Linux NewsKDE 4’s Air Theme Making a Comeback, Oxygen Gets Major Revamp for Plasma 6.7
The Oxygen and Air themes from the KDE 4 desktop environment are making a major comeback with the upcoming KDE Plasma 6.7 release.
Red Hat Launches RHEL Extended Life Cycle Premium With 14-Year Support
Red Hat has launched RHEL Extended Life Cycle Premium, a stand-alone subscription that extends major-version support to 14 years.
PeaZip 11.0 Released With Faster Archive Browsing
PeaZip 11.0 improves archive browsing speed, updates 7z/p7zip to 26.00, adds batch archive testing, and refines the file manager.
PeaZip 11.0 Archive Manager Speeds Up File Browsing and Enhances Bookmarks
PeaZip 11.0 open-source archive manager is now available for download with faster archive browsing, enhanced bookmarks, internal drag and drop, and other changes. Here’s what’s new!
Many MediaTek MT76 WiFi Driver Improvements Coming For Linux 7.1
Separate from the recently discussed work on MediaTek MT7927 "Filogic 380" support being worked on for the MT76 Linux driver (still undergoing review), a number of other MediaTek MT76 wireless driver improvements are queued up ahead of the Linux 7.1 merge window opening as soon as next week...
Google Proposes JSIR As A High-Level IR For JavaScript
Google engineers have been developing JSIR as a high-level intermediate representation (JSIR) for JavaScript that they are already using in production at the company code code analysis and transforming other code/bytecode to JavaScript as well as for deobfuscating JavaScript code...
Tiny Corp Begins Accepting Pre-Orders For Their $10M Exabox
Open-source friendly company Tiny Corp that is behind the Tinygrad MIT-licensed neural network framework and developing a "sovereign" AMD GPU driver stack with their Tinybox hardware offerings has their sights on shipping the Exabox next year. The Tiny Corp's Exabox is expected to retail for around $10M USD but offer immense AI compute power...
Kernel prepatch 7.0-rc7
Linus has released 7.0-rc7 for testing. "Things look set for a final release next weekend, but please keep testing. The Easter bunny is watching".
You can now enable Ubuntu Pro from the OS welcome wizard
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS makes it easier to enable Ubuntu Pro, Canonical’s opt-in (but free for home users) subscription that extends security update to more packages in the wider Ubuntu repos, straight after installation. An Enable Ubuntu Pro step has been added to the distro’s Welcome tool (package namegnome-initial-setup, with Ubuntu-specific modifications). This tool pops up to new users the first time they login after installing the OS. The usual post-install tweaks, like turning on location services, choosing to share system report and crash reports with developers (the ‘telemetry’ trigger word) and setting a UI accent colour, remain. But now the […]
9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: April 5th, 2026
9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for April 5th, 2026, brings news about GNOME 51 release schedule, Archinstall 4.0, KDE Plasma 6.7 new features, Coreboot 26.03, Netrunner 26, OBS Studio 32.1.1, Artix Linux 2026.04, AerynOS 2026.03, OpenVPN 2.7.1, GNOME 49.5, 4MLinux 51.0, Elive returns,and more.
Linuxiac Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 14, 2026 (Mar 24 – Apr 5)
Catch up on the latest Linux news: Netrunner 26, AerynOS, OpenSSH 10.3, Archinstall 4.0, Wine 11.6, Linux hits 5% on Steam, Debian addresses age verification, and more.
On Our Way to Independence: On Track to Meet April’s Funding Goal
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Arch Linux Makes nft the Default Backend for iptables
Arch Linux developers have announced that iptables now defaults to the nft backend, replacing the previous iptables-nft package name.
Linux 7.0-rc7 Released With Improved Docs For AI Agents, WiFi Driver Performance Fix
Timed for Easter this year is the seventh weekly release candidate for the Linux 7.0 kernel. If all goes well, Linux 7.0 stable will be out next week...
Zorin OS Says No to Mandatory Age Verification in Linux
Zorin OS says it has no plans to introduce mandatory age or ID verification into the Linux distribution.