F is for Free, FSF, and fat chance The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has rattled a saber at Anthropic over the use of its materials in training the AI vendor's models.…

The 283rd installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending March 15th, 2026, keeping you updated on the most important developments in the Linux world.

AMYboard is a compact DIY music synthesizer board designed for integration into custom music projects or installation as a Eurorack-compatible 10HP module. The board is powered by an ESP32-S3 module and runs the open-source AMY synthesizer engine, which supports multiple synthesis techniques including virtual analog, FM, wavetable, and sample playback. The system is built around […]

GNOME OS as the Linux-based OSTree-using distribution that serves as the leading-edge, reference platform of GNOME desktop development is now using KMSCON by default...

SuperTux 0.7.0 is finally here as a hefty new update for this open-source, free, and cross-platform classic 2D jump’n run sidescroller game in the style of the Super Mario games.

We are down to about one month to go until the Linux 7.0 stable release and out today is Linux 7.0-rc4...

Kent Overstreet today released Bcachefs 1.37 as the newest feature release to this out-of-tree file-system driver and user-space tooling for this next-gen, copy-on-write file-system...

Join Brandon Vigliarolo, Tobias Mann, and Avram Piltch to discuss our predictions for this week's GTC Kettle It's The Most Wonderful Time of the Year - if you're an AI aficionado, that is, as chip giant Nvidia, now the most valuable company in the world, is kicking off its GPU Technology Conference (GTC) on Monday.…

Catch up on the latest Linux news: Debian 13.4, EndeavourOS Titan, Fedora 44 Beta, GIMP 3.2, OBS Studio 32.1, TrueNAS deprecates public build repository, APTUI is a modern TUI for Debian’s APT, and more.

SparkyLinux 2026.03 has been released, featuring updated Debian Testing packages, Linux kernel 6.19, and refreshed rolling ISO images.

AppGrid is a new launcher applet for KDE Plasma 6 that introduces a fullscreen grid-style application menu inspired by macOS Launchpad and COSMIC.

SuperTux 0.7 officially released overnight for this nostalgic open-source game now seeing its first new release since December 2021. SuperTux 0.7 brings many significant improvements for this open-source game inspired by Super Mario...

KDE developers are preparing Plasma 6.7, introducing a press-and-hold typing feature, enhanced widgets, and support for installing sound themes.

Google's Android LLVM toolchain team shared publicly this week that they have begun making use of AutoFDO for automatic feedback directed optimizations of their Linux kernel build used by Android...

The KDE project has announced KIO S3, which provides direct access to Amazon S3 and S3-compatible storage within KDE applications through the KIO framework.

In this article, you will learn the difference between the logname and whoami commands, the usage of the logname command, and how to use it in shell scripts.

An open-source, independently developed Linux kernel module called GreenBoost aims to augment the dedicated video memory on NVIDIA discrete GPUs with system memory and NVMe storage. The intent here with GreenBoost is a CUDA caching layer to more easily run larger AI models for LLMs that otherwise won't fit solely in your graphics card's dedicated vRAM...

The GIMP project released GIMP 3.2 today as a major update of this open-source, free, and cross-platform image editing software for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows.

Discover a step-by-step guide to enable automatic login on Ubuntu and other distros with gdm3, LightDM, and SDDM dispay managers.

Just under one year since the long-awaited GIMP 3.0 release, GIMP 3.2 is out today as the first feature release building off the GIMP 3.0 foundation...

OpenRazer 3.12 was just released today as the newest update to these independently-maintained, open-source drivers for Razer devices on Linux. Paired with the likes of the Polychromatic GUI, OpenRazer allows for a pleasant experience for the Razer gaming peripherals under Linux...

The Debian Project announced today the general availability of Debian 13.4 as the fourth update to the latest Debian GNU/Linux 13 “Trixie” operating system series.

Debian 13 "Trixie" receives its fourth refresh (13.4), featuring 111 bug fixes and 67 security updates. Here's more on that.

This week I tried out the current Ubuntu 26.04 development state on the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite with the Acer Swift 14 AI laptop I have been using for my X Elite benchmarks over the past year. Unfortunately, it wasn't a smooth experience with new issues encountered for this Windows On ARM laptop...

TrueNAS details its long-term direction, emphasizing the free Community Edition and introducing TrueNAS Connect as a bridge to enterprise features.

After going through five rounds of review under a Request For Comments (RFC) flag, today the latest round of Kernel API Specification Framework patches were sent out with the RFC flag removed...

KDE announced the release of Marknote 1.5, the WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) note-taking application for the Linux desktop, which lets you create, edit, and organize rich text notes.

Krita developers outline their 2026 roadmap, focusing on a mobile-friendly interface, faster performance, improved color management, and a potential new file format.

Earlier this month were various Linux 7.0 file-system benchmarks showing how XFS is leading the race in the overall upstream Linux file-system performance on this forthcoming kernel. Stemming from that testing some premium supporters requested a fresh look at the historical performance of XFS as well as EXT4. So today's article is a look at how XFS and EXT4 have performed on every kernel release going back to Linux 6.12 LTS.

Someone, somewhere, ticked a box on a build farm. The wait is over Chrome is finally coming to ARM64 Linux devices, years after it turned up on macOS and Windows on Arm.…