Hot on the heels of Firefox 149, the Mozilla Thunderbird open-source email, news, chat, calendar, and addressbook client has been updated today to version 149 with various new features and bug fixes.

GNOME 48.10 is out as the last maintenance update in the GNOME 48 lifecycle, focusing on fixes across core components like Shell, GTK, and Mutter.

Days after Oracle celebrated their RHEL-based Oracle Linux distribution turning 20 years old, today they announced Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel 8.2 "UEK 8.2" as their alternative to the RHEL-clone kernel with Oracle Linux...

Cyber rights org retools for the days of AI and unrestrained government interview The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) on Tuesday appointed Nicole Ozer to succeed Cindy Cohn as the cyber rights group's executive director when Cohn departs this summer.…

While having the new System76 Thelio Mira desktop in the lab, I took the opportunity to run some benchmarks to see how Pop!_OS 24.04 is currently performing relative to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS for which it is based as well as looking ahead at how Ubuntu 26.04 LTS in its current near-final development form is looking on the same hardware.

Keep your hidden configuration files organized and backed up with GNU Stow and Git on any machine in minutes.

Radxa, in collaboration with DEEPX, has introduced the AICore DX-M1M, a compact AI acceleration module designed for edge inference workloads. The module uses the DeepX DX-M1M NPU and integrates through an M.2 interface for use in embedded and single-board computer platforms. The AICore DX-M1M follows Radxa’s earlier AICore DX-M1 module introduced in late 2025, which […]

Building off the NVIDIA 595.45.04 Linux beta driver that brought DRI3 v1.2 support and new Vulkan capabilities, the NVIDIA 595.58.03 Linux driver released this morning as the first stable Linux driver build in the R595 release branch...

Arm announced their first silicon product in history with today's AGI CPU. The Arm AGI CPU complements their existing IP offerings into a production-ready silicon product for AI data centers...

AMD and CIQ jointly announced today that AMD-optimized Rocky Linux builds are being worked on for this RHEL-derived operating system. The AMD-optimized Rocky Linux will focus on AI and HPC workloads and be nicely integrated with ROCm...

NVIDIA released today the stable version of the NVIDIA 595 graphics driver for GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris systems, introducing various new features and improvements.

Krita 6.0 debuted today as the Qt6 port of this digital painting program aligned with KDE/Qt development. Krita 6.0 also brings improved Wayland support while Krita 5.3 is being simultaneously released for running on the mature Qt5 toolkit...

Broader platform coverage lands, if developers can tolerate the rough edges AvaloniaUI has previewed MAUI support for Linux and WebAssembly browser applications — platforms Microsoft's own cross-platform .NET framework lacks — but low adoption and persistent bugs are likely to constrain uptake.…

The GTK 4.0 toolkit released in December 2020 while the GTK3 toolkit has continued to be maintained given a lot of software still relying on that older version. GTK 3.24.52 was released yesterday and with this version it's now shifting its release cadence to just one new update per year...

GrapheneOS, an open-source Android-based mobile OS, will not implement OS-level age verification, despite regulatory pressure.

The openSUSE project released the Agama 19 web-based installer for openSUSE Tumbleweed, Slowroll, and MicroOS operating systems, a major release that introduces several new features, small improvements, and bug fixes.

Longtime Linux desktop users will likely remember the glorious days of the XMMS music player inspired by Winamp. It's been about two decades since the last official release but thanks to AI there is now a modern port of the codebase to GTK4 and GStreamer/PipeWire...

Blivet GUI is an advanced graphical storage and partition management tool for Fedora, providing a user-friendly interface for the backend storage library used in the Anaconda installer. It acts as a more powerful alternative to GParted, allowing users to create, modify, delete, and encrypt storage devices (LVM, Btrfs, RAID) with a staged, "apply-on-demand" approach.

OpenShot 3.5 open-source video editor is now available for download with new default timeline, experimental ComfyUI integration, and more. Here’s what’s new!

With Intel's new Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" laptop SoCs, the Xe3-based Arc B390 graphics and much improved CPU performance capture much of the spotlight. One new capability with Panther Lake that isn't featured as much though is the new FRED capability with Flexible Return and Event Delivery. Today's Intel Panther Lake testing is looking at the very interesting performance impact of FRED on Linux.

Arch-based Garuda Linux clarifies its position on age verification and addresses concerns regarding systemd userdb and data management.

At Amsterdam’s SecurityCon Europe, the Linux Foundation’s OpenSSF adds new members and showcases progress on SLSA, Gemara, and AI security.

Mozilla has published today the final builds of the Firefox 149 open-source web browser ahead of its official unveiling on March 24th, 2026, so it’s time to take a look at the new features and improvements.

DietPi 10.2 adds Immich, Immich Machine Learning, uv, and RustDesk Client, alongside tool improvements, configuration updates, and multiple bug fixes.

M5Stack has added the M5StampS3 BAT, a compact embedded module based on the ESP32-S3 platform with integrated battery power management. The module is intended for IoT and low-power applications requiring wireless connectivity and flexible GPIO access in a small form factor. The module is built around the ESP32-S3-PICO-1-N8R8 system-in-package, featuring a dual-core Xtensa LX7 processor […]

The 284th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending March 22nd, 2026, keeping you updated on the most important developments in the Linux world.

Canonical releases MicroCloud 3.1, adding support for Cluster Manager to manage and monitor multiple clusters from one place.

GStreamer 1.30 has entered development for this popular open-source and cross-platform multimedia framework, with a first development milestone now available for public testing. Let’s take a look at the new features.

Obsolescence Guaranteed has introduced the PiDP-1, a hardware replica of the original 1960 PDP-1 computer, reimplemented using a Raspberry Pi for retro computing, gaming, and demoscene-style graphics programming. The kit recreates the front panel, switches, and interactive workflow of the original machine while running a software simulation on modern hardware. The system is part of […]

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