@kde@floss.social I've been using it for most of the year in various #KVM #QEMU VMs. The earliest ones were ofc very rough [some wouldn't run, some ran but wouldn't update], but the one i installed on 27/7/25 is going gangbusters! I reckon it's a marvellous project... & is going to be far better than Neon [which i always greatly disliked, as i dislike ubuntu].

#KDELinux #ProjectBanana

@thelinuxexperiment

Nice roundup! As someone who likes to try something new now and then, but doesn't care enough to stay on top of all the #distro changes, this really helped! I'm eager to try #KDE #Linux / #ProjectBanana when it's at least as stable as #Neon. I've always disliked #Fedora, but I haven't tried it in years so hey, maybe this year is the year I give it a go again. It was also interesting to hear an opinion so different on #NixOS to the #JupiterBroadcasting folx.

This week's Linux and FOSS news:

LINUX NEWS

Linux kernel 4.19 and 6.11 reach EOL, 6.12 is the next LTS release:
https://9to5linux.com/its-official-linux-kernel-6-12-will-be-lts-supported-for-multiple-years
https://9to5linux.com/linux-kernel-6-11-reaches-end-of-life-its-time-to-upgrade-to-linux-kernel-6-12-lts
https://9to5linux.com/linux-4-19-the-last-of-the-linux-4-x-kernel-series-reaches-end-of-life

COSMIC alpha 4 released with Region & Language and Default Applications settings, COSMIC Media Player as default, new "Details" button in COSMIC Store for monitoring app installations, experimental Accessibility applet with a screenreader toggle etc.:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2024/12/cosmic-desktop-alpha-4-released-with-region-and-languages-default-apps-settings-and-more/

KDE and GNOME plan to make their own (immutable) distros: KDE is working on an Arch based distro code-named "Project Banana", GNOME OS will be a "rebranding" of the existing independent distro carbonOS:
https://news.itsfoss.com/kde-gnome-official-distro/
(Looks like Konqi is feelin' hor... hungry)

GNOME 47.2 released with improvement to the accessibility of keyboard backlight quick setting toggle, avoiding CPU stalls on secondary NVIDIA GPUs with directly attached monitors, fix for touchscreen drag-and-drop on Wayland sessions, improved cursor support when using virtual monitors, fix for maximized X11 when using native Xwayland scaling etc.:
https://9to5linux.com/gnome-47-2-officially-released-with-various-bug-fixes-and-improvements

openSUSE Leap Micro 6.1 released with new opensuse-migration-tool package (for simplified upgrade process), soft-reboot support, TOTP support for PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) logins etc.:
https://9to5linux.com/opensuse-leap-micro-6-1-released-with-simplified-and-smoother-upgrades

Last Arch ISO for 2024 available with Linux kernel 6.12, Archinstall 3.0:
https://9to5linux.com/last-arch-linux-iso-release-for-2024-brings-linux-kernel-6-12-and-archinstall-3-0

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