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As an initiative from NVIDIA for improving the Linux ecosystem outside the world of AI, they have been developing Display-Config-Server as a new solution to help enhance the Linux capabilities for complex display walls...

Git 2.56 has been released today as the latest stable update to this free and open-source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.

Qualcomm hiring one of Red Hat's top x86_64 Linux laptop experts last year, Hans de Goede, is indeed having a positive benefit on enhancing the Fedora Linux support for Qualcomm Snapdragon X powered hardware...

With the release of Firefox 157 rolling out to all supported platforms, Mozilla promoted the next major release, Firefox 158, to the beta channel for public testing, so it’s time to take a look at the new features and improvements.

The latest Git release brings a dedicated resolved-files staging mode, new maintenance commands, and substantial scalability improvements.

Shiva is entering development for Mesa Vulkan drivers as a new framework akin to Gallium3D but for Vulkan drivers rather than OpenGL. It's going to be some time before the work will come to fruition but should hopefully lead to more code sharing and a better Mesa Vulkan driver development experience in the future...

Emmabuntüs Debian Edition 6 1.03 has been released today as the third point release in the latest Emmabuntüs Debian Edition 6 series of this Debian-based distribution designed to facilitate the reconditioning of old computers.

Discover in this article Thorium, a high-speed browser based on the Chromium engine, offering optimized performance, along with installation and additional tips.

Today, Mozilla has published the final builds of the Firefox 157 open-source web browser ahead of its official unveiling on September 29th, 2026, so it’s time to take a look at the new features and improvements.

The Dutch government is building DAWO, a NixOS based replacement for Windows and Office, following similar moves already underway in France and Denmark.

Now queued up for introduction in the Linux 7.4 merge window later in October is the steal governor driver for preferred CPUs and steal-driven vCPU backoff for today's virtualized world...

F-Droid 2.0 brings a redesigned Android app store experience with a new UI, improved search and filtering, background updates, and smoother app installs.

Recently I was provided remote access to a NVIDIA Vera server with the dual socket Vera CPU Superchip providing 176 Olympus cores plus with NVIDIA's Spatial Multithreading "SMT" implementation providing 352 total threads. With this benchmarking was free rein for testing, including CPU power and frequency monitoring. Over the next few weeks will be a number of articles looking at different areas of NVIDIA Vera performance. One of the areas I was most eager to test was looking at Vera's Spatial Multithreading. Here is a first look at the impact of NVIDIA Vera SMT.

The 311th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending September 27th, 2026, keeping you updated on the most important developments in the Linux world.

Apprise 2.0 arrives with notification escalation, smarter retries, parallel delivery, native async support, and major internal changes.

EWatch, developed by Ewan Wills, is a programmable ESP32-S3 smartwatch with a 1.69-inch color touchscreen, 350mAh battery, vibration feedback and USB-C connectivity. The platform is offered as a bare PCB, self-assembly kit or complete watch, following more than five years of development. The EWatch hardware is built around the ESP32-S3, with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Low […]

OpenShot 4.0.1 is now available for download as the first maintenance update to the latest OpenShot 4.0 series of this open-source, free, and cross-platform video editing software written in Qt.

Klassik is a modern KDE Plasma 6 project recreating the look and feel of KDE 3 while supporting Wayland and fractional scaling.

In working toward the stable Linux 7.3 kernel release hopefully on 18 October, out today is Linux 7.3-rc5 as the newest weekly test candidate...

In this article, you'll learn about the proc file system (short for "procfs", referring to the "/proc" directory) and how it's useful to check the running processes related information on Linux.