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FOSS Weekly #26.39: Snapdragon X2, Ubuntu 26.10, Konsole, systemd Tricks and a New Project
First thing first. Yesterday, I mistakenly sent the Local AI Weekly newsletter to everyone. That was not supposed to happen. I'll be more careful in the future.
Let's go with our regular dose of Linux and open source.
Snapdragon X2 processor support should be coming to Linux soon. Qualcomm has put out an early developer preview with Debian 13 as the reference environment.
PeppermintOS is switching from Xorg to XLibre for its upcoming Debian and Devuan ISO refreshes, with no plans to move to Wayland for the foreseeable future.
Mozilla and Mistral announced a partnership that adds Mistral Small 4 to Firefox Smart Window, swapping out the OpenAI model that was there before. Both of them believe that an independent browser and a European AI lab act as counterweights in the Big Tech-dominated browser ecosystem.
Valve has quietly open-sourced Lepton, the Android compatibility layer it built for Steam Frame. The tool runs Android games inside a container using Waydroid and LineageOS.
Garuda Linux has graduated its NixOS side project into a proper standalone distro. Garuda Nix now ships bootable ISOs for the Dr460nized and Mokka flavors.
After a decade of the open source Community Edition, Portainer is now changing things. CE stays frozen on 2.x with security patches and some backports, while Portainer 3.0, a Kubernetes-first rebuild, goes closed source.
GrapheneOS is publicly calling out Google for holding Android 17 QPR1 security patches back from non-Pixel OEMs until December.
After years of requiring a phone number even after adding username support, Signal is finally testing numberless registrations.