A radical rethink of what a Linux distro should do, and what it should stop doing. Plus, we dig into what's great about Linux 6.16.

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  • F43 Change Proposal: Filter Fedora Flatpaks for Atomic Desktops — With this change, we want to make the availability of a Fedora Flatpak an explicit decision for the Fedora Atomic Desktops.
  • Fedora Flatpaks creates more work
  • Fedora Must (Carefully) Embrace Flathub
  • Strategy 2028 Update – Fedora Community Blog
  • Initiatives/Fedora bootc - Fedora Project Wiki — Silverblue & Kinoite are ready to be our desktop Editions, with bootc (Jason)
  • Proposal: Enable Flathub by Default - Fedora Discussion
  • The Case for Fedora Flatpaks
  • bazaar: New App Store for GNOME
  • Linux 6.16 Is Exciting For Open-Source NVIDIA, OpenVPN DCO & More Performance
  • EXT4 For Linux 6.16 Brings A Change Yielding "Really Stupendous Performance"
  • Ubuntu Concept For Snapdragon X1 Laptops Moves To Linux 6.16, Enables More Devices
  • Linux 6.16 Merges A Fix For The Macintosh II
  • Linux 6.16 Features From NVIDIA Blackwell To Performance Improvements & Intel APX
  • The first half of the 6.16 merge window
  • The second half of the 6.16 merge window
  • Enforcement (or not) for module-specific exported symbols
  • Toward the unification of kselftests and KUnit
  • Bcachefs may be headed out of the kernel
  • Supporting kernel development with large language models
  • Fending off unwanted file descriptors
  • Linux 6.16 - Linux Kernel Newbies
  • Slowing the flow of core-dump-related CVEs
  • Zoned Loop Block Device — The Linux Kernel documentation
  • DJM-V10 Creative style 6-channel professional DJ mixer (black) - Pioneer DJ
  • LLM generated git-resolve.sh
  • Aidan's NixOS Flake
  • Using Experimental Lighthouse DNS with Nebula
  • SONOFF Zigbee 3.0 USB Dongle Plus
  • Pick: Toney — Toney is a fast, lightweight, terminal-based note-taking app for the modern developer.
  • Pick: Etesync-Knotes — A secure note-taking application for linux, integrated with Etebase for encrypted synchronization.