The 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for January 5th, 2025, brings news about Debian 13 installer, KDE Plasma 6.2.5, Nobara 41, PeaZip 10.2, and more.

Mozilla Firefox 134 open-source web browser is now available for download with support for touchpad hold gestures on Linux.

NVIDIA compiler engineers have spent the past several months working on a proposed GCC option -flto-partition=locality for having the compiler optimize the code layout for locality between callees and callers as part of the link-time optimization (LTO) process

Mozilla has published the Firefox 134.0 release binaries today ahead of their official release tomorrow

Ubuntu Linux has received updates that address security vulnerabilities in Tinyproxy, HWE, and Raspberry Pi Tinyproxy vulnerability Linux kernel (HWE) vulnerabilities Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi) vulnerabilities Tinyproxy vulnerability Ubuntu Security Notice…

Samba 4.21.3 has been released and is the most recent stable release that has been released in the Samba 4.21 release series. Additional replication loops against Azure Active Directory, compound rename from Mac clients failing with NT_STATUS_INTERNAL_ERROR…

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I'm genuinely looking forward to replaying through Medal of Honor: Allied Assault and the expansions thanks to the open source OpenMoHAA project that just put out a new Beta release.

Although it appears that after a 22-year run that linux.conf.au is now a thing of the past, the folks who brought it to you have launched a new conference.

croissant is a stacking Wayland compositor that's written in the C programming language. It's free and open source software.

Sly is billed as friendly free and open source image editor that requires no internet connection or preexisting expertise.

ns-3 is a discrete-event network simulator for Internet systems, targeted primarily for research and educational use.

Ghostty is a fast, feature-rich, and cross-platform terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration.

AB Download Manager is software which is designed to make it easier and quicker to download files from anywhere.

GnuPG is a superb tool though it’s a command line affair. If you’re looking for a GUI frontend, check out these tools.

Catch up on the latest Linux news: Chimera Linux, Nobara 41, Sparky 7.6 releases, Debian 13 alpha installer, Plasma 6.2.5, Fish Shell in Rust, & more.

Absolute Linux, the Slackware-based distro, ends its journey as Paul Sherman announces its termination, citing a lack of time.

Mozilla Firefox 134 web browser touchpad gestures on Linux now allow for interrupted kinetic scrolling. Plus, HEVC hardware support lands on Windows.

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Linkwarden 2.9 bookmark manager is a significant release with AI-powered tagging, customizable themes, RSS features, and more.

Budgie Desktop enters 2025 with bold ambitions: Budgie 10.10's release, Wayland-only design, and groundwork for Budgie 11.