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.

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…

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.

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 conventional Raspberry…

Valve just published their Steam Survey results for October and point to a small uptick in Linux gaming use on a relative basis…

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. v0.28 adds a new Network Manager module.…

The 7.4-rc1 kernel prepatch is out, and
the merge window is closed for this development cycle.

This is a *BIG* merge window. I think the reason is the by now
obvious one, but I’m actually taking it as a good sign: I’m *much*
happier with the flood of AI triggered work going into the merge
window than it showing up mainly as extra fixes during the -rc
period. So I’m hoping that this merge window being larger than
usual is a sign that the AI fixes are becoming more part of the
“normal development” than a flood of fixes that go into the whole
stabilization phase. I think that’s a much healthier model.

There were 18,591 non-merge changesets brought in during this merge window
— this is not just a record, but it nearly matches the patch volume during
the entire (record-setting) 7.3 development cycle. So far, 2,678
developers have contributed to 7.4; 625 of them are first-time kernel
contributors. Subscribers can find more details in the KSDB 7.4 page.

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 Jetson T4000…

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…

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…

With room for up to 96 GB of memory and 8 TB of storage, this little Linux desktop isn’t thinking small about anything but form.

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Budgie 10.10.4 improves Wayland panel auto-hiding, reworks dock mode, adds keyboard shortcuts, and fixes several desktop issues.

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.

Jason Hibbets, the managing editor for “We Love Open Source” at All Things Open, explains that the conference would like for you to tell them about the talk, tool, or hallway conversation that changed how you work.

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