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Lately MariaDB’s board has been in the process of doing something that looks a lot like chopping off its limbs to keep enough blood in its torso to keep itself alive.

Three-and-a-half years after handing over the reins at Red Hat, Jim Whitehurst has the job he likes best again, although only temporarily.

There will certainly be plenty of new stuff in 23.10 for enterprise users when it gets here, if not so much for home users. Most of the new stuff here is under the hood, software to make the distribution more stable and secure, with added support for running the OS on exotic hardware such as SiFive’s HiFive Risk-V boards.

Also included in this week’s FOSS Week in Review: OpenPubkey goes to Linux Foundation, adding vector support to MySQL for AI, and the results of last week’s rolling release poll.

We should stop calling ChatGPT and other generative AI software “artificial intelligence,” according to Stallman, because “there’s nothing intelligent about them.”

Also included in this week’s FOSS Week in Review: Gnome’s new due date, readers say Red Hat’s changed for the worse under IBM, and a new poll asks how you like your distros released.

On Tuesday, AlmaLinux announced that it has obtained FIPS 140-3 security certification for its Linux distro which is primarily used in data centers by enterprises

Oracle launches something of a bare metal cloud that takes advantage of Nvidia’s H100 Tensor Core GPUs and is intended for running heavy duty generative AI and LLM workloads. A more budget minded offering using Nvidia’s L40S GPU will be available early next year.

In this week’s roundup we look at ZFS’s return to Ubuntu as an install option (and why it was removed in the first place), how the Nigerian Prince is adopting AI for phishing, Linux Torvalds fabulous impersonation of E.F. Hutton, and more.

Foundation members will be voting to elect a total of three board members. One will be to fill a seat that was vacated when its holder stepped down. The others are completely new seats.

Currently an experimental project, Slowroll is a hybrid distro that seeks to meld the stability of a fixed release distro like openSUSE Leap with the advantages of a rolling release like openSUSE Tumbleweed.

Two new seats on EFF’s board are filled by Erica Astrella and Yoshi Kohno, who bring valuable experience in diversity, equity, inclusion, security research, and data privacy to the table.

Gnu’s turning 40! The Free Software Foundation is pulling out all of the stops for a birthday celebration hack day on October 1.

In this week’s roundup, we look at the winding down of LibreOffice’s 7.5 series, how KDE’s getting it together for Plasma’s upcoming 6.0 release, Mozilla’s look at privacy issues and modern automobiles, and more.

None of the Gnome extensions that are in use now will work on Gnome 45 when it’s released on September 20.

In many ways, KDE Gear’s apps supply the backbone on the Linux desktop experience. Newly released KDE Gear 23.08 brings many changes to these apps, and we look at them here.

The cryptocurrency funded Brave Browser has a new proprietary AI assistant; new versions of Kali, KDE Gear, and LibreOffice; with changes on the way in The Document Foundation’s versioning scheme.

New users of Bodhi Linux might be confused about which of the four available ISO images to use. We’ve got your back.

The desktop environment that started as a side project for the Solus Linux distribution but has gone on to become included in many other distros, including Ubuntu Budgie, is out with a new release with new features and improvements.

Canadians in wildfire ravaged areas can’t swap important and potentially life saving news stories on Facebook as a result of the country’s recently passed news link law.