Issue #311 / Oct 2026

The news gets weirder every day. It isn't hard to find something weird to write about, but the problem is that weird is the new normal, so the same old dystopian topics are starting to sound monotonous.

In the news: The Linux Kernel Dev Staging Area Now Rejects AI-Generated Patches; Linux Surpasses Double-Digit Market Share; AI Helped Develop a Linux Exploit; Yet Another Linux Kernel Vulnerability Discovered; Ubuntu 26.10 to Include Ubuntu Certified Hardware Check; Substantial Update to IPFire Now Available; Gnome Working on Test Center App to Make Testing Easier; and New Vulnerability Discovered in Linux Kernel.

This month Zack Brown reports on AI in the kernel.

Vosk lets you embed a simple voice decoder into your homegrown applications.

This month, we explore Hannah Montana Linux v26.0, RakuOS 2026.07.03, ArchBang Linux 010726, and Galactic Mandate Linux v00.

The AsteroidOS is designed to run on smartwatches, including several devices that are no longer supported by the original vendor.

Flet lets you easily build real-time, cross-platform GUI apps using Python. We walk you through installing Flet to building your first interactive graphical application.

Use Octave to plot and run statistics on CSV files in as little as one line of code.

A GUI application written in Go helps Mike Schilli select videos from his phone using animated thumbnails and get rid of the clutter.

This innovative Linux distribution combines virtualization with the Tor network to deliver out-of-the-box privacy you won't find with the mainstream distros.