While the alpha release of the new scratch-built-in-Rust Cosmic desktop has been pushed back by a couple of months, that's not expected to delay the launch of the production ready version that will be the default DE in Pop!_OS 24.04 later this year.
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We could be wrong, but the FOSS Force crystal ball tells us we'll see a production ready version of Cosmic DE released by late April, just in time for this year's LinuxFest Northwest.
The first beta release of KDE Plasma 6, which exchanges X11 for Wayland, was released last week. The second beta will be released in two weeks.
There's a good chance that when Fedora 40 is released in April, that it will become the first major Linux distro to be released without X.
This week FOSS News Roundup also includes a list of some goodies coming to KDE Plasma 6.
FOSS Week in Review: LibreOffice Fixes Bugs, KDE Release Plans, Automakers ‘F’ on Privacy, and more…
In this week's roundup, we look at the winding down of LibreOffice's 7.5 series, how KDE's getting it together for Plasma's upcoming 6.0 release, Mozilla's look at privacy issues and modern automobiles, and more.
None of the Gnome extensions that are in use now will work on Gnome 45 when it's released on September 20.
In many ways, KDE Gear's apps supply the backbone on the Linux desktop experience. Newly released KDE Gear 23.08 brings many changes to these apps, and we look at them here.
The desktop environment that started as a side project for the Solus Linux distribution but has gone on to become included in many other distros, including Ubuntu Budgie, is out with a new release with new features and improvements.
Now you can build your own computer using the same chassis and cooling technology that System76 uses in their popular Thelio line of desktops.
Xfce takes home the award for "Favorite Linux Desktop Environment." Coming in second in our poll was KDE Plasma, followed by Gnome and Cinnamon.