The 195th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on July 7th, 2024, keeping you updated with the most important things happening in the Linux world. If you missed last week’s 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup, catch up with everything GNU/Linux/Open Source here.
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This was another slow week due to people being on summer vacation, so the biggest releases are a new Raspberry Pi OS build with lots of goodies for Raspberry Pi fans, a new ISO snapshot of the systemd-free, Debian-based, and immutable Nitrux distro, and new KDE Plasma and Gear updates.
On top of that, the Linux Mint devs released the beta version of the upcoming Linux Mint 22 operating system, which is expected later this month. Below you can check out this week’s hottest news and access all the distro and package downloads released this past week in 9to5Linux’s Linux weekly roundup for July 7th, 2024.
Hot news of the week
- Linux Mint 22 beta arrives with Cinnamon 6.2, based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
- Nitrux 3.5.1 is here with Linux kernel 6.9 and NVIDIA 555 graphics driver
- KDE Plasma 6.1.2 is out to improve the Overview effect and fix more issues
- KDE Gear 24.05.2 is out now with more fixes for your favorite KDE apps
- New Raspberry Pi OS release brings many UI improvements and new settings
Other GNU/Linux news of interest
Linux distributions released this week
- Bluestar Linux 6.9.7
- EasyOS 6.0.4
- Regata OS 24.0.7
- Finnix 126
- KDE neon 20240704
- Manjaro Linux 24.0.3 Xfce
- Manjaro Linux 24.0.3 KDE Plasma
- Manjaro Linux 24.0.3 GNOME
- Nitrux 3.5.1
- Arch Linux 2024.07.01
- Archcraft 2024.07.01
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Linux apps, drivers, desktops, and kernels released this week
- GnuCash 5.8
- DBeaver 24.1.2
- Telegram Desktop 5.2.3
- NetworkManager 1.48.4
- systemd 256.2
- Linux kernel 6.9.8
- Linux kernel 6.6.37 LTS
- Linux kernel 6.1.97 LTS
- Linux kernel 5.15.162 LTS
- Linux kernel 5.10.221 LTS
- Linux kernel 5.4.279 LTS
- Linux kernel 4.19.317 LTS
- LyX 2.4.1
- Nuspell 5.1.6
- util-linux 2.40.2
- Mesa 24.1.3
- Calamares 3.3.8
- CMake 3.30.0
- VueScan 9.8.35
- Apache 2.4.60
- NVIDIA 555.58.02
Coming up next week
- Mozilla Firefox 128
- GNOME 46.3
- GNOME 47 alpha
- New KDE Frameworks release
- Linux kernel 6.10
- …and hopefully many other exciting Linux news and releases!
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