Our computers can display an astonishing range of symbols. Unicode alone defines more than 150,000 characters, covering ...

While Linux has supported X11 for a very long time, developer teams are beginning to make the shift toward Wayland. For example, Kubuntu will only install the Wayland version by default, and KDE ...

The only hard requirement for using hepp3n’s COSMIC Epoch PPA is to be using Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. It can be the desktop edition, ...

For decades, desktop Linux distributions primarily used the X Window System (X11) for rendering displays and graphics, but ...

Elementary OS 8.1 is out with Wayland enabled by default, new apps, animations and eye candy. Based on Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS ...

There are already some add-on applets available in the COSMIC app store, such as both minimal and full-featured Start-menu ...

The new pearOS distro is a Romanian project that picks up the concepts behind the original Pear Linux from 2011 and updates ...

The Linux kernel remains the beating heart of the OS. In 2026, we’ll likely see: New Long-Term Support (LTS) Baselines: With releases like 6.18 already declared LTS and successor branches maturing, ...

Kali Linux, developed for pentesting – i.e., vulnerability searching –, has been released by its developers in version 2025.4. They have paid particular attention to the desktop environments.

Wayland is the Linux display server that has been in the slow, steady process of taking over X11 to deliver a more modern, robust, and secure GUI for Linux. Wayland offers better performance, better ...

Why it matters: Although the legendary Star Wars flight sim X-Wing and its sequels have been available on Steam and GOG for some time, playing them on modern PCs can still prove tricky. A new mod ...