Say goodbye to the public thinking you’re a creep next time you take a desktop screenshot on Ubuntu – GNOME 51 has changed the sound effect that plays when you do. For a while now, when you screen grab your desktop or an app window, the accompanying sound effect is a familiar camera shutter, like the one when you take a photo on a smartphone. Cute in the privacy of your own home, but less cute in a public setting like a café. Why? Because it can sound rather creepy, as one bug report from 2024 laid bare: a UI/UX […]
GNU Wget 2.3 open-source program for retrieving content from web servers is now available for download with various improvements and fixes. Here’s what’s new!
With the in-development Linux 7.3 kernel showing some nice performance improvements over Linux 7.2 in different areas, Linux 7.2 also having brought some nice gains especially for I/O, and the preceding kernels also having seen some nice performance optimizations this year, I wanted to measure how far the Linux kernel performance has evolved so far in 2026. Today's article is looking at that with how the Linux kernel performance has evolved since the Linux 6.18 LTS kernel at the end of 2025 to the current Linux 7.3 kernel.
Amazon released the Kindle 4 back in 2011 with a 6-inch E-ink display, 2GB internal storage, and running a modified version of Linux. In the years since the Amazon Kindle 4 has been jail-broken and there are some customized Linux distributions with a patched kernel to run on the Kindle 4. Now in 2026 there are patches on the Linux kernel mailing list looking to mainline support for that fifteen year old e-reader device...
Here's some very intriguing work taking place by a Google engineer... With the hyperscalers and other cloud providers pushing for zero-downtime, a set of experimental patches for "Orphaned VMs" allow for the virtual machines to continue to run while the host kernel is offline for security updates or rebooting with the Live Update Orchestrator. The experimental patches and request for feedback from other Linux kernel stakeholders was sent out this weekend on Orphaned VMs...
GNU Wget2 is up to version 2.3 today with the first new release of 2026 for this popular command-line tool for non-interactive file downloading and being able to easily fetch website contents...
9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for September 20th, 2026, brings news about GNOME 51, Firefox 156, Thunderbird 156, Fedora 45 Beta, Calibre 9.15, MX Linux 25.3, PipeWire 1.6.9, Clonezilla Live 3.3.3-37, HPLIP 3.26.6, Ubuntu 26.10 Snapshot 4, VirtualBox 7.2.18, new Raspberry Pi OS release, DXVK 3.1.1, and more.
The AMD BC-250 as the product designed at the time for cryptocurrency mining and based on a cut-down Sony PlayStation 5 APU continues having an interesting second-life being re-tasked for Linux use from general purpose workloads to AI. Sent out this weekend were the latest Linux kernel patches for continuing to enable more of the BC-250...
The Igalia Linux/open-source consulting firm based out of A Coruña, Spain is celebrating twenty five years of contributions to upstream open-soure projects...
A big patch series sent out this weekend for the Linux kernel's perf subsystem removes the embedded Python and Perl scripting in favor of standalone Python scripts with a new Python perf module. This perf module for Python written in C is much faster than the status quo...
Garuda Linux devs announced the availability for public testing of Dr460nized and Mokka editions that let you install a NixOS-based Garuda Linux system.
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