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France’s Weird Per-Gigabyte Data Tax Could Cost VLC Over €1 Million a Year!
France's National Assembly has voted in favour of a new "internet tax" that would charge companies for every gigabyte of data they send to users in France. It may get messier than GDPR.
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Migrating small businesses to LibreOffice and Linux
We often talk on this blog about large-scale migrations to LibreOffice, such as in the Austrian Military. But many small businesses are switching away from Microsoft, Google and other tech giants too. Today we’re talking to Mišo Oroz from Zerolock, a company in Italy that helps small businesses to switch
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Price rises for some 16GB Raspberry Pi products
Rising component costs drive price increases for 16GB Raspberry Pi 5 and Compute Module 5, but not Raspberry Pi 500+.
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Steam On Linux Just Under 4% For October 2026
Valve just published their Steam Survey results for October and point to a small uptick in Linux gaming use on a relative basis…
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Linux App Release Roundup (October 2026)
October’s Linux app releases brought plenty of treats, a couple of tricks and mercifully few frights. In this post, I recap the updates that landed last month. There were other spooks in the shadows with a spotlight. October gave us a double-whammy of Firefox and Calibre updates, with JEPG XL support added in the former and AI reading voices in the latter…
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Linuxiac Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 43, 2026 (October 26 – November 1)
Catch up on the latest Linux news: Kali 2026.3, Linux Lite 8.2, Budgie 10.10.4, Enlightenment 0.28, Hyprland 0.57, Firefox 159, Ghostty 1.4, Fedora 45 delayed again, and more.
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Trinity Desktop Environment R14.1.7 Is Out with Support for Ubuntu 26.10
Trinity Desktop Environment (TDE) R14.1.7 desktop environment has been released today for nostalgic KDE 3.5 users as the seventh maintenance release of the R14.1.x series, adding new features and enhancements.
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Agilex 2X FPGA portfolio supports PCIe 7.0 and QuartusIQ AI design tool
Agilex 2X is Altera’s latest FPGA and SoC portfolio, consisting of four device families for applications ranging from industrial control to high-performance computing. The first announced family, Agilex 27, incorporates 256Gbps transceivers, PCIe 7.0 support, and a distributed HyperFlow data network. The company has also released QuartusIQ, an AI-assisted…
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Linus Torvalds Announces First Linux Kernel 7.4 Release Candidate
Linus Torvalds announced today the general availability of the first Release Candidate (RC) of the upcoming Linux 7.4 kernel series for public testing and early adopters.
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RISC-V compute module brings ESP32-P4 to Raspberry Pi CM4/CM5 carriers
The SCINTIX P4 is a compact compute module developed by RELOC around Espressif’s ESP32-P4 microcontroller, using the 55 × 40mm form factor of Raspberry Pi CM4 and CM5 modules. It combines dual-core RISC-V processing with an ESP32-C6 wireless companion, Ethernet, and MIPI display and camera interfaces for embedded control and HMI applications. Unlike…
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Enlightenment desktop 0.28 released with better networking
Enlightenment 0.28 has been released, the first major update to the open-source desktop environment since early 2025. Given the time between this and the previous 0.27 release, the changelog is suitably lengthy. Networking and audio stack enhancements, UI and UX tweaks and, of course, plenty of bug fixes are listed – no jaw-dropping UI changes, though…
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Compact AI workstation runs Ubuntu on Jetson AGX Thor with dual 10GbE
The MINIX T4000/T5000 is a compact AI workstation based on NVIDIA’s Jetson AGX Thor platform, combining Blackwell GPU architecture with Arm Neoverse-V3AE processors. The system supports up to 128GB of LPDDR5X memory, dual 10GbE networking, PCIe 4.0 NVMe storage, and Ubuntu 24.04 for local AI inference and development. The T4000 configuration uses NVIDIA’s…
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Linux 7.4-rc1 Released With Nice Performance Improvements, AMD Ryzen Zen 6 Preparations & AMDGPU HDMI 2.1 Default
Even with Linus Torvalds having been on holiday, Linux 7.4-rc1 is out today on-schedule for capping off the Linux 7.4 merge window…
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Linux 7.4 Merge Window Saw Nearly 20k Commits, Source Tree Approaching 42 Million Lines
Linux 7.3 started out just under 41 million lines in total in the kernel source tree. In the end the Linux v7.3 tag came in at 41,019,555 lines as measured by cloc while now with Linux 7.4 we are inching ever closer to 42 million lines. On a Git commit basis, the Linux 7.4 merge window has been the busiest on record…
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Tumbleweed Monthly Update - October 2026
As openSUSE Tumbleweed barrels through the autumn, the month of October brought Linux enthusiasts several changes for this premier rolling release. October was a heavy month for both features and fixes, with 23 snapshots landing between Oct. 1 and 28. KDE Plasma 6.8.0 and KDE Frameworks 6.31.0 arrived as new…
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AI Use In The Linux Kernel, Microsoft Defender On Linux & Other October Highlights
October brought the releases of Linux 7.3, Ubuntu 26.10, the KDE Plasma 6.8 desktop, and a wealth of other open-source software releases. The expanding use of AI/LLMs within Linux kernel development also made for interesting discussions in October. Microsoft bringing their Defender software to the Linux desktop was perhaps the biggest surprise out of…
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Budgie 10.10.4 Desktop Environment Improves Wayland Panel Auto-Hiding
Budgie 10.10.4 improves Wayland panel auto-hiding, reworks dock mode, adds keyboard shortcuts, and fixes several desktop issues.
