Welcome to the 210th edition of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup, bringing you the highlights from the Linux community for the week ending on October 20th, 2024. If you need to catch up on last week’s issues, you can read the previous roundup on GNU/Linux and Open Source here.
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This week turned out to be somewhat quiet in terms of news and updates. However, we did see the release of significant new versions of Solus and Clonezilla Live, along with an updated version of VirtualBox that adds support for the upcoming Linux 6.12 kernel series, in addition to new bugfix releases for Ardour, Calibre, and fwupd.
This week, KDE desktop enthusiasts were delighted with a new Plasma update that enhances XWayland gaming. Additionally, the PorteuX 1.7 distribution based on Slackware has been released, bringing a range of new features. Below, you’ll find the hottest news from this week and links to all the distro and package downloads launched during the past week in the 9to5Linux weekly roundup for October 20th, 2024.
Hot news of the week
- Solus 4.6 “Convergence” arrives with Mesa 24.2, experimental software centers
- Clonezilla Live 3.2 disk imaging/cloning tool is out powered by Linux kernel 6.11
- Fwupd 2.0.1 adds API to allow GNOME Firmware to record devices for emulation
- KDE Plasma 6.2.1 improves support for XWayland games, fixes various bugs
- VirtualBox 7.1.4 adds initial support for Linux kernel 6.12 and other Linux changes
- Ardour 8.10 open-source DAW is now available with fixes for new major issues
- Calibre 7.20 adds a new PDF Input engine, supports new Tolino Shine 5 firmware
- Slackware-based PorteuX 1.7 launches with Linux 6.11, GNOME 47.1, and more
Linux distributions released this week
- Bluestar Linux 6.11.4
- Antivirus Live CD 47.0-1.4.1
- PorteuX 1.7 KDE Plasma
- PorteuX 1.7 GNOME
- PorteuX 1.7 Xfce
- PorteuX 1.7 LXQt
- PorteuX 1.7 LXDE
- PorteuX 1.7 Cinnamon
- PorteuX 1.7 MATE
- PCLinuxOS 2024.10 KDE Plasma
- PCLinuxOS 2024.10 Xfce
- PCLinuxOS 2024.10 MATE
- openmamba GNU/Linux 20241018
- KDE neon 20241017
- IPFire 2.29 Core Update 189
- Solus 4.6
- Voyager Live 24.10
- Clonezilla Live 3.2.0-5
- MakuluLinux 2024-10-08
Linux apps, drivers, desktops, and kernels released this week
- DBeaver 24.2.3
- SciTE 5.5.3
- xfsprogs 6.11.0
- MKVToolNix 88.0
- Calibre 7.20
- Rust 1.82.0
- Linux kernel 6.11.4
- Linux kernel 6.6.57 LTS
- Linux kernel 6.1.113 LTS
- Linux kernel 5.15.168 LTS
- Linux kernel 5.10.227 LTS
- Mozilla Thunderbird 128.3.2 ESR
- Chromium 130.0.6723.58
- Mesa 24.2.5
- BIND 9.20.3
- VirtualBox 7.1.4
- fwupd 2.0.1
- LLVM 19.1.2
- MySQL 9.1.0
- Blender 4.2.3
- KiCad 8.0.6
- Samba 4.21.1
- Mozilla Firefox 131.0.3
Coming up next week
- Fedora Linux 41
- Ubuntu Touch OTA-6
- KDE Plasma 6.2.2
- GNOME 47.1
- GNOME 46.6
- …and hopefully many other exciting Linux news and releases
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