9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: July 10th, 2022

The ninety-three installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on July 10th, 2022, keeping you guys up to date with the most important things that are happening in the Linux world. If you missed last week’s 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup, catch up with things here.

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This week was all about Linux notebooks as we saw new releases of the TUXEDO Pulse 15, KDE Slimbook, System76 Lemur Pro, and Slimbook Executive laptops. KDE fans got new releases of the KDE Gear and Frameworks software suites, Debian users got new installation/live mediums with the latest updates, and Calibre and Audacious apps received major updates that brought exciting new features.

Below, you can enjoy these and much more in 9to5Linux’s Linux weekly roundup for July 10th, 2022.

Hot news of the week

• Slackware-based Porteus Linux 5.0 is out with eight desktop flavors and Linux 5.18
• TUXEDO Pulse 15 Gen2 Linux ultrabook out now with Ryzen 7 5700U, WQHD display
• KDE Slimbook Gen4 Linux laptop is available now with an AMD Ryzen 7 5700U CPU
• Ubuntu MATE 22.04 LTS is now available for Raspberry Pi SBCs
• SparkyLinux 2022.07 arrives with Linux kernel 5.18, new packages, and other changes
• KDE Gear 22.04.3 brings more bug fixes to Kdenlive, Konsole, and other KDE apps
• Slimbook Executive Linux ultrabooks now ship with 12th Gen Intel Alder Lake CPUs
• KDE Frameworks 5.96 adds battery levels for wireless touchpads, over 100 changes
• Debian GNU/Linux 11.4 “Bullseye” is here with 79 security updates and 81 bug fixes
• Audacious 4.2 adds initial support for Ogg FLAC streams, Winamp UI enhancements
• Calibre 6.0 is out with full-text search, ARM64 support on Linux, and Qt 6 port

Linux distributions released this week

• Debian GNU/Linux 11.4 KDE Plasma
• Debian GNU/Linux 11.4 GNOME
• Debian GNU/Linux 11.4 Xfce
• Debian GNU/Linux 11.4 Cinnamon
• Debian GNU/Linux 11.4 MATE
• Debian GNU/Linux 11.4 LXQt
• Debian GNU/Linux 11.4 LXDE
• Debian GNU/Linux 11.4 Standard
• Bluestar Linux 5.18.9
• KDE neon 20220707
• SparkyLinux 2022.07 KDE Plasma
• SparkyLinux 2022.07 Xfce
• SparkyLinux 2022.07 LXQt
• SparkyLinux 2022.07 MATE
• SparkyLinux 2022.07 MinimalGUI (Openbox)
• SparkyLinux 2022.07 MinimalCLI
• Oracle Linux 9.0
• Absolute Linux 20220701
• Snal Linux 1.19

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

• Deluge 2.1.1
• DBeaver 22.1.2
• ImageMagick 7.1.0-43 (GCC)
• ImageMagick 7.1.0-43 (Clang)
• MKVToolnix 69.0.0
• SciTE 5.2.4
• PHP 8.1.8
• Linux kernel 5.18.10
• Linux kernel 5.15.53 LTS
• Linux kernel 5.10.129 LTS
• Linux kernel 5.4.204 LTS
• Linux kernel 4.19.251 LTS
• Linux kernel 4.14.287 LTS
• Linux kernel 4.9.322 LTS
• PipeWire 0.3.54
• Snapcraft 7.0.10
• Mozilla Thunderbird 102.0.1
• Blender 3.2.1
• Mozilla Firefox 102.0.1
• WebKitGTK 2.36.4
• OpenSSL 3.0.5
• Usermin 1.851
• Webmin 1.996
• Tor Browser 11.0.15

Coming up next week

• New KDE Plasma 5.24 LTS point release
• New KDE Plasma 5.25 point release
• New GNOME 42 point release
• Ubuntu 21.10 EOL
• …and hopefully many other exciting Linux news and releases!

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