Linux NewsCOSMIC 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.
Blender 5.2 LTS Released with Node-Based Physics and Online Asset Libraries
Blender 5.2 LTS introduces experimental cloth and hair physics in Geometry Nodes, remotely hosted asset libraries, and major rendering improvements.
System76 Launches Adder Pro Linux Laptop With OLED and RTX 5070
System76’s latest Linux laptop offers a Core Ultra 7 356H, up to 96GB of RAM, RTX 50-series graphics, and a 2560×1600 OLED display.
Clonezilla Live 3.3.3 Adds Reverse-Connection Network Cloning
Clonezilla Live 3.3.3 arrives with Linux kernel 7.0, reverse-connection network cloning, new utilities, and important bug fixes.
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
Visor is a new open-source UEFI boot manager for Linux, designed to launch kernels, UKIs, Windows, and other EFI applications.
GNOME OS Plans a TestFlight-Like App for Experimental Software
GNOME OS could gain a TestFlight-like Test Center for installing temporary experimental builds through simple sharing links.
Apprise 1.12 Notification Tool Adds Nine Services, Now Supports More Than 150
Apprise 1.12 adds nine notification integrations, built-in HTML-to-Markdown conversion, Discord templates, Teams mentions, and SMTP security improvements.
New IncidentRelay Platform Brings Open-Source On-Call Management
IncidentRelay is a new self-hosted platform for on-call scheduling, alert routing, escalations, and incident response.
Linuxiac Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 28, 2026 (July 6 – 12)
Catch up on the latest Linux news: Debian 13.6, Proton 11.0, Wine 11.13, Plasma 6.6.6, COSMIC Desktop Frosted Glass effect, Linux Mint 23 will support Wayland, and more.
PeaZip 11.2 File Archiver Adds ZIM Archive Support
PeaZip 11.1 has been released as the latest version of the open-source, cross-platform archive manager. A key addition is read support for ZIM archives, a format widely used to distribute offline copies of large collections like Wikipedia and Project Gutenberg. Under the hood, PeaZip 11.2 updates its 7z/p7zip backend to version 26.02. The bundled PEA […]
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.
Debian 13.6 Released with 120 Security Fixes and 124 Stability Updates
Debian 13.6 is out with 120 security fixes, 124 stability updates, and Secure Boot changes, while Debian 12.15 becomes Bookworm’s last point release.