The SparkyLinux development team unveiled SparkyOS as a modern, portable, rolling release distribution based on Arch Linux and designed to run directly from a USB flash drive.

SparkyOS 2026.10 launches as a portable, Arch-based Linux distro featuring Xfce, Linux kernel 7.2.11, and persistent USB storage.

For those running a Star Labs StarFighter Ultra or other Intel Core Ultra Arrow Lake laptop, the recent Ubuntu 26.10 release is providing some nice performance gains over the Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release. Here is a look at how Ubuntu 26.04 LTS vs. Ubuntu 26.10 performs with the Intel Core Ultra 9 285H over dozens of different benchmarks.

KDE Plasma 6.8.1 is out with KWin stability fixes, improved Windows RDP compatibility, and fixes for Discover, Spectacle, and Wayland.

Added to the Linux kernel last year was Coredump support via Unix domain sockets as an alternative to the pipe-based Coredumps. With code now merged for Linux 7.4, the core dumps via sockets has the potential of being much smaller thanks to sparse support. In extreme cases they can be 1% of the size without sparse support...

Linux hardware vendor System76 released COSMIC 1.11 today as the latest stable version of this Rust-based desktop environment for modern GNU/Linux distributions.

An experimental Wine port brings Windows app and gaming support to OpenBSD, with 64-bit applications and even The Witcher 3 running successfully.

Among the many VFS pull requests merged as the initial material for the in-development Linux 7.4, the VFS IOmap pull introduced lazy bounce buffering for checksummed reads. This improvement is benefiting checksumming on XFS with improved performance and lower resource usage...

OpenBSD 8.0 is out with support for 64-vCPU virtual machines, Intel Arc graphics, ARM64 hibernation, and updated DRM drivers.

Intel has long worked on tuning their oneDNN neural network library for their hardware and saw its adoption by PyTorch and other AI frameworks. AMD has maintained ZenDNN as their downstream fork that is oneDNN API compatible while catering to their Zen processor designs. As an interesting twist, AMD and Intel jointly announced today they will be collaborating around oneDNN for PyTorch and pushing the AMD Zen improvements into oneDNN...

In this article, you will learn how to install VSCode on your preferred Linux system, including the top extensions recommended by me.

Miguel Ojeda sent out his pull request of the new Rust kernel code slated for introduction in Linux 7.4. It's a big one this round due to updating the Zerocopy vendored library plus updating other Rust crates for the kernel...

SpacemiT’s V100 is a server-class RISC-V processor developed with the XiangShan team, featuring 46 CPU cores, DDR5-4800 memory support, and PCIe 5.0 connectivity. Supporting up to 92 cores in dual-socket configurations, the chip is claimed to be the first to fully comply with the RISC-V Server Specification, enabling compatibility with mainstream Linux distributions. The V100 […]

The Omarchy Linux distribution to date has been centered on x86_64 support for this Arch Linux distribution. Released today was Omarchy 4.5-RC1 and with this new version there is initial AArch64 support centered around Snapdragon X and NVIDIA N1X laptop support...

The KDE Project released KDE Plasma 6.8.1 today as the first maintenance update to the latest KDE Plasma 6.8 desktop environment series with an initial batch of bug fixes.

For decades, the Linux virtual console has relied on the kernel fbcon driver, to draw the framebuffer, to manage fonts, and to handle keyboard layout. Starting with Fedora 45, we’re switching to a userspace utility called kmscon. Depending on your usage of virtual console, this may impact your workflow. If you’re not a developer or […]

GNU Linux-libre 7.3 is now available following yesterday's Linux 7.3 release. The GNU Linux-libre downstream continues stripping out driver/hardware support where dependent upon firmware blobs or other proprietary elements deemed out of line with free software ideals...

LXD 6.10 LTS is out with new image registries, improved disaster recovery, enhanced clustering, and long-term support through 2031.

Following the interesting SpacemiT K3 RVA23 RISC-V SoC, SpacemiT today announced the V100 server-class RISC-V processor...

The development team behind MocaccinoOS, a Gentoo-based, independent distribution for desktops, released MocaccinoOS 26.10 today as the latest stable ISO snapshot with updated components.

AMD GAIA 0.25 is out this week as the latest feature release for this open-source project that began as "Generative AI Is Awesome" and is now going on a tag line of "AMD's open-source agent factory" in building/using local AI agents on AMD Ryzen AI hardware...

In this video, I show how to disable the automatic on-screen keyboard on the KDE Plasma SDDM login screen.

Linux 7.3 introduces the FailFS filesystem, an overhauled CPU scheduler, OverlayFS improvements, and expanded Rust and hardware support.

Last week I wrote about Linus Torvalds leveraging AI to come up with a hefty Linux kernel improvement using Claude Code. The code is for reading from the page cache without folio references to help workloads of small reads from a single file across many CPU threads. Meta engineer Kiryl Shutsemau has taken that code and reworked it and showing extremely promising performance results...

Following below is review/verification approach to Thin XFS LVs provisioning and Libvirt hooks proposed by Google AI. In case of openSUSE Tumbleweed YaST Installer requires minimal manual CLI intervention due to GUI interface enables thin pools and thin LVs . In case Debian 14 network installation you have an option to associate vg_debian group with physical volume. All command stack is supposed to be executed manually upon instance reboot.

The 314th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending October 18th, 2026, keeping you updated on the most important developments in the Linux world.

Omarchy 4.0.5 released this weeekend as the newest version of this Arch Linux based distribution built around the Hyprland desktop. Omarchy 4.0.5 pulls in the latest Linux 7.2 stable kernel with BORE scheduler, updates against the Qt 6.12 toolkit, and a variety of smaller improvements...

Gentoo is preparing to drop Chromium as maintaining the source-built browser becomes increasingly difficult. Google Chrome and Flatpak remain alternatives.

Adafruit has previewed Floppsy Rev D, an RP2350-based floppy disk archiver and emulator designed to preserve and access legacy computer storage media. The standalone device supports floppy drives used with PCs and Apple Disk II systems, offering disk imaging, flux-level data capture, and emulation capabilities alongside a touchscreen interface and removable storage. The board uses […]

The Linux 7.3 kernel is out today for an on-time release of this next stable kernel version...