This Week in Linux
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316: KDE Plasma 6.4, Arch Linux Wine, Kali Linux, Valve flips the Proton switch, & more Linux news
30 minutes Posted Jun 21, 2025 at 3:00 pm.
Intro
KDE Plasma 6.4 Desktop Released
Arch Linux switches to WoW64 Wine
Kali Linux 2025.2 Released
Sandfly Security, agentless Linux security [ad]
Valve hits 20,000 playable Steam Deck games and flips Proton on by default
DreamWorks Animation's OpenMoonRay adds NUMA Support
20 Years of the Open Invention Network
SDL Implements the Pointer Warp Protocol
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This week in Linux, we have a jam packed episode for you. The KDE team have released a brand new version of the Plasma desktop. We're also going to talk about some big changes coming to Arch Linux and the pentesting distro, Kali Linux. Plus we got a trifecta of great news from Valve this week related to Steam & Proton that is bound to be exciting for Linux gamers. Then we're going to check out a major update to the OpenMoonRay renderer from DreamWorks Animation... yea that DreamWorks. All of this and more on This Week in Linux, the weekly news show that keeps you up to date with what’s going on in the Linux and Open Source world. Now let's jump right into Your Source for Linux GNews!
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KDE Plasma 6.4 Desktop Released
https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.4.0/
Arch Linux switches to WoW64 Wine
https://archlinux.org/news/transition-to-the-new-wow64-wine-and-wine-staging/
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Arch-Linux-WoW64-Wine
https://ostechnix.com/arch-linux-wine-wow64-transition/
Kali Linux 2025.2 Released
https://www.kali.org/blog/kali-linux-2025-2-release/
GNOME 48 on TWIL 303 - https://thisweekinlinux.com/303
My GNOME 48 video - https://tuxdigital.com/videos/gnome-48-released/
Plasma 6.3 on TWIL 298 - https://thisweekinlinux.com/298
Sandfly Security, agentless Linux security [ad]
https://thisweekinlinux.com/sandfly
Valve hits 20,000 playable Steam Deck games and flips Proton on by default
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/steam-deck-and-steamos-hit-20000-playable-games/
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/steam-beta-finally-enables-proton-on-linux-fully-making-linux-gaming-simpler/
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/steam-gets-a-new-steam-deck-like-performance-monitor-now-in-beta-replacing-the-fps-counter/
DreamWorks Animation's OpenMoonRay adds NUMA Support
https://openmoonray.org/
https://github.com/dreamworksanimation/openmoonray/releases/tag/openmoonray-2.15.0.1
https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenMoonRay-Goes-NUMA
https://www.cgchannel.com/2025/06/dreamworks-animation-releases-moonray-2-15/
20 Years of the Open Invention Network
https://openinventionnetwork.com/open-invention-network-celebrates-20-years/
SDL Implements the Pointer Warp Protocol
https://www.libsdl.org/
https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/pull/10922
SDL 3 on TWIL 295 - https://tuxdigital.com/podcasts/this-week-in-linux/twil-295/
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