As part of our legal resilience research, we spoke with a range of legal experts, software freedom advocates, and maintainers of mature FOSS infrastructure to understand how others manage these moments. In this article, we share what we learned, and how F-Droid is incorporating these lessons into its own approach.
With this commit, the development slows into release-mode preparing for the 7.8 release of OpenBSD.
The commit message reads,
List: openbsd-cvs Subject: CVS: cvs.openbsd.org: src From: Theo de Raadt <deraadt () cvs ! openbsd ! org> Date: 2025-09-10 15:58:20 CVSROOT: /cvs Module name: src Changes by: deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org 2025/09/10 10:00:04 Modified files: etc/root : root.mail sys/sys : param.h share/mk : sys.mk sys/arch/macppc/stand/tbxidata: bsd.tbxi usr.bin/signify: signify.1 sys/conf : newvers.sh Log message: crank to 7.8-beta
7.8-beta snapshots are already starting to appear on OpenBSD mirrors.
Time to bring out your odd machines and give snapshots a go, if we want 7.8 to be the best release yet.
There are a large number of ways to configure the 6.16 Linux kernel. It has 32,468 different configuration options on x86_64, and a comparable number for other platforms. Exploring the ways the kernel can be configured is sufficiently difficult that it requires specialized tools. These show the number of possible configurations that options can be combined in has 6,550 digits. How has that number changed over the history of the kernel, and what does it mean for testing?
At Akademy 2025, the KDE Project released an alpha version of KDE Linux, a distribution built by the project to "include the best implementation of everything KDE has to offer, using the most advanced technologies". It is aimed at providing an operating system suitable for home use, business use, OEM installations, and more "eventually". For now there are many rough edges and missing features that users should be aware of before taking the plunge; but it is an interesting look at the kind of complete Linux system that KDE developers would like to see.
At Open Source Summit Europe, LWN's Jonathan Corbet presented "Three Decades in Kernelland"; the talk provides a look at how the kernel got to where it is, what makes it successful, and what may be coming next. The video of the talk is now online for LWN readers who would like to check it out.