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 This Week in Linux (TWIL) is the weekly news show that keeps you up to date with what’s going on in the Linux and Open Source world. “Your Source for Linux GNews”© 2026 This Week in Linux Politics & Government
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  • 336: Linux 7.0, Discord Age Verification, KDE Linux, Linux Mint Changes, & more Linux news

    336: Linux 7.0, Discord Age Verification, KDE Linux, Linux Mint Changes, & more Linux news
    Feb 15 2026
    video: https://youtu.be/qMIdMJnqNkE This week in Linux, we have a brand new version of the Linux kernel with Linux 6.19. Discord is in the news this week because they decided to roll out age verification to the entire world and received a lot of backlash for it... which is very much deserved. Linux Mint is talking about changing how they do releases of their distros and how they might do fewer of them. Then we'll take a look at the upcoming KDE Linux distro and what they've got cooking in their immutable oven. All of this and more on This Week in Linux, the weekly news show that keeps you up to date with what’s going on in the Linux and Open Source world. Now let's jump right into Your Source for Linux GNews! Download as MP3 Support the Show Become a Patron = tuxdigital.com/membership Store = tuxdigital.com/store Chapters: 00:00 Intro 01:57 Linux Kernel 7.0 Released 07:44 Discord Age Verification: "Wait. What? Nope!" 13:46 Updates on KDE Linux 17:53 Sandfly Security, agentless Linux security 19:17 Linux Mint Changes to Release Cadence 21:44 GRUB 2.14 Released 24:43 Mesa 26.0 Released 27:01 Tiny Core 17 Released 29:04 Outro Links: Linux Kernel 7.0 Released https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.19-Best-Feature-Changeshttps://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/02/linux-6-19-kernel-features-amd-performancehttps://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/linux-kernel-6-19-arrives-and-the-next-will-be-7-0/https://itsfoss.com/news/kernel-6-19-release/https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/09/linux_6_19_7_named/https://9to5linux.com/linux-kernel-6-19-officially-released-this-is-whats-newhttps://lwn.net/Articles/1057417/https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1qzn6y1/linux_kernel_619_has_been_released/https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.19-Releasedhttps://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.0-Is-NextDiscord Age Verification: "Wait. What? Nope!" https://discord.com/press-releases/discord-launches-teen-by-default-settings-globallyhttps://discord.com/press-releases/discord-launches-teen-by-default-settings-globally#age-assurance-clarificationhttps://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/discord-is-about-to-require-age-verification-for-everyone/https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/discord-attempt-to-put-out-the-fires-with-a-clarification-over-new-age-verification/https://www.polygon.com/discord-face-id-requirement-backlash/https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/theres-no-reason-for-discord-to-comply-in-advance-with-social-media-age-verification-laws-instead-of-fighting-for-their-users-says-eff-expert/https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/social-media/the-vast-majority-of-people-can-continue-using-discord-exactly-as-they-do-today-discord-addresses-backlash-over-controversial-age-verificationhttps://www.gamespot.com/articles/discord-attempts-to-clarify-its-new-age-verification-rules/1100-6538091/https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/discord-faces-backlash-over-age-checks-after-data-breach-exposed-70000-ids/Updates on KDE Linux https://pointieststick.com/2026/02/06/busy-months-in-kde-linux/https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/kde-linux-gets-performance-improvements-new-default-apps-and-goes-all-in-on-flatpak/https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Linux-Performance-Hardwarehttps://9to5linux.com/kde-linux-gears-up-for-beta-release-with-plasma-login-manager-kde-initial-setupSandfly Security, agentless Linux security https://thisweekinlinux.com/sandflyLinux Mint Changes to Release Cadence https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4991https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/02/linux-mint-plans-longer-development-cyclehttps://itsfoss.com/news/linux-mint-longer-release-cycle/https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/linux-mint-may-slow-down-releases-to-have-more-development-time/GRUB 