In a Linux ecosystem rich with office productivity tools like FreeOffice, LibreOffice, OpenOffice, OnlyOffice, and WPS Office, choosing the right suite often comes down to performance, integration, and workflow preferences. While most users gravitate toward mainstream solutions, there’s a powerful and elegant alternative that deserves more attention: Calligra Suite.

Built by the KDE community, Calligra Suite is not just another office package—it’s a fully integrated productivity platform designed with flexibility and creativity in mind. Unlike traditional office suites that mimic Microsoft Office paradigms, Calligra introduces a unique, modular approach to document creation, visual design, and data management.

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In this blog post, we will show you how to install SSH on Ubuntu 26.04. SSH (Secure Shell) is a cryptographic network protocol for operating network services securely over an unsecured network. SSH enables secure data transfer between two machines (server-to-server or server-to-local computer) to ensure data is transferred without interruption. In addition to installing the SSH server, this post will cover SSH configuration and the most commonly used SSH commands, with examples.

Installing and configuring SSH on Ubuntu 26.04 is a straightforward and takes a couple of minutes. Let’s get started.

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GNOME 48.10 is out as the last maintenance update in the GNOME 48 lifecycle, focusing on fixes across core components like Shell, GTK, and Mutter.

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Highlights of NVIDIA 595 include support for the VK_EXT_descriptor_heap and VK_EXT_present_timing Vulkan extensions, support for Wayland 1.20, support for DRI3 1.2, and a new application profile that allows CUDA-using apps to reach P0 PState.

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Krita 5.3 delivers a new text engine and updated tools, alongside Krita 6.0, the Qt 6-based release with early Wayland support.

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The BOSGAME M4 Plus Mini PC is a powerful computer based on an AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS processor with integrated Radeon 780M graphics. I look at its BIOS.

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If you’ve explored torrent clients before, you’ve probably come across alternatives like qBittorrent, or spent time organizing files to better display directory structures alongside tools such as FreeOffice or OpenShot. In that ecosystem, Transmission stands out for a very specific reason: it does less—but does it exceptionally well.

Transmission is a minimalist, open-source BitTorrent client designed with efficiency, simplicity, and performance in mind. Unlike feature-heavy alternatives, it focuses on delivering a clean experience with low system resource usage, making it a favorite among Linux users and those who prefer a distraction-free interface.

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If you’re exploring modern browsers on Linux, you’ve probably come across options like Brave Browser, Midori, Opera GX, or Vivaldi. Each has its strengths, but Microsoft Edge Stable has quietly become a serious contender—even in a space where Microsoft technologies have traditionally been met with skepticism.

Microsoft Edge is a Chromium-based web browser developed by Microsoft, designed for performance, security, and deep integration with modern web standards. While it shares its engine with many popular browsers, Edge differentiates itself with a unique feature set, strong privacy controls, and tight integration with Microsoft services.

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PanVK’s new framebuffer abstraction for Mali GPUs removes OpenGL-specific constraints, unlocking more flexible tiled rendering features in Vulkan.

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At Amsterdam’s SecurityCon Europe, the Linux Foundation’s OpenSSF adds new members and showcases progress on SLSA, Gemara, and AI security.

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GitLab CI/CD pipelines often accumulate configuration decisions that drift from security baselines over time. Container images get pinned to mutable tags, branches lose protection settings, and required templates go missing. An open-source tool called Plumber automates the detection of those conditions by scanning pipeline configuration and repository settings directly.

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This week, we got a major release of the GNOME desktop environment, lots of software releases including FFmpeg 8.1, Blender 5.1, KiCad 10.0, OpenShot 3.5, PipeWire 1.6.2, and KDE Plasma 6.6.3, as well as a few distro releases including antiX 26, SparkyLinux 2026.03, Fedora Asahi Remix 43, and Emmabuntüs DE 6 1.01.

On top of that, I tell you all about the new Linux-powered computers from TUXEDO Computers and System76. Below, you can check out this week’s hottest news and access all the distro and package downloads released this past week in the 9to5Linux roundup for March 22nd, 2026.

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Catch up on the latest Linux news: Mageia 10 Beta, GNOME 50, Blender 5.1, Bcachefs 1.37, FFmpeg 8.1, systemd introduces birth date support, and many more.

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Bottles 63.0, a Wine prefix manager for running Windows applications on Linux, enhances installation reliability and introduces proxy support.

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GStreamer 1.30 promises support for parsing HDR10+ metadata from H.265 and AV1 bitstreams, Opus audio support for F32 and S24_32 samples and 96kHz sample rate, rtspsrc2 authentication support, a new VA-API overlay compositor, and Bayer support for the QuickTime demuxer.

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HandBrake 1.11.1 video transcoder delivers stability fixes, updated libraries, and multiple Windows improvements, including UI and accessibility fixes.

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Canonical releases MicroCloud 3.1, adding support for Cluster Manager to manage and monitor multiple clusters from one place.

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Turris Omnia NG Wired arrives as a Linux-based 10Gb router built for homelabs with fast networking, modular hardware, and long-term support.

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SysVinit 3.16 UNIX-style init system improves systemd-to-SysV script conversion and delivers minor fixes alongside ongoing codebase cleanup.

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Matthew Forrester Wolffe has one of those GitHub profiles that immediately caught my attention.

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