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The fourteenth installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here, for the week ending on January 3rd, and the first for 2021, keeping you guys up to date with the most important things that have happened in the Linux world. If you missed last week’s Weekly Roundup, you can check it out here.
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year everyone! I hope you had a great and safe party on New Year’s Eve and that 2021 will bring you happiness and peace. I also hope you’re ready for more Linux news as I intend to keep you guys up to date with everything that’s important in the Linux world throughout the year.
As you can imagine, this past week has been relaxing due to the New Year’s break, but we did had some very nice releases on the first day of the year as it looked like everyone rushed to push their brand-new release out the door in 2021. There were also many updated packages and distros, so check them all out below.
Hot news of the week
- Deepin 20.1 arrived with improved performance and an enhanced desktop environment
- OpenMandriva Lx 4.2 promises full support for ARM64 devices like Raspberry Pi and Pinebook Pro
- Septor Linux 2021 launched with KDE Plasma 5.20.4 desktop and Tor Browser 10.0.7
- First Arch Linux ISO release powered by Linux kernel 5.10 LTS is here
- KDE teased us with production-ready Plasma Wayland and improved fingerprint support
- Slackel 7.4 distro arrived with Linux kernel 5.10 LTS and full portability
- Nitrux 1.3.6 distro was released with KDE Plasma 5.20.4 desktop and Linux kernel 5.10 LTS
- BleachBit 4.2 system cleaner added support for latest Ubuntu and Fedora Linux releases
Linux distributions released this week
- GeckoLinux STATIC Plasma 152.210102.0
- GeckoLinux ROLLING Plasma 999.210102.0
- GeckoLinux NEXT Plasma 152.210102.0
- ArchBang GNU/Linux 0101
- Garuda Linux 210101 KDE Multimedia
- Garuda Linux 210101 KDE Barebone
- Garuda Linux 210101 GNOME
- Garuda Linux 210101 GNOME Barebone
- Garuda Linux 210101 Xfce
- Garuda Linux 210101 LXQt
- Garuda Linux 210101 Cinnamon
- Garuda Linux 210101 MATE
- Garuda Linux 210101 bspwm
- Garuda Linux 210101 i3
- Garuda Linux 210101 Wayfire
- Garuda Linux 210101 RecBox
- Garuda Linux 210101 Qtile
- Garuda Linux 210101 Dr460nized
- Garuda Linux 210101 Dr460nized Gaming
- Rescuezilla 2.1.2
Linux apps, drivers, desktops and kernels released this week
- DBeaver 7.3.2
- Cawbird 1.3.1
- youtube-dl 2021.01.03
- IceWM 2.0.1
- Xreader 2.8.2
- Xed 2.8.4
- BleachBit 4.2.0
- Cinnamon 4.8.5
- Busybox 1.33.1
- VueScan 9.7.39
- GNU Wget 1.21
- Rust 1.49.0
- MAME 0.227
- Mesa 20.3.2
- mutt 2.0.4
- Linux kernel 5.10.4
- Linux kernel 5.4.86 LTS
- Linux kernel 4.19.164 LTS
- Linux kernel 4.14.213 LTS
- Linux kernel 4.9.249 LTS
- Linux kernel 4.4.249 LTS
- GnuCash 4.4
- Nuvola Player 4.20.0
- Doxygen 1.9.0
- Git 2.30.0
Coming up next week
- Fifth and last KDE Plasma 5.20 point release
- The KDE Apps update for January 2021
- A new KDE Frameworks monthly update
- New GNOME 3.36 and 3.38 point releases
- … and hopefully many other exciting Linux news!
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