9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: February 20th, 2022

The seventy-three installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on February 20th, 2022, 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, you can check it out here.

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This has been yet another slow week for Linux news as we only saw a few distro releases, including Kali Linux’s first release in 2022, KaOS Linux’s second release in 2022, as well as AV Linux’s first release in 2022, which is now based on MX Linux.

Also this week, Linux phone and tablet users received a new Ubuntu Touch OTA update, KDE Plasma users got a new point release of their favorite desktop environment, and Linux gamers got a new Proton release to run the latest Windows games.

On top of that, I take a look a Minder as the Flatpak App of the Week, show you how to install the latest KDE Plasma 5.24 LTS desktop environment on Kubuntu 21.10, and take a first look at GNOME 42’s new built-in screenshot and screencast feature.

You can enjoy this and much more in 9to5Linux’s Linux weekly roundup for February 20th, 2022, below!

Hot news of the week

• Kali Linux 2022.1 arrives with new “Everything” flavor, new tools, and a visual refresh
• KaOS Linux 2022.02 is out with KDE Plasma 5.24 and Plasma Wayland as default session
• Tutorial: How to install KDE Plasma 5.24 LTS on Kubuntu 21.10
• AV Linux MX-21 multimedia production distro is here based on MX Linux 21, Linux 5.15 LTS
• KDE Plasma 5.24 LTS gets first point release to improve Plasma Wayland and Overview effect
• Valve releases Proton 7.0 with major improvements for Linux gaming
• Ubuntu Touch OTA-22 rolling out now with initial FM Radio support, WebGL support
• Flatpak App of the Week: Minder – powerful mind mapping software to visualize your ideas
• First look at GNOME 42’s built-in screenshot and screencast feature

Linux distributions released this week

• Antivirus Live CD 39.0-0.104.2
• Bluestar Linux 5.16.10
• Snal Linux 1.14
• AV Linux MX-21
• Kali Linux 2022.1
• KaOS Linux 2022.02
• Kodachi Linux 8.15

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

• DBeaver 21.3.5
• SABnzbd 3.5.1
• PeaZip 8.5.0
• Mutt 2.2.1
• Ventoy 1.0.70
• Ruby 3.1.1
• PipeWire 0.3.47
• Calibre 5.37
• WebKitGTK 2.34.6
• Mozilla Firefox 97.0.1
• Drupal 9.3.6
• snapd 2.54.3
• KiCad 6.0.2
• XWayland 22.1.0
• Linux kernel 5.16.10
• Linux kernel 5.15.24 LTS
• Linux kernel 5.10.101 LTS
• Linux kernel 5.4.180 LTS
• Linux kernel 4.19.230 LTS
• Linux kernel 4.14.267 LTS
• Linux kernel 4.9.302 LTS
• Proton 7.0
• Mozilla Thunderbird 91.6.1
• qBittorrent 4.4.1
• PHP 8.1.3

Coming up next week

• KDE Plasma 5.24.2
• GNOME 41.4
• Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS
• Steam Deck launch
• GNOME 42 beta
• …and hopefully many other exciting Linux news and releases!

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