The GNOME Project released GNOME 49.5 today as the fourth point release of the latest GNOME 49 “Brescia” desktop environment series with more bug fixes and improvements.

Here’s what people were reading the most on FOSS Force during the month of March, 2026.

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Apertis v2026 is here, bringing a significantly modernized foundation for industrial embedded development. Based on Debian 13 (Trixie), this release delivers updated system libraries, development tools, compilers, and core services, alongside a new default Wayland compositor, a reworked SDK, and smarter packaging pipelines. The result is a more capable, maintainable platform designed to meet the long-term stability and security requirements of industrial products.

The chvt command is an essential Linux built-in utility to help you switch between different TTY screens (or virtual consoles) from the command line interface.