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#debian13

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This week's Linux and FOSS news:

LINUX NEWS

Debian 13 will include initial RISC-V support, with limited board support for now:
phoronix.com/news/Debian-13-RI

GNOME introduces Foundry, a development tool which extract's Builder's functionality into a library and CLI tool:
phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Builde

KDE Plasma 6.5 will be able to send notications about low printer ink level, will include Pointer Warp support for Wayland:
phoronix.com/news/Plasma-6.5-L

OBS Studio Snap app rebased on Core24 instead of Core22, built for official OBS Project PPA instead of unofficial, unmaintained OBS Studio Portable, better Intel GPU support:
omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/07/obs-st

KaOS 2025.07 available with Qt5-based KDE Frameworks removed from default install, Plasma 6.4, updated packages, Phonon uses MPV as default backend instead of VLC:
betanews.com/2025/07/24/kaos-l

Fedora considers reducing the scope that BIOS systems can hold up a release:
phoronix.com/news/Fedora-Non-U

New migration tool Operese available, for migrating files and settings from Windows 10 to a Kubuntu installation:
betanews.com/2025/07/22/saying
(It's a pretty cool concept overall, but I think giving KDE Plasma for Linux newcomers isn't really the best idea, because the tons of customization options, and occasional bugs here and there might scare away some Windows users. I would rather give them Zorin OS with their customized version of GNOME, or Linux Mint / LMDE with Cinnamon. (No, I'm not a KDE hater, I think it's a great option for those who want to fully customize their desktop experience, or the PewDiePie type of guys who already adopted the mindset of tweaking around, playing around with the options, not wanting to go back to Windows when encountering a bug, but it's not for every newcomer.))

Wayback 0.1 released as a first preview release:
phoronix.com/news/Wayback-0.1-

(FOSS news in comments)

www.phoronix.comDebian 13.0 Ready To Introduce Formal RISC-V Support But Still Bound By Slow HardwareWith the Debian 13.0 release planned for 9 August, one of the notable fundamental features with this Debian 'Trixie' release is now supporting RISC-V as an official CPU architecture

Debian 13 (Trixie) sarà la prima distribuzione a supportare ufficialmente l’architettura RISC-V

Qui in Mia Mamma usa Linux abbiamo raccontato l’evoluzione dell’architettura RISC-V che rappresenta da sempre la realizzazione del sogno di ogni appassionato di open-source: una piattaforma libera tanto a livello software, quanto a livello hardware.

#debian13 #UnoLinux #linux #gnulinux #opensource

@opensource #gnulinuxitalia

miamammausalinux.org/2025/07/d

www.miamammausalinux.orgDebian 13 (Trixie) sarà la prima distribuzione a supportare ufficialmente l'architettura RISC-VIl prossimo 9 agosto, se non ci saranno cataclismi intesi come bug bloccanti improvvisi, verrà pubblicata la nuova versione stable di Debian, la 13, nome in co

The release of Debian 13 "Trixie" is near as the Full Freeze starts on July 27th. The final release it set for August 9th.

Debian 13 will add official support for riscv64, a total amount of 11294 new packages, over 42821 packages will be updated, and it will transition to 64-bit time_t ABI

More informations in their release notes:
debian.org/releases/trixie/rel

www.debian.org2. What’s new in Debian 13 — release-notes documentation

Another example how our #education system fails to prepare our kids for life:

I met an engineer(!) who thought that switching from a 4G Internet router to fiber glass Internet would boost the signal strength in his Ethernet sockets and of his #WiFi so that it'd reach more corners in his house. 🛜

He further thought that he'd be able to drive his 4K TV screen for streaming high-res videos using a 7 year old 200€ laptop on HDMI. The poor thing even struggles to run very basic apps because of his very limited hardware features. He also accused the 4G Internet router for the resulting streaming issues. 📶

I spend several hours to explain things to him. And now he's going to buy a used (lenovo) notebook to run #Linux on it, which I showed to him briefly. 👍

(Btw, #Debian13 + #Gnome perfectly integrates the whole #Google #cloud shit.)

So, people actually *want* to learn. We just don't teach the right stuff.

