The Rhino Linux team released Rhino Linux 2026.1 today as the latest stable ISO snapshot of this Ubuntu-based distribution, offering a rolling-release model on top of the Xfce desktop environment.

Discover the Mercury browser, a Firefox variant with specialized customization and modification by the developer to provide an exceptional experience.

MX Linux 25.2 is now available with Linux 7.0 on the AHS edition, Debian 13.5 base updates, and refreshed ISO images.

An exciting Intel innovation expected to be added for the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel is introducing the new USB4STREAM protocol for USB4/Thunderbolt as a "super simple" way to "basically just transfer raw packets from one host to another". This can be useful for quickly backing up a system from one host to another, sharing of web cameras or other peripherals across systems, or other environments where not having networking or wanting to avoid the traditional Linux networking stack...

Earlier announced in March with the unveiling of the ESP32-S31 SoC, Espressif has now launched the ESP32-S31-Korvo-1 multimedia development board, while documentation additionally references the ESP32-S31-Function-CoreBoard-1 connectivity-oriented board. Both platforms are built around the ESP32-S31-WROOM-3 module and target multimedia, audio, display, and connected IoT applications. The ESP32-S31 is Espressif’s latest dual-core RISC-V SoC featuring Wi-Fi […]

The 293rd installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending May 24th, 2026, keeping you updated on the most important developments in the Linux world.

With Richard Stallman back on the road and FSF backing 46 community-focused LibreLocal meetups worldwide, the free software movement looks anything but finished.

Valkey 9.1 in-memory data store adds database-level ACLs, JSON logging, Lua modularization, TLS updates, and performance improvements.

In the road to releasing Linux 7.1 in June, out today is Linux 7.1-rc5 that continues coming on heavy with fixes...

The MX Linux team announced today the general availability for download of MX Linux 25.2 as the second update in the MX Linux 25 “Infinity” series of this Debian-based distribution featuring Xfce, KDE Plasma, and Fluxbox flavors.

Catch up on the latest Linux news: Rhino Linux 2026.1, Proxmox V? 9.2, Nitrux 6.1, Firefox 151, GNOME Commander 2.0, Microsoft Azure Linux 4, Linux Mint’s new screenshot tool, and more.

Argon40 has introduced two Industria PoE+ HATs for the Raspberry Pi 5, providing power and data through a single Ethernet cable using the IEEE 802.3af/at PoE+ standard. Both boards deliver up to 25W output, supplying 5V/5A for full operation. The standard Argon Industria PoE+ HAT focuses on single-cable power and network connectivity, while the Argon […]

With FreeBSD having worked on improving its laptop support over the past two years with some big changes and ongoing efforts for making a nice KDE desktop experience on FreeBSD, FreeBSD Foundation's Executive Director has been trying to daily drive FreeBSD on laptops...

Shelly developer Zoey Bauer released Shelly 2.3.1 today as a new stable update to this open-source graphical package manager for Arch Linux-based distributions that adds new features and improvements.

For those curious about the growing use of AI and coding agents within the Linux kernel, this week there was another large batch of new patches fixed that were generated or co-authored by agents like Claude Code and GitHub Copilot...

z386 is an open-source 80386-class FPGA CPU core that uses recovered Intel 386 microcode to run DOS and protected-mode software.

Multikernel Technologies Inc has been working on a multi-kernel architecture for the Linux kernel while in addition to that they have been developing KernelScript as a domain-specific language for carrying out Linux kernel customizations and app-specific optimizations...

While in the past decade or so Linux desktop/laptop users likely have little to complain about boot times and there hasn't been much emphasis around trying to make boot times even faster on the Linux desktop especially in an era where many systems are always-on and suspend/resume working more reliably these days, boot times are still an important factor in the embedded Linux world. Boot-Time Wizard is one of the new efforts aiming to help embedded Linux makers cut-down on their boot times...

Wild Linker 0.9 was released today as the latest version of this very fast linker for Linux systems that is written in the Rust programming language...

Firefox 152 open-source web browser is now available for public beta testing with new “Send to Mobile” options, HDR support on Windows, improved settings, and new features for web developers.