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9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: May 21st, 2023

posted by Marius Nestor on May 22, 2023

This week we didn’t get so many news and releases. Still, we got some interesting ones about some of the new features of the upcoming Ubuntu 23.10 (Mantic Minotaur) and KDE Plasma 6 desktop environment.

On top of that, I warn you about the end of life of Linux kernel 6.2 and inform you about the new abilities of Xfce’s default screenshot utility. Check out the hottest news of this week and access all the distro and package downloads in 9to5Linux’s Linux weekly roundup for May 21st, 2023, below.

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