The 144th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on July 2nd, 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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The end of June and the beginning of July were really hot and full of great news. We got new Libreboot and GNU Linux-libre kernel releases, a major Blender release that’s also an LTS one, a new Firefox release that’s also an ESR one, as well as new distro releases including Nitrux, Peppermint OS, and KaOS.
TUXEDO Computers announced a new Linux laptop, Collabora shared more details about their work on the NVK Vulkan driver for NVIDIA GPUs, Fedora Project plans on pushing their new Anaconda WebUI installer to the masses, and GNOME Project continues its work on the upcoming GNOME 45 desktop environment.
On top of that, I show you how to install the latest and greatest Linux 6.4 kernel on Ubuntu and give you a first look at the new Zorin OS Upgrader utility. You can read this week’s hottest news and access all the distro and package downloads in 9to5Linux’s Linux weekly roundup for July 2nd, 2023, below.
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Hot news of the week
- GNU Linux-Libre 6.4 kernel arrives for those who want to build 100% free PCs
- Open-Source NVIDIA Vulkan Driver NVK now supports older GPUs, new extensions
- Libreboot open-source BIOS/UEFI replacement gets support for new hardware
- Blender 3.6 LTS adds Light Trees support on AMD GPUs, HW ray-tracing on Intel Arc
- Fedora Linux 39 Workstation to ship with a more modern, web-based installer
- New TUXEDO InfinityBook Pro 16 Linux laptop gets NVIDIA RTX 4000 Series GPUs
- Zorin OS Upgrader Is Here to Make It Easier to Upgrade Your Zorin OS PCs
- NetworkManager 1.42.8 adds support for port priority for bonding and PPP 2.5
- Nitrux 2.9 is out with a new upgrade tool, latest KDE software, and much more
- Canonical releases new Ubuntu kernel security updates to fix 3 vulnerabilities
- Peppermint OS is now based on Debian GNU/Linux 12 “Bookworm”
- Independent distro KaOS 2023.06 is out with Linux kernel 6.3 and latest KDE software
- Firefox 115 ESR is here with hardware video decoding for Intel GPUs on Linux
- Tutorial: How to install Linux kernel 6.4 on Ubuntu
- GNOME 45’s file manager gets a search performance boost, better Grid View
Linux distributions released this week
- Arch Linux 2023.07.01
- KaOS 2023.06
- Peppermint OS 2023-07-01
- EasyOS 5.4.5
- MakuluLinux 2023-06-30
- ArcoLinuxL 23.07.01
- ArcoLinuxS 23.07.01
- ArcoLinuxD 23.07.01
- GnoppixNG 23.7.2 KDE Plasma
- GnoppixNG 23.7.2 GNOME
- KDE neon 20230629
- Live Raizo 14.23.06.28
- Proxmox 3.0 Backup Server
- NuTyX GNU/Linux 23.06.1 KDE Plasma
- NuTyX GNU/Linux 23.06.1 GNOME
- NuTyX GNU/Linux 23.06.1 Xfce
- NuTyX GNU/Linux 23.06.1 Cinnamon
- NuTyX GNU/Linux 23.06.1 Budgie
- NuTyX GNU/Linux 23.06.1 MATE
- NuTyX GNU/Linux 23.06.1 LXQt
- NuTyX GNU/Linux 23.06.1 LXDE
- NuTyX GNU/Linux 23.06.1 Enlightenment
- NuTyX GNU/Linux 23.06.1 CDE
- NuTyX GNU/Linux 23.06.1 JWM
- NuTyX GNU/Linux 23.06.1 Openbox
- Absolute Linux 20230625
- openmamba GNU/Linux 20230626
Linux apps, drivers, desktops, and kernels released this week
- Linux kernel 6.4.1
- Linux kernel 6.3.11
- Linux kernel 6.1.37 LTS
- Darktable 4.4.1
- Calibre 6.22
- Kodi 20.2
- VueScan 9.8.10
- NetworkManager 1.42.8
- Linux kernel 5.15.119 LTS
- Linux kernel 5.10.186 LTS
- Linux kernel 5.4.249 LTS
- Linux kernel 4.19.288 LTS
- Linux kernel 4.14.320 LTS
- MAME 0.256
- Chromium 114.0.5735.198
- util-linux 2.39.1
- Blender 3.6.0
- GnuCash 5.3
- ImageMagick 7.1.1-12 (GCC)
- ImageMagick 7.1.1-12 (Clang)
- PipeWire 0.3.72
Coming up next week
- New GNOME 44 point release
- GNOME 45 alpha release
- New KDE Gear 23.04 point release
- New KDE Frameworks release
- …and hopefully many other exciting Linux news and releases!
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