The 202nd edition of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup arrived for the week concluding on August 25th, 2024. This update keeps you informed about the most significant developments within the Linux community. In case you missed it, catch up on last week’s GNU/Linux and Open Source updates here.
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This past week marked the 33rd anniversary of Linux, alongside the release of major updates including the LibreOffice suite, NVIDIA graphics drivers, and KDE Gear software suite. Updates were also rolled out for the fwupd firmware updater and the PipeWire multimedia server for Linux.
Additionally, I delve into the latest updates concerning the forthcoming versions of the Serpent OS distribution and the GNOME 47 desktop environment series. You can discover the top news of this week and find links to all the latest distributions and package downloads in the 9to5Linux Linux weekly roundup for August 25th, 2024.
Hot news of the week
- Serpent OS gears up for Alpha release, enables Framework 13 and Flathub support
- NVIDIA 560 Linux driver arrives with open GPU kernel modules by default
- Fwupd 1.9.24 firmware updater adds support for capsule-on-disk for Dell systems
- GNOME 47 Beta desktop is now available for public testing with many changes
- LibreOffice 24.8 open-source office suite is now available for download
- PipeWire 1.2.3 implements freewheeling support in the FFADO driver
- KDE Gear 24.08 open-source software suite is here with many improvements
- Happy 33rd birthday, Linux!
Other GNU/Linux news of interest
- Archinstall 2.8.3 Arch Linux installer adds desktop profile for COSMIC
- PipeWire will be the new default for camera handling in Firefox on Fedora Linux 41
Linux distributions released this week
- Ultimate Edition 2024.08.23
- Mabox Linux 24.08
- KDE neon 20240822
- Manjaro Linux 24.0.7 Xfce
- Manjaro Linux 24.0.7 GNOME
- Manjaro Linux 24.0.7 KDE Plasma
- EasyOS 6.2
Linux apps, drivers, desktops, and kernels released this week
- ImageMagick 7.1.1-37 (GCC)
- ImageMagick 7.1.1-37 (Clang)
- archinstall 2.8.3
- Wayland 1.23.1
- Midnight Commander 4.8.32
- LVM2 2.03.26
- Calibre 7.17
- PipeWire 1.2.3
- LibreOffice 24.8.0
- Mozilla Thunderbird 128.1.1 ESR
- Chromium 128.0.6613.84
- fwupd 1.9.24
- NVIDIA 560.35.03
- BIND 9.20.1
- GStreamer 1.24.7
- SABnzbd 4.3.3
- SciTE 5.5.2
- Mozilla Firefox 129.0.2
- Blender 4.2.1
- Docker 23.0.14
- VueScan 9.8.36
- qBittorrent 4.6.6
- Linux kernel 6.10.6
- Linux kernel 6.6.47 LTS
- Linux kernel 6.1.106 LTS
- Linux kernel 5.15.165 LTS
- Linux kernel 5.10.224 LTS
- Linux kernel 5.4.282 LTS
- Linux kernel 4.19.320 LTS
Coming up next week
- GNOME 47 Release Candidate
- New Arch Linux ISO release
- …and hopefully many other exciting Linux news and releases
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