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FOSS Weekly #26.21: Microsoft's Distro, Bitwarden Drama, Adobe on Linux, New Email Client and More

Fedora no longer trusts on AI ... or so it seems for now.

Abhishek Prakash

21 May 2026<br>6 min read

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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.<br>Fedora has also removed Deepin desktop from its offering due to security concern.<br>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.<br>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.<br>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.<br>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.<br>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.<br>Linux's second-in-command, Hartman, thinks that Rust could eliminate 80% of Linux kernel CVEs.<br>Here are other highlights of this edition of FOSS Weekly:<br>Listening to music on the terminal.<br>Microsoft having a Fedora-based offering.<br>Configuring a smart bulb to run with Home Assistant.<br>And other Linux news, tips, and, of course, memes!<br>🎫 Event alert: AWS Summit India Online<br>From agentic AI to Cloud Modernization, AWS is bringing together the latest innovations shaping technology today at AWS Summit India Online.<br>Attend 50+ sessions filled with tech deep dives, hands-on labs, and actionable insights from AWS experts and leaders<br>Discover how organizations are using AI and data to solve complex challenges<br>Connect with the AWS community through live Q&A<br>The event is virtual and free to attend.<br>Register for FREE<br>🧠 What We’re Thinking About<br>Microsoft spent its Open Source Summit announcement talking about Azure Linux 4.0 without mentioning Fedora once. The GitHub README for the 4.0 development branch uses the phrase "upstream base " to describe Fedora's role.<br>Wow! Microsoft Now Has a Fedora-based Linux Distro<br>Azure Linux 4.0 is on the way, and its GitHub repo quietly confirms it’s built on Fedora.<br>It's FOSSSourav Rudra

🧮 Linux Tips, Tutorials, and Learnings<br>Mission Center and Resources are both polished libadwaita system monitors, and both are genuinely good. But what makes them different from each other? A lot. We have a detailed writeup that should clear your doubts.<br>Splitting a string in Bash isn't as intuitive as it should be. The trick is setting IFS to your delimiter and using read -ra to split the string into an array. Here's a short explainer with a working CSV example and a breakdown of what each part is actually doing.<br>If cmus or MOC never quite clicked for you, Kew is worth trying. Written in C, it displays album art in the terminal, can search your music library with a single keyword, and handles playlists and shuffles without fuss.

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