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The long-time maintainer of libxml2, Nick Wellnhofer, resigns, with only critical regression fixes planned through 2025.

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It isn’t easy to figure out which of the many Linux apps out there are actually worth installing. Between endless GitHub projects, giant distro repositories, and half-abandoned apps, you can lose a whole afternoon just browsing before you even install anything.

So, I decided to cut through the noise. I’ve been checking my own workflows, looking at what’s actively maintained, and thinking about what’s genuinely fun or useful to explore when you’ve got a little downtime.

This week, I’ve pulled together six apps that are easy to install, practical for everyday use, and interesting enough that you’ll likely learn something new while trying them.

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Powered by the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel series, the Fedora Linux 43 beta ships with the soon-to-be-released GNOME 49 desktop environment for the flagship Fedora Workstation edition, as well as the latest KDE Plasma 6.4 desktop environment on the Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop edition.

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The SBC is powered by the Allwinner A733 SoC, featuring a hybrid octa-core CPU (dual-core Arm Cortex-A76 and hexa-core Arm Cortex-A55 up to 2.0GHz), integrated 3 TOPS NPU, and Imagination BXM-4-64 MC1 GPU, providing AI and multimedia processing capabilities.

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systemd is a Linux init system and system manager that’s used by most modern Linux distributions. We pick some useful CLI and TUI tools.

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Wine 10.15 adds Unicode 17, Zip64 support, and fixes 16 bugs, including issues with Steam, Sims 2, CapCut, and Visual Studio 2005.

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Proxmox Datacenter Manager 0.9 Beta lands with Debian 13, Linux kernel 6.14, ZFS 2.3.4, EVPN SDN, and a modern Rust-based web UI.

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Project home: https://github.com/juzzlin/Noteahead

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Distrobox is software which creates and manages container-based development environments without root privileges. It lets you run a wide range of Linux distributions on a single host system.

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Libadwaita 1.8 introduces AdwShortcutsDialog, AdwShortcutLabel, and styling updates, improving GNOME 49 app usability and design.

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GStreamer 1.26.6 introduces support for WVC1 and WMV3 codecs to V4L2 (Video for Linux API version 2), adds a new blocking adapter element to the threadshare plugin (gst-plugin-threadshare) for use in front of block elements like sinks that sync to the clock, and updates the librespot library to version 0.7 for compatibility with recent Spotify changes.

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Dubbed “Goodbye Stranger”, the MKVToolNix 95.0 release improves the chapter generation feature in the MKVToolNix GUI by implementing a new placeholder when generating chapters for appended files, which will be replaced by the appended file’s title metadata.

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Catch up on the latest Linux news: Garuda, VirtualBox 7.2.2, Hyprland 0.51, KDE Plasma 6.4.5, Ubuntu 25.10 switches to Dracut, Bcachefs transitioning to DKMS packaging, and more.

The post Linuxiac Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 37 (Sep 8 – 14, 2025) appeared first on Linux Today.

This week we got lots of releases for KDE Plasma, KDE Gear, KDE Frameworks, Steam Client, Puppy Linux BookwormPup64, Hyprland, fwupd, PipeWire, VirtualBox, Q4OS, Dash to Panel, GStreamer, Kodi, MKVToolNix, and many others.

On top of that, I tell you all about the new Linux laptops from Slimbook and what’s coming in LMDE 7 later this month. 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 September 14th, 2025.

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VirtualBox 7.2.2 fixes crashes, GUI freezes, and USB/IP issues, while also improving Linux KVM, macOS networking, and Windows ARM VM support.

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PipeWire 1.4.8 multimedia framework brings low-latency FireWire audio, Apple HomePod Mini fixes, JACK improvements, and a range of bug fixes.

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With Linux Mint 22.2 “Zara” hitting the streets earlier this month, the Linux Mint devs will now focus their efforts on the Linux Mint Debian Edition 7 (codename Gigi) release, which will be based on the Debian 13 “Trixie” operating system series and offer all the new features that were implemented in Linux Mint 22.2.

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A simple real-world test of the performance of the Radeon 890M with Jan, an open source ChatGPT-alternative that runs 100% offline.

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Based on the latest and greatest Debian 13 “Trixie” operating system series, Q4OS 6.1 (codename Andromeda) ships with the KDE Plasma 6.3.6 and Trinity Desktop Environment (TDE) 14.1.5 desktop environments. As with previous releases, the KDE Plasma edition uses the stock look from upstream.

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NetworkManager 1.54.1 is out, introducing global DNS overwrite, DHCP client ID in initrd, and important bug fixes.

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