Catch up on the latest Linux news: OpenMandriva ROME 26.09, Ubuntu 26.10 Beta, Nitrux 7.0, Firefox 157, Wine 11.19, Git 2.56, COSMIC stops accepting AI-generated PRs, and more.

Linux's Multi-Gen LRU "MGLRU" has already achieved nice performance gains for Linux in recent years by optimizing page reclaims and improves performance under memory pressure. The new MGLRU-FG patches aim to take things further...

After years without an official iOS client, Mozilla Thunderbird is now building a native app for iPhone and iPad with testing planned ahead.

We are nearing the cut-off of new Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem material for the upcoming Linux 7.4 cycle. AMD this week sent in another feature pull to DRM-Next that is moving over to mostly bug fixing but does contain the enablement of some new GPU intellectual property blocks for upcoming graphics hardware...

Kagi ends development of Orion Browser for Linux and Windows, with plans to open-source both versions and hand them over to the community.

Last month Fujitsu formally announced their MONAKA CPU as a 144 core Arm-based server processor geared for AI infrastructure. This comes after two years of seeing various Monaka patches to the GCC compiler and other open-source components. Now that MONAKA is announced, we are seeing more patches surface for the Linux kernel with this week seeing several workarounds for MONAKA CPU bugs...

Zig 0.17 advances the systems programming language with ELF linker work, build system changes, LLVM 22, glibc 2.44, and more.

Linus Torvalds just released Linux 7.3-rc7 as we work toward the stable Linux 7.3 kernel release in two weeks...

The 312th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending October 4th, 2026, keeping you updated on the most important developments in the Linux world.

This week was the surprising and unfortunate decision of Siemens shutting down the OpenRadioss project as the four year old open-source project started by Altair Engineering with their prominent Radioss finite element solver. Siemens didn't just end the project but they shutdown the GitHub repository that hosted the open-source code and removed other resources that had built around it. Fortunately, there's a new community fork of OpenRadioss as OpenCourant...

Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Lubuntu, Budgie and more. See how every official Ubuntu flavor compares, what sets each apart, and which one fits your PC.

Darktable 5.6.2 has been released today as the second point release to the latest Darktable 5.6 series of this open-source, free, and cross-platform raw image editor for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows.

Efinix announced this week the Sapphire RV64, a configurable 64-bit RISC-V soft SoC intended for embedded Linux, edge AI and other applications requiring more memory and processing capability than the company’s existing 32-bit Sapphire architecture. The processor can be implemented across Efinix Titanium and Topaz FPGAs, as well as Trion devices from the T20 upward. […]

In addition to NVIDIA announcing their Display Config Server project at XDC 2026 in Toronto, at this annual developer's conference they also presented their findings on scientific testing of X.Org vs. Wayland latency...

KDE Plasma 6.8 Beta 2 adds more polish and bug fixes, improving tiled windows, Spectacle, GPU monitoring, remote desktop support, and more.

Over the past year Timur Kristóf of Valve's Linux graphics driver team has made multiple very nice improvements to the AMDGPU kernel driver for enhancing support for old (GCN 1.0/1.1 era from a decade ago) graphics cards so that they can better handle Linux gaming and other tasks. This week in Toronto, Kristóf presented on this AMDGPU work that he initially began as a kernel driver development exercise after initially spending years in user-space focused on the Mesa 3D driver code...

Microsoft is giving Rust first-class internal support alongside C++, C#, and TypeScript, with production-ready tooling and integration.

ParrotSec released Parrot OS 7.4 today as the latest stable installation/live image of this Debian-based GNU/Linux distribution for penetration testing and security enthusiasts.

We get mail, part deux . . . a reader suggested we take this Spanish distro based on Debian Testing out for a spin. So this week's Distro of the Week is Soplos Linux Tyron, with the Xfce desktop, and in many ways it turned out to be quite the pleasant experience.

Coreboot 26.09 released yesterday as the latest quarterly feature release to this open-source software for replacing proprietary BIOS and system firmware on a growing selection of devices...

The Document Foundation announced today the general availability of LibreOffice 26.8.1 as the first maintenance update to the latest and greatest LibreOffice 26.8 office suite series with compatibility and text import improvements.

We are nearing the cut-off of new feature material being accepted to DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 7.4 merge window. But this week another round of DRM-Misc changes made it, which included some new hardware support and other last minute items...

Featuring the quad-core Allwinner H618, the BPI-CM7 is a compact compute module with onboard LPDDR4 memory, eMMC storage, Wi-Fi 5 and Bluetooth 5.0. The module uses two 100-pin board-to-board connectors and is intended for use with Banana Pi’s BPI-CM7IO carrier board, which exposes multiple peripheral interfaces. The Allwinner H618 has previously appeared in boards including […]

System76’s COSMIC project now requires contributors to confirm that pull requests contain no LLM-generated code, comments, or descriptions.

In this article, you will learn how to install C/C++ development tools and their libraries in major Linux distributions with practical examples.

With the AMD Ryzen AI Halo mini PC that launched this summer that focused on local AI, one of the biggest surprises for me when reviewing the unit was finding that the Linux preload wasn't just a stock Ubuntu/Debian OS but rather a customized AMD Linux distribution known as AMD Ryzen AI Developer Platform. Yesterday the newest version of AMD Ryzen AI Developer Platform was released with some nice software updates...

Joshua Strobl has opened a pull request to bring Budgie Desktop 10.10.3, related apps, and required dependencies into aerynOS.

Sent out on Thursday was the last round of planned Intel Xe kernel driver improvements targeting the upcoming Linux 7.4 cycle. There is one big improvement that is set to benefit Intel discrete GPUs with at least Battlemage benefiting nicely...

Pinetek Networks has developed the IOL Core4, a compact IO-Link-compatible master module for embedded systems. It connects up to four industrial sensors or actuators over IEC 61131-9 SDCI and is intended for integration into custom control, monitoring and IIoT hardware. The module uses two Analog Devices MAX14819 dual IO-Link master transceivers. The standard PT-1204 version […]

The newest systemd component being worked on and drafted for an initial pull request is systemd-appd as a new mechanism to centralizing the tracking of user's apps...