GNOME 51 'A Coruña' Lands With Passkey Login, Offline Maps, and Smoother Animations
GNOME 51, released September 16, brings FIDO2 passkey authentication to the Linux login screen, offline map support, hand-drawn PDF signatures, and better frame scheduling — plus drops legacy NVIDIA driver paths for older GPUs. »
Fedora 45 Beta Arrives with KMSCON, GNOME 51, and the End of Dual Secret Managers
The Fedora 45 Beta, released September 15, ships a revamped console, unified credential storage with oo7, hardened ptrace defaults, and a thorough toolchain refresh — with a final release targeting October 20. »
Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS Brings the Linux 7.0 Kernel to Noble Numbat Users
The fifth point release of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS ships with a Linux 7.0 HWE kernel and Mesa 26.2 — bringing newer hardware support to Noble Numbat without requiring an upgrade to 26.04. »
COSMIC Desktop 1.8 Arrives with a Rewritten Compositor, Tablet Emulation, and Greeter Fixes
COSMIC Epoch 1.8.0 tagged on September 9, bringing a rewritten compositor with tablet emulation and libei pasteboard support, alongside greeter improvements and audio fixes for System76's Rust-built desktop. »
Arch Linux September 2026 ISO Arrives with Linux Kernel 7.2.2
Arch Linux's monthly snapshot for September 2026 ships a 1.5 GB ISO powered by Linux kernel 7.2.2 — the first Arch release to default to the newly minted 7.2 branch, with improved hardware detection across the board. »