2.14 Released https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2026-01/msg00029.htmlhttps://www.phoronix.com/news/GRUB-2.14-Releasedhttps://9to5linux.com/grub-2-14-released-with-erofs-argon2-kdf-and-shim-loader-protocol-supportMesa 26.0 Released https://mesa3d.org/https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-26.0-Releasedhttps://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/mesa-26-0-is-out-bringing-ray-tracing-performance-improvements-for-amd-radv/https://9to5linux.com/mesa-26-0-open-source-graphics-stack-officially-released-heres-whats-newTiny Core 17 Released https://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,28008.0.htmlhttp://www.tinycorelinux.net/Support the show https://tuxdigital.com/membershiphttps://store.tuxdigital.com/
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  • 335: Ubuntu LTS, LibreOffice, Debian takes AIm at LLMs, NVIDIA GeForce NOW & more Linux news

    335: Ubuntu LTS, LibreOffice, Debian takes AIm at LLMs, NVIDIA GeForce NOW & more Linux news
    Feb 8 2026
    video: https://youtu.be/kV1QcpVhQqE Download as MP3 Support the Show Become a Patron = tuxdigital.com/membership Store = tuxdigital.com/store Chapters: 00:00 Intro 00:37 Ubuntu 26.04 & 24.04.4 Updates 05:10 LibreOffice 26.2 Released 07:06 Debian AI Bot & LLM Scraping Issues 09:40 Sandfly Security, agentless Linux security 11:07 NVIDIA GeForce NOW Is Now Available Natively On Linux In Flatpak Form 13:45 Systemd Founder Lennart Poettering Announces Amutable Company 16:00 Origami Linux February 2026 Update 18:45 MocaccinoOS 26.02 Released 22:00 Potential openSUSE Governance Changes 23:53 Outro Links: Ubuntu 26.04 & 24.04.4 Updates https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/26-04-resolute-raccoon-kernel-schedule/75827https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-26.04-LTS-Linux-Commithttps://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/02/ubuntu-24-04-4-lts-hwe-now-availablehttps://9to5linux.com/ubuntu-24-04-lts-users-get-linux-6-17-and-mesa-25-2-ahead-of-ubuntu-24-04-4-ltsLibreOffice 26.2 Released https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/02/04/libreoffice-26-2-is-here/https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/26.2https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/02/libreoffice-26-2-new-featureshttps://www.phoronix.com/news/LibreOffice-26.2-Releasedhttps://9to5linux.com/libreoffice-26-2-open-source-office-suite-officially-released-this-is-whats-newhttps://itsfoss.com/news/libreoffice-26-2-release/https://lwn.net/Articles/1057256/Debian AI Bot & LLM Scraping Issues https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2026/02/msg00001.htmlhttps://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-CI-LLM-RestrictionsSandfly Security, agentless Linux security https://thisweekinlinux.com/sandflyNVIDIA GeForce NOW Is Now Available Natively On Linux In Flatpak Form https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/geforce-now-thursday-linux/?utm_source=chatgpt.comhttps://www.phoronix.com/review/nvidia-geforce-now-linuxhttps://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/the-native-linux-app-for-nvidia-geforce-now-is-now-in-beta/Systemd Founder Lennart Poettering Announces Amutable Company https://amutable.com/https://www.phoronix.com/news/Amutablehttps://itsfoss.com/news/amutable-linux-security/https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/29/lennart_poettering_quits_microsoft/https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-and-open-source-2026-predictions/Origami Linux February 2026 Update https://origami.wf/https://www.zdnet.com/article/origami-linux-cosmic-desktop-immutable-fedora-base/MocaccinoOS 26.02 Released https://www.mocaccino.org/https://www.mocaccino.org/blog/2026/02/02/mocaccinoos-v26.02/Potential openSUSE Governance Changes https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/project@lists.opensuse.org/thread/YKI5QVMT66WMZLOPTCQOEQZPTEWPDIBV/https://linuxiac.com/suse-vp-jeff-mahoney-publishes-draft-governance-proposal-for-opensuse/https://lwn.net/ml/all/570f67b7-bd58-41cb-8027-3eec220752b5@suse.com/Support the show https://tuxdigital.com/membershiphttps://store.tuxdigital.com/
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  • 334: What if Linus leaves Linux?, Open Gaming Collective, Xfce + Wayland, GOG.com & more Linux news

