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The next circle of security hell
Gentoo developer Michał Górny revisits his 2021 'modern packager's security nightmare' and argues things have got worse: vulnerabilities arrive at unprecedented rates, rushed fixes and API breaks pile up on downstream packagers, and the community risks a breaking point where everyone bundles and fends for themselves.
3 min · 705 words
A critical essay arguing the Linux kernel is going all-in on AI: dropping Assisted-by tags for LLM-generated patches, what that means for tracing defects and copyright, and the attitude that AI never fails, only the humans using it.
6 min · 1,461 words
Gentoo developer Michał Górny asks Python package maintainers not to adopt uv-build as their build backend, arguing that its size and Rust toolchain requirement break builds on less common architectures and downstream distributions, while its benefits over backends like flit-core or hatchling are minimal.
3 min · 579 words
Is COSMIC DE mogging KDE Plasma?
Niccolò Venerandi of LibreNews revisits System76's COSMIC desktop a year after last trying it, now at stable releases, comparing its focused, polished feature set with KDE Plasma's deep customization, and explains why he still prefers Plasma's community, themes and modular shell that powers projects like Plasma Mobile and BigScreen.
12 min · 2,645 words
Flatpak - an insecurity nightmare
Despite its title, Yves Auxier’s post defends Flatpak: it argues the Linux desktop needs sandboxed distribution, that insecure static permissions reflect old or unmigrated apps rather than a broken sandbox, that runtimes get security updates, and cites the fractureiser malware as a case where the sandbox helped.
6 min · 1,444 words