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You wake up one morning to find your home server unresponsive, after some investigation you discover a failed NVMe drive taking your self-hosted services and data with it. Perhaps you’re a system administrator and a workstation’s SSD has been silently accumulating errors for months, and now a user is reporting corrupted files. Drive failures are […]
The Meta Superintelligence Labs announced this morning they have released Muse Glimmer as their next large language model featuring 30 billion parameters for always-on local agent workflows. Muse Glimmer features open-source model weights under an Apache 2.0 license...
9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for August 9th 2026, brings news about Mesa 26.2, FFmpeg 9.0, Rhythmbox 3.5, NVIDIA 610.57.04, KDE Plasma 6.7.4, Tails 7.10.1, GStreamer 1.28.6, GNOME 50.4, Calibre 9.13, DietPi 10.6, CachyOS August release, DebConf27, and more.
A minor performance optimization is on the way to the Linux kernel for roughly two decade old CPUs that have SSE but lack SSE2. Among those CPUs to benefit are the AMD Athlon XP series, some early Sempron models, and some Intel Celeron and Pentium III models...
In addition to Linux 7.3 slated to receive initial Apple M3 Pro / Max / Ultra SoC support, this next version of the Linux kernel is also set to bring some minor power savings for the Apple M1 series that remains the best supported Apple Silicon on Linux...
On top of various other Linux drivers for old hardware being removed due to noise generated by AI/LLM coding agents, there are more examples coming with Linux 7.3 as some old Silicon Graphics (SGI) drivers are being removed from the mainline Linux kernel over security concerns...
The GNOME Disks utility has finally been ported to GTK4 and LibAdwaita for a modern user experience, along with plenty of new features and enhancements.
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) users are now receiving the Linux 7.0 kernel upgrade from Ubuntu 26.04 LTS (Resolute Raccoon) ahead of the Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS point release.
The DebConf27 Debian conference will be held from September 5th to September 11th, 2027, in Asahikawa, Hokkaido, Japan. Here’s how to attend and what you need to know.
The 7.2-rc7 kernel prepatch is out for testing. It is still bigger than Linus would like, but he said nonetheless: "I don't currently see any value in delaying the 7.2 release, so I would expect that to happen next weekend unless something really bad pops up."
Catch up on the latest Linux news: CachyOS August 2026, DietPi 10.6, KDE Plasma 6.7.4, IceWM 4.1, Wine 11.15, Mesa 26.2, KDE Linux nears Beta, and more.
I've used Red Hat, Arch, Ubuntu, and Fedora but this is the one Linux Distro I'll always recommend to new users.
The 7.1.8, 6.18.44, 6.12.103, and 6.6.151 stable kernels have been released; each contains a fair number of important fixes.
The CachyOS ISO snapshot for August 2026 is now available for download with Linux 6.18 LTS and Linux 7.1 kernels, 1KDE Plasma 6.7.4, an improved installer, and more.
CachyOS rolls out its August 2026 ISO with a Zig-based Shelly package manager, revamped update tooling, and experimental Server Edition profiles.
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