9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: Key Highlights from July 21st, 2024

The 197th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on July 21st, 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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As the summer vacation continues, this week we only got small maintenance updates of the KDE Plasma 6.1 and VirtualBox 7.0 software, a new Audacity release with some goodies for audio enthusiasts, a new GNU Linux-libre kernel for software freedom fans, and a new snapshot of the KaOS Linux independent distro.

On top of that, this week brought new major Blender and OpenMandriva Lx releases, while NVIDIA announced plans to fully adopt open-source GPU kernel modules for their graphics driver. 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 21st, 2024.

Hot news of the week

Other GNU/Linux news of interest

Linux distributions released this week

Linux apps, drivers, desktops, and kernels released this week

Coming up next week

  • Linux kernel 6.11 Release Candidate
  • …and hopefully many other exciting Linux news and releases.

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