The KDE project is addressing recent concerns that they are forcing systemd on current or future versions of its Plasma desktop environment.

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Featuring 12GB of RAM and a 10,000 mAh battery, this collaboration with Volla brings some decent specs to the privacy-first mobile market.

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As a Linux administrator, you must periodically check which files and folders are consuming more disk space, because it is

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9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for February 15th, 2026, brings news about Mesa 26.0, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, KDE Frameworks 6.23, GNOME 49.4, pearOS 26.2, NetworkManager 1.56, GNU Linux-libre 6.19, OpenVPN 2.7, Parrot 7.1, Tails 7.4.2, GNOME 50 beta, MythTV 36.0, GNU Binutils 2.46, Vim 9.2, GitHub Tray, and more.

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SparkyLinux is a lightweight, fast and simple Linux distribution designed for both old and new computers featuring customised Enlightenment and LXDE desktops. It has been built on the "testing" branch of Debian GNU/Linux.

The OpenMandriva distribution is a full-featured Linux desktop and server, sponsored by the OpenMandriva Association. It was based on ROSA, a Russian Linux distribution project which forked Mandriva Linux in 2012, incorporating many of Mandriva's original tools and utilities and adding in-house enhancements. The goal of OpenMandriva is to facilitate the creation, improvement, promotion and distribution of free and open-source software in general, and OpenMandriva projects in particular. OpenMandriva has traditionally been a fixed release distribution, but in 2023 the project began releasing an alternative rolling branch called ROME.

KaOS Linux 2026.02 independent distribution is now available for download as the first release to drop its unique KDE Plasma desktop for a Niri/Noctalia setup to escape systemd.

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KaOS is a desktop Linux distribution that features the latest version of the Noctalia desktop environment, the Calligra office suite, and other popular software applications that use the Qt toolkit. It was inspired by Arch Linux, but the developers build their own packages which are available from in-house repositories. KaOS employs a rolling-release development model and is built exclusively for 64-bit computer systems.

In part II of his Emacs series, novelist Theena Kumaragurunathan, demonstrates how Emacs is becoming an extension of his writing brain.

FreeBSD is a UNIX-like operating system for the i386, amd64, IA-64, arm, MIPS, powerpc, ppc64, PC-98 and UltraSPARC platforms based on U.C. Berkeley's "4.4BSD-Lite" release, with some "4.4BSD-Lite2" enhancements. It is also based indirectly on William Jolitz's port of U.C. Berkeley's "Net/2" to the i386, known as "386BSD", though very little of the 386BSD code remains. FreeBSD is used by companies, Internet Service Providers, researchers, computer professionals, students and home users all over the world in their work, education and recreation. FreeBSD comes with over 20,000 packages (pre-compiled software that is bundled for easy installation), covering a wide range of areas: from server software, databases and web servers, to desktop software, games, web browsers and business software - all free and easy to install.

Vim 9.2 open-source and highly configurable text editor is now available for download with comprehensive completion, full Wayland support, and more. Here's what's new!

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REMnux 8 Linux distro and toolkit for malware analysis is now available for download. This is a major release that comes more than 5 years after version 7.0 to celebrate the project’s 15th anniversary.

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GNOME 49.4 is now available as the fourth point release to the GNOME 49 desktop environment series with various bug fixes and improvements.

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