FOSS Weekly #26.21: Microsoft’s Distro, Bitwarden Drama, Adobe on Linux, New Email Client and More
FOSS Weekly #26.21: Microsoft’s Distro, Bitwarden Drama, Adobe on Linux, New Email Client and More
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Publish Date: 2026-05-21 10:41:00
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The Fedora AI Developer Desktop initiative that passed unanimously is now blocked. Two council members retracted their votes after community pushback, with contributors arguing the CUDA focus contradicts Fedora’s free software foundations and that significant kernel policy changes hadn’t been cleared with the right people.
Fedora has also removed Deepin desktop from its offering due to security concern.
Someone got Lightroom CC running on Linux via Wine without writing a single line of code themselves. An AI agent did the whole thing autonomously, fixing DLL gaps and Wine incompatibilities.
LibrePlan is a self-hosted open source project management tool that just got its 1.6.0 release. The additions worth noting include email workflows, per-project document repositories, an issue and risk log, and traffic light status indicators in the project list view.
If you’ve ever wanted to run BleachBit over SSH without touching the CLI directly, the TUI is shaping up well. You get keyboard navigation throughout, two preview modes for checking what would be cleaned before committing, and full backend parity with the existing GUI.
Bitwarden got a new CEO in February, a new CFO in April, briefly removed “Always Free” from its pricing page, and quietly rewrote its core values. For most software, this would be unremarkable. For the app that holds your passwords, the bar for transparency needs to be much higher.
ONLYOFFICE Docs 9.4 lands with a mix of features and a licensing update that’s hard to read as coincidental given the Euro-Office fork dispute. It offers users a dark mode for spreadsheets, 25 new presentation themes, 20 new slide transitions, and form recipient tracking.
Linux’s second-in-command, Hartman, thinks that Rust could eliminate 80% of Linux kernel CVEs.
Here are other highlights of this edition of FOSS Weekly:
- Listening to music on the terminal.
- Microsoft having a Fedora-based offering.
- Configuring a smart bulb to run with Home…
