#Linux Weekly Roundup for November 23rd, 2025: #Blender 5.0, #KDE Plasma 6.5.3, #Debian Libre Live Images, #PHP 8.5, #GIMP 3.2 Release Candidate, #AlmaLinux OS 9.7, VKD3D-Proton 3.0, #openSUSE's Agama 18 installer, KDE #Slimbook VII laptop, Finnix 251, #Budgie 10.10 Developer Preview, #Calibre 8.15, #Git 2.52, #Wireshark 4.6.1, #NetworkManager 1.54.2, #OpenVPN 2.6.16, HPLIP 3.25.8, and more https://9to5linux.com/9to5linux-weekly-roundup-november-23rd-2025

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Bundle of new and updated packages just landed into Fedora 44 rawhide in prep for rest of #Budgie 10.10-preview.1 related updates (budgie-desktop, budgie-session, budgie-desktop-defaults, comps updating).

Just waiting on approval for Change Proposal to cook up all the rest! ❤️

This week's Linux and FOSS news:

LINUX NEWS

Wayland-Only Budgie 10.10 Desktop Preview Released:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Budgie-10.10-Preview

KDE Spectacle Adds OCR Support To Copy Text Directly From Screenshots:
https://ostechnix.com/kde-spectacle-adds-ocr-support/
(Sounds nice, took note, I'll try it out if I need something like that, although OCRs aren't that great in my experience, even Terraform, they make a ton of mistakes even when recognizing English text, for niche languages like Hungarian it's basically useless.)

KDE Plasma 6.6 Adds ‘Exclude Certain Windows From Screen Recording’ Feature:
https://ostechnix.com/exclude-certain-windows-from-screen-recording-in-plasma-6-6/

Nautilus File Manager In GNOME 50 Will Load Thumbnails Much Faster:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-50-Nautilus-Thumbnails

AlmaLinux 9.7 debuts with performance enhancements, updated dev tools & improved security:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/11/almalinux-9-7-debuts-with-performance-enhancements-updated-dev-tools-and-improved-security/

SUSE's Agama 18 OS Installer Released - i586 Support Dropped:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/SUSE-Agama-18-Released

Canonical Gets Flutter Up And Running On RISC-V For Ubuntu:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Canonical-Flutter-On-RISC-V

Xubuntu Reveals How its Website Was Hijacked:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/11/xubuntu-website-breach-report
(Canonical messed it up again, how surprising... Code injection shouldn't be that hard to prevent in most cases.)

TUXEDO ARM notebook based on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X1 Elite SoC (X1E) discontinued, due to Linux compatibility issues:
https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en/Discontinuation-of-ARM-notebooks-with-Snapdragon-X-Elite-SoC.tuxedo

Phosh 0.51.0 released with new location quick setting, extra options for Caffeine quick setting, improved brightness handling, etc.:
https://phosh.mobi/releases/rel-0.51.0/

(more Linux and FOSS news in comments)

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Budgie's transparent panel, materia-dark-compact, and the new Solus wallpaper just look so good together! 

#Solus #Budgie #DesktopEnvironment

In anticipation of #Budgie 10.10's release and shipping in @fedora #Fedora 44, I have just submitted a Change Proposal for its inclusion! I will be packaging up the components this week to go into rawhide 🚀

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Budgie_10.10

BIg thanks to @neal for the help with the proposal 👏

Wayland-Only Budgie 10.10 Desktop Environment Released as Developer Preview // @9to5linux

｢ Budgie 10.10 relies on a wide range of Wayland protocols, including ext-workspace-v1, wlr-foreign-toplevel-management-unstable-v1, wlr-layer-shell-unstable-v1, wlr-output-management-unstable-v1, and xdg-output-unstable-v1.

While they are working on their own Wayland compositor, the devs recommend using a wlroots-based compositor, such as Labwc ｣

https://9to5linux.com/wayland-only-budgie-10-10-desktop-environment-released-as-developer-preview

#budgie #wayland #opensource

Wayland-Only Budgie 10.10 Desktop Environment Released as Developer Preview

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://9to5linux.com/wayland-only-budgie-10-10-desktop-environment-released-as-developer-preview

#Budgie 10.10 Developer Preview Now Available as an #Wayland-Only Release https://9to5linux.com/wayland-only-budgie-10-10-desktop-environment-released-as-developer-preview

#Linux #OpenSource