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KDE Frameworks 6.15 Improves Accessibility in Plasma’s System Settings App

KDE Frameworks 6.15 is here to improve accessibility and keyboard navigation throughout the System Settings app, improve support for right-to-left languages like Arabic or Hebrew in search and password fields throughout the Plasma desktop and KDE apps, and improve support for screen readers when navigating Kirigami-based apps and System Settings pages.

Mixxx 2.5.2 Open-Source DJ Software Adds Support for Arturia KeyLab Mk1 Controller

Coming one and a half months after Mixxx 2.5.1, the Mixxx 2.5.2 release introduces initial support for the Arturia KeyLab Mk1 controller and updates support for the Denon MC7000, DJ TechTools MIDI Fighter Twister, Hercules DJControl Inpulse 500, Numark Mixtrack Platinum FX, Traktor S2 MK3, Traktor S4 MK2, and Traktor S4 MK3 controllers.

Nitrux Linux Drops Its KDE Plasma-Based NX Desktop for Hyprland

This is a major change for Nitrux, but the team had no choice due to the discontinuation of Plasma’s LTS (Long Term Support) releases. Until now, Nitrux devs based their NX Desktop on the KDE Plasma 5.27 LTS releases while they were working on a major rebase on the KDE Plasma 6 series, while waiting for the Maui Shell to be ready for mass consumption.

TUXEDO InfinityBook Pro 14 Gen10 Linux Laptop Unveiled with AMD Ryzen AI 300

Featuring a high-quality all-aluminum chassis, the TUXEDO InfinityBook Pro 14 Gen10 notebook ships with no less than three AMD Ryzen AI 300 processors that customers can choose from, including AMD Ryzen AI 7 350 with 8 cores and 16 threads, AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 with 10 cores and 20 threads, and AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 with 12 cores and 24 threads, all featuring the AMD Radeon 800M graphics.

Kali Linux 2025.2 Released with Revamped Kali Menu, 13 New Hacking Tools

Coming three months after Kali Linux 2025.1, the Kali Linux 2025.2 release introduces a completely revamped Kali Menu to follow the MITRE ATT&CK framework structure, helping users more easily find the right tool for their needs.

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Lyra Zero W Packs RK3506B and Wi-Fi 6 into Raspberry Pi Zero-Sized Board

Luckfox has just launched a new development board with a form factor similar to the Raspberry Pi Zero, but based on the Rockchip RK3506B system-on-chip. The Lyra Zero W is designed to offer a low-cost, compact solution for embedded Linux development, priced at $16.99.

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Calendar - An Intro to Ubuntu Default Calendar Application

Calendar is the default calendar application on Ubuntu. Its main purpose is to show date, day, month and year. It also has features like scheduling, making appointments, reminders, synchronizing with your online calendars and so on. Now let's start reading about Calendar below.

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Independent Distro KaOS 2025.05 Arrives with Linux 6.14 and KDE Gear 25.04

posted by Marius Nestor on May 27, 2025,
updated Jun 01, 2025

Powered by the Linux 6.14 kernel series, KaOS Linux 2025.05 ships with the latest KDE Plasma 6.3.5 desktop environment, which is accompanied by the KDE Gear 25.04.1 and KDE Frameworks 6.14 software suites, all built using the latest Qt 6.9 open-source application framework.

Talking about Qt, this is the first release of KaOS Linux to ship with Qt 5, which has been end-of-life for quite a few years now. Qt 5 was kept in the previous KaOS Linux release to support applications that haven’t been ported to the Qt 6 series yet. Now, the KaOS Linux developers think it’s finally time to offer a Qt 5-free default install.

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KaOS May 2025 ISO Drops Qt5 for Good, Marks Full Transition to Qt6

Two months after the 2025.03 release, KaOS, a rolling KDE-centric Linux distro betting on the XFS file system, released its latest stable, 2025.05 ISO.

Expectably, the distro ships with the latest and greatest from the KDE ecosystem: Plasma 6.3.5, KDE Gear 25.04.1 apps collection, and Frameworks 6.14, all built upon Qt 6.9.

KDE Gear, in particular, has introduced valuable enhancements: Dolphin file manager now offers initial support for right-to-left languages like Arabic and Hebrew, and the remote desktop application KRDC enhances usability with improved FreeRDP support and desktop scaling.

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KaOS 2025.05 Officially Qt5 Free » Linux Magazine

KaOS Linux 2025.05 is now available. This independent distribution (meaning that it's not based on another distribution) features KDE's Plasma desktop and Arch Linux's pacman package manager.

In the official release statement, the team announces that KaOS 2025.05 is officially Qt5 free. Qt5 saw its end of life years ago, but the move to Qt6 has been slow-going. However, the announcement does mention that Qt5 has not yet been removed from the repositories, so it's still possible to install Qt5 applications (after the installation). It should be noted that Qt5 removal is planned for the near future.

The Plasma desktop is version 6.3.5 and includes KDE Gear 25.04.1 and Frameworks 6.14.0, all of which are built on Qt6.9.0.

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KaOS 2025.05

Qt5 has been end of life for quite a few years now, but the move of all applications to Qt6 has been slow-going, but with this ISO it is finally at a point that a default install will be Qt5 free from now on. There is no Qt5 of KDE Frameworks based on Qt5 included. Qt5 has not yet been removed from the repositories, so it is still possible to add Qt5 based applications after the installation (but complete Qt5 removal is planned for the near future).

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Latest applications that are now ready to use Qt6 and Frameworks 6 include Frescobaldi, Krita, Kamoso and Calligraplan.

Updates to the base of the system were numerous and included a new Toolchain based on Glibc 2.4.1, Binutils 2.44 & GCC 14.2.1, SQlite 3.49.1, Pacman 7.0.0, kmod 34.2, IWD 3.4, Poppler 25.05.0, Gstreamer 1.26.1, Pipewire 1.4.3, kernel moved to Linux 6.14.8, Systemd 254.24, ZFS 2.3.2, Tzdata 2025b, OpenSSL 3.5.0, Proj 9.6.0, Protobuf 31.0 and Mesa 25.1.1.

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