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Linus Torvalds Announces First Linux Kernel 7.4 Release Candidate

Two weeks have passed since the release of Linux kernel 7.3, which is already arriving in the stable repos of your favorite distros, which means that the merge window for Linux kernel 7.4 is now closed, so it’s time to test-drive the Release Candidate (RC) versions over the next couple of months, every Sunday afternoon.

Budgie 10.10.4 Desktop Environment Released with More Improvements

Coming a month after Budgie 10.10.3, the Budgie 10.10.4 release overhauls panel automatic hiding and dock mode as hidden panels now stay above windows and reappear when you move the mouse to the screen edge, panels set to hide no longer reserve screen space, and a new Super+T shortcut shows the panel in full-screen apps.

Trinity Desktop Environment R14.1.7 Is Out with Support for Ubuntu 26.10

Coming seven months after Trinity Desktop Environment R14.1.6, the Trinity Desktop Environment R14.1.7 release introduces support for recent GNU/Linux distributions, such as Ubuntu 26.10, while dropping support for older, unsupported Linux distros, including Ubuntu 24.10, Fedora 42, Mageia 9, and openSUSE Leap 15.6.

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: November 1st, 2026

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Linux Kernel 7.2 Reaches End of Life, It’s Time to Upgrade to Linux Kernel 7.3

Linux kernel 7.2 was released on August 16th, 2026, introducing new features like cache-aware load-balancing support, initial HDMI 2.1 FRL support to the AMDGPU driver, support for devres-based management of ACPI notify handlers, initial CRI platform support for the Intel Xe driver, and Rust support for the IBM System/390 (S/390) architecture.

PorteuX 2.9 Released with Linux 7.3, KDE Plasma 6.8, GNOME 51, and COSMIC 1.11

Coming more than two months after PorteuX 2.8, the PorteuX 2.9 release is powered by the latest and greatest Linux 7.3 kernel series and features the latest KDE Plasma 6.8.2, GNOME 51.1, COSMIC 1.11, Xfce 4.20, LXQt 2.4, Cinnamon 6.6.9, MATE 1.28.2, and LXDE 0.11.1 desktop environments as standalone flavors.

Kwi Is a New Ghostty-Based GPU-Accelerated Terminal Emulator for KDE Plasma

Meet Kwi (pronounced “kwee”), a new GPU-accelerated terminal emulator that follows the latest KDE HIG and UI conventions, built on the libghostty-vt library from the Ghostty project, Kirigami, and KDE Frameworks. Compared to Konsole, KDE’s venerable terminal emulator, Kwi promises up to 35x faster performance that should reduce battery usage.

OpenShot 4.1 Video Editor Is Out with Native ARM64 Linux Builds and Text Editing

Coming two months after OpenShot 4.0, the OpenShot 4.1 release revamps the text workflow by creating text clips immediately at the playhead, adding support for editing text directly in the preview window with no external editor required, a floating style bar for the font, size, color, and alignment, and exposing typography options in the Properties dock.

Linux Mint Devs Introduce New System Monitor and Terminal Emulator Apps

Meet Superlight, a new system monitor app for Linux Mint that features graphs for CPU, RAM, swap, GPU, network, disk I/O, temperature, and fan speed. The app shows how much of the system’s resources each application uses, and the same data is available for all running processes, with a large variety of columns you can sort and reorder.

Enlightenment 0.28 Desktop Adds PipeWire Support, NetworkManager Module

Coming seven and a half months after Enlightenment 0.27, the Enlightenment 0.28 release introduces a new NetworkManager module that supports Wi-Fi, Ethernet, Bluetooth networking, and VPNs, with network signal strength, security indicators, connection details, tooltips, and saved connection management.

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Covering Elections From a Technical Angle

Back doors in machines

Less Than Two Months Left

The year went by so fast

A Year-Long Celebration

Techrights plans

Spending a Decade Explaining Lawfare is a Public Service

The public and our politicians need to know

ManCity for Liverpool FC

Just went past the new City Store

Growing Up (and Growing)

Almost a decade ago

October in Numbers

he heavy traffic is mostly from bots, but the frequent blogging seems to have paid off and this month brought a lot of activity – to the point where I had to increase bandwidth thresholds.

Eyes on Liverpool v Arsenal

Not good enough for (Manchester) City

Goodbye, October

Gone by so fast

We Need to Talk More About GNU

The real aim is Software Freedom

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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.

(Updated) 16-TOPS AI SBC with SATA 3.0 runs on octa-core Sophgo BM1688

Orange Pi has published hardware details for the OrangePi O1, a 90 × 70mm SBC based on the Sophgo BM1688 processor. It pairs eight Arm Cortex-A53 cores with a RISC-V C906 coprocessor and a 16-TOPS INT8 TPU, along with up to 16GB of LPDDR4/LPDDR4X memory.

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.

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 development tool integrated into Quartus Prime Pro 26.3.