The 169th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on December 31st, 2023, keeping you guys up to date 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.
Happy New Year!
I wish you all a Happy New Year and I want to thank all the people who sent us donations in 2023. Thank you so much for your continued support and I hope 2024 will be as rich in important achievements as we continue to promote Linux and Open Source, and your help is and will always be very much appreciated!
I will keep this short because you’re probably getting ready for the New Year’s Eve party, so all I want to say is that even if this week we only got a handful of news, due to obvious reasons, rest assured that we will be kicking off 2024 with awesome news and releases.
Below, you can read this week’s hottest news and access all the distro and package downloads in 9to5Linux’s Linux weekly roundup for December 31st, 2023.
Hot news of the week
- Firefox 122 enters public beta testing with improved built-in translation feature
- MX Linux Raspberry Pi edition officially released for Raspberry Pi 5 and 4 SBCs
- Scribus 1.6 open-source desktop publishing app released as a major update
Other GNU/Linux news of interest
- Gentoo Linux now offers binary packages for download and direct installation
- Fedora Linux 40 may merge /usr/bin and /usr/sbin
Linux distributions released this week
- Bluestar Linux 6.6.8
- wattOS R13
- ArcoLinuxL 24.01.04
- ArcoLinuxD 24.01.04
- ArcoLinuxS 24.01.04
- OpenMediaVault 7.0-20
- GnoppixNG 23.12.15
- Nobara Project 39 KDE Plasma
- Nobara Project 39 GNOME
- openmamba GNU/Linux 20231226
Linux apps, drivers, desktops, and kernels released this week
- Scribus 1.6.0
- Telegram Desktop 4.14.0
- ImageMagick 7.1.1-25 (GCC)
- ImageMagick 7.1.1-25 (Clang)
- VueScan 9.8.23
- FFmpeg 6.1.1
- ScummVM 2.8.0
- Chromium 120.0.6099.129
- Exim 4.97.1
- IceWM 3.4.5
- Rust 1.75.0
- Mesa 23.3.2
- Apache Subversion 1.14.3
- SciTE 5.4.1
- Doxygen 1.10.0
- Ruby 3.3.0
- DBeaver 23.3.1
Coming up next week
- Linux Mint 21.3
- New Arch Linux ISO snapshot
- Linux kernel 6.7
- …and hopefully many other exciting Linux news and releases!
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