Linux 7.3 started out just under 41 million lines in total in the kernel source tree. In the end the Linux v7.3 tag came in at 41,019,555 lines as measured by cloc while now with Linux 7.4 we are inching ever closer to 42 million lines. On a Git commit basis, the Linux 7.4 merge window has been the busiest on record…

As openSUSE Tumbleweed barrels through the autumn, the month of October brought Linux enthusiasts several changes for this premier rolling release. October was a heavy month for both features and fixes, with 23 snapshots landing between Oct. 1 and 28. KDE Plasma 6.8.0 and KDE Frameworks 6.31.0 arrived as new…

October brought the releases of Linux 7.3, Ubuntu 26.10, the KDE Plasma 6.8 desktop, and a wealth of other open-source software releases. The expanding use of AI/LLMs within Linux kernel development also made for interesting discussions in October. Microsoft bringing their Defender software to the Linux desktop was perhaps the biggest surprise out of October. Here is a look back at the past month…

Budgie 10.10.4 improves Wayland panel auto-hiding, reworks dock mode, adds keyboard shortcuts, and fixes several desktop issues.

The 316th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending November 1st, 2026, keeping you updated on the most important developments in the Linux world.

Arch Linux's November 2026 ISO features Linux kernel 7.2.11, systemd 262.1, and updated system packages for fresh installations.

KDE developer Eike Hein has unveiled Kwi today a new, up-and-coming terminal emulator app for the KDE Plasma desktop environment that promises faster performance, better protocol support, and a more modern UI.

After writing this morning with some stats about the size of the Linux 7.4 merge window and the kernel's source tree approaching 42 million lines, I was curious to run some numbers for putting the size of the merge window into perspective against the major kernel releases of the past 15 years. This shows the definite recent uptick due to AI/LLM activity…

Linux Lite 8.2 is released with Linux 7.3 kernels featuring selected CachyOS patches, gaming optimizations, and system utility improvements.

I love a good performance optimization and there are several this week in the KDE space with Plasma 6.9 development heating up…

DXVK-NVAPI 0.9.3 is out this weekend as a new feature update to this NVIDIA NVAPI implementation used by Valve as part of Steam Play with Proton for nicely integrating NVIDIA technologies into various Windows games running on Linux…

A new feature merged last week for Linux 7.4 to help reduce AI/LLM generated noise from invalid/irrelevant testing configurations is now reverted due to a "crazy beast" in the VFIO subsystem…

Sanket is a GNOME Shell extension that lets you rejig how the desktop’s date menu, calendar, notifications and Quick Settings look and behave – and then some. It can put notifications beneath the Quick Settings menu in a floating island, or embedded inside of it. Quick Settings toggles can shrink to dots when space is tight, and expand again as and when needed, Android-style. As well as shrinking…

OpenShot 4.1 has been released today as a major update to this free, open-source, and cross-platform video editor, introducing a revamped text workflow, a new command-line interface, live export validation, and many other improvements.

Woodpecker CI 3.20 adds manual workflow selection, tighter agent restrictions, faster queue scheduling, and security improvements.

The Linux Mint devs keep working on new features and apps for the upcoming Linux Mint 27 “Adrien” release, due out in Christmas 2026, and they just unveiled new system monitor, terminal emulator, and archive manager tools today.

KDE's Haruna 1.9 optimizes YouTube URL processing, changes how playlists load at startup, and adds new customization options.

The longtime GNU utility collection lets users work with DOS disks and FAT filesystems without mounting them.

A shell injection hidden in an email address gave us code execution on GNU Savannah, then root, then the ability to push to the upstream Bash repository. We reported it, kept auditing, and helped the FSF fix 26 vulnerabilities in the forge that hosts GNU.

Linux Lite 8.2 has been released today as the second installment in the Linux Lite 8 series of this Ubuntu-based distribution featuring the lightweight Xfce desktop environment.

Linux Mint is out with their October 2026 status report to outline various initiatives they have underway in their lead-up to the Linux Mint 27 stable release happening on/around Christmas…

Collabora says a ministry merger paused the test, while the ministry says it was interrupted when the election was called.

Enlightenment 0.28 has been released today by Carsten Haitzler as a major update to this free and open-source lightweight and modern desktop environment and window manager for Linux and BSD systems.

NVIDIA software engineers released CUDA Oxide 0.3 for closing out October. CUDA Oxide as a reminder is their experimental Rust to CUDA compiler that has been seeing a lot of activity in recent months…

Learn how to install the Yarn package manager on Ubuntu using NPM, Corepack, and the APT repository with practical examples.

Adjusting active noise cancellation (ANC) on Nothing or CMF earbuds means taking out your phone to use the official mobile app. EarA, a new open-source tool, that. It’s a GTK4 app (with a CLI for those who prefer the terminal), and it controls settings on earbuds like the Nothing Ear (a) and CMF Buds 2, from your Linux desktop. Noise control/ANC levels can be switched with a click. There are…

Tails 7.16 updates Tor Browser to version 16, upgrades the Tor client, and fixes OpenPGP support in Thunderbird.

This kickstart guide will teach you the distinctions between Zip and Tarball and the installation of Zip and Unzip on your chosen Linux system, with command examples.

On October 27, LLM provider Anthropic reported on a remotely exploitable use-after-free bug affecting systems with multipath TCP listeners open. The bug works by triggering a response to a retransmitted SYN packet at the same moment that the TCP connection is established in another thread, causing the first thread to access the connection's options structure after the second thread has freed it.…

Labwc 0.20.3 introduces custom pointer acceleration, new input settings, and fixes for screen locking, XWayland, and window management.