It’s our 2025 review of Linux and open source news including great gaming news, the impact of AI, the disappointments from Mozilla, the year of Wayland on the desktop, the politics of open source, Intel&#8217;s lack of interest, and KDE wins.
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Gaming
<a href="https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/14/valve_steam_kit/">Steam Machine, controller, VR headset incoming from Valve</a>
<a href="https://www.windowscentral.com/hardware/handheld-gaming-pc/steam-deck-lcd-production-stopping">Steam Deck LCD production is ending</a>
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AI bullshit
<a href="https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/devs-say-ai-crawlers-dominate-traffic-forcing-blocks-on-entire-countries/">Open source devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries</a>
<a href="https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/03/wikimedia_foundation_bemoans_bot_bandwidth/">Wikimedia Foundation bemoans AI bot bandwidth burden</a>
<a href="https://fosstodon.org/@PaulDavisTheFirst/114422838428953674">ardour.org has banned 1.2M distinct IP addresses for trying to slurp from our git repository</a>
<a href="https://creativecommons.org/2025/06/25/introducing-cc-signals-a-new-social-contract-for-the-age-of-ai/">Introducing CC Signals: A New Social Contract for the Age of AI</a>
<a href="https://framapiaf.org/@davidrevoy/114745999323260180">You should enforce your own existing licenses against AI mass crawling</a>
<a href="https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/09/anubis_fighting_the_llm_hordes/">Anubis guards gates against hordes of LLM bot crawlers</a>
<a href="https://www.fsf.org/blogs/sysadmin/our-small-team-vs-millions-of-bots">FSF calls Anubis malware</a>
<a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/@Codeberg/115033790447125787">It seems like the AI crawlers learned how to solve the Anubis challenges</a>
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Mozilla
<a href="https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-leadership-growth-planning-updates/">Updates on Mozilla’s Leadership and Growth Planning</a>
<a href="https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-news/firefox-terms-of-use/">Introducing a terms of use and updated privacy notice for Firefox</a>
<a href="https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/update-on-terms-of-use/">An update on our Terms of Use</a>
<a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/02/firefox-deletes-promise-to-never-sell-personal-data-asks-users-not-to-panic/">Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic</a>
<a href="https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/building-whats-next/">Investing in what moves the internet forward</a>
<a href="https://infosec.exchange/@dymaxion/114530993777386949">When I say that I can’t recommend third-party forks of either Firefox or Chrome for real world use, this kind of thing is why</a>
<a href="https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/08/firefox_isnt_dead/">Firefox is fine. The people running it are not</a>
<a href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/08/firefox-high-cpu-usage-inference-disable">Mozilla Slammed Over Battery-Draining “Garbage” AI in Firefox</a>
<a href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/09/firefox-adding-copilot-chatbot-features">Firefox Adds CoPilot Chatbot, New Tab Widgets in Nightly Builds</a>
<a href="https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/ai-window/">Introducing AI, the Firefox way: A look at what we’re working on and how you can help shape it</a>
<a href="https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/rewiring-mozilla-ai-and-web/">Rewiring Mozilla: Doing for AI what we did for the web</a>
<a href="https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/leadership/mozillas-next-chapter-anthony-enzor-demeo-new-ceo/">Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company</a>
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Wayland
<a href="https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-43-Wayland-Only-GNOME">Fedora 43 Cleared To Ship With Wayland-Only GNOME</a>
<a href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/05/gnome-dropping-x11-support-ubuntu-impact">GNOME Dropping X11 Support May Complicate Next Ubuntu LTS</a>
<a href="https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-25-10-drops-support-for-gnome-on-xorg/62538">Ubuntu 25.10 drops support for GNOME on Xorg</a>
<a href="https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/12/ubuntu_2510_to_drop_x11/">Ubuntu 25.10 and Fedora 43 to drop X11 in GNOME editions</a>
<a href="https://blogs.gnome.org/alatiera/2025/06/08/the-x11-session-removal/">An update on the X11 GNOME Session Removal</a>
<a href="https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wayback-FreeDesktop.org">Wayback Is Now Hosted On</a> <a href="http://freedesktop.org">FreeDesktop.org</a>
<a href="https://wayback.freedesktop.org/news/2025/12/22/wayback-0.3-released/">Wayback 0.3 released!</a>
<a href="https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Mutter-Drops-X11">GNOME Mutter Now “Completely Drops The Whole X11 Backend”</a>
<a href="https://blogs.kde.org/2025/11/26/going-all-in-on-a-wayland-future/">KDE Going all-in on a Wayland future</a>
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Politics
<a href="https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/12/the_price_of_software_freedom/">The price of software freedom is eternal politics</a>
<a href="https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/14/framework_linux_controversy/">Framework flame war erupts over Linux controversy</a>
<a href="https://thenewstack.io/psf-gets-a-donor-surge-after-rejecting-anti-dei-federal-grant/">PSF Gets a Donor Surge After Rejecting Anti-DEI Federal Grant</a>
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Intel
<a href="https://community.clearlinux.org/t/all-good-things-come-to-an-end-shutting-down-clear-linux-os/10716">All good things come to an end: Shutting down Clear Linux OS</a>
<a href="https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-open-source-2025">Intel’s Open-Source Strategy Is Changing At Odds With The Ethos Of Open-Source</a>
<a href="https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Linux-News-2025">The Death Of Clear Linux, Other Intel Linux Engineering Setbacks In 2025</a>
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KDE
<a href="https://pointieststick.com/2025/12/28/highlights-from-2025/">KDE Highlights from 2025</a>
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