Welcome to the LWN.net Weekly Edition for August 27, 2026
- An ongoing 3D-printer AGPL violation: what is being done to try to provide users of Bambu Lab 3D-printer software with alternatives.
- Considering the OpenMDW license: a license for distributing LLMs and related materials seems unlikely to gain OSI approval in its current form.
- How to be safe from quantum computing: a look at configuration changes and protocol updates needed to protect today's encrypted data from tomorrow's quantum computers.
- The beginning of the 7.3 merge window: some of the noteworthy changes coming to the next kernel release.
- Old-school calendaring at the command line with Remind: a look at a calendaring system older than Linux.
- A look at the Quickshell desktop-component toolkit: the project behind popular desktop shells for minimal window managers.
This week's edition also includes these inner pages:
- Brief items: Brief news items from throughout the community.
- Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.
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