Fossery Tech :debian: :gnome:<p>This week's Linux and FOSS news:</p><p>LINUX NEWS</p><p>postmarketOS 24.12 released with Plasma Mobile 6.2.4, GNOME Mobile 46, Phosh 0.43.1, Sxmo 1.17.0, initramfs changes to improve logging and debug console, support for fonts for non-Latin languages, proper PAM support for SSH sessions, doas instead of sudo, and more:<br><a href="https://9to5linux.com/postmarketos-24-12-released-with-kde-plasma-mobile-6-2-4-gnome-shell-46" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">9to5linux.com/postmarketos-24-</span><span class="invisible">12-released-with-kde-plasma-mobile-6-2-4-gnome-shell-46</span></a><br>(RIP my postmarketOS installation. When I ran postmarketos-release-upgrade, terminal froze completely, had to reboot the system, but it was in a half upgraded state, so it basically borked itself...)</p><p>Linux kernel 6.13 RC4 released with AMD GPU fixes, BPF and network fixes, memory management and VM fixes, thermal and power management improvements etc.:<br><a href="https://ostechnix.com/linux-kernel-6-13-rc4-released/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ostechnix.com/linux-kernel-6-1</span><span class="invisible">3-rc4-released/</span></a></p><p>OpenSUSE introduces YQPkg to replace YaST:<br><a href="https://ostechnix.com/yqpkg-opensuse-package-manager/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ostechnix.com/yqpkg-opensuse-p</span><span class="invisible">ackage-manager/</span></a></p><p>Serpent OS enters alpha with GNOME and COSMIC spins, Linux kernel 6.12 LTS, patches for ASUS and Surface devices, open-source NVIDIA graphics driver in the repositories, support for XFS, EXT4, and F2FS filesystems:<br><a href="https://9to5linux.com/serpent-os-enters-alpha-with-gnome-and-cosmic-spins-powered-by-linux-6-12-lts" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">9to5linux.com/serpent-os-enter</span><span class="invisible">s-alpha-with-gnome-and-cosmic-spins-powered-by-linux-6-12-lts</span></a></p><p>4MLinux 47.0 released with installation support for KVM block devices, out-of-the-box support for several new apps (including Gnome CD Master and Dia), 4MServer provides easy setop for LAMP HTTP/FTP server, includes updated packages:<br><a href="https://9to5linux.com/4mlinux-47-0-released-with-installation-support-for-virtual-kvm-block-devices" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">9to5linux.com/4mlinux-47-0-rel</span><span class="invisible">eased-with-installation-support-for-virtual-kvm-block-devices</span></a></p><p>siduction 2024.1.0 released with Xfce 4.20, KDE Plasma 6.2, LXQt 2.1, Systemd 257.1-3, Systemd-boot support, support for SUSE’s Snapper tool for managing BTRFS snapshots:<br><a href="https://9to5linux.com/siduction-linux-2024-1-0-released-with-xfce-4-20-kde-plasma-6-2-and-lxqt-2-1" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">9to5linux.com/siduction-linux-</span><span class="invisible">2024-1-0-released-with-xfce-4-20-kde-plasma-6-2-and-lxqt-2-1</span></a></p><p>(FOSS news in reply)</p><p><a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/WeeklyNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WeeklyNews</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/FOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" 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