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
- GNU Linux-Libre 6.10 kernel is here for those seeking 100% freedom for their PCs
- KDE Plasma 6.1.3 improves Flatpak support in Discover and fixes more bugs
- VirtualBox 7.0.20 introduces initial support for openSUSE 15.6 and RHEL 9.5 kernels
- Blender 4.2 LTS 3D open-source graphics software arrives with many new features
- Audacity 3.6 open-source audio editor is out with master effects, FFmpeg 7 support
- NVIDIA 560 Linux graphics driver to fully adopt open-source GPU kernel modules
- KaOS Linux 2024.07 arrives with KDE Plasma 6.1 and Linux kernel 6.9
- OpenMandriva Lx 24.07 “ROME” is here with KDE Plasma 6.1 and Linux kernel 6.10
Other GNU/Linux news of interest
Linux distributions released this week
- Ultimate Edition 2024.07.21
- OpenMandriva Lx 24.07 KDE Plasma
- OpenMandriva Lx 24.07 GNOME
- OpenMandriva Lx 24.07 LXQt
- Bluestar Linux 6.9.10
- openmamba 20240721
- KaOS Linux 2024.07
- KDE neon 20240718
- Nobara Project 40
- Manjaro Linux 24.0.4 Xfce
- Manjaro Linux 24.0.4 KDE Plasma
- Manjaro Linux 24.0.4 GNOME
- Pardus Linux 23.2 GNOME
- Pardus Linux 23.2 Xfce
- Tails 6.5
- RELIANOID 7.3
Linux apps, drivers, desktops, and kernels released this week
- DBeaver 24.1.3
- Tux Paint 0.9.33
- Calibre 7.15
- CMake 3.30.1
- Linux kernel 6.9.10
- Linux kernel 6.6.41 LTS
- Linux kernel 6.1.100 LTS
- Linux kernel 5.15.163 LTS
- Linux kernel 5.10.222 LTS
- Linux kernel 5.4.280 LTS
- Linux kernel 4.19.318 LTS
- OpenVPN 2.6.12
- Snort 3.3.1.0
- Apache 2.4.62
- Mesa 24.1.4
- QEMU 9.0.2
- Chromium 126.0.6478.182
- Audacity 3.6.0
- WordPress 6.6
- VirtualBox 7.0.20
- Blender 4.2.0
Coming up next week
- Linux kernel 6.11 Release Candidate
- …and hopefully many other exciting Linux news and releases.
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