{"id":226580,"date":"2026-03-22T23:55:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T03:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/22\/9to5linux-weekly-roundup-march-22nd-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T04:25:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T08:25:11","slug":"9to5linux-weekly-roundup-march-22nd-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/22\/9to5linux-weekly-roundup-march-22nd-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: March 22nd, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5linux.com\/9to5linux-weekly-roundup-march-22nd-2026\">9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: March 22nd, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5linux.com\/9to5linux-weekly-roundup-march-22nd-2026\">https:\/\/9to5linux.com\/9to5linux-weekly-roundup-march-22nd-2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-22 23:55:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"9to5linux.com\">9to5linux.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span>COPYRIGHT 9to5linux.com &#8211; DO NOT COPY WITHOUT PERMISSION<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>The 284th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending March 22nd, 2026, keeping you updated on the most important developments in the Linux world. If you missed last week\u2019s 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup, catch up with everything GNU\/Linux\/Open Source here.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-vivid-purple-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-92a676e0fc4eeade691e57f250075093\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:700\">Thank you!<\/h2>\n<p>I want to thank everyone who sent us donations; your generosity is greatly appreciated. I also want to thank all of you for your continued support by commenting, liking, sharing, and boosting the articles, following us on social media, and, last but not least, sending us feedback.<\/p>\n<p>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 Emmabunt\u00fcs DE 6 1.01.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s hottest news and access all the distro and package downloads released this past week in the 9to5Linux roundup for March 22nd, 2026.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-vivid-purple-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-1b938b979877d8b1562e31c93805bd67\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:700\">Hot news of the week<\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-vivid-purple-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-56ebafc59985662adcc19d75c7b5025f\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:700\">Other GNU\/Linux news of interest<\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-vivid-purple-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-77ea676e54c0fbac9476e3227f5be5d6\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:700\">Linux distributions released this week<\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-vivid-purple-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-dc3ccfa810bf6e7f107dc1019302b72e\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:700\">Linux apps, drivers, desktops, and kernels released this week<\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-vivid-purple-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-4498f4d9e797d141b56a8748a800ff66\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:700\">Coming up next week<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Beta<\/li>\n<li>\u2026and hopefully many other exciting Linux news and releases!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-style: italic; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-top: 0;\">Enjoyed the article?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"286\" height=\"73\" style=\"border:0px; height:36px; width:auto; display: block; margin: 0 auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/9to5linux.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kofi3.webp\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Buy Me a Coffee at ko-fi.com\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p><h3 class=\"jp-relatedposts-headline\">You might also like<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5linux.com\/9to5linux-weekly-roundup-march-22nd-2026\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: March 22nd, 2026 https:\/\/9to5linux.com\/9to5linux-weekly-roundup-march-22nd-2026 Publish Date: 2026-03-22 23:55:00 Source Domain: 9to5linux.com COPYRIGHT&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":226581,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/9to5linux.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/wr284.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[97,71,79],"class_list":["post-226580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-fedora","tag-linux","tag-ubuntu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226580"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":226582,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226580\/revisions\/226582"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}