framew

• LibreOffice 26.2 has been released with multi-user’ database support, improved Excel clipboard compatibility and a new x86-64-v2 hardware baseline for Linux users. • The Document

• Handwriting and markup features have been added to Papers, GNOME’s - andsince 25.04, Ubuntu’s - default document viewer app. • The latest nightly builds of Papers let you draw on

• Tumbleweed Monthly Update - January 2026 3. • Feb 2026 | Douglas DeMaio | CC-BY-SA-3.0 Software package updates for openSUSE Tumbleweed beginning in 2026 started off fast and pau

• You will be able able to disable all AI features in Firefox starting in v148, Mozilla has announced. • The next major update of the web browser, which is scheduled for release on

• Raspberry Pi has announced further price hikes for its single-board computers, increasing the cost of its some models by as much as $60. • The latest increases are on top of the

• News Nick Vidal Ensuring the Long-Term Sustainability of ClearlyDefined: OSI and AboutCode Sign MoU Brussels, February 2 - The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is pleased to share an

• January 2026 was a productive month for Linux app releases, with updates to VLC, GIMP, Vivaldi, and VirtualBox among those pushed out. • I covered many of the month’s biggest rel

• fosstodon Meta Instagram Twitter YouTube Chat Discourse RSS Feed Contribute to Fedora 44 KDE and GNOME Test Days Recent Posts Podman Test Days: Try the New Backend & Parallel Pul

• News Katie Steen-James OSI Joins OpenForum Europe and the Open Knowledge Foundation to Officially Launch Open Technology Research Initiative Together from Brussels,Open Source In

• News Deb Bryant 2026 OSI Elections Update Pausing the 2026 Board Election Cycle to Improve How OSI Selects Directors and Hears the Community Over a decade ago, OSI introduced an

• Open Source software drives global innovation, research, and economic growth, worth $8.8 trillion. • Without Open Source, companies would spend 3.5× more on software, highlightin

• Season of KDE 2026 mentors pair contributors with experts for impactful open‑source projects. • Myrlyn 1.0.0 launches, adding Qt6 GUI, Leap 16.0 support, and improved package sea

• OSI tracks 50+ global conferences spanning AI, cloud, cybersecurity, and policy. • Events unite maintainers, developers, policymakers, researchers, and legal experts worldwide. •

• Y2K38 epoch issue looming in 2038, threatens 32-bit time representations. • openSUSE actively testing, fixing, coordinating to mitigate risk across packages. • Build system clock

• Registration for openSUSE Conference 2026 now open; call for proposals until April 30. • Conference runs June 25-27 in Nuremberg, preceded by Flock to Fedora Prague and DevConf.C

• News 2026 January 16 Planet News Roundup This is a roundup of articles from the openSUSE community listed onplanet.opensuse.org. • The below featured highlights listed on the com

• Newsletter archive Nick Vidal Carrying Open Collaboration into the Year Ahead Members Newsletter - January 2026 Dear OSI supporters, The New Year brings both reflection and a for

• News Katie Steen-James Open Policy Alliance Welcomes the Open Source Technology Improvement Fund as New Member The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is pleased to welcome theOpen Sour

• fosstodon Meta Instagram Twitter YouTube Chat Discourse RSS Feed Introducing the new bootc kickstart command in Anaconda Recent Posts Podman Test Days: Try the New Backend & Para

• Motivation and Vision The core motivation behind data analysis pipelines, and the focus of this article, is the need to establish a clear path from unprocessed data to actionable

• fosstodon Meta Instagram Twitter YouTube Chat Discourse RSS Feed 4 cool new projects to try in Copr for December 2025 Recent Posts Podman Test Days: Try the New Backend & Paralle

• Generative AI systems are changing the way people interact with computers. • MCP (model context protocol) is a way that enables LLMs to run commands and use tools to enable live,

• fosstodon Meta Instagram Twitter YouTube Chat Discourse RSS Feed Flock 2026 CfP open now until Feb 8nd 2026 Recent Posts Podman Test Days: Try the New Backend & Parallel Pulls Mr

• fosstodon Meta Instagram Twitter YouTube Chat Discourse RSS Feed Fedora at Kirinyaga University - Docs workshop Kirinyaga University students group photo in this series 1. • Fedo