Neowin News Feed for: Gnome

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Resolute Raccoon is now available with Linux 7.0 and native CUDA

Paul Hill — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 01:38:02 +0000

The Resolute Raccoon has arrived as Ubuntu's 11th LTS release. Discover how the shift to Linux 7.0 and native AI toolkits transforms performance on the latest Intel and NVIDIA hardware. Read more...

Why GNOME no longer supports accessing Google Drive files through the Nautilus sidebar

David Uzondu — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 04:44:01 +0000

GNOME 50 comes with a lot of goodies, like improved NVIDIA performance and enhanced parental controls, but the popular Google Drive integration in Nautilus has been removed. Read more...

GNOME 49 is a big release with major app overhauls

Paul Hill — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 11:58:01 +0000

GNOME 49 is here. This new release overhauls two core apps and brings major performance boosts. Read more...

Google Project Zero exposes security flaw in libxslt library used in GNOME applications

Usama Jawad — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 13:36:01 +0000

Google's Project Zero team has publicly disclosed a UAF flaw in the popular libxslt library following GNOME's inability to fix it within 90 days of private reporting. Read more...

GNOME devs say sysadmin "smeared the project" with Evolution Mail privacy report

David Uzondu — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 13:30:01 +0000

Evolution Mail recently came under fire for allegedly ignoring a privacy flaw. Now, the GNOME developers behind the project are pushing back against the sysadmin who reported it. Read more...

If you care about privacy stop using this popular Linux email client, sysadmin warns

David Uzondu — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 07:56:01 +0000

GNU/Linux is often praised as a privacy-respecting operating system. Now, one of its most popular email clients has been found to contain a security flaw that the developers seem unwilling to address. Read more...

GNOME 49 Alpha is out now, bringing a change that X11 fans may find disappointing

David Uzondu — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 17:40:01 +0000

GNOME 49 Alpha has been released, with new applications replacing older ones and changes to the display server protocol that X11 fans may not be happy about. Read more...

GNOME team shares what happened across the ecosystem from May 23 to May 30

David Uzondu — Fri, 30 May 2025 23:02:01 +0000

A new issue of This Week in GNOME (TWIG) has been released, highlighting several bug fixes and new third-party apps. Read more...

New Tuner extensible control center released for GNOME thanks to ALT Linux team

Paul Hill — Sat, 24 May 2025 09:00:01 +0000

GNOME, the popular Linux desktop environment, is continually getting updates. Here's how the project improved this week, including the release of Tuner, an extensible control center. Read more...

Fedora 43 GNOME desktop to remove support for X11 sessions

Paul Hill — Wed, 21 May 2025 06:20:02 +0000

The Fedora project has decided to retire X11 sessions for the GNOME version in Fedora 43 in favor of Wayland. Read more...

It's official: GNOME is replacing Totem Video Player with Showtime in GNOME 49

David Uzondu — Fri, 09 May 2025 14:26:01 +0000

It's almost time to bid farewell to Totem, the longtime GNOME video player that's been part of the desktop since 2005, and welcome its successor in GNOME 49. Read more...

GNOME 48 arrives with tons of new features including new fonts

Paul Hill — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 17:32:02 +0000

GNOME 48 is now stable after six months of development. It comes with lots of new features including the first font refresh in 14 years. Read more...

GNOME 47 "Denver" arrives with customizable accent colors and enhanced UI

Paul Hill — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 08:12:01 +0000

The latest GNOME release introduces accent colors, system enhancements, and new dialogs, making it a must-try for customization enthusiasts and casual users alike. Read more...

GNOME Setup gets more improvements and libadwaita gets accent colour support (finally)

Paul Hill — Sat, 22 Jun 2024 04:52:01 +0000

The GNOME Foundation has showed off some more work that it has been doing this week including more improvements to the new GNOME Setup and accent colour support in libadwaita. Read on for more. Read more...

