The 180th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on March 24th, 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 week, fans of the GNOME desktop environment got the major GNOME 46 update and a new point release of the GNOME 45 series, while the rest of us got a new major Firefox release, a new production-ready NVIDIA graphics driver, and the first point release of the KDE Gear 24.02 software suite.
This week also brought us a new major release of the independent 4MLinux distribution, a new release of the DXVK Vulkan-based implementation of D3D9, D3D10, and D3D11 for Linux gaming, as well as a new Linux-powered laptop from System76.
On top of that, I’ve compiled a list of the top 5 Linux distros you can download to try the latest KDE Plasma 6 desktop environment, Red Hat announced the Nova project as the successor of the Nouveau open-source graphics driver for NVIDIA GPUs, and Linus Torvalds kicked off the RC release cycle of Linux kernel 6.9.
Below you 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 March 24th, 2024.
Hot news of the week
- 4MLinux 45.0 arrives with Linux kernel 6.6 LTS, new printing drivers
- Mozilla Firefox 124 is now available for download with various improvements
- GNOME 45.5 is here with small updates for GNOME Shell, Mutter, and GNOME Tweaks
- NVIDIA 550.67 Linux graphics driver brings Wayland fixes, better support for VKD3D games
- Firefox 125 enters public beta testing with URL paste suggestions, PDF highlighting
- Top 5 Linux distributions to try the KDE Plasma 6 desktop right now
- DXVK 2.3.1 brings more efficient shader code generation on NVIDIA GPUs
- GNOME 46 “Kathmandu” desktop environment officially released, here’s what’s new
- KDE Gear 24.02.1 improves Dolphin, Spectacle, Okular, and other KDE apps
- System76 unveils new Lemur Pro Linux laptop with Intel Core Ultra processors
- Red Hat announces Nova, a Rust-based GSP-only graphics driver for NVIDIA GPUs
- Linus Torvalds announces the first Linux kernel 6.9 Release Candidate
Other GNU/Linux news of interest
- KDE Project warns about malicious third-party global themes and widgets for Plasma
- Mozilla fixes two zero-day security vulnerabilities in Firefox 124.0.1
- Valve introduces Steam Families
- Canonical unveils the Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) mascot and default wallpaper
- System76 announces that the COSMIC Store is coming along nicely
- Canonical’s Snap Store now requires manual review of all new Snap name registrations due to malicious crypto-wallet Snaps
Linux distributions released this week
Linux apps, drivers, desktops, and kernels released this week
- qBittorrent 4.6.4
- SysVinit 3.09
- DBeaver 24.0.1
- GNU Emacs 29.3
- OBS Studio 30.1.1
- Tor Browser 13.0.13
- Mozilla Firefox 124.0.1
- VueScan 9.8.30
- GStreamer 1.24.1
- CMake 3.29.0
- Rust 1.77.0
- OpenVPN 2.6.10
- Docker 26.0.0
- DXVK 2.3.1
- BIND 9.18.25
- Chromium 123.0.6312.58
- LLVM 18.1.2
- man-pages 6.7
- Mozilla Thunderbird 115.9.0
- NVIDIA 550.67
- WirePlumber 0.5.0
Coming up next week
- Fedora Linux 40 Beta
- KDE Plasma 6.0.3
- …and hopefully many other exciting Linux news and releases!
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