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The twenty-fourth installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is out, for the week ending on March 14th, keeping you guys up to date with the most important things happening in the Linux world. If you missed last week’s Weekly Roundup, you can check it out here.
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This has been a slow week in Linux news, but we had some very nice releases, both on the hardware and software sides. New Linux computers saw the light of day from TUXEDO Computers and System76, Star Labs added Coreboot support to their LabTop Mk III laptop, and Mesa 21.0 graphics stack launched with many goodies for Linux gamers.
On top of that, Canonical shared a first look at their upcoming new Ubuntu Desktop installer and announced the upcoming transition to ESM (Extended Security Maintenance) support for Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus), and I’m talking a look at a new Debian-based distro called TeLOS, which promises a different approach on the Linux desktop.
You can enjoy these, along with the latest distro and software releases in the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for March 14th, 2021, below!
Hot news of the week
- Canonical shares a first look at Ubuntu’s upcoming new desktop installer
- Flatpak 1.10.2 security update is out to patch a vulnerability that lets apps access host OS files
- Star LabTop Mk III Linux laptop owners get Coreboot open-source firmware support
- TUXEDO Computers launches their first Linux gaming laptops with NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3000 GPUs
- Firefox 86.0.1 point release is out to fix frequent Linux crashes on browser launch and other bugs
- System76 unveils the Thelio Mira Linux PC with AMD Ryzen CPUs and NVIDIA graphics
- Mesa 21.0 open-source graphics stack arrives with many new features and improvements
- LibreOffice 7.0.5 point release is out fix more than 100 bugs
- Canonical announces that Ubuntu 16.04 will enter Extended Security Maintenance (ESM) on April 30th, 2021
- KDE Frameworks 5.80 adds support for HEIF and HEIC image formats to all KDE apps
- TeLOS Linux Debian-based distro promises a modern approach on the Linux desktop
Linux distributions released this week
- SparkyLinux 2021.03 GameOver
- SparkyLinux 2021.03 Multimedia
- SparkyLinux 2021.03 Rescue
- Voyager Linux 20.04.2
- Venom Linux 20210312
- TeLOS Linux 2021-03-02
- KDE neon 20210311
- SystemRescue 8.01
- Live Raizo 12.21.03.04
Linux apps, drivers, desktops and kernels released this week
- Calamares 3.2.38
- youtube-dl 2021.03.14
- Mudlet 4.11
- xfsprogs 5.11.0
- Chromium 89.0.4389.90
- systemd 247.4
- SQLite 3.35.0
- FreeCAD 0.19.1
- Mesa 21.0.0
- ImageMagick 7.0.11-3 Clang
- ImageMagick 7.0.11-3 GCC
- Linux kernel 5.11.6
- Linux kernel 5.10.23 LTS
- Linux kernel 5.4.105 LTS
- Linux kernel 4.19.180 LTS
- Linux kernel 4.14.225 LTS
- Linux kernel 4.9.261 LTS
- Linux kernel 4.4.261 LTS
- Mozilla Firefox 86.0.1
- btrfs-progs 5.11
- Wireshark 3.4.4
- Flatpak 1.10.2
- Calibre 5.13
- Samba 4.14.0
- WordPress 5.7
- Git 2.30.2
- Atom 1.55.0
- OpenZFS 2.0.4
Coming up next week
- KDE Plasma 5.21.3 point release
- GNOME 40 Release Candidate
- New GNOME 3.38 point release
- … and hopefully many other exciting news and releases!
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