FOSS Summary Last week was a busy one for the open source community: EndeavorOS and TrueNAS Scale arrived on Tuesday, Fedora landed on Wednesday, and Ubuntu on Thursday.

The past week has seen a flurry of new distribution releases, but there is significant overlap between them. All of them include the latest Linux kernel 6.8, they all offer the latest GNOME 46 desktop whose beta we checked out in February, and the majority of them include the latest KDE Plasma 6 desktop as well.

First up was EndeavorOS Gemini. We last looked at EndeavorOS for the 2022 Artemis release. It's an easy and simple to install Arch-Linux based distro, and since it's a rolling release, new releases actually mean updated installation media, so you don't have to waste hours on to update once installed. This release includes KDE Plasma 6.0.4, with a choice of X11 or Wayland sessions, plus new binary nVidia driver packages directly from upstream, and improved installation and update tools. One thing it doesn't include, however, is a release for Arm processors: due to a lack of manpower, the project dropped Arm support.

The next day, Fedora 40 came out, as we predicted when we looked at the release candidate. We covered the highlights then, but it might be worth noting a few things that have been removed from this release, including Delta RPM, OpenSSL 1.1, and Python 3.7. Fedora 40's default is now Python 3.12, as 3.7 is end-of-life – but while that too has passed its manufacturer, Python 3.6 is still available if you need to target RHEL 8.