Red Hat being eaten by IBM, KDE Linux Alpha, is Budgie dead?

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Sep 13, 2025

The podcast dives into the tensions of Red Hat's integration into IBM, raising concerns about corporate culture. KDE Linux has released its alpha, sparking curiosity about its future. Budgie receives a minor update but remains in limbo regarding its sustainability. Firefox continues to innovate with AI features while dropping support for 32-bit systems. Additionally, a brief Ubuntu outage causes widespread impact, and the transition of bcachefs signals changes in kernel management.

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Red Hat Being Absorbed By IBM

Red Hat is being absorbed into IBM with support staff moved into IBM employment in early 2026.
This shift signals loss of independent Red Hat culture and decreasing company-level control.

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KDE Linux Alpha Limits And Goals

KDE Linux alpha is an image-based, modern distro built on Btrfs, Wayland, PipeWire, Flatpak and systemd.
It limits legacy support (no non-UEFI, no proprietary NVIDIA, no external kernel modules) but gives KDE full control over their distro images.

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Uncertain Future For Budgie Desktop

Budgie received a minor update to align with GNOME 49 but public development for major releases is sparse.
Lack of communication on Budgie 10.10 and 11 raises concerns about the project's future.

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