Soul Player is a modern desktop music player focused on local-first playback and user privacy. It’s designed for people who want to manage and listen to their own music collection without cloud uploads, telemetry, ads, or mandatory subscriptions.

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Getting a startup through a SOC 2 audit has long meant months of manual evidence collection, policy writing, and repeated back-and-forth with auditors. A growing number of compliance platforms have moved to automate parts of that process, and Comp AI is now doing it with an open-source codebase that organizations can inspect, modify, and self-host.

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PacHub gives Arch Linux users a sleek GTK4 app for browsing, installing, and managing packages from official repos and the AUR.

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PaddleOCR is an open-source OCR and document-parsing toolkit. It’s used to extract text and document structure from images and PDFs. It supports model training, inference, and deployment for production use.

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KDE officially removed the Air desktop theme with the release of the Plasma 6 desktop environment series in early 2024, but thanks to Filip Fila, Nuno Pinheiro, and Marco Martin, it is making a major comeback with widget transparency with a blur effect behind windows, which improves contrast and legibility.

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Red Hat has launched RHEL Extended Life Cycle Premium, a stand-alone subscription that extends major-version support to 14 years.

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Coming two months after PeaZip 10.9, the PeaZip 11.0 release introduces a faster file browser by enabling virtual mode by default over 16K items for the GTK2 version, support for dropping items to the Breadcrumb bar and to the Tab bar, and improved zoom and fractional scaling.

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OpenShot 3.5 is here with major speed and smoothness upgrades that make video editing feel much more responsive and enjoyable.

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This week’s roundup talks about the release schedule of the upcoming GNOME 51 desktop environment, the new features in the upcoming KDE Plasma 6.7 desktop environment, the return of Elive Linux, Artix Linux’s first stable ISO release in 2026, and Arch Linux’s new Archinstall text-mode installer.

On top of that, we got new distro releases, including 4MLinux, Netrunner, and AerynOS, and new software releases, including Coreboot, OpenVPN, and OBS Studio. 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 April 5th, 2026.

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Catch up on the latest Linux news: Netrunner 26, AerynOS, OpenSSH 10.3, Archinstall 4.0, Wine 11.6, Linux hits 5% on Steam, Debian addresses age verification, and more.

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Arch Linux developers have announced that iptables now defaults to the nft backend, replacing the previous iptables-nft package name.

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Zorin OS says it has no plans to introduce mandatory age or ID verification into the Linux distribution.

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Ventoy 1.1.11 fixes Windows and WinPE UEFI boot display issues, adds KylinSecOS support, and brings several Linux-side improvements.

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JetStream 3 represents a significant BrowserBench update, supported by Apple, Google, Mozilla, and other browser engine contributors.

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In this tutorial, we will explain how to install Joomla on Ubuntu 26.04 OS. Joomla is a free and open-source CMS (Content Management System) written in PHP used for building, managing, and publishing content on websites and applications. Joomla stores data in a MySQL database, offering a robust model-view-controller (MVC) framework. There are many features offered by Joomla, such as extensibility, versatility, user-friendly desing a has a large community of developers. In this post, we will install Joomla on the LAMP stack so our website functions properly.

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To provide an insight into the quality of software that’s available, we’ve compiled a list of the best free and open source Hyprland tools for screen capturing.

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Debian Project Leader Andreas Tille says Debian has made no decision on age verification compliance and is still awaiting legal analysis.

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Pangolin 1.17 tunneled reverse proxy adds multi-role RBAC, provisioning keys for sites, connection logs, SIEM log streaming, and more.

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With version 0.5.0 the app now replaces the old home screen with a dedicated favourites page, supports drag-to-reorder there and simplifies the station info page.

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Pidgin 3.0 has entered the alpha stage with version 2.95, featuring updated account settings and ongoing development of Zulip protocol support.

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