hpr4518 :: Cosy News Corner for Week 46 - Your source for Open Source news
This week’s open-source roundup.
Hosted by Daniel Persson on Wednesday, 2025-11-26 is flagged as Clean and is released under a CC-BY-SA license.
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Title: Debian Mandates Rust for APT, Reshaping Ubuntu and Other Linux Distros
By: Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols - TheNewstack
https://thenewstack.io/debian-mandates-rust-for-apt-reshaping-ubuntu-and-other-linux-distros/
The Complexity of Simplicity
Keynote given at TalosCon by Oxide Co-Founder and CTO Bryan Cantrill in Amsterdam on October 17, 2025.
"He went into Rust pretty skeptical honestly and it came back realizing that there were so many things that he viewed to be essential complexity that were actually accidental complexity."
If you have not learned Rust and you are unfamiliar with the most important thing about Rust to someone who's new to Rust is the way it handles errors, right?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cum5uN2634o
Title: Ubuntu's Rust Transition Hits Another Bump as sudo-rs Security Vulnerabilities Show Up
By: Sourav Rudra - It's FOSS
https://itsfoss.com/news/sudo-rs-issue-ubuntu/
Title: Snapchat Open Sources Cross-Platform UI Framework
By Loraine Lawson - TheNewstack
https://thenewstack.io/snapchat-open-sources-cross-platform-ui-framework/
https://github.com/Snapchat/Valdi
Title: # Solo.io Open Sources Agentregistry, With Support for Agent Skills
By: Heather Joslyn - TheNewstack
https://thenewstack.io/solo-io-open-sources-agentregistry-with-support-for-agent-skills/
Title: FFmpeg Calls Google's AI Bug Reports "CVE Slop"
By: Sourav Rudra - It's FOSS
By: Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols - TheNewstack
https://itsfoss.com/news/ffmpeg-google-fiasco/
Title: Ubuntu's New 15-Year Commitment Targets Long-Lived Enterprise Systems
By: Sourav Rudra - It's FOSS
https://itsfoss.com/news/ubuntu-15-year-support-commitment/
Title: Mozilla Unveils Plans for New 'AI Window' Browsing Mode in Firefox, Opens Signups
By: Sourav Rudra - It's FOSS
By: Ajit Varma - Distilled
https://itsfoss.com/news/mozilla-ai-window-plans/
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/ai-window/
https://www.firefox.com/en-US/ai/
Title: Nitrux 5.0.0 Released: A 'New Beginning' That's Not for Everyone (By Design)
By: Sourav Rudra - It's FOSS
https://itsfoss.com/news/nitrux-5-release/
Title: You Can Play Classic D3D7 Games on Linux With This New Project, But Don’t Expect Perfection
By: Sourav Rudra - It's FOSS