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📰GNOME 50 “Tokyo” Desktop Environment Officially Released, This Is What’s New GNOME 50 desktop environment is now available as a major release that introduces numerous new features and improvements. Here’s what’s new! 🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/gnome-50-tokyo-desktop-environment-officially-released-this-is-whats-new #gnome

📰 Fedora Asahi Remix 43 Brings Fedora Linux 43 to Apple Silicon Macs Fedora Asahi Remix 43 delivers Fedora Linux 43 to Apple Silicon Macs with KDE Plasma 6.6 and GNOME 49 desktops. 🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/fedora-asahi-remix-43-brings-fedora-linux-43-to-apple-silicon-macs/ #gnome#kde#fedora#linux#plasma

📰 Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS Users Can Now Officially Upgrade to Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS System76 begins the official upgrade rollout from Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS to 24.04 LTS, replacing GNOME with the new COSMIC desktop environment. 🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/pop_os-22-04-lts-users-can-now-officially-upgrade-to-pop_os-24-04-lts/ #gnome

📰 GNOME Mutter 50.rc Released With Better NVIDIA Performance, SDR-Native & Better HDR There is two weeks to go until the GNOME 50 stable release while out today is the release candidate of Mutter 50. This Mutter 50.rc release brings some exciting last-minute enhancements to this Wayland compositor... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Mutter-50.rc #gnome#wayland

📰 AerynOS Feb 2026 Snapshot Updates Desktops, MOSS Gets Faster AerynOS February 2026 snapshot updates COSMIC, GNOME, and KDE Plasma while significantly improving MOSS atomic update performance and tooling. 🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/aerynos-feb-2026-snapshot-updates-desktops-moss-gets-faster/ #gnome#kde#plasma

📰 Slackware-Based PorteuX 2.6 Released with Linux 6.19, TLP Support, and More PorteuX 2.6 Linux distribution is now available for download with Linux kernel 6.19, GNOME 49.4, KDE Plasma 6.5.5, Cinnamon 6.6, and more. Here’s what else is new! 🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/slackware-based-porteux-2-6-released-with-linux-6-19-tlp-support-and-more #linux#gnome#kde#plasma#kernel

📰 GNOME GitLab Redirecting Some Git Traffic To GitHub For Reducing Costs If you are cloning from a GNOME repository on their GitLab and now finding your Git traffic being redirected to GitHub, you are not alone. GNOME's infrastructure team is now redirecting Git traffic from the GNOME.org GitLab over to GitHub mirrors for reducing bandwidth costs... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-GitHub-GitLab-Redirect #gnome

📰 Linux 7.1 Looks To Support Extended Attributes On Sockets For New GNOME & systemd Functionality While the Linux 7.0 feature merge window ended this past weekend and that next kernel release won't debut as stable until April, there are already features out on the horizon that are being positioned for likely merging into the Linux 7.1 kernel assuming no issues appear or objections raised by Linus Torvalds. One of the features already looking like it will be submitted for Linux 7.1 is supporting extended attributes on sockets... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-Looks-xattrs-Sockets #linux#systemd#gnome#kernel

📰Showtime video player edges closer to Ubuntu debut Those testing Ubuntu 26.04 daily builds or monthly snapshots may have noticed that Showtime, GNOME’s spiffy new video player, is not preinstalled in the ‘extended selection’, despite being announced as a replacement for Totem. It’s especially confusing since Resources system monitor, announced as a software swap the same time as Showtime, has been on the ISO for a while. 🔗 Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/02/showtime-video-player-ubuntu-2604-coming-soon #ubuntu#gnome

📰 GTK 4.22 In Good Shape With Better SVG Support Matthias Clasen shared an update today concerning the state of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) within GNOME's GTK toolkit... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/GTK-4.22-SVG-2026 #gnome

📰 Dynamic Music Pill puts slick media controls in your GNOME panel Dynamic Music Pill is a GNOME Shell extension that embeds a pill-shaped media controller into your desktop panel or dock. It shows album art, artist name and track title alongside an animated waveform visualiser. If that sounds unashamedly blingy, it’s because it is – nothing wrong in that, right? The extension received an update today, which seem a good hook to actually take this off my “to write about” list. 🔗 Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/02/dynamic-music-pill-gnome-panel-media-controller #gnome

📰 GNOME 50 Lands Updated Wayland Color Management v2 Support Following GNOME 50's Mutter merging sdr-native color mode support for wide color gamut displays this week, another late addition to Mutter has now been merged ahead of next month's GNOME 50 stable release... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-50-Color-Management-v2 #gnome#wayland