A clean roundup of what’s been added under the hood.

Annual sale targets professionals looking to upskill in Linux, cloud native, AI, and cybersecurity.

The idea to rollback via two root partitions is interesting. This is certainly not your regular rethemed Arch distro.

Linux kernel 6.18 delivers performance boosts, new laptop drivers, and a controversial filesystem removal, plus more key changes inside.

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The development for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS has started and it's time to start looking towards the features and changes it is bringing.

Two of the best GUI-based system monitors for desktop Linux users. Which one is better of the two? Let's find out.

Mozilla says its AI 'rewiring' is a moral crusade to save the web from Big Tech. Our snarky explainer asks if the real goal is to goose revenue instead.

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Creator Eric Migicovsky releases hardware schematics and mobile apps.

Self‑hosting isn’t anti‑cloud; it’s pro‑agency. It’s choosing the right locus of control for the things you care about.

The first Ubuntu 26.04 monthly snapshot is out, the first of 5 planned for the 'Resolute Raccoon' before next April's stable release. Fancy testing it? Details inside.

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Long transition nears completion as developers address remaining concerns. Plasma 6.8 is still two years away.

Everything you need to know about Google Sans Flex.

Hello community, here we have another set of package updates. Welcome to our new development cycle of Manjaro 25.1.0, code-named ‘Anh-Linh’.We will focus on Plasma 6.5 series and will introduce GNOME 49, maybe Cosmic 1.0 (Beta).

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• Get the latest Gaming Laptop by Slimbook powered by Manjaro: Slimbook Manjaro III
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Recent News

• Install media including this update: Release 202511171108 · manjaro/release-review · GitHub
• Manjaro 25.0 Zetar released
• Manjaro Summit public Alpha now available
• As of Linux 6.16.12, the 6.16 series is now EOL (End Of Life). Please install 6.17 stable and/or 6.12 LTS (Long Term Support).

Valkey to replace Redis in the [extra] Repository (click for more details) Previous News Finding information easier about Manjaro (click for more details) Notable Package Updates

• Linux-Firmware updates
• Xorg-Server 21.1.21
• Firefox 145.0.2 and 146.0b8
• GNOME 49.2
• Qt 6.10.1
• ROCm 7.1.0

Additional Info Python 3.13 info (click for more details) Info about AUR packages (click for more details)

Get our latest daily developer images now from Github: Plasma, GNOME, XFCE. You can get the latest stable releases of Manjaro from CDN77.

Our current supported kernels

• linux54 5.4.301
• linux510 5.10.246
• linux515 5.15.196
• linux61 6.1.158
• linux66 6.6.117
• linux612 6.12.59
• linux617 6.17.9
• linux618 6.18.0-rc7
• linux61-rt 6.1.158_rt58
• linux66-rt 6.6.116_rt66
• linux612-rt 6.12.57_rt14
• linux617-rt 6.17.5_rt7

Package Changes (11/27/25 11:24 CET)

• testing core x86_64: 20 new and 20 removed package(s)
• testing extra x86_64: 709 new and 707 removed package(s)
• testing multilib x86_64: 8 new and 8 removed package(s)

A list of all changes can be found here.

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From VS Code to Docker Desktop, here’s a list of software often mistaken as open source by Linux users, with open alternatives for each.

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Ubuntu developers confirm plans to ship 2 new apps in Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, replacing its video and system monitor apps with a pair it feels are more 'modern'.

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Future versions of KDE Plasma will no longer support the Xorg/X11 display server, as developers set-out the timeline for a transition to a Wayland-only future.

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Open source and open collaboration communities face ongoing threats from “non-practicing entities” (NPEs, also sometimes called “patent trolls”). The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has proposed new procedural rule changes that would benefit NPEs, by making it harder to defend against NPEs who assert weak patents.