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Discover JDownloader, a fantastic open-source download management tool that uses Java technology and offers advanced features exclusively available in this tool.

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This week, we got a lot of great releases, starting with a new bugfix update for the Audacity 3.7 audio editor and a new KDE Plasma 6.3 point release with numerous bug fixes, and continuing with a major GStreamer multimedia framework update and a big release for the digiKam photo management software.

Also this week, the IPFire hardened Linux firewall received a big kernel bump, the upcoming Mesa 25.1 graphics stack promises a big change for NVIDIA GPU users, the KDE Project released the KDE Frameworks 6.12 software suite, and Debian published new installation media for the Debian 12 Bookworm series.

On top of that, I take a look at the brand-new Garuda COSMIC edition and tell you all about the new features coming to the LXQt 2.2 desktop. 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 March 16th, 2025.

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Version:6.14 (mainline) Released:2025-03-24 Source:linux-6.14.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-6.14.tar.sign Patch:full

Catch up on the latest Linux news: Debian 12.10, Debian 12.10, Audacity 3.7.2, Kitty 0.40, Rust takes root in Ubuntu, KDE’s X11 support to continue until Plasma 7, and more.

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ShareFile is a secure content collaboration, file sharing and sync software. It’s designed to handle document workflows for any size team. It has built-in security features to protect files.

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Version:next-20250324 (linux-next) Released:2025-03-24

The adoption of open-source software in governments has had its ups and downs. While open source seems like a "no-brainer", it turns out that governments can be surprisingly resistant to using FOSS for a variety of reasons. Federico González Waite spoke in the Open Government track at SCALE 22x in Pasadena, California to recount his experiences working with and for the Mexican government. He led multiple projects to switch away from proprietary, often predatory, software companies with some success—and failure.

Security updates have been issued by Debian (libxslt, mercurial, and webkit2gtk), Fedora (chromium, dotnet8.0, ffmpeg, jupyterlab, and kitty), Mageia (expat and libxslt), Red Hat (pcs), SUSE (apptainer, chromium, kernel, libarchive, mercurial, python311, radare2, xorg-x11-server, and zvbi), and Ubuntu (golang-github-cli-go-gh-v2 and nltk).

Regata OS is a Brazilian Linux distribution based on openSUSE, focusing on desktop and gaming needs. Its main characteristics include a Regata OS store for installing applications and games, out-of-the-box integration with Google Drive, support for a gaming mode via the Vulkan graphics API, an extensive library of games in the Regata OS Game Access portal, support for configuration of hybrid graphics in notebooks, and easy transfer of files between a computer and a smartphone. The distribution's user interface is KDE Plasma.

RebornOS is a desktop-oriented Linux distribution based on Arch Linux. Although the RebornOS live image provides one desktop only, the installation process offers a choice to install one of the many popular desktop environments and window managers. Other interesting features of the distribution include support for Flatpak packages, optional installation of Anbox for running Android applications, a capability to rollback the system to a previous date, and graphical system configuration and maintenance tools.

Debian 12 “Bookworm” receives its tenth refresh (12.10), featuring 66 bug fixes and 43 security updates. Here’s more on that!

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Coming four months after digiKam 8.5, the digiKam 8.6 release is here to improve the application’s face management feature using cutting-edge AI technology by completely rewriting it, including the Face Classifier and Face Pipeline implementations. This leads to 25%-50% faster operation when using the full CPU.

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Rescuezilla is a specialist Ubuntu-based distribution designed for system rescue tasks, including backups and system restoration. It was forked from the "Redo Backup & Rescue" project which was abandoned in 2012. Like its predecessor, it allows a "bare-metal restore" after any hardware failure directly from the live image. Some of the features include: works directly from the live CD/USB image; works with Linux, macOS and Windows; automatically searches a local area network for drives to backup to or restore from; recovers lost or deleted data files; includes configuration tools for managing disk and drives. Rescuezilla uses a simplified LXDE user interface.

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 6.13.8, 6.12.20, and 6.6.84 stable kernels. Each contains a number of important fixes throughout the kernel tree; users of those series should upgrade.

Version:6.13.8 (stable) Released:2025-03-22 Source:linux-6.13.8.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-6.13.8.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.13.8

Version:6.12.20 (longterm) Released:2025-03-22 Source:linux-6.12.20.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-6.12.20.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.12.20

Version:6.6.84 (longterm) Released:2025-03-22 Source:linux-6.6.84.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-6.6.84.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.6.84

Finnix is a small, self-contained, bootable Linux CD distribution for system administrators, based on Debian. It can be used to mount and manipulate hard drives and partitions, monitor networks, rebuild boot records, install other operating systems, and much more.

There are a number of techniques that help fight the tide of spam. These include whitelisting, spam buckets, Bayesian filtering, fuzzy logic techniques, and attachment scanning. We pick our favorite open source solutions to counter spam.

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On a Mac, the Zoom settings for accessibility makes everything on the screen larger or enlarges just the area where the pointer is located. Zoom is part of macOS and is proprietary software. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

 

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