Linus Torvalds just released the second weekly release candidate of Linux 7.4 with some notable bug fixes and other changes routed in past the merge window. It's another big one in the AI era…

A new version of Extension Manager, the desktop app that makes it easier to browse, install and manage GNOME Shell extension without a web browser, has been released. Extension Manager 0.7.0 includes a number of welcome improvements, new features and restores a few nifty bits that had stopped working in earlier versions. With the new update, you can now find and open installed extension…

CachyOS adds official WSL support, allowing Windows users to run the Arch-based Linux distribution with optimized packages.

The 317th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending November 8th, 2026, keeping you updated on the most important developments in the Linux world.

Even before the Linux v7.4 merge window was over, there were already two pull requests of drm-misc-next material targeting for what will be Linux 7.5. This week already saw the third drm-misc-next pull request of more feature patches targeting this next kernel version…

Domicile lets you build your desktop in React and CSS, with Manganese being included as the ready-made tiling option.

Crowd Supply has launched a campaign for LocalDot, an open-hardware board developed by AAElectronics that converts third-generation Amazon Echo Dots into Home Assistant voice devices. The 83 × 37mm PCB uses an ESP32-S3 and ESP32-P4 for connectivity and audio processing while retaining the original microphones, speaker, buttons, and LEDs. The ESP32-S3 handles Wi-Fi connectivity and…

Carl Richell, founder and CEO of US-based Linux hardware vendor System76, teased today an upcoming feature of the Rust-based COSMIC desktop environment, called COSMIC Theme Constellations.

TUXEDO OS nears completion of its transition from Ubuntu to Debian, with the new Debian-based edition entering the final stage of beta testing.

While FreeBSD has been working to improve its desktop and laptop experience, that work isn't yet shipping in released form for the OS installer and other ongoing efforts. Now there's a new desktop FreeBSD distribution on the scene with HyprBSD providing a Wayland-based desktop experience and with the Linux binary compatibility layer even an easy route to gaming with Steam…

Given the recent Linux 7.3 upstream kernel release, the Asahi Linux project published a new status report to outline recent code they have upstreamed to the mainline kernel as well as other efforts taking shape in their downstream codebase…

Lennart Poettering, Michael Vogt, and Joaquim Rocha have put together a detailed overview of what the Amutable Operating System (AOS) and associated infrastructure will look like. The image-based OS approach enables us to enforce some very strict but powerful security properties, which elevate the security posture of the system substantially above traditional Linux systems. Specifically, let's…

System76 previews COSMIC Theme Constellations, an upcoming feature offering complete desktop themes with matching wallpapers, icons, fonts, and colors.

systemd developers explain why Rust is welcome in standalone components but cannot yet be used in core shared libraries.

Crowd Supply has launched a campaign for LocalDot, an open-hardware board developed by AAElectronics that converts third-generation Amazon Echo Dots into Home Assistant voice devices. The 83 × 37mm PCB uses an ESP32-S3 and ESP32-P4 for connectivity and audio processing while retaining the original microphones, speaker, buttons, and LEDs. The ESP32-S3 handles Wi-Fi connectivity and…

Kmorph aims to provide reboot-less kernel crash recovery for Linux systems and can yield as little as \~2 second downtime for recovering the Nginx web server or other important services in the case of a kernel crash…

SparkFun today launched two ESP32-P4-based IoT RedBoards, offering either dual-band Wi-Fi 6 through an ESP32-C5 companion or wired Ethernet with Power over Ethernet. Both boards feature dual-core RISC-V processing, 32MB PSRAM, 16MB flash, MIPI camera and display connectors, and Arduino-style expansion headers for embedded and HMI applications. The boards use the ESP32-P4NRW32X, which integrates…

Ubuntu Summit 26.10: Less than a week away! Here in London, the long summer has stepped aside for cooler nights and damp, misty mornings. The trees are turning amber and the sunlight is low on the horizon, which can only mean one thing: the next Ubuntu Summit is just around the corner. In fact, it’s…

What is Agama's SSH Injection Advantage: By injecting public key into Agama during the network deployment phase, the very first boot of the newly installed operating system will have the OpenSSH daemon (sshd) active and your authorized keys populated.This gives you a guaranteed SSH hook into the target host. You don't have to look at the unreadable HDMI screen to execute the configuration script below you can run it smoothly from a remote machine, cleanly stripping away the problematic SDDM prompt and tailoring the Wayland desktop profile securely.

An interesting technical detail I noticed today from the latest AMD Linux activity is that Zen 6 processors apparently are featuring a RISC-V based Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) where in the past it was an ARM-based core…