13+ hour, 25+ min ago   (252+ words) The 309th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending September 13th, 2026, keeping you updated on the most important developments in the Linux world. I want to thank everyone who sent us donations; your generosity is greatly appreciated. I…...

1+ day, 19+ hour ago   (342+ words) The Debian Project announced today the general availability of Debian 13.7 as the seventh update to the latest Debian GNU/Linux 13 “Trixie” operating system series. Coming two months after Debian 13.6, the Debian 13.7 release provides updated ISOs for users who want to…...

1+ day, 21+ hour ago   (1143+ words) Every Linux distro ships with a default desktop environment, but that default is rarely the best fit for the person actually using the computer. Some people want a taskbar and start menu that feels like Windows. Some want as little…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (365+ words) The KaOS Linux team has officially released KaOS Linux 2026.09 today as the first ISO snapshot of this independent distribution using Dinit as the default init system instead of systemd. As previously reported, the KaOS Linux devs have decided to move…...

2+ day, 17+ hour ago   (254+ words) The 32-year-old GNU Automake tool to help with the drudgery of endless strings of./configure, make, make install hell, yesterday announced its first new release in 15 months. The announcement came as an email from the project’s co-maintainer Kamila Szewczyk to…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago   (1709+ words) systemd runs the show on most Linux distributions you’ll bump into today. Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE, and Arch all default to it. Depending on who you ask, that’s either systemd solving real problems that the old init systems never fixed,…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (371+ words) Proving there are some aspects of Free Software that not only last forever, but are constantly being made new again, GNU Emacs is out with version 31.1. This is the first new release in about a year for Emacs, which is,…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (837+ words) Linus Torvalds spent the better part of a day chasing a bug that had been sitting in the Linux kernel for two years. The actual fix came down to one line of logic. Finding it took eighteen kernel boots, twenty…...

4+ week, 6+ hour ago   (299+ words) The 305th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending August 16th, 2026, keeping you updated on the most important developments in the Linux world. I want to thank everyone who sent us donations; your generosity is greatly appreciated. I…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (799+ words) Distro of the Week A new Linux distro to try out 52 times a year Following up our review of MX Linux last week, we didn’t want to go for another famous Linux distribution, which incidentally is on-brand for Distro of…...