Welcome to week twenty-three of Linuxiac’s 2025 Weekly Roundup—your trusted authority for all things Linux & Open Source. Here’s a summary of all the major Linux and FOSS highlights during the past week (Jun 2 – 8).
Linux Distributions
We cover two updates in the field of Linux distributions, both of which are on the Enterprise Linux side:
- Rocky Linux 9.6 Released with New WSL Support, Updated Packages
- Oracle Linux 9.6 Released with UEK 8 and Enhanced Security Features
Software Updates
Apart from the distro releases, here’s a summary of the latest open-source software updates that earned a spot in our Linux & FOSS news this past week.
- VirtualBox 7.1.10 Rolls Out With Windows and Linux Improvements
- Fastfetch 2.45 System Information Tool Brings New GPU Vendor Detection
- KDE Gear 25.04.2 Apps Collection Rolls Out, Here’s What’s New
- PeerTube 7.2 Rolls Out with Fresh UI and Smarter Video Management Tools
- Fwupd 2.0.11 Released with New SELinux Metadata Support
- Raspberry Pi Imager 1.9.4 Arrives with UI Polish, Major Fixes
- Ubuntu Touch OTA-9 Rolls Out With VoLTE and Waydroid Upgrades
- RawTherapee 5.12 Enhances Color Tools and Camera Compatibility
Must-Reads You Can’t Miss
This week, there was some exciting news from the Linux and FOSS ecosystem, so stay tuned and don’t miss out. Here they are.
- KDE Encourages Windows 10 Users to Switch to Linux
- Linux Mint 20.x Reaches End of Life
- Debian Maintainers Request Delisting of Hyprland from Trixie
- XLibre Xserver: Banned by Red Hat Developer Plans Revival of X11
- Karton: KDE’s Libvirt-Powered Answer to GNOME Boxes and Virt-Manager
- Grafito: Systemd Journal Log Viewer with a Beautiful Web UI
Well, that was all. If you missed our previous wrap-up for the week of May 26 – Jun 1, you can catch up by checking here, where you’ll find Linux Kernel 6.15, AlmaLinux 10, Alpine 3.22, NVIDIA Display Driver v575, Wine 10.9, Firefox 139, Thunderbird 139, Archinstall 3.0.7, MinIO Steering Users Toward Paid Subscriptions, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Reaches EOL, Linux Format Magazine Ends with Issue 329, and more.
Needless to say, keep an eye on Linuxiac—it’s the perfect way to stay updated on all the latest from Linux and Open Source.
Wishing you a fantastic week ahead!
