Canonical is about to release its interim version of Ubuntu, the Stonking Stingray, a.k.a. Ubuntu 26.10, and they are doubling down on security with the upcoming Linux 7.3 kernel series, a slimmed-down GRUB bootloader, and more.

IBM and Red Hat announced today they have identified and remediated more than 400 previously unknown vulnerabilities across popular Java libraries...

Xfce, Cinnamon, COSMIC, Sway, i3 and more. See all 12 Fedora Spins side by side, with pros, cons, and a comparison table to help you pick fast.

Raspberry Pi OS receives a broad desktop-focused update with Linux 6.18.50, Control Centre improvements, refreshed icons, and numerous stability fixes.

In this article, you will learn how to use the mount and umount commands in Linux to mount different file systems and then unmount them.

Canonical released today the beta version of the upcoming Ubuntu 26.10 (Stonking Stingray) distribution ahead of the final release on October 15th, 2026, for public testing, application developers, and early adopters.

A Phoronix Premium reader recently inquired about seeing some new benchmarks of AI performance between Vulkan and AMD ROCm back-ends to see how the situation plays out today. Here are some fresh benchmarks on two separate systems with AMD Radeon graphics and using the Lemonade local AI server while exploring the difference between the ROCm and Vulkan Llama.cpp back-ends.

CircuitMess launches MAKERphone 2.0, a solder-free ESP32-S3 phone with 4G, MicroPython and C++ support, plus modular hardware expansion.

TELOS-AI4000 by TechNexion is a compact edge-AI accelerator module based on NXP’s Ara240 discrete neural processing unit. The module delivers up to 40 TOPS of AI performance, supports up to 16GB of LPDDR4 memory and is intended for vision, generative AI and other embedded inference workloads. The Ara240 has appeared in several accelerators covered by […]

The mold linker reaches version 3.0 with a Rust rewrite, Cargo-based builds, improved safety, and no expected performance regressions.

Shotcut 26.9 is out today as the latest stable version of this open-source, free, and cross-platform video editing software written in Qt and using the MLT multimedia authoring framework.

TrueNAS 27 RC.1 released today in working toward the next major release of this Linux-based storage/NAS operating system from iXsystems...

Following the release of the Mozilla Firefox 157 web browser today, Mozilla also released the Mozilla Thunderbird 157 open-source email, chat, address book, news, and calendar client for all supported platforms.

Following the ROCm 10.0 release from late August, ROCm 10.1 is now available in continuing with the ROCm six week release cycle...

Today, September 29th, 2026, Canonical has (finally) opened the upgrade path for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) users to Ubuntu 26.04 LTS (Resolute Raccoon), so here’s how to upgrade your installation.

The open-source Auto-CPUFreq tool for active system monitoring and power optimizations is out with a new release for continuing to enhance battery life on Linux laptops...

The Linux CPU power optimization tool auto-cpufreq 3.2 brings new Intel HWP features, improved battery reporting, and Debian repository support.

When it comes to verifying a Linux distro, it can be tricky, and each distro has its own set of instructions. This tool gives a straight forward interface for ISO verification

As Nextcloud increasingly positions itself as a software platform, its new Academy aims to bring more developers into the fold.

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.