Early version of the new GNOME OS installer shown off in video

Paul Hill — Sun, 26 May 2024 09:44:01 +0000

More work has been done on the new GNOME OS installer. It now has a GitLab repository for the code and the basic layout and internals have made decent progress. Check the video to see it in action. Read more...

Early work on a new GNOME OS installer has begun thanks to Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund

Paul Hill — Sun, 19 May 2024 03:18:01 +0000

Developers working on GNOME improvements have been busy this week. They have been working on Nautilus improvements, a brand new installer, improvements to the Orca screen reader, and more. Read more...

GNOME 47 gets an official launch date on the release schedule

Paul Hill — Fri, 17 May 2024 11:32:01 +0000

GNOME 47 will be coming out on September 18, according to the latest update to the GNOME release schedule. The first point release will land four weeks later instead of the usual five weeks. Read more...

GNOME 46 released, will come with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and Fedora 40 next month

Paul Hill — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 19:22:01 +0000

The GNOME Project has released GNOME 46 codenamed Kathmandu. Users won't have to wait long to try it with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Noble Numbat and Fedora 40 both shipping with it just next month. Read more...

GNOME 44 launches with better Settings app and quick settings menu improvements

Paul Hill — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 20:00:01 +0000

The GNOME Project has released GNOME 44 today with improvements to the Settings app, the quick settings menu, and the Software app. Linux distributions will eventually ship this new GNOME release. Read more...

Vanilla OS 2.0 will move to Debian base from Ubuntu

Paul Hill — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 23:26:01 +0000

Vanilla OS will move to a Debian base in its next release, according to the developers behind the project. The team outlined several good reasons for deciding on the change, read on to learn more. Read more...

Fedora 37 arrives with GNOME 43 and two new editions

Paul Hill — Wed, 16 Nov 2022 07:04:31 +0000

Fedora 37 is now available for download by the public. This release includes two new Editions - Fedora CoreOS and Fedora Cloud. The Workstation edition features the latest GNOME 43. Read more...

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS released with upgraded kernel and GNOME desktop

Paul Hill — Thu, 21 Apr 2022 17:18:54 +0000

Canonical has released Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. It comes with some of the latest GNOME desktop enhancements, a more modern Linux kernel, and a new logo. It will receive updates until 2027. Read more...

Canonical releases Ubuntu 21.10 with kernel 5.13 and GNOME 40

Paul Hill — Thu, 14 Oct 2021 14:56:02 +0000

Canonical has released Ubuntu 21.10 with the Linux 5.13 kernel and GNOME 40. Firefox is now packaged as a snap that's managed directly by Mozilla and Canonical so updates should arrive quicker. Read more...

Fedora 34 beta released with major GNOME desktop upgrade

Paul Hill — Tue, 23 Mar 2021 22:02:01 +0000

The Fedora Project has made Fedora 34 beta available for download. This version comes with GNOME 40, PipeWire, and transparent compression in BTRFS which will extend the life of SSDs. Read more...

Firefox 84 launches with support for Apple Silicon CPUs

Paul Hill — Tue, 15 Dec 2020 22:58:01 +0000

Mozilla has released Firefox 84. It brings WebRender to more systems including some Linux computers, it's the last version to support Adobe Flash and it now supports Apple Silicon CPUs natively. Read more...

How to create encrypted partitions on Linux with GNOME Disks

Paul Hill — Sat, 12 Dec 2020 17:26:01 +0000

This short guide will show you how to create encrypted partitions on USB devices, external hard drives, and internal hard drives using the GNOME Disks tool found on popular Linux distributions. Read more...

The GNOME project launches Circle dev programme

Paul Hill — Mon, 30 Nov 2020 17:22:01 +0000

The GNOME project has announced Circle, a programme that it hopes will allow it to build its developer outreach. Circle lowers the barriers for developers that want to be a part of the GNOME project. Read more...

