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This edition of FOSS Weekly covers the heated controversy around age verification in the Linux world, sparked by systemd adding an optional birthDate field to user records. Distributions like Void and Garuda Linux have rejected the idea, while Fedora explores an Apple-style API compromise. A protest fork called 'Liberated systemd' has already emerged, stripping out the birthDate field. Other highlights include LibreOffice adding a donation banner, Germany mandating ODF for public administrations, Canonical joining the Rust Foundation as a Gold Member, a backdoor found in two LiteLLM PyPI packages, a look at Btrfs subvolumes, the Fish shell, the Vykar open source backup tool, and the Yazi terminal file manager.

FOSS Weekly #26.13: Age Verification Added in systemd, Systemd forked, Btrfs Subvolumes, New Backup Tool, Yazi Manager and More

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