The Debian project plans to officially release its 13th version, with the code name Trixie, on August 9th 2025.

Debian Trixie prévue pour le 9 août ! \o/
Comprendre : la release du 9 août deviendra la nouvelle Stable LTS.

#Debian13.0 Ready To Introduce Formal #RISCV Support But Still Bound By Slow Hardware
#Debian's RISC-V ambitions date back a decade when thfirst #RISCV64 port was started for Debian and then after all the work over the years, Debian 13.0 in August will finally debut it as an official architecture. #RV64GC is the current target for Debian RISC-V and using UEFI-based booting as the default. Over seventeen thousand source Debian packages are building for RISC-V with Trixie.
phoronix.com/news/Debian-13-RI

www.phoronix.comDebian 13.0 Ready To Introduce Formal RISC-V Support But Still Bound By Slow HardwareWith the Debian 13.0 release planned for 9 August, one of the notable fundamental features with this Debian 'Trixie' release is now supporting RISC-V as an official CPU architecture

- phoronix.com/news/Debian-13.0- (Debian 13.0 "Trixie" Planning For Release On August 9)

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The Debian release team today shared their final release plans for Debian 13 "Trixie" that aims to be out as stable in less than one month's time.

Debian developers are working to officially release Debian Linux 13.0 on the 9th of August. For that 9 August release to happen, the full freeze of Debian 13 will happen on 27 July.

Debian developers are hoping for a lot of testing to happen between now and then for Debian Trixie, especially in that final week during the freeze period.

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- debian.org/releases/trixie/rel ( Issues to be aware of for trixie)

www.phoronix.comDebian 13.0 "Trixie" Planning For Release On August 9The Debian release team today shared their final release plans for Debian 13 'Trixie' that aims to be out as stable in less than one month's time.

Debian Trixie coming up!

lists.debian.org/debian-devel-

Planned release on Aug 9. That's three weeks from now.

If you don't want to update immediately when Debian 13 hits your mirror, now is a good time to check your /etc/apt/sources.list* to verify that they reference "bookworm" and not "stable", or "trixie" and not "testing" if you want to settle onto Trixie instead of staying on Testing.

lists.debian.orgtrixie release planning

This week's Linux and FOSS news:

LINUX NEWS

Debian 13 final freeze set for 27 July, official release for 9 August:
phoronix.com/news/Debian-13.0-

KDE Plasma 6.4.3 released with improved automatic screen scale calculator on Wayland, accessibility improvements, bug fixes:
9to5linux.com/kde-plasma-6-4-3

KDE Plasma 6.5 will include rounded bottom corners for windows:
phoronix.com/news/KDE-Rounded-
(Rounded corners are everywhere. You can't escape them lol)

Plasma Bigscreen sees active development again, thanks to Plasma Mobile contributor Espi:
omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/07/plasma

Clear Linux OS shutting down due to financial issues of Intel:
community.clearlinux.org/t/all
("Rest assured that Intel remains deeply invested in the Linux ecosystem, actively supporting and contributing to various open-source projects and Linux distributions to enable and optimize for Intel hardware." Shutting down Clear Linux OS isn't the only thing affecting Linux though. See next linked article.)

Intel WMI Slim Bootloader "SBL" firmware update driver for Linux being orphaned due to departures:
phoronix.com/news/Intel-SLM-Dr

Linux Mint monthly report: Linux Mint 22.2 planned with HWE kernel, fingerprint authentication, theme updates, accent color support, improved libAdwaita compatibility, improved Wayland support; LMDE 7 planned with Debian 13 base, OEM support; blog comment moderation made more strict to eliminate politics:
blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4860

Hyprland 0.50 released with new render scheduling, legacy renderer dropped, explicit sync support always used by default, "no screenshare" option to black out any window during screen-sharing:
phoronix.com/news/Hyprland-0.5

Slackware turns 32:
ostechnix.com/celebrating-slac

(more Linux and FOSS news in comments)

www.phoronix.comDebian 13.0 "Trixie" Planning For Release On August 9The Debian release team today shared their final release plans for Debian 13 'Trixie' that aims to be out as stable in less than one month's time.