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EndeavourOS Mercury Neo Launches with KDE Plasma 6.3, NVIDIA 570, and Mesa 25

EndeavourOS Mercury landed on February 10th, 2025, powered by Linux kernel 6.13 and featuring the KDE Plasma 6.2.5 desktop environment on both the live environment and the offline installation option. EndeavourOS Mercury Neo is here to bump the kernel to Linux 6.13.7 and the live session to KDE Plasma 6.3.3.

Rescuezilla 2.6 Swiss Army Knife of System Recovery Adds Ubuntu 24.10 Build

Highlights of Rescuezilla 2.6 include a brand-new base derived from the Ubuntu 24.10 “Oracular Oriole” operating system series to provide users with the best possible hardware support, as well as an updated UEFI Secure Boot shim package to support Windows 11 machines.

Finnix Linux Distro for Sysadmins Celebrates 25th Anniversary with New Release

Finnix 250 is here to celebrate the distro’s 25th anniversary, which is a huge milestone for such a small project. The first Finnix release was made public on March 22nd, 2000. Despite the small footprint, the Finnix distro ships with hundreds of Linux utilities for system recovery, maintenance, testing, and other system administration tasks.

KDE Promo Sprint

posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Oct 03, 2023

white board and some writings

Slightly over a week ago, I joined my first KDE Promo sprint! My only previous experience was the KDE Plasma sprint, which was very different: lots of developers, and much more development time. This sprint was more intimate and only lasted two days; I nonetheless enjoyed it quite a bit.

You can see me here working hard on promoting all, ehm,

We talked about the donation system and the issues we found with Donorbox; we also considered what perks we could offer to those who join as members. A nice example of that is adding their name - optionally - in the KDE Plasma launcher. I also proposed to create some sort of members-only newsletter or release news, but my idea wasn't that popular, given the open & transparent nature of KDE. I also proposed to replace Donorbox with ko-fi, which has the benefit of not taking any cut of the donations. This would require a lil' bit of work to make it a drop-in replacement, and further discussion with the fundraiser group, but it's a possibility.

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