9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: March 17th, 2024

The 179th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on March 17th, 2024, keeping you updated 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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This week was a bit slow in Linux news and releases, yet we still got some goodies like a new maintenance update for the latest KDE Plasma 6 desktop environment series, a new Raspberry Pi OS release for users of the tiny computer, a new major OBS Studio release, and a new GNU Linux-libre kernel for software freedom lovers.

On top of that, I show you how to install Linux kernel 6.8 on Ubuntu and System76 refreshed their Adder WS Linux laptop with updated internals. Below you can check out this week’s hottest news and access all the distro and package downloads released this past week in 9to5Linux’s Linux weekly roundup for March 17th, 2024.

Hot news of the week

• GNU Linux-libre 6.8 kernel arrives for software freedom lovers
• KDE Plasma 6.0.2 improves Night Color, Discover, Plasma Wayland, and more
• KaOS Linux 2024.03 is out to deliver a stable KDE Plasma 6 experience
• OBS Studio 30.1 arrives with AV1 support for VA-API, PipeWire Camera source
• Raspberry Pi OS is now powered by Linux 6.6 LTS, improves Raspberry Pi 5 support
• System76 refreshes its Adder WS Linux laptop with an HX-Class 14th Gen Intel CPU
• digiKam 8.3 automatically tags images using deep learning neural network
• Tutorial: How to install Linux kernel 6.8 on Ubuntu

Linux distributions released this week

• 4MLinux 45.0
• 4MServer 45.0
• 4MLinux 45.0 Core
• CachyOS Linux 240316 KDE Plasma
• Raspberry Pi OS 2024-03-15
• Void Linux 20240314 Xfce
• KDE neon 20240314
• SparkyLinux 7.3 KDE Plasma
• SparkyLinux 7.3 Xfce
• SparkyLinux 7.3 LXQt
• SparkyLinux 7.3 MATE
• SparkyLinux 7.3 MinimalGUI
• SparkyLinux 7.3 MinimalCLI
• TheSSS 45.0
• Univention Corporate Server 5.0-7
• Voyager Live 12.5
• SDesk 2024.03.13
• Mabox Linux 24.03
• KaOS Linux 2024.03
• Live Raizo 15.24.03.09

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

• GTK 4.14.1
• Linux kernel 6.8.1
• Linux kernel 6.7.10
• Linux kernel 6.6.22 LTS
• Linux kernel 6.1.82 LTS
• Linux kernel 5.15.152 LTS
• Linux kernel 5.10.213 LTS
• Linux kernel 5.4.272 LTS
• Linux kernel 4.19.310 LTS
• dxvk-nvapi 0.7.0
• GNU Octave 9.1.0
• KiCad 8.0.1
• digiKam 8.3.0
• Snort 3.1.82.0
• Calibre 7.7
• Mesa 24.0.3
• Apache Eclipse 4.31
• lighttpd 1.4.75
• Chromium 122.0.6261.128
• PipeWire 1.0.4
• Telegram Desktop 4.15.2
• OBS Studio 30.1
• GTK 4.14.0
• SQLite 3.45.2
• Distrobox 1.7.0.1
• fwupd 1.9.15
• SABnzbd 4.2.3
• MKVToolNix 83.0
• OpenSSH 9.7p1

Coming up next week

• Mozilla Firefox 124
• KDE Gear 24.02.1
• GNOME 46
• Linux kernel 6.9 Release Candidate
• …and hopefully many other exciting Linux news and releases!

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