The 288th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending April 19th, 2026, keeping you updated on the most important developments in the Linux world.

Fwupd developer Richard Hughes released fwupd 2.1.2 today as the latest stable version of this open-source project for updating and managing the firmware of various hardware on your Linux distribution.

With the Linux 7.1 merge window winding down ahead of the planned Linux 7.1-rc1 release on Sunday, I have begun testing out the Linux 7.1 Git state on various systems in my lab. So far Linux 7.1 appears to be looking good in the performance department with seeing a number of performance improvements in different areas but also a few possible regressions.

New LTS is here, with more tooling for GPGPU and AI workloadsUbuntu 26.04 "Resolute Raccoon," the latest LTS release from Canonical, arrives with GNOME 50, Linux kernel 7.0, and drops the Xorg option from Ubuntu Desktop while still running X11 applications through Xwayland.…

Linus Torvalds did it! He merged the pull request to rid the Linux kernel of the old Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) subsystem and various other old network drivers largely for PCMCIA era network adapters. This was the code suggested for removal given the recent influx of AI/LLM-generated bug reports against this dated code that likely has no active upstream users remaining...

Tails 7.7 adds alerts for outdated Secure Boot certificates before their June 2026 expiry, along with updates to Tor Browser and Thunderbird.

Last month Opera released the Opera GX gaming-focused web browser for Linux. It rolled out in RPM and Debian package format support while now for those interested is also available via Flatpak and Snap sandboxed app formats...

Discover a unique way of creating permanent bookmarks in VLC without creating and saving changes to the playlist, making the process more seamless.

Our weekly distro hopper took a look at the just released Ubuntu 26.04 ‘Resolute Raccoon,’ and finds that this latest from Canonical moves forward cautiously but resolutely.

Redcore Linux Hardened 2601 Vulpecula has been released, featuring Linux kernel 6.19, FFmpeg 8, and updates to the Sisyphus package manager.

The Fedora crew has bumped the launch more than once, yet the global, come?as?you?are virtual release party is going ahead right on schedule.

While the AMDGPU open-source driver has struggled with HDMI 2.1 support due to the HDMI Forum blocking open-source implementations, HDMI Fixed Rate Link (FRL) as a feature of the HDMI 2.1 specification is enjoying success now with the open-source Nouveau graphics driver on Linux for NVIDIA GPUs...

Omarchy 3.6 introduces Panther Lake kernel patches, persistent Hyprland toggles, and improved laptop display management.

OpenBLAS 0.3.33 is out today as the latest update to this vendor-neutral, optimized Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms "BLAS" library...

LeafKVM has entered crowdfunding on Crowd Supply following its earlier pre-launch coverage, introducing a revised hardware configuration while maintaining its focus as a compact, self-contained KVM-over-IP device. The system provides remote keyboard, video, and mouse access to computers, servers, and other HDMI sources without requiring software on the target machine. The updated design is now […]

Canonical announced last year that in collaboration with AMD they would be bringing the ROCm software libraries into the Ubuntu archive for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. The plan has been to ship AMD ROCm AI/ML and HPC libraries in the Ubuntu archive so it would be as easy as sudo apt install rocm for getting started with AMD's open-source GPU compute stack. With today being the Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release day, I decided to revisit the topic...

Ventoy 1.1.12 fixes Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS install failures, resolves VirtualBox UEFI display issues, and improves Windows and WinPE boot handling.

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, codenamed "Resolute Raccoon", is here. This releasecontinues Ubuntu's proud tradition of integrating the latest andgreatest open source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linuxdistribution. The team has been hard at work through this cycle, togetherwith the community and our partners, to introduce new features and fix bugs.

The Central Limit Theorem (CLT) states that if you take sufficiently large random samples from any population(regardless of its distribution), the distribution of the sample means will approximate a normal distribution (a bell curve). As sample size increases, this normal distribution becomes more accurate, centered around the true population mean.

Ubuntu maker Canonical released today Ubuntu 26.04 LTS (Resolute Raccoon) as the latest stable version of this popular distribution that features some of the latest GNU/Linux technologies.