355: 35 Years of Linux, NVIDIA buying Hugging Face, €500K for Flatpak, Ai in Debian, & more Linux news

video: https://youtu.be/tksoVnYTz1c This week in Linux, we learned that NVIDIA might be buying Hugging Face and this AI community platform reportedly rejected extra investment from NVIDIA because they didn't want one company having too much influence. Now NVIDIA may be buying the entire company. Someone dumped more than 125 bug reports into QEMU in under ten minutes, leading one maintainer to call it an effective denial-of-service attack. Debian finished their debate on what to do with AI contributions and their decision was surprising. LibreOffice has a new release where they made it very clear they aren't interested in adding Ai tools to summarize the document you just wrote. Plus Flatpak is getting more than half a million euros to improve Linux app security and sandboxing, so that's awesome. And all of this is happening while Linux celebrates 35 years of the kernel. This is Your Source for Linux GNews so let's see what happened This Week in Linux. Download as MP3 Support the Show Become a Patron = tuxdigital.com/membership Store = tuxdigital.com/store Chapters: 00:00 Intro 01:09 Happy 35th Birthday Linux 03:54 NVIDIA Reportedly Agrees to Buy Hugging Face for .9 Billion 07:16 Announcing €500K Sovereign Tech Agency Investment in Flatpak 09:38 Debian's AI Decision 12:07 AI Bug Reports Become a “Denial of Service” Against Open Source Maintainers 14:45 LibreOffice 26.8 Makes “No AI” a Feature 17:25 Support the show 18:40 Outro Links: Happy 35th Birthday Linux https://bsky.app/profile/tuxdigital.bsky.social/post/3mtyonwnwvk2w https://9to5linux.com/happy-35th-birthday-linux https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/linux-was-announced-by-linus-torvalds-35-years-ago-today-humble-os-started-with-10-000-lines-of-code-but-has-now-grown-to-40-million-dominates-global-infrastructure NVIDIA Reportedly Agrees to Buy Hugging Face for $12.9 Billion https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2026/08/27/nvidia-has-reportedly-agreed-to-buy-ai-model-hosting-platform-hugging-face-for-13-billion/ https://www.theinformation.com/articles/nvidia-agrees-buy-open-source-model-repository-hugging-face-12-9-billion https://www.reuters.com/technology/nvidia-talks-acquire-hugging-face-13-billion-deal-business-insider-reports-2026-08-27/ https://www.businessinsider.com/hugging-face-nvidia-deal-reshape-ai-landscape-2026-8 https://www.marketwatch.com/story/what-to-know-about-hugging-face-the-open-source-ai-startup-reportedly-catching-nvidias-eye-243771f8 Announcing €500K Sovereign Tech Agency Investment in Flatpak https://modal.cx/blog/announcing-flatpak-sta/ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/sovereign-tech-agency-makes-a-big-investment-into-flatpak/ https://www.phoronix.com/news/Sovereign-Tech-Agency-Flatpak Debian's AI Decision https://www.debian.org/vote/2026/vote_002#texte https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2026/08/msg00360.html https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-Votes-On-LLM-Usage https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-Votes-Responsible-AI-Use AI Bug Reports Become a “Denial of Service” Against Open Source Maintainers https://www.phoronix.com/news/AI-DoS-Attack-Maintainers https://hachyderm.io/@berrange/117155755806497654 https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/work_items?author_username=anwardawa981&first_page_size=20&sort=created_date&state=all https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/work_items/4348 LibreOffice 26.8 Makes “No AI” a Feature https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/08/26/libreoffice-26-8/ https://lwn.net/Articles/1090606/ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/08/libreoffice-268-released https://itsfoss.com/news/libreoffice-26-8-release/ https://www.phoronix.com/news/LibreOffice-26.8 Support the show https://tuxdigital.com/membership https://store.tuxdigital.com/