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.
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Blender 5.2 LTS Released with Node-Based Physics and Online Asset Libraries
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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
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Apprise 1.12 Notification Tool Adds Nine Services, Now Supports More Than 150
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New IncidentRelay Platform Brings Open-Source On-Call Management
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PeaZip 11.2 File Archiver Adds ZIM Archive Support
PeaZip 11.2 introduces read support for ZIM archives, upgrades to 7-Zip 26.02, and brings major drag-and-drop improvements.
Fastfetch 2.66 System Information Tool Released with Better AMD GPU Detection
Fastfetch 2.66 adds Azure Linux and Flatcar logos, improves AMD GPU naming, and fixes GPU core counting on Asahi Linux.
Navidrome 0.63 Music Server & Streamer Adds Karaoke-Style Lyrics
Navidrome 0.63 introduces word-by-word synchronized lyrics, smarter search, and dramatic speed improvements for large music libraries.
COSMIC Desktop’s Big Visual Upgrade Is Finally Here
Pop!_OS 24.04 users can now enable COSMIC’s long-awaited Frosted Glass effect, with a wider Linux rollout expected next week.