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9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: November 1st, 2026
The 316th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending November 1st, 2026, keeping you updated on the most important developments in the Linux world.
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Arch Linux November 2026 ISO Released with Kernel 7.2.11, systemd 262.1
Arch Linux's November 2026 ISO features Linux kernel 7.2.11, systemd 262.1, and updated system packages for fresh installations.
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Kwi Is a New Ghostty-Based GPU-Accelerated Terminal Emulator for KDE Plasma
KDE developer Eike Hein has unveiled Kwi today a new, up-and-coming terminal emulator app for the KDE Plasma desktop environment that promises faster performance, better protocol support, and a more modern UI.
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The Linux 7.4 Merge Window Is Easily The Largest In Kernel History
After writing this morning with some stats about the size of the Linux 7.4 merge window and the kernel's source tree approaching 42 million lines, I was curious to run some numbers for putting the size of the merge window into perspective against the major kernel releases of the past 15 years. This shows the definite recent uptick due to AI/LLM activity…
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Linux Lite 8.2 Released with Linux Kernel 7.3, Gaming Optimizations
Linux Lite 8.2 is released with Linux 7.3 kernels featuring selected CachyOS patches, gaming optimizations, and system utility improvements.
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KDE Plasma 6.9 Lands Some New Performance Optimizations
I love a good performance optimization and there are several this week in the KDE space with Plasma 6.9 development heating up…
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DXVK-NVAPI 0.9.3 Brings Nice Improvements For Linux Gamers On Latest NVIDIA Drivers
DXVK-NVAPI 0.9.3 is out this weekend as a new feature update to this NVIDIA NVAPI implementation used by Valve as part of Steam Play with Proton for nicely integrating NVIDIA technologies into various Windows games running on Linux…
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New Linux 7.4 Feature For Reducing AI Noise Already Reverted Due To A "Crazy Beast"
A new feature merged last week for Linux 7.4 to help reduce AI/LLM generated noise from invalid/irrelevant testing configurations is now reverted due to a "crazy beast" in the VFIO subsystem…
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Sanket lets you redesign GNOME’s date menu and Quick Settings
Sanket is a GNOME Shell extension that lets you rejig how the desktop’s date menu, calendar, notifications and Quick Settings look and behave – and then some. It can put notifications beneath the Quick Settings menu in a floating island, or embedded inside of it. Quick Settings toggles can shrink to dots when space is tight, and expand again as and when…
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OpenShot 4.1 Video Editor Is Out with Native ARM64 Linux Builds and Text Editing
OpenShot 4.1 has been released today as a major update to this free, open-source, and cross-platform video editor, introducing a revamped text workflow, a new command-line interface, live export validation, and many other improvements.
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Woodpecker CI 3.20 Released with Pipeline Improvements, Security Fixes
Woodpecker CI 3.20 adds manual workflow selection, tighter agent restrictions, faster queue scheduling, and security improvements.
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Linux Mint Devs Introduce New System Monitor and Terminal Emulator Apps
The Linux Mint devs keep working on new features and apps for the upcoming Linux Mint 27 “Adrien” release, due out in Christmas 2026, and they just unveiled new system monitor, terminal emulator, and archive manager tools today.
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Haruna 1.9 Media Player Improves YouTube Handling and Playlist Management
KDE's Haruna 1.9 optimizes YouTube URL processing, changes how playlists load at startup, and adds new customization options.