Earlier this month I wrote about a patch series posted to the Linux kernel mailing list that addressed a lot of "hideous code" to make Linux kernel builds faster. A number of single-threaded bottlenecks were tracked down and fixed within the Linux kernel thanks to the assistance of AI. A second revision of those patches hit the mailing list this morning and there is hope they could be upstreamed for Linux 7.4...
Being merged after yesterday's Linux 7.3-rc3 release was an important fix for addressing a silent, user-space data loss bug that has existed in the kernel the past three years...
9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for September 13th, 2026, brings news about Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS, NVIDIA 615, KDE Plasma 6.7.5, Debian 13.7, GIMP 3.2.6, Calamares 3.4.3, KDE Frameworks 6.30, MocaccinoOS 26.09, KDE Plasma 6.8 beta, Agama 24, KaOS Linux 2026.09, DietPi 10.7, Shotwell 0.33, Shelly 3.1.4, and more.
Catch up on the latest Linux news: Debian 13.7, Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS, KaOS 2026.09, COSMIC Desktop 1.8, Noctalia 5.1, Jellyfin 12.0, Linux Mint is getting new apps, and more.
Shelly 3.1.4 graphical package manager for Arch Linux distributions is now available for download with improvements to the native builder, AppImage, Flatpak, and tray support.
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The 7.3-rc3 kernel prepatch is out for testing. Linus said: "Another fairly large rc release, and again one with a bigger filesystem footprint that we usually see."
Shotwell 33 is out, the first stable version of the photo manager for GNOME desktops to use GTK4. A GTK4 port of Shotwell has been in the works since 2025. It’s the first big toolkit port the image tool has since since it migrated to GTK3 in 2012 (v0.12.0). Yet despite the leap, the user-facing result is just a plain port; it’s not as visually transformative as gThumb’s GTK4/libadwaita port (which looks like an entirely new app) A more substantive visual revamp using GTK4/libadwaita may follow. For now, Shotwell 33 looks like Shotwell v32 – the benefit is more in […]
Out today is the third weekly release candidate of Linux 7.3 as this next kernel version works its way toward a stable release in the second half of October...
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