9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: May 11th, 2025
The 239th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on May 11th, 2025, 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, we got lots of great news, starting with new KDE Plasma, KDE Gear, and KDE Frameworks releases and continuing with a major Mesa graphics stack release, two new computers from Slimbook and System76, a new Raspberry Pi OS release, as well as new releases of fwupd, Calibre, Clonezilla Live, and Flatpak.
On top of that, I tell you all about what's coming in Linux Mint 22.2, LMDE 7, and Ubuntu 25.10. Below, you can check out this week’s hottest news and access all the distro and package downloads released this past week in the 9to5Linux weekly roundup for May 11th, 2025.
Hot news of the week
- Clonezilla Live 3.2.1-28 is out based on Ubuntu 25.04 and Linux kernel 6.14
- KDE Plasma 6.3.5 improves support for multi-screen setups, NVIDIA GPU users
- Ubuntu 25.10 (Questing Quokka) daily build ISOs are now available for download
- Slimbook launches Kymera Black Linux desktop computer for gamers and creators
- Raspberry Pi OS gets new Printers app, Linux 6.12 LTS, and Wayland improvements
- Fwupd 2.0.9 Linux firmware updater adds support for Intel Arc ‘Battlemage’ GPUs
- Mesa 25.1 open-source graphics stack is here with new features and game fixes
- KDE Gear 25.04.1 fixes session restore in the Dolphin file manager and other bugs
- Linux Mint 22.2 codenamed “Zara”, LMDE 7 will be called “Gigi”
- System76 refreshes Serval WS Linux laptop with NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti GPU
- Calibre 8.4 open-source ebook manager improves KEPUB output, fixes bugs
- KDE Frameworks 6.14 revamps New File dialog, expands KRunner unit conversion
- Flatpak 1.16.1 Linux app sandboxing and distribution framework brings more enhancements
Other GNU/Linux news of interest
- Canonical plans to replace sudo with Rust-based sudo-rs in future Ubuntu releases
- openSUSE removes Deepin Desktop from repositories due to packaging policy violation
Linux distributions released this week
- EasyOS 6.6.8
- CentOS Stream 10-20250506
- Pisi Linux 2.4.1 KDE Plasma
- Bluestar Linux 6.14.5
- KDE neon 20250508
- SDesk 20mini
- Plamo Linux 8.2
- Kumander Linux 2.1
- Clonezilla Live 3.2.1-28
- AUSTRUMI 5.0.6
- BigLinux 2025-05-04
- Manjaro Linux 25.0.1 Xfce
- Manjaro Linux 25.0.1 KDE Plasma
- Manjaro Linux 25.0.1 GNOME
- Ultimate Edition 2025.05.04
Linux apps, drivers, desktops, and kernels released this week
- Flatpak 1.16.1
- GNU M4
- Linux kernel 6.14.6
- Linux kernel 6.12.28 LTS
- Linux kernel 6.6.90 LTS
- Linux kernel 6.1.138 LTS
- Linux kernel 5.15.182 LTS
- Calibre 8.4
- man-pages 6.14
- Snort 3.7.4.0
- GNU gettext 0.25
- fwupd 2.0.9
- SQLite 3.49.2
- Chromium 136.0.7103.92
- Nmap 7.96
- LVM 2.03.32
- CMake 4.0.2
- PostgreSQL 17.5
Coming up next week
- Hopefully, many other exciting Linux news and releases!
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