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Following the release of the Mozilla Firefox 157 web browser today, Mozilla also released the Mozilla Thunderbird 157 open-source email, chat, address book, news, and calendar client for all supported platforms.

Following the ROCm 10.0 release from late August, ROCm 10.1 is now available in continuing with the ROCm six week release cycle...

Today, September 29th, 2026, Canonical has (finally) opened the upgrade path for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) users to Ubuntu 26.04 LTS (Resolute Raccoon), so here’s how to upgrade your installation.

The open-source Auto-CPUFreq tool for active system monitoring and power optimizations is out with a new release for continuing to enhance battery life on Linux laptops...

The Linux CPU power optimization tool auto-cpufreq 3.2 brings new Intel HWP features, improved battery reporting, and Debian repository support.

When it comes to verifying a Linux distro, it can be tricky, and each distro has its own set of instructions. This tool gives a straight forward interface for ISO verification

As Nextcloud increasingly positions itself as a software platform, its new Academy aims to bring more developers into the fold.

Catch up on the latest Linux news: OpenMandriva ROME 26.09, Ubuntu 26.10 Beta, Nitrux 7.0, Firefox 157, Wine 11.19, Git 2.56, COSMIC stops accepting AI-generated PRs, and more.

Linux's Multi-Gen LRU "MGLRU" has already achieved nice performance gains for Linux in recent years by optimizing page reclaims and improves performance under memory pressure. The new MGLRU-FG patches aim to take things further...

After years without an official iOS client, Mozilla Thunderbird is now building a native app for iPhone and iPad with testing planned ahead.

We are nearing the cut-off of new Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem material for the upcoming Linux 7.4 cycle. AMD this week sent in another feature pull to DRM-Next that is moving over to mostly bug fixing but does contain the enablement of some new GPU intellectual property blocks for upcoming graphics hardware...

Kagi ends development of Orion Browser for Linux and Windows, with plans to open-source both versions and hand them over to the community.

Last month Fujitsu formally announced their MONAKA CPU as a 144 core Arm-based server processor geared for AI infrastructure. This comes after two years of seeing various Monaka patches to the GCC compiler and other open-source components. Now that MONAKA is announced, we are seeing more patches surface for the Linux kernel with this week seeing several workarounds for MONAKA CPU bugs...

Zig 0.17 advances the systems programming language with ELF linker work, build system changes, LLVM 22, glibc 2.44, and more.

Linus Torvalds just released Linux 7.3-rc7 as we work toward the stable Linux 7.3 kernel release in two weeks...

The 312th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending October 4th, 2026, keeping you updated on the most important developments in the Linux world.

This week was the surprising and unfortunate decision of Siemens shutting down the OpenRadioss project as the four year old open-source project started by Altair Engineering with their prominent Radioss finite element solver. Siemens didn't just end the project but they shutdown the GitHub repository that hosted the open-source code and removed other resources that had built around it. Fortunately, there's a new community fork of OpenRadioss as OpenCourant...

Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Lubuntu, Budgie and more. See how every official Ubuntu flavor compares, what sets each apart, and which one fits your PC.

Darktable 5.6.2 has been released today as the second point release to the latest Darktable 5.6 series of this open-source, free, and cross-platform raw image editor for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows.

Efinix announced this week the Sapphire RV64, a configurable 64-bit RISC-V soft SoC intended for embedded Linux, edge AI and other applications requiring more memory and processing capability than the company’s existing 32-bit Sapphire architecture. The processor can be implemented across Efinix Titanium and Topaz FPGAs, as well as Trion devices from the T20 upward. […]