Desktop News Archives

Blender 2.77 was released this weekend as the newest version of this wildly popular, cross-platform, open-source 3D animation program.

WebAssembly, the year-old effort for creating a low-level programming language for in-browser client-side scripting with cross-browser support is making more progress.

While Kodi 16 just recently shipped, the developers behind this open-source HTPC software formerly known as XBMC have already set their sights on Kodi 17.

wxWidgets 3.1.0 was released yesterday as a new development release for this cross-platform toolkit.

With the Enlightenment folks back from FOSDEM, Enlightenment 0.20.4 was released today as the latest bug-fix release.

What a surprise waking up to find that at long-last the OpenShot 2.0 beta is now available to early-backers of this open-source video editor's Kickstarter project.

With today's Ubuntu 16.04 Alpha 1 milestone, Lubuntu put out their first "Xenial Xerus" Alpha 1 build, but it's not terribly exciting.

Continuing on with our other year-end looks, here are lists of the most popular GNOME and KDE desktop happenings of the year.

A widely-cited blog post about the major Linux desktop problems has been updated for 2016.

If using APT with PDiff enabled for package diffs to do incremental updates, the latest code should now be much faster.

Just two weeks after the release of Enlightenment 0.20 is now its first point release.

Today marks the surprise release of Enlightenment 0.20! The E20 development cycle has taken more than a year and saw more than 1,890 patches merged.

FreeType 2.6.2 was released this weekend as the newest version of this widely-used, open-source library for text/font rendering.

The Enlightenment developers at Samsung have announced the release of the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries (EFL) 1.16 along with updates to Elementary, Evas GL, and Eo.

LXQt, the "lightweight Qt Desktop Environment", is out with their next major release.

Clement Lefebvre of LinuxMint tagged the Cinnamon 2.8 desktop this morning.

Enlightenment DR 0.20 Alpha has been released as the first step towards E20 with one year having passed since E19.

The Enlightenment team has announced a major update to their Enlightenment Foundation Libraries.

With FreeBSD 10.2 coming later this month and that resulting in the PC-BSD 10.2 release, the crew behind this desktop-friendly BSD distribution have released their Lumina Desktop v0.8.6.

MATE 1.10 has been released today and with this new version every component of this open-source desktop environment forked from GNOME2 can be built under GTK2 or GTK3.

While Cinnamon 2.6 was tagged a few weeks back, this morning it's finally being officially announced by the Linux Mint team.

A few days ago the Scribus team quietly tagged Scribus 1.5.0 in SVN. This release is a preview / testing release, but it provides an interest look at the next stable release: 1.6.0. No release date or schedule is known for 1.6.0. For those uninformed, Scribus is an open-source desktop publishing suite.

Version 1.5.0 of the Xfce4-Power-Manager was released today.

The Linux Mint crew has tagged the release of the Cinnamon 2.6 desktop environment.

The Bodhi Linux distribution has forked the Enlightenment project from its E17 release.

Just one week after the EFL 1.14 Alpha 1 release marks the availability of Enlightenment Foundation Libraries' 1.14 Beta 1 debut.

Version 0.3 of Elementary OS, which is codenamed Freya, is now available after being under development for more than one year.

The Enlightenment crew at Samsung have released their first alpha version of the upcoming EFL 1.14.0 library set.

A Samsung developer has landed the latest addition to the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries (EFL): Emile.

Enlightenment's Evas GL component of the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries (EFL) now has support for exposing applications to OpenGL ES 3.0 support through Evas GL.

Xfce 4.12 has finally been released!

The release of Xfce 4.12 is hopefully being realized this weekend. The release hasn't taken place at the time of writing, but there's been commits to update translations as well as to add the new wallpaper of Xfce 4.12.

If all goes according to plan, Xfce 4.12 will be officially released this weekend. Here's a look at some of the most prominent changes for this long overdue update to Xfce.

Earlier this week we wrote about plans for Xfce 4.12 to finally be released and that it was being targeted for the end of February. Unlike failed Xfce 4.12 plans of the past few years, it looks like this release will actually pan out in one week's time.

Version 1.13 of the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries is now available.

Fluxbox 1.3.6 was released last month after this lightweight window manager went two years without a new release. It looks like the rate of development of Fluxbox is ticking back up as Fluxbox 1.3.7 was just tagged this morning.

It looks like the release of Xfce 4.12 is finally about to materialize!

One week after the Elementary 1.13 Alpha release, Enlightenment developers have released the first beta of v1.13.

The Enlightenment crew were hard at work during the holidays and today in getting the new year going they've released the first alpha of the Elementary 1.13 library.

Following the in-fighting over the future of Compiz that happened back in November, Scott Moreau has proclaimed the release this week of Compiz v0.8.10.

The latest new open-source Linux desktop initiative is Budgie, a desktop focused on simplicity. The Budgie desktop is now undergoing possible review for inclusion into Fedora.

Quantum OS (formerly known as Quartz OS for a brief time) is a new Linux distribution mostly focused around providing a clean, very attractive desktop experience. This latest Linux desktop project is focused on providing a Qt5-based desktop that complies with Google's Material Design concepts.

Unless you're a user of Ubuntu with Unity 7, you probably haven't heard much about Compiz in quite some time. However, some developers are looking to further revive its development but not everyone is in agreement.

Xfce 4.12 remains out of sight but Xfdesktop 4.10.3 was released today.

Version 1.12 of the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries was released bright and early this morning.

The Cinnamon 2.4 Desktop Environment is now out ahead of its official debut with Linux Mint 17.1 later this month.

The first alpha release for the 1.12 version of the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries (EFL) was released this week.

It's been about one year since last hearing any Cairo-Dock news, but this evening there's a new release! Cairo-Dock has various improvements to its desktop interface offering that continues to work in replace of -- or in addition to -- the standard Linux desktop environments.

Version 0.8 of LXQt -- the Qt version of the open-source, lightweight LXDE desktop -- was released on Monday. Important to LXQt 0.8 is full Qt5 compatibility while Qt4 support is being maintained too until the next release.

While E19 didn't come out last week as talked about, it was released this morning! The Enlightenment E19 update is a huge upgrade over E18 or E17, especially if you're an early Wayland adopter.