The thirty-sixth installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on June 6th, 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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It’s June already, and it has been a really great first week with new distro releases, including for Arch Linux, Tails, Clonezilla Live, Kali Linux, NixOS, openSUSE Leap, and Rescuezilla, as well as new app releases, including for the Mozilla Firefox web browser, Cinnamon desktop environment, NeoChat Matrix chat client, OBS Studio screen recording software, Blender 3D creation suite, and many of Xfce’s default apps.
On top of all that, I take a first look at the new COSMIC desktop environment developed by Linux hardware vendor System76 for its upcoming Pop!_OS Linux 21.04 distribution. You can enjoy these and much more in 9to5Linux’s Linux weekly roundup for June 6th, 2021, below!
Hot news of the week
- Firefox 89 arrives with a fresh new look and improved privacy
- Linux Mint 20.2 “Uma” announced with new bulk renaming app
- Xfce’s apps update for May 2021 brings improvements to Thunar, Mousepad, and more
- Tails 4.19 anonymous OS improves automatic upgrades and adds password feedback for sudo
- Clonezilla Live 2.7.2 disk cloning tool is out with many new features and improvements
- NeoChat 1.2 arrives with bubbles, inline replies, account switcher, and much more
- Cinnamon 5.0 desktop environment brings support for updating spices, and much more
- Arch Linux’s first ISO release powered by Linux kernel 5.12 is here
- Kali Linux 2021.2 is out for ethical hackers with new tools, Raspberry Pi improvements
- OBS Studio 27.0 live streaming and screen recording software is out with Wayland support
- NixOS 21.05 released with GNOME 40 and Linux kernel 5.10 LTS
- openSUSE Leap 15.3 arrives with Xfce 4.16, Sway tiling WM for Wayland, and more
- Blender 2.93 is here as a Long-Term Supported (LTS) release with numerous new features
- Hands-on with System76’s COSMIC desktop environment for Pop!_OS Linux 21.04
- Rescuezilla 2.2 supports disk cloning and NFS/SSH shares, based on Ubuntu 21.04
Linux distributions released this week
- Live Raizo 12.21.06.06
- openmamba GNU/Linux 20210605 Rolling
- CentOS Linux 8.4
- DebEX GNOME 210603
- Rescuezilla 2.2
- Septor Linux 2021.3
- openSUSE Leap 15.3
- openSUSE Leap 15.3 KDE Plasma
- openSUSE Leap 15.3 GNOME
- openSUSE Leap 15.3 Xfce
- openSUSE Leap 15.3 Rescue
- NixOS 21.05 GNOME
- NixOS 21.05 KDE Plasma
- OviOS Linux 3.11
- Kali Linux 2021.2
- Arch Linux 2021.06.01
- Tails 4.19
- Clonezilla Live 2.7.2-38
Linux apps, drivers, desktops and kernels released this week
- IceWM 2.4.0
- Git 2.32
- youtube-dl 2021.06.06
- Cinnamon 5.0.2
- QCAD 3.26.4
- phpMyAdmin 5.1.1
- Calibre 5.20
- Pidgin 2.14.5
- PipeWire 0.3.29
- Linux kernel 5.12.9
- Linux kernel 5.10.42 LTS
- Linux kernel 5.4.124 LTS
- Linux kernel 4.19.193 LTS
- Linux kernel 4.14.235 LTS
- Linux kernel 4.9.271 LTS
- Linux kernel 4.4.271 LTS
- OpenLDAP 2.5.5
- NVIDIA 460.84
- Tor Browser 10.0.17
- Mozilla Thunderbird 78.11.0
- Blender 2.93.0
- Samba 4.14.5
- Mudlet 4.12
- Apache 2.4.48
- SciTE 5.0.3
- PHP 8.0.7
- OBS Studio 27.0
- Opera 76.0.4017.175
- Cinnamon 5.0.1
- NeoChat 1.2
- SABnzbd 3.3.0
- util-linux 2.37
- Firebird 4.0.0
- ImageMagick 7.0.11-14 GCC
- ImageMagick 7.0.11-14 Clang
- Mozilla Firefox 89.0
- DBeaver 21.1.0
- QCAD 3.26.3
- Pacstall 1.3
- GNOME Commander 1.12.2
Coming up next week
- KDE Plasma 5.22
- Second point release of KDE Gear 21.04
- KDE Frameworks 5.83
- … and hopefully many other exciting Linux news and releases!
