The Data Is In: For COSS Companies, Community Is the Ultimate Moat

Linux Foundation
4 days 23 hours ago

I’ve spent three decades in technology, watching brilliant founders pour their hearts into building world-changing open source projects. I’ve seen them cultivate vibrant communities, driven by a shared passion for solving hard problems. And I’ve also seen them arrive at a painful crossroads, forced to choose between the community that built them and the capital they need to survive. It’s a story that has ended too often in compromise, with fractured communities and founders left wondering if there was another way.

Matt Trifiro

[Testing Update] 2025-08-24 - Kernels, Firefox, Mesa, LibreOffice

Manjaro Linux
5 days 13 hours ago

Hello community, here we have another set of package updates.

Current Promotions Recent News Valkey to replace Redis in the [extra] Repository (click for more details) Previous News Finding information easier about Manjaro (click for more details) Notable Package Updates
  • some Kernels got updated
    • 6.15 kernel series is now marked EOL
    • we removed bootsplash packages as we dropped it support
  • Firefox 142.0 and 143.0b3
  • Mesa 25.2.1
    • dropped gamescope-plus as it won’t be supported by mesa 25.2.x series
    • please use the regular gamescope package instead
  • LibreOffice 25.8.0 and 25.2.5
  • Python and Haskell updates
Additional Info Python 3.13 info (click for more details) Info about AUR packages (click for more details)

Get our latest daily developer images now from Github: Plasma, GNOME, XFCE. You can get the latest stable releases of Manjaro from CDN77.

Our current supported kernels
  • linux54 5.4.296
  • linux510 5.10.240
  • linux515 5.15.189
  • linux61 6.1.148
  • linux66 6.6.102
  • linux612 6.12.43
  • linux615 6.15.11 [EOL]
  • linux616 6.16.3
  • linux617 6.17.0-rc2
  • linux61-rt 6.1.146_rt53
  • linux66-rt 6.6.101_rt59
  • linux612-rt 6.12.43_rt12
  • linux615-rt 6.15.0_rt2
  • linux616-rt 6.16.0_rt3

Package Changes (Sun Aug 24 10:23:18 CEST 2025)

  • testing core x86_64: 10 new and 10 removed package(s)
  • testing extra x86_64: 2058 new and 2059 removed package(s)
  • testing multilib x86_64: 15 new and 15 removed package(s)

Overlay Changes

  • testing core x86_64: 12 new and 12 removed package(s)
  • testing extra x86_64: 87 new and 202 removed package(s)

A list of all changes can be found here.

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Rewriting the Rules for Mobile: Open Source, Open Possibilities

Linux Foundation
1 week ago

In the course of conducting research to explore the intersection of open source innovation and the digital transformation of industries, it’s always exciting to witness major shifts. Today, the mobile sector is on the cusp of a pivotal transformation—one that's been many years in the making. 

Hilary Carter

Recent service outages

Arch Linux
1 week 1 day ago

We want to provide an update on the recent service outages affecting our infrastructure. The Arch Linux Project is currently experiencing an ongoing denial of service attack that primarily impacts our main webpage, the Arch User Repository (AUR), and the Forums.

We are aware of the problems that this creates for our end users and will continue to actively work with our hosting provider to mitigate the attack. We are also evaluating DDoS protection providers while carefully considering factors including cost, security, and ethical standards.

To improve the communication around this issue we will provide regular updates on our service status page going forward.

As a volunteer-driven project, we appreciate the community's patience as our DevOps team works to resolve these issues. Please bear with us and thank you for all the support you have shown so far.

Workarounds during service disruption
  • In the case of downtime for archlinux.org:
    • Mirrors: The mirror list endpoint used in tools like reflector is hosted on this site. Please default to the mirrors listed in the pacman-mirrorlist package during an outage.
    • ISO: Our installation image is available on a lot of the mirrors, for example the DevOps administered geomirrors. Please always verify its integrity as described on the wiki and confirm it is signed by 0x3E80CA1A8B89F69CBA57D98A76A5EF9054449A5C (or other trusted keys that may be used in the future).
  • In the case of downtime for aur.archlinux.org:
    • Packages: We maintain a mirror of AUR packages on GitHub. You can retrieve a package using: $ git clone --branch <package_name> --single-branch https://github.com/archlinux/aur.git <package_name>
  • In the case of downtime for wiki.archlinux.org:
    • Docs: The arch-wiki-docs and arch-wiki-lite contain recent snapshots of the articles as hosted on the Arch Linux wiki.
Additional remarks

  • Our services may send an initial connection reset due to the TCP SYN authentication performed by our hosting provider, but subsequent requests should work as expected.

  • We are keeping technical details about the attack, its origin and our mitigation tactics internal while the attack is still ongoing.

Christian Heusel

Rising from the Ashes: How AlmaLinux and Rocky Linux Redefined the Post-CentOS Landscape

Linux Journal
1 week 1 day ago
by George Whittaker

When Red Hat announced the abrupt end of traditional CentOS in late 2020, the Linux ecosystem was shaken to its core. Developers, sysadmins, and enterprises that relied on CentOS for years suddenly found themselves scrambling for answers. Out of that disruption, two projects, AlmaLinux and Rocky Linux, emerged to carry forward the legacy of CentOS while forging their own identities. This article dives into how these two distributions established themselves as reliable, enterprise-grade options for developers and organizations alike.

The Fall of CentOS: An Industry Shockwave

For over a decade, CentOS was the backbone of countless servers, from small web hosts to enterprise data centers. It provided a stable, free, and RHEL-compatible platform, perfect for developers and administrators building and maintaining critical infrastructure.

That stability came to an end when Red Hat pivoted CentOS to a rolling-release model, CentOS Stream. Instead of offering a downstream, binary-compatible version of RHEL, Stream became a preview of future RHEL updates. This move caused widespread frustration:

  • Organizations that built production environments around CentOS suddenly faced shortened support lifecycles.

  • Developers who depended on a “set-and-forget” environment now had to deal with the unpredictability of a rolling release.

  • Compliance-driven industries were left in limbo, as running on an unsupported OS could trigger security and regulatory risks.

This disruption created a vacuum, and the Linux community quickly stepped up to fill it.

The Birth of AlmaLinux and Rocky Linux AlmaLinux: Community-Driven, Enterprise-Ready

Shortly after the CentOS announcement, CloudLinux, a company with deep experience in server environments, launched AlmaLinux. The first stable release landed in March 2021. True to its name, “alma” meaning “soul”, the project’s mission was clear: to embody the spirit of CentOS while maintaining community governance. The non-profit AlmaLinux OS Foundation now oversees the project, ensuring it remains free and open for everyone.

Rocky Linux: A Tribute and a Promise

At almost the same time, Gregory Kurtzer, one of the original CentOS founders, unveiled Rocky Linux, named in honor of CentOS co-founder Rocky McGaugh. From the beginning, Rocky positioned itself as a 1:1 binary-compatible rebuild of RHEL, mirroring CentOS’s original mission. Its governance structure, managed by the Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation (RESF), ensures that the project remains rooted in community oversight rather than corporate ownership.

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George Whittaker