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Linuxiac Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 10, 2026 (Mar 2 – 8)  LXer: Linux News

CachyOS ISO Release for March 2026 Is Out with KDE Plasma 6.6, Winboat, and More  9to5Linux

10 tricks you can do with FFmpeg on Linux  How-To Geek

The March 2026 ISO refresh of the Arch Linux powered CachyOS distribution is now available for new installations and upgrading from existing CachyOS installs...

CachyOS Handheld Edition Switches To Wayland, CachyOS Installer Drops Bcachefs  Phoronix

Customizing your Linux desktop is a waste of time: Here's a better way to get what you want  How-To Geek

Even after 10 years of using Linux, these 3 distros still scare me (and they’re not Arch)  How-To Geek

FFmpeg developers are preparing to soon release FFmpeg 8.1 with some great new features and other improvements...

Merged this week for Mesa 26.1 are the initial Nova Lake P "NVL-P" device bits for Intel's ANV Vulkan and Iris Gallium3D drivers. But this support isn't yet exposed by default and not yet ready for end-users with more driver changes still to be published...

Experimental Intel Nova Lake P Device Bits Merged For Mesa 26.1  Phoronix

Notable Intel & AMD CPU Changes Merged For Linux 7.0-rc3  Phoronix

This week's batch of "x86/urgent" patches that were merged overnight for Linux 7.0 contain some fixes and other adjustments worth highlighting for both AMD and Intel...

The newest open-source concern around AI that is seeing a lot of interest this weekend is when large language models / AI code generators may rewrite large parts of a codebase and then the "developers" claiming an alternative license incompatible with the original source license. This became a real concern this week with a popular Python project experiencing an AI-driven code rewrite and now published under an alternative license that its original author does not agree with and incompatible with the original code...

The KDE/Qt-aligned digiKam software for managing RAW digital photos is out today with the big digiKam 9.0 release...

Merged back in 2018 for Linux 5.0 was support for the Apple Magic Trackpad 2. Merged this week for the in-development Linux 7.0 kernel is fixing battery reporting for those using the Magic Trackpad 2 under Linux...

Linux 7.0 Fixes Battery Reporting For The Apple Magic Trackpad 2  Phoronix

digiKam 9.0 Open-Source Photo Manager Released as a Massive Update  9to5Linux

How to Use Claude Code in Terminal — Windows, macOS, and Linux  H2S Media

Microsoft Sysinternals: Process Explorer 17.1, SDelete 2.06, and Sysmon 1.5.1 for Linux  igor´sLAB

Forget Android and iOS: This phone runs on Linux and comes with a physical privacy switch  The Indian Express