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305: Thunderbird to compete with Gmail, GoboLinux is back, Firefox 137 gets good, & more Linux news

This week in Linux, we have a lot of great news to talk about. First, Thunderbird is launching their own email service. KDE is working on making their own Plasma Login Manager. CachyOS has a new release out. We also have another release out for the Mozilla Firefox browser, which has a lot of cool stuff in there I can't wait to tell you about. And also the Dash to Panel extension. There was a little bit of drama that happened with it. It is now back and ready to go. all of this and so much more on this episode of 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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Chapters:

00:00 Intro
00:46 Thunderbird is Launching Email Service
05:46 KDE Working on a new Plasma Login Manager
09:55 CachyOS March 2025 Release
12:29 Sandfly Security, agentless Linux security [ad]
14:12 Mozilla Firefox 137 Released
26:28 Zorin OS Sponsors Dash to Panel
31:28 GoboLinux 017.01 Released
34:50 XZ Utils 5.8 Released
37:25 Support the show

Links:

Thunderbird is Launching Email Service
- https://blog.thunderbird.net/2025/04/thundermail-and-thunderbird-pro-services/
KDE Working on a new Plasma Login Manager
- https://blog.davidedmundson.co.uk/blog/a-roadmap-for-a-modern-plasma-login-manager/
- https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/plasma-devel/2025-March/123667.html
CachyOS March 2025 Release
- https://cachyos.org/blog/2503-march-release/
Sandfly Security, agentless Linux security [ad]
- https://thisweekinlinux.com/sandfly
- https://destinationlinux.net/409
Mozilla Firefox 137 Released
Zorin OS Sponsors Dash to Panel
- https://github.com/home-sweet-gnome/dash-to-panel
- https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/30/zorin_and_dash_to_panel/
GoboLinux 017.01 Released
- https://gobolinux.org/index.html
- https://gobolinux.org/release_notes_017.01.html
XZ Utils 5.8 Released
- https://git.tukaani.org/?p=xz.git;a=blob;f=NEWS
- https://tukaani.org/xz/
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