    334: What if Linus leaves Linux?, Open Gaming Collective, Xfce + Wayland, GOG.com & more Linux news
    Feb 2 2026
    video: https://youtu.be/2Ix1povKZrU 3v33itdS6PF74MLF3970 Download as MP3 Support the Show Become a Patron = tuxdigital.com/membership Store = tuxdigital.com/store Chapters: 00:00 Intro 00:48 Michael on Linux Unplugged 01:35 What Happens If Linus Torvalds Leaves Linux? Kernel Continuity Document 03:31 Open Gaming Collective for Linux gaming developers 06:28 Xfce is making a new Wayland compositor called Xfwl4 09:08 Linux Events for the first half of 2026 12:01 Sandfly Security, agentless Linux security 13:31 AerynOS 2026.01 Released 15:58 GParted Live 1.8 Released 18:01 Linux is GOG's Next Major Frontier 22:00 Stop Killing Games to get European Parliament Public Hearing 25:46 Outro Links: Michael on Linux Unplugged https://linuxunplugged.com/649What Happens If Linus Torvalds Leaves Linux? Kernel Continuity Document https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=102606402f4f5943266160e263c450fdfe4dd981https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Kernel-Continuity-Dochttps://itsfoss.com/news/linux-kernel-continuity-plan/https://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Linux-Kernel-Project-Releases-Project-Continuity-Documenthttps://www.theregister.com/2026/01/27/linux_continuity_plan/Open Gaming Collective for Linux gaming developers https://opengamingcollective.org/https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/a-brighter-future-for-bazzite/11575https://blog.fyralabs.com/open-gaming-collective-announcement/https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/open-gaming-collective-ogc-formed-to-push-linux-gaming-even-further/https://itsfoss.com/news/open-gaming-collective-launch/https://videocardz.com/newz/bazzite-and-asus-linux-shadowblip-pikaos-fyra-labs-launch-open-gaming-collectiveXfce is making a new Wayland compositor called Xfwl4 https://alexxcons.github.io/blogpost_15.htmlhttps://lwn.net/Articles/1056159/https://www.phoronix.com/news/Xfce-Xfwl4-Waylandhttps://9to5linux.com/xfce-desktop-environment-is-getting-a-rust-based-wayland-compositorhttps://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/xfce-is-getting-a-brand-new-wayland-compositor-called-xfwl4/Linux Events for the first half of 2026 https://www.linux-magazine.com/Resources/Event-Calendarhttps://foss.eventshttps://fosdem.org/2026/https://www.developerweek.com/https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23xhttps://eventyay.com/e/88882f3ehttps://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/https://cloudfest.com/https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-summit-north-america/https://www.oggcamp.org/Sandfly Security, agentless Linux security https://thisweekinlinux.com/sandflyAerynOS 2026.01 Released https://aerynos.com/blog/2026/31/january-2026-project-update/https://9to5linux.com/aerynos-2026-01-released-with-linux-kernel-6-18-lts-gnome-49-3-and-morehttps://www.phoronix.com/news/AerynOS-2026.01GParted Live 1.8 Released https://gparted.org/https://sourceforge.net/projects/gparted/files/gparted-live-stable/1.8.0-2/https://gparted.org/news.php?item=261https://9to5linux.com/gparted-1-8-open-source-partition-editor-released-with-many-enhancementsLinux is GOG's Next Major Frontier https://www.gog.com/blog/gog-is-getting-acquired-by-its-original-co-founder-what-it-means-for-you/https://af.gog.com/en/work/senior-software-engineer-c-gog-galaxy?as=1636858786https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/gog-job-listing-for-a-senior-software-engineer-notes-linux-is-the-next-major-frontier/https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/gog-plan-to-look-a-bit-closer-at-linux-through-2026/https://www.xda-developers.com/gog-calls-linux-the-next-major-frontier-for-gaming-as-it-works-on-a-native-client/Stop Killing Games to get European Parliament Public Hearing https://www.stopkillinggames.com/https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/stop-destroying-videogames-initiative-to-get-a-public-hearing-organised-by-the-european-parliament/https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/stop-killing-games-final-verified-vote-count-for-the-eu-petition-is-just-under-1-3-million/Support the show https://tuxdigital.com/membershiphttps://store.tuxdigital.com/
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