KDE Plasma 6.8 Ships on Its 30th Birthday and Retires X11 — Here's What Wayland-Only Means for You
On October 14, KDE marked three decades with Plasma 6.8, ending the X11 session after 30 years. Wayland is now the only supported desktop protocol. »
Ubuntu 26.10 'Stonking Stingray' Ships With Linux 7.3, GNOME 51, and Rust Core Utilities
Canonical's latest interim release ships with a fully Rust-powered coreutils, GNOME 51's smoother desktop, an on-device speech-to-text agent, and the first official RISC-V desktop images. »
Ubuntu 26.10 Is Out — Rust Coreutils, GNOME 51, and Post-Quantum Security Land Together
Canonical shipped Ubuntu 26.10 "Stonking Stingray" on October 15 with a Rust-powered core, GNOME 51, and quantum-safe package signing baked in. »
Firefox 159 Beta Fixes Wayland Tab Detachment and Adds Chrome Bookmark Import
Mozilla's Firefox 159 beta is out ahead of its October 27 stable release, fixing a persistent Wayland bug and adding quality-of-life features including Google bookmark import and better sidebar password access. »
KDE Plasma 6.8 Lands October 14 — A Full Wayland Desktop for KDE's 30th Birthday
KDE Plasma 6.8 ships on KDE's 30th anniversary with Union theming for QtWidgets apps, a complete Wayland transition, and a fix for NVIDIA GPU tiling lag. »