RC2 lands

Nothing spectacularly new in this version

"Breaking Free" links

The 281st installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending March 1st, 2026.

Desktop Environments (DE)/Window Managers (WM) news

mostly Steam stuff

Development picks, half about Perl

NuTyX 26.02.2 available with cards 3.4.3

Some of the latest articles

The 7.0-rc2 kernel prepatch is out for testing. According to Linus:

So I'm not super-happy with how big this is, but I'm hoping it's just the random timing noise we see every once in a while where I just happen to get more pull requests one week, only for the next week to then be quieter.

The second weekly release candidate of Linux 7.0 is now available for testing...

Version 1.24.0 of the groff text-formatting system has been released. Improvements include the ability to insert hyperlinks between man pages, a new polygon command for the pic preprocessor, various PDF-output improvements, and more.

Vivo Pad 6 Pro: New Android tablet leak reveals flagship chipset and launch timeline

My OS of choice was Fedora Silverblue

Has your terminal app ever crashed mid-op

This is free and open source software

BashCore is a Debian-based live Linux distribution tailored for security professionals

Setting up a fresh Linux system and getting it ready for your work can sometimes be a tedious time sink

Do you wish your terminal could do more than just run commands

pearOS is an Arch-based desktop Linux distribution that delivers a macOS-inspired look and feel