Linux Mint 22.2 Beta veröffentlicht: Das bringt Version „Zara“ https://fosstopia.de/linux-mint-22-2-beta-iso/ #LinuxMint #LinuxMint22.2 #LinuxMInt22.2Zara #LinuxMintNews

This week's Linux and FOSS news:

LINUX NEWS

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

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

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

Plasma Bigscreen sees active development again, thanks to Plasma Mobile contributor Espi:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/07/plasma-bigscreen-revival-kde-tv

Clear Linux OS shutting down due to financial issues of Intel:
https://community.clearlinux.org/t/all-good-things-come-to-an-end-shutting-down-clear-linux-os/10716
("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:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-SLM-Driver-Orphaned

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:
https://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:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Hyprland-0.50-Released

Slackware turns 32:
https://ostechnix.com/celebrating-slackware-linux-32nd-anniversary/

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Beta zu Linux Mint 22.2 steht bevor
https://linuxnews.de/beta-zu-linux-mint-22-2-steht-bevor/ #linuxmint22 #lmde7 #linux

Hat von Euch jemand Linux Mint auf Proxmox am laufen, stürzt bei mir immer nach ein paar Tagen ab. Dann hilft nur ein Hard Reset.

Linux Mint 22.2 rückt näher. Auch LMDE 7 blitzt am Horizont auf https://fosstopia.de/linux-mint-22-2-lmde-7/ #LinuxMint #LinuxMint22.2 #LinuxMInt22.2Zara #LinuxMintDebianEdition #LinuxMIntDebianEdition7 #LinuxMIntDebianEdition7Gigi #LinuxNews #LMDE #LMDE7 #LMDE7Gigi

This week's Linux and FOSS news:

LINUX NEWS

Ubuntu 24.10 will reach EOL on July 10, upgrading to 25.04 is recommended:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/06/ubuntu-24-10-oracular-oriole-eol-july-2025

Ubuntu 25.10 (shipping GNOME 49) will remove GNOME X11 session:
https://9to5linux.com/ubuntu-25-10-questing-quokka-to-remove-the-gnome-on-xorg-x11-session

Linux Mint 20 reached EOL, upgrading to 22 is recommended:
https://news.itsfoss.com/linux-mint-20-eol/

Linux Mint 22.2 adds out-of-the-box fingerprint authentication support with Fingwit app:
https://9to5linux.com/linux-mint-22-2-will-feature-fingerprint-authentication-with-fingwit-app

Nitrux drops the Plasma-based NX desktop for Hyprland, due to the discontinuation of Plasma LTS released:
https://9to5linux.com/nitrux-linux-drops-its-kde-plasma-based-nx-desktop-for-hyprland
(It's a bit weird choice that they ditched a full DE for a standalone compositor, which is tiling in fact, and requires editing some config files manually, not sure if DE users want that.)

Kali Linux 2025.2 released with revamped Kali Menu, GNOME 48, KDE Plasma 8.3, 13 new tools (including Azurehound, binwalk3, bloodhound-ce-python etc.):
https://9to5linux.com/kali-linux-2025-2-released-with-revamped-kali-menu-13-new-hacking-tools

GNOME 49 Alpha 0 available with preparations for disabling X11 by default:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-49-Alpha-0-Packages

Sway 1.11 released with explicit sync support, support for the ext-image-copy-capture-v1 and ext-image-capture-source-v1 protocols for improved screen capture, support for the alpha-modifier-v1 protocol for setting an alpha multiplier for a surface, etc.:
https://9to5linux.com/sway-1-11-tiling-wayland-compositor-adds-support-for-explicit-synchronization

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Mint 22.2 bringt Unterstützung für Fingerabdruck https://fosstopia.de/linux-mint-22-2-fingerabdruckfunktion/ #Fingwit #LinuxDesktop #LinuxMint #LinuxMint22.2 #LinuxMInt22.2Zara

This week's Linux and FOSS news:

LINUX NEWS

GNOME Foundation has a new executive director, Steven Deobald, an experienced software developer, who plans to focus on transparency about the operation of the foundation:
https://blogs.gnome.org/steven/2025/05/06/introducing-myself/

GNOME 49 will include Showtime instead of Totem as the default video player:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/05/gnome-49-replaces-totem-video-player-with-showtime
(It's time to make the switch I guess, Totem didn't really work, at least for me, it couldn't open videos, crashed quite a lot.)
(I remember a dev making an April's FOols joke that Showtime finally shows the time as the name suggests lol)

Linux Mint 22.2 will include new default theme with more blue-ish gray colors, to ensure that Adwaita programs look better on the system, XDG Desktop Portal XApp is tweaked to ensure that Adwaita programs follow accent colors:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/05/linux-mint-22-2-default-theme-changes
(Oh no Mint, you accept the widely hated GNOME standards? What are you doing? lol)

Linux Mint 22.2 and LMDE 7 codenames revealed, 22.2 will be called "Zara", 7 will be called "Gigi":
https://betanews.com/2025/05/08/linux-mint-22-2-and-lmde-7-codenames-revealed/

openSUSE removes Deepin desktop from community repos due to lack of package maintenance consistency and security concerns:
https://news.itsfoss.com/opensuse-deepin-desktop-removal/

