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Last week was a statement by System76 regarding recent age verification laws in California and Colorado among other US states that could have a profound impact on Linux distributions and other open-source software. The Colorado legislation is especially pressing to System76 considering that is where they are based. Fortunately, they aren't taking this lightly and there is some hope that at least in Colorado open-source software could be excluded...

AlmaLinux users no longer have to juggle Nvidia workarounds: CUDA and GPU drivers are moving into the distro’s normal package workflow.

Canonical for a while has been developing Authd as an authentication service for external cloud-based identity providers. Authd was designed from the ground-up to provide secure management of identity and access for Ubuntu systems while only with next month's Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release is it actually hitting the universe archive...

AMD announced back at CES the Ryzen AI Embedded P100 series with initially the models up to six Zen 5 cores launching while the eight through twelve core models would be available later in H1. Today AMD formally announced those higher-tier Ryzen AI Embedded P100 series parts...

But questions remain over long-term commitment to clustering tech in open sourceAfter a couple of years of relative calm, the relationship between MariaDB and its open source foundation was ruffled in February, leaving observers with a few unanswered questions.…

The getent command is used to fetch entries from the administrative text files like passwd, group, hosts, services, etc., also known as databases.

Ghostty 1.3 terminal emulator arrives with scrollback search, native scrollbars, command notifications, improved Unicode rendering, and more.

Rust Coreutils 0.7 released on Sunday as a performance-focused update to this popular alternative to GNU Coreutils that is still striving for 100% compatibility against the GNU Test Suite...

Last week NVIDIA released the 595.45.04 beta Linux driver as their first public build in the R595 release branch. The NVIDIA R595 Linux driver is bringing a number of Vulkan driver improvements, HDR enhancements, DRI3 v1.2 support, and a variety of other improvements. Benchmarking the NVIDIA 595.45.04 Linux driver the past few days on GeForce RTX 50 "Blackwell" have been showing some nice incremental performance improvements over the current NVIDIA 590 driver stable series.

Catch up on the latest Linux news: CachyOS, Linux From Scratch 13.0, Nitrux 6.0, NVIDIA 595 Beta Linux Driver, KDE Plasma 6.6.2, early mockups reveal Mozilla exploring a new Nova design for Firefox, and more.

Ironically, when the EU asked for feedback on new tech rules, it locked the process to dear old Microsoft. A fast, focused campaign forced officials to add an open format instead.

The FSSM8MP from F&S Elektronik Systeme is a SMARC 2.2 computer-on-module built around the NXP i.MX 8M Plus processor. The module is designed for embedded and industrial systems requiring multimedia processing, machine vision capability, and edge inference support. The platform integrates four Arm Cortex-A53 cores operating up to 1.8 GHz alongside a Cortex-M7 real-time core […]

The KDE/Qt-aligned digiKam software for managing RAW digital photos is out today with the big digiKam 9.0 release...

MSI’s MS-C936 is a slim fanless box PC built around Intel Raptor Lake-P U-series processors. The system is designed for embedded deployments such as digital signage, automation platforms, and edge computing systems that require multiple display outputs and high-speed networking. The system supports processors including the Intel Core 5 120U, a 15 W chip that […]

CachyOS March 2026 introduces animated desktop previews in the installer, Winboat Windows VM integration, and handheld gaming improvements.

I wanted that same “AI in the doc” feel that I have with my coding IDE: chat in a sidebar, multi-turn conversations, and the AI actually doing things, reading and changing the document, and web searches as necessary to answer questions. I wanted this for Writer but I figured Calc and the others could happen eventually. Exposing the full Writer API to an agent is not an easy problem, especially since it can create very complicated documents, including embedded spreadsheets.

Variables are an important part of shell scripting, just as they are for every programming language. Simply put, a variable defines a location in system memory that holds a value for later use. This value can be a text string, a number, a filename, or the output of a command. The nice thing about variables is that you can assign a value to one once, and then re-use that value as many times as you like by simply referencing the name of the variable. There are several types of variables, and in this post we'll look at environmental variables.

The 282nd installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending March 8th, 2026, keeping you updated on the most important developments in the Linux world.

Linux 7.0-rc3 is out as the latest weekly test candidate in leading up to the stable Linux 7.0 release in mid-April...

The CM0IQ is a compact carrier board designed for the Raspberry Pi CM0 compute module and measures 42 × 36 mm, placing it among the smallest boards built around the platform. The design exposes several interfaces typically associated with larger Raspberry Pi boards while maintaining a minimal footprint. The board is based on the Raspberry […]