The 280th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending February 22nd, 2026, keeping you updated on the most important developments in the Linux world.

Emperor Penguin releases kernel 7.0 rc1 with some numerological musings Linus Torvalds has pondered his professional mortality in a self-deprecating post to mark the release of the first release candidate for version 7.0 of the Linux kernel.…

What’s Up Docker 8.2 enables digest watching by default and adds support for TrueForge and Codeberg registries.

OnLogic has introduced the Factor 101, a compact fanless industrial system built around Qualcomm’s QCS6490 platform. The unit targets edge deployments that need wired networking, basic display output, and local inference acceleration in a small enclosure. The platform is based on an 8-core Qualcomm Kryo 670 CPU clocked at up to 2.1GHz, paired with 8GB […]

The bash (Bourne-Again SHell) is a sh-compatible command-line interpreter that reads from standard input or from a file and gives you the resulting output.

The KDE project is addressing recent concerns that they are forcing systemd on current or future versions of its Plasma desktop environment.

Developers behind the widely-used GNU Awk text processing utility today released Gawk 5.4...

DietPi 10.1 adds NanoPi Zero2 support, introduces WhoDB, unlocks RISC-V Navidrome builds, and delivers multiple enhancements and bug fixes.

Linus Torvalds just capped off the Linux 7.0 merge window with the release of Linux 7.0-rc1. While the big version bump is coincidental with Linus Torvalds liking to bump it after x.19, Linux 7.0 is quite heavy on new features...

Linus Torvalds announced today the general availability for public testing of the first Release Candidate (RC) development milestone of the upcoming Linux 7.0 kernel series.

Catch up on the latest Linux news: Sparky 8.2, KDE Plasma 6.6, COSMIC 1.0.7, Fish Shell 4.5, PipeWire 1.6, Bottles 62, open-source community launches MinIO fork, and more.

With DNS-PERSIST-01, Let’s Encrypt users can validate their domains without having to update DNS records every time they issue or renew a certificate.

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MX Linux consistently tops DistroWatch because it is a highly capable, lightweight, and user-friendly Debian-based system that appeals to a wide range of users.

Last week was the main feature pull of Rust programming language updates for the Linux 7.0 kernel merge window. Most notable with that pull was Rust officially concluding its "experimental" in now treating Rust for Linux kernel/driver programming as stable and here to stay. Sent out today was a round of Rust fixes for Linux 7.0 that includes preparations for the upcoming Rust 1.95 release...

Ubuntu Touch OTA 1.2 update is now rolling out with improvements to VoLTE support and fixes for boot issues on Sony Xperia X devices.

The AppArmour security module for the Linux kernel, which most notably is backed by Canonical for Ubuntu, has some small improvements and fixes for Linux 7.0...

For those making use of the Ceph open-source, distributed storage platform, with the upcoming Linux 7.0 kernel they are introducing support for the AES256K key type...

Calibre 9.3 open-source e-book manager is now available for download with improved support for the Hanvon N10 e-reader and other changes. Here’s what’s new!

KDE Plasma 6.7 will introduce virtual desktop switching in Overview using scroll or Page Up/Page Down keys, along with a new multi-printer print queue viewer.

The mkdir command is used to create single or multiple directories while also setting a permission when they are created in a Linux system.

PipeWire 1.6 open-source server for handling audio/video streams and hardware on Linux is now available for download with new features and improvements.

The open-source ollama project that makes it easy to get up and running with a variety of LLMs under Windows, macOS, and Linux is out with a new release. The ollama v0.17.0 release is driven by new functionality around enhancing the OpenClaw onboarding process...

A community fork revives MinIO after the official repository was archived, restoring removed features and continuing open-source development.

Transmission 4.1.1 open-source BitTorrent client is now available for download with numerous bug fixes and various improvements.

Canonical engineer Utkarsh Gupta announced today on the behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team that the Ubuntu 26.04 "Resolute Raccoon" has entered its feature freeze...

Transmission 4.1.1 fixes over 20 bugs from version 4.1 and brings performance improvements to all platforms.

Collabora has announced GStreamer 1.28, expanding its machine learning and AI inference capabilities for media pipelines. The release adds new inference engines, broader tensor decoder support, improved metadata handling, and tooling aimed at simplifying object detection, classification, and segmentation workflows on embedded Linux systems. Support for ONNX Runtime has been improved, including a refactor from […]

Drgn is the programmable debugger developed by Meta engineer Omar Sandoval that has proven quite versatile and popular with Linux kernel developers and others. After nearly two dozen releases already, Drgn v0.1 was released this week as another big step forward for this open-source debugger...

The Podman team and the Fedora Quality Assurance team are organizing a Test Week from Friday, February 27 through Friday, March 6, 2026. This is your chance to get an early look at the latest improvements coming to Podman and see how they perform on your machine. What is Podman? For those new to the […]