The PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is pleased to announce the release of the April 2026 issue.

While having the new System76 Thelio Mira in the lab I ran some benchmarks of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS vs. 26.04 development on that AMD Ryzen 9000 series powered desktop. Those results were interesting for how the Ubuntu performance has changed over the past two years, but even if drilling down to just the past six months there have been some nice gains on the AMD Zen 5 desktop. In this article is a look at how Ubuntu 26.04 in its near-final state is performing relative to Ubuntu 25.10 with this Ryzen 9 9950X desktop.

When models can audit firmware and legacy binaries at scale, hiding vulnerabilities stops working. Open, patchable code becomes a core security requirement.

Hitting the mailing list today are patches providing initial support for AMD's next-gen NPU "AIE4" platform, complete with SR-IOV support...

GIMP 3.2.2 open-source image editor is now available for download with various improvements, bug fixes, and UI/UX updates.

Rspamd 4.0 is out today as a big update to this powerful open-source spam filtering system...

After 12 years leading Ubuntu MATE, its founder says it’s time to hand the reins to new maintainers.

For those wanting to make use of Linux GPU compute software under Windows 11 by way of Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2), AMD's ROCDXG "librocdxg" library is now deemed production-ready for delivering open-source ROCm compatibility with WSL...

Elive 3.8.50 LTS has been released today for this nostalgic, yet fancy GNU/Linux distribution based on Debian and featuring the lightweight and modern Enlightenment graphical environment.

Principle of Argument doesn't provide any information about values of polynomial zeros inside predefined circle as well as locations of these zeros on complex plane. Classic math just says how many polynomial zeros we get inside given circle and nothing else. Library cxroots imported in python module provides object Circle having method roots to achieve the goal to get actual zeros values.

Archinstall 4.0 introduces a modern textual UI, replacing the curses interface to enhance usability and accessibility in the Arch Linux installer.

Here's something that wasn't on my bingo card for this year of the "MKISS" driver for ham radio being modernized in 2026 as opposed to just being dropped. The MKISS code hasn't seen much driver activity since the original Git import of the Linux kernel more than twenty years ago...

Yes, it’s that time of the year when the GNOME developers are planning for the next major release of this popular desktop environment for Linux-based OSes, GNOME 51, due out on September 16th, 2026.

Catch up on the latest Linux news: Kali 2026.1, GIMP 3.2.2, Firefox 149, NVIDIA 595.58, Fish SHell 4.6, Krita 6.0, Canonical plans controversial GRUB changes, and more.

It's fairly rare for the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver to hit OpenGL rendering game bugs these days as besides more games going opting for Vulkan API use, RadeonSI is rather robust and very mature at this stage. Recently though a Linux gamer that upgraded to a Radeon RX 9070 XT RDNA4 graphics card noticed that the open-source EDuke32 Duke Nukem 3D build and its derivatives were failing to render properly with the RadeonSI driver...

Krita 6.0 open-source digital painting app is now available for download with Wayland color management support, Qt 6 port, and more. Here’s what’s new!

Celluloid 0.30 video player fixes Blu-ray detection, improves file chooser behavior, and updates UI elements, including the shortcuts dialog.

A compact system from ZUIKI based on a K3 RISC-V processor has appeared on the Japanese crowdfunding platform Kibidango. The Vividnode Mobile AI is presented as a small form-factor system for local inference and development. The system is based on an 8-core RISC-V processor (K3 platform) paired with an AI engine rated at up to […]

The 285th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending March 29th, 2026, keeping you updated on the most important developments in the Linux world.

Linux 7.0-rc6 was just released in quickly working toward the stable Linux 7.0 release in mid-April. This was another busy week with lots of bug fixes...

Ahead of the Linux 7.0-rc6 kernel due to be released later today, quite a number of EXT4 file-system fixes were sent out this morning...

Incus 6.23 arrives as the final 6.x release before 7.0 LTS, bringing security fixes, new features, and improved VM and storage capabilities.

Fish Shell 4.6 updates emoji width handling, enhances prompt customization, and improves compatibility with Bash-style piping.

It was just two weeks ago that GIMP 3.2 released, one year after the big GIMP 3.0 debut. Out today is GIMP 3.2.2 with various bug fixes, plug-in / file format handling updates, and some minor UI/UX work...

Arch-based SystemRescue 13 updates to Linux kernel 6.18, enhances HiDPI support, and upgrades core tools such as GParted and bcachefs.

Last year LLVM began landing their Distributed ThinLTO "DTLTO" support as an enhancement to their ThinLTO approach for link-time optimizations. An improvement merged this week to LLVM addresses a performance bottleneck discovered when adding files to the link...

KaOS Linux 2026.03 has been released today as the ISO snapshot for March 2026 of this independent Linux distro using Arch Linux’s pacman package manager.

MX Linux opposes age verification rules, citing concerns about privacy and the impact on open source development.

Pine64 has published a community update following FOSDEM 2026, outlining recent development activity, hardware demonstrations, and production challenges affecting its device lineup. The update highlights progress on PineNote and PineTab2 software, early work on PineTime Pro, and the impact of the ongoing DRAM shortage on several products. The FOSDEM 2026 event provided an opportunity for […]

This guide covers everything relevant to Ubuntu 26.04 Server: what’s new, whether you should upgrade, how to upgrade, and how to do a fresh install.