COSMIC Desktop 1.3 Shines with Its New Frosted Glass Design
COSMIC Desktop 1.3 introduces its long-awaited frosted glass appearance, improved GPU monitoring, AVIF wallpapers, and numerous fixes.
Linux & Open Source News
Explore the latest updates from the Linux and Open Source ecosystem. Find out about the newest distributions, software releases, and community-driven projects making headlines.
Blender 5.2 LTS Released with Node-Based Physics and Online Asset Libraries
Blender 5.2 LTS introduces experimental cloth and hair physics in Geometry Nodes, remotely hosted asset libraries, and major rendering improvements.
System76 Launches Adder Pro Linux Laptop With OLED and RTX 5070
System76’s latest Linux laptop offers a Core Ultra 7 356H, up to 96GB of RAM, RTX 50-series graphics, and a 2560×1600 OLED display.
Clonezilla Live 3.3.3 Adds Reverse-Connection Network Cloning
Clonezilla Live 3.3.3 arrives with Linux kernel 7.0, reverse-connection network cloning, new utilities, and important bug fixes.
KDE Plasma 6.7.3 Restores Triple Buffering for NVIDIA GPUs
KDE Plasma 6.7.3 is now available with restored NVIDIA triple buffering, display wake-up fixes, and numerous KWin improvements.
Visor Is a New Graphical UEFI Boot Manager for Linux
Visor is a new open-source UEFI boot manager for Linux, designed to launch kernels, UKIs, Windows, and other EFI applications.
GNOME OS Plans a TestFlight-Like App for Experimental Software
GNOME OS could gain a TestFlight-like Test Center for installing temporary experimental builds through simple sharing links.
Apprise 1.12 Notification Tool Adds Nine Services, Now Supports More Than 150
Apprise 1.12 adds nine notification integrations, built-in HTML-to-Markdown conversion, Discord templates, Teams mentions, and SMTP security improvements.
New IncidentRelay Platform Brings Open-Source On-Call Management
IncidentRelay is a new self-hosted platform for on-call scheduling, alert routing, escalations, and incident response.
Linuxiac Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 28, 2026 (July 6 – 12)
Catch up on the latest Linux news: Debian 13.6, Proton 11.0, Wine 11.13, Plasma 6.6.6, COSMIC Desktop Frosted Glass effect, Linux Mint 23 will support Wayland, and more.