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📰 GNOME-Aligned Amberol 2026.1 Music Player Released, Phosh Improves X11 Support A few weeks past the GNOME 50 release and there continues to be a lot of ongoing GNOME app activity worth highlighting... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Amberol-2026.1 #gnome

📰Dynamic Music Pill brings lyrics to your GNOME desktop A clutch of new features are available in Dynamic Music Pill, the slick now playing and media controller extension for GNOME Shell. The “big” new addition is lyrics support. When you listen to a track with synced lyrics in a compatible player, you can view those lyrics by opening the applet controller and clicking on the album art inside of it: The lyrics are shown in a freely scrollable widget, with the active line bolder in white for more... 🔗 Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/04/lyrics-feature-dynamic-music-pill-extension #gnome

📰 Arch Linux Users Can Now Upgrade to GNOME 50 GNOME 50 is now available for Arch Linux users, bringing the latest desktop release to systems ready for upgrade. 🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/arch-linux-users-can-now-upgrade-to-gnome-50 #linux#arch#gnome

📰HarfBuzz 14.0 Released With New GPU Accelerated Text Rendering Library HarfBuzz is the open-source text shaping engine originally born out of the FreeType project and now widely-used by GNOME, KDE, Java, Flutter, Godot, Chromium, LibreOffice, and countless other applications. HarfBuzz 14.0 released today and making this release quite exciting is introducing a GPU-accelerated text rendering library... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/HarfBuzz-14.0-Released #kde#opensource#chromium#gnome

📰 AerynOS March 2026 Update Brings GNOME 50, KDE 6.6.3, and Linux 6.18 AerynOS March alpha ISO brings GNOME 50, KDE Plasma 6.6.3, Linux kernel 6.18, and tooling improvements across moss and boulder. 🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/aerynos-march-2026-update-brings-gnome-50-kde-6-6-3-and-linux-6-18/ #kde#linux#kernel#plasma#gnome

📰 The Integrated ROCm Story For Ubuntu 26.04 Still Playing Out Ubuntu 26.04 LTS is just three weeks out for release with many great features in tow from the GNOME 50 desktop to the very leading-edge Linux 7.0 kernel and many other package updates. One feature that many had been looking forward to is Canonical's plans to ship AMD ROCm directly in the Ubuntu archive for a much cleaner experience for those wanting to make use of AMD's open-source GPU compute stack. 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-26.04-ROCm-State #linux#amd#opensource#ubuntu#kernel#gnome

📰 Ubuntu 26.04 LTS no longer offers Google Drive access in Nautilus If you’re used to accessing your Google Drive in the Nautilus file manager sidebar, a heads-up that the feature no longer works in GNOME 50, the desktop version Ubuntu 26.04 LTS uses. GNOME Online Accounts integration continues to support linking your Google account to allow supported apps to access your contacts, mail and calendar data. 🔗 Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/03/google-drive-not-working-nautilus-ubuntu-26-04 #ubuntu#gnome

📰 GNOME 51 “A Coruña” Desktop Environment Scheduled for September 16th, 2026 The development cycle of the upcoming GNOME 51 “A Coruña” desktop environment kicks off with a draft release schedule suggesting the final release is expected later this year on September 16th, 2026. 🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/gnome-51-a-coruna-desktop-environment-scheduled-for-september-16th-2026 #gnome

📰 Ubuntu MATE’s founder is stepping back after 12 years Ubuntu MATE is looking for a new maintainer, with current project lead Martin Wimpress revealing he no longer has the ‘passion’ for the project he once had – nor the time, it seems. Wimpress created Ubuntu MATE back in 2014, pairing Ubuntu with the traditional MATE desktop, created as a fork of the old GNOME 2 codebase but now very much its own thing. 🔗 Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/03/ubuntu-mate-needs-new-maintainer #gnome#ubuntu

📰 Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Beta Is Out Now with Linux Kernel 7.0 and GNOME 50 Ubuntu 26.04 LTS operating system is now available for public beta testing with the Linux 7.0 kernel, Mesa 26.0 graphics stack, and GNOME 50 desktop environment. 🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/ubuntu-26-04-lts-beta-is-out-now-with-linux-kernel-7-0-and-gnome-50 #gnome#ubuntu#linux#kernel

📰 Tails 7.6 Introduces Automatic Tor Bridges to Bypass Censorship Tails 7.6 adds built-in Tor bridge support for restricted networks and switches to GNOME Secrets as the default password manager. 🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/tails-7-6-introduces-automatic-tor-bridges-to-bypass-censorship/ #gnome

📰 KDE Plasma 6.6 Delivers An Impressive Edge For Radeon Graphics Over GNOME 50 On Ubuntu 26.04 In testing thus far on Ubuntu 26.04, the KDE Plasma 6.6 desktop with the Wayland session is working pretty darn well and delivering a performance edge across many games/graphics workloads compared to the default GNOME 50 desktop. At least as far as AMD Radeon graphics are concerned, Plasma 6.6 is in quite impressive shape for the upcoming Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release. 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/review/ubuntu-2604-gnome-kde #amd#gnome#wayland#ubuntu#kde#plasma