Fossery Tech :debian: :gnome:<p>This week's Linux and FOSS news:</p><p>LINUX NEWS</p><p>First alpha release of Debian 13 "Trixie" installer available with support for Linux kernel 6.12 LTS, RISCV64 support, dropped support for ARMel and i386 architectures, new theme:<br><a href="https://9to5linux.com/debian-13-trixie-installer-alpha-released-with-linux-6-12-lts-riscv64-support" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">9to5linux.com/debian-13-trixie</span><span class="invisible">-installer-alpha-released-with-linux-6-12-lts-riscv64-support</span></a></p><p>Nobara 41 released with open source NVIDIA driver by default, latest Vulkan drivers, Driver Manager includes Broadcom wireless driver, Package Manager gets improved Flatpak support, Welcome utility offers Discord from Flatpak Beta channel to support screen sharing on Wayland and audio sharing with PipeWire, offers Blender from Fedora repos to support H.264 recording via FFmpeg, revamped Davinci Resolve wizard etc.:<br><a href="https://9to5linux.com/fedora-based-nobara-41-gaming-distro-switches-to-open-source-nvidia-driver" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">9to5linux.com/fedora-based-nob</span><span class="invisible">ara-41-gaming-distro-switches-to-open-source-nvidia-driver</span></a></p><p>KaOS 2024.11 released with Linux kernel 6.11, Phonon sound backend, bcachefs support, KDE Plasma 6.2.3, KDE Gear 24.08.3, KDE Frameworks 6.8.0, updated packages, Harper grammar and spellchecker installed by default, GTK2 removed from repos, Wayland mode for SDDM 0.20.0 etc.:<br><a href="https://alternativeto.net/news/2024/12/kaos-2024-11-released-with-linux-kernel-6-11-phonon-sound-backend-and-bcachefs-support/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">alternativeto.net/news/2024/12</span><span class="invisible">/kaos-2024-11-released-with-linux-kernel-6-11-phonon-sound-backend-and-bcachefs-support/</span></a></p><p>GNOME's new image viewer Loupe to get image editing feature for PNG and JPEG images, coming with GNOME 48 release in spring:<br><a href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/12/loupe-image-viewer-adds-crop-features" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/12/loupe-</span><span class="invisible">image-viewer-adds-crop-features</span></a><br>(That's really nice I guess, I missed the option to make smaller edits on the image directly within the image viewer without opening a separate program for it)</p><p>KDE Plasma 6.2.5 released with fix for a System Settings crash, X11 lock screen bug and more:<br><a href="https://9to5linux.com/kde-plasma-6-2-5-released-as-the-last-update-in-the-series-with-more-bug-fixes" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">9to5linux.com/kde-plasma-6-2-5</span><span class="invisible">-released-as-the-last-update-in-the-series-with-more-bug-fixes</span></a></p><p>(FOSS news in reply)</p><p><a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/WeeklyNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WeeklyNews</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/FOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FOSS</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSource</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" 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