Fedora 33 launches with updated GNOME and BTRFS

Paul Hill — Tue, 27 Oct 2020 17:32:01 +0000

Fedora 33 has been released bringing with it GNOME 3.38, the BTRFS filesystem as default, and updates to many software packages including Python, Ruby on Rails, and Perl. It's ready for download now. Read more...

Fedora 32 launches with new GNOME 3.36 desktop environment

Paul Hill — Tue, 28 Apr 2020 19:16:01 +0000

The Fedora Project has announced the availability of Fedora 32. It includes a raft of new software packages, introduces GNOME 3.36, and includes EarlyOOM which stops low-memory systems from hanging. Read more...

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 is now available for download

Paul Hill — Tue, 07 May 2019 18:28:01 +0000

Red Hat Inc. has just released Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, the first major update to the operating system since 2014. Full support for RHEL 8 will be delivered to customers until May 2024. Read more...

Canonical joins the GNOME Foundation advisory board

Paul Hill — Wed, 01 Nov 2017 18:10:01 +0000

Canonical has joined the GNOME Foundation's advisory board following its decision to dump Unity and switch back to GNOME as its primary environment in Ubuntu. It'll give money and advice to GNOME. Read more...

Purism's Librem 5 crowdfunder finishes with $2.1M

Paul Hill — Tue, 24 Oct 2017 07:02:02 +0000

The Librem 5's crowdfunding campaign has finally come to a close after two months. The campaign managed to bring in a huge $2.1 million, well past the initial target of $1.5 million. Read more...

Ubuntu 17.10 Artful Aardvark is ready for download

Paul Hill — Thu, 19 Oct 2017 18:16:01 +0000

Canonical has announced the second Ubuntu release this year. Ubuntu 17.10 switches over to the GNOME desktop and Wayland display server to allow for bugs to be worked out before the next LTS release. Read more...

New Ubuntu 17.10 dock revealed

Paul Hill — Mon, 14 Aug 2017 20:32:01 +0000

Ubuntu 17.10 will arrive with the GNOME desktop set to default. It looks as though Canonical has begun working on a new dock project to keep Ubuntu familiar to existing users that have used Unity. Read more...

Ubuntu will revert window controls to the right-hand side in next release

Paul Hill — Thu, 03 Aug 2017 14:00:01 +0000

When Ubuntu 17.10 launches with GNOME in October, it'll move the window controls back to the right, exactly where they used to be prior to 2010 when Canonical started pushing the Unity desktop. Read more...

Linux file manager security exploit leaves a "Bad Taste"

Paul Hill — Thu, 20 Jul 2017 00:28:01 +0000

A new vulnerability that impacts Linux systems has been discovered by a researcher. The vulnerability, which affects the GNOME Files file manager, has already been patched by the Debian Project. Read more...

2017 will be the year of the Linux desktop... for GNOME on Ubuntu

Paul Hill — Wed, 26 Apr 2017 19:04:01 +0000

Ubuntu 17.10 is shaping up to be a big upgrade, unlike 17.04. The release is now expected to ship with GNOME, Wayland, and possibly GDM. Unity 8, and Upstart will also be booted from the repos. Read more...

Ubuntu dropping Unity desktop in favour of GNOME

Paul Hill — Wed, 05 Apr 2017 23:36:01 +0000

Canonical has decided to give up on its hope to bring about convergence across all types of devices and has announced it will move to GNOME in Ubuntu 18.04. Canonical will now focus on IoT and cloud. Read more...

TechSpot: Six Popular Linux Desktop Environments

Julio Franco — Mon, 18 Aug 2014 17:07:25 +0000

Linux allows you to fully customize not only the look and feel of your desktop, but also its functionality. Here's a brief overview of the most popular Linux desktop environments to get you started. Read more...

Debian drops Xfce, reinstates GNOME as default desktop

Rob Schorman — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 02:52:00 +0000

Three months ago, Debian's developers chose to replace GNOME with the Xfce desktop environment. It seems that the next release will use GNOME 3 after all, just like Linus Torvalds himself now Read more...