9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: July 16th, 2023

The 146th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on July 16th, 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.

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It’s been a slow week for Linux news and releases, yet we had some great announcements this week starting with SUSE’s announcement about forking RHEL to preserve choice in enterprise Linux, Thunderbird 115 with its brand-new Supernova UI, and Linux Mint 21.2 “Victoria” with its cool new features and enhancements.

On top of that, I tell you all about Star Labs’ new mini Linux PC and the end of life for the Linux 6.3 kernel series, and wish Slackware Linux a happy 30th birthday. You can read this week’s hottest news and access all the distro and package downloads in 9to5Linux’s Linux weekly roundup for July 16th, 2023, below.

Hot news of the week

• New Steam Client stable update fixes UI issues on Linux for Intel/AMD users
• SUSE announces free RHEL fork to preserve choice in enterprise Linux
• fwupd 1.9.3 adds support for more Thunderbolt 4 docks, TUXEDO InfinityBook Pro 13 v3
• Mozilla Thunderbird 115 is here with its Supernova UI, OpenPGP improvements, and more
• Linux kernel 6.3 reaches end of life and users are urged to upgrade to Linux 6.4
• Star Labs unveils the Byte Mk II mini Linux PC, drops AMD for Intel CPU
• Linux Mint 21.2 “Victoria” is now available for download, here’s what’s new
• Slackware Linux turns 30 years old, Happy Birthday!

Linux distributions released this week

• Linux Mint 21.2 Cinnamon
• Linux Mint 21.2 Xfce
• Linux Mint 21.2 MATE
• KDE neon 20230714
• EasyOS 5.4.7
• Pisi Linux 2.3.3 KDE Plasma
• Tails 5.15.1
• IPFire 2.27 Core Update 176
• MakuluLinux 2023-07-11
• KaOS 2023.07
• Void Linux 20230628 Xfce

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

• ImageMagick 7.1.1-13 (GCC)
• ImageMagick 7.1.1-13 (Clang)
• nftables 1.0.8
• VueScan 9.8.12
• Calibre 6.23
• Rust 1.71.0
• PipeWire 0.3.74
• Wireshark 4.0.7
• Mozilla Thunderbird 115.0
• Mozilla Firefox 115.0.2
• Linux kernel 6.4.3
• Linux kernel 6.3.13
• OpenLDAP 2.6.5

Coming up next week

• GNOME 44.3
• …and hopefully many other exciting Linux news and releases!

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