FOSS Weekly #63 - Gentoo bans AI code, GNOME Funding woes, Ubuntu 24.04, Fedora 40, and other news

Welcome to another issue of FOSS Weekly. Here is your latest free software news from the last week. We are back after a break!

📰 News

• Microsoft has open sourced MS-DOS 4.0 [microsoft.com] but it does not compile [os2museum.com]

• Andreas Tille elected as Debian Project Leader for 2024 [debian.org]

• Gentoo Linux bans AI generated contributions [gentoo.org]

• GNOME Foundation is running on deficit and plans to focus on fundraising [gnome.org]

🐧 Linux updates

• Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Noble Numbat released [ubuntu.com]

• Fedora Linux 40 is here with GNOME 46 and KDE 6 [fedoramagazine.org]

• EndeavourOS Gemini released with Plasma 6 [endeavouros.com]

• QEMU 9.0 released with Pi 4 support [qemu.org]

📝 Releases

• Tails 6.2 [tails.net]

• Node.js 22 [nodejs.org]

• Moodle LMS 4.4 [moodle.com]

🔗 Also read

• This Week in GNOME [thisweek.gnome.org]

• This Week in KDE [pointieststick.com]

• This Week in Rust [rust.org]

• OSM Weekly News [weeklyosm]

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