Ubuntu plans to ditch regular sudo for sudo-rs (written in Rust):
https://betanews.com/2025/05/06/ubuntu-linux-sudo-rust-sudo-rs/

Ubuntu 25.10 daily build are available for download:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/05/ubuntu-25-10-daily-builds-download-testing

KDE Plasma 6.3.5 released with improved multi-screen support, NVIDIA GPU fixes, various other bug fixes:
https://9to5linux.com/kde-plasma-6-3-5-improves-support-for-multi-screen-setups-nvidia-gpu-users

KDE Frameworks 6.14 released with support for some archaic units for KRunner, revamped New Files dialog for the Dolphin file manager and other KIO-based apps, other improvements:
https://9to5linux.com/kde-frameworks-6-14-revamps-new-files-dialog-expands-krunner-unit-conversion

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Linux Mint 22.2 Changes the Default Theme

Linux Mint, which is a Linux distribution that is based on Ubuntu (based on Debian) aimed at reachability, has recently undergone a design makeover that makes your desktop look more gorgeous than before, starting from the upcoming release of Linux Mint, which is v22.2. Meanwhile, the Linux Mint Debian Edition is currently at version v6 “Faye.”

The current version of Linux Mint, v22.1, is codenamed “Xia”, just like all other Linux Mint versions that adopt this naming scheme. The previous Linux Mint codenames, starting from v21.0, were v21.0 Vanessa, v21.1 Vera, v21.2 Victoria, v21.3 Virginia, v22.0 Wilma, and v22.1 Xia. However, it looks like that the Linux Mint development team went straight to a name that starts with Z and not Y with the v22.2 release, called “Zara.” Why not Linux Mint v22.2 “Yara” or something?

This upcoming version of Linux Mint uses Ubuntu 24.04 Noble Numbat as base, and, just like all other Linux distributions, supports 64-bit processors only, and support is expected to end on April 2029. It brings one very interesting feature:

New Default Theme!

The Linux Mint theme has been changed starting from this version with the changed grey and with support for colorful accents. The gray is now a steely blue tint similar to how Apple defines the gray in current versions of iOS and iPadOS according to their official documentation.

If you have noticed, the R and the G color values shown above for greys are the same, while the B color level is slightly higher. Following the current “gray” trend, the Linux Mint development team decided to adopt the same “steely blue” gray color to their system as Apple defined for their operating systems.

The goals for this change, according to the official blog of Linux Mint, are:

• Modernizing the theme
• Making dark theme and Cinnamon Desktop elements softer and nicer
• Making further changes to Flatpak Libadwaita applications to fit in with the rest of the system

Now, your desktop will look like this once you upgrade to this gorgeousness:

Alongside this, the Linux Mint team has also added the Libadwaita stylesheets in Mint-X and Mint-Y themes and patched the Libadwaita library so that it doesn’t use its own stylesheet. This is in an effort to combat rigidity that GNOME’s Libadwaita introduced with the initial version of GNOME 40.

This version of Linux Mint is expected to be globally available to the public this summer.

Linux Mint 22.2 und LMDE 7 Codenamen stehen fest – das erwartet Euch 2025 https://fosstopia.de/linux-mint-22-2-und-lmde-7-codenamen/ #LinuxDesktop #LinuxMint #LinuxMint22.2 #LinuxMInt22.2Zara #LinuxMintDebianEdition #LinuxMIntDebianEdition7 #LinuxMIntDebianEdition7Gigi #LinuxMintNews #LMDE #LMDE7 #LMDE7Gigi

#linuxmint22
#LibreOfffice

Fedihelp!

Ich wollte auf meinem Linuxrechner zu LibreOffice 22.8 upgraden. Der Download klappte auch. Jetzt habe ich zwei Archive in /home/linux/Downloads liegen, das Programm und das Sprachpaket.
Aber wie geht es jetzt weiter?

Vielleicht kann mir ja jemand hier unter die Arme greifen . . .

(aber bitte auf Grundschul-Niveau)

Endlich geschafft: Linux Mint installiert.
Jetzt das Notwendigste einrichten und dann mal intensiver damit auseinandersetzen
Gewisse bisherige "Workflows" (z.B. Windows + . => öffnet Emotion-Picker) müssen noch angepasst/geändert/eingerichtet werden. Spannend wird auch der 15 Jahre alte Brother-Drucker

Linux Mint? Nicht für mich – Hier ist der Grund! https://fosstopia.de/warum-ich-lm-nicht-nutze/ #LinuxDesktop #LinuxMint #LinuxMint22

Das Cinnamon-Menü von Linux Mint erhält ein neues Design https://fosstopia.de/cinnamon-neues-menu/ #Cinnamon #CinnamonDesktop #LinuxMint #LinuxMint22.2 #LMDE #LMDE6

Testbericht zu Linux Mint 22.1 “Xia” https://fosstopia.de/linuxmint-22-1-test/ #LinuxMint #LinuxMint22.1 #LinuxMint22.1Xia