GNOME 49 'Brescia' Desktop Environment Released
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GNOME 49 Brescia: Wayland Default, HDR Support, New Apps
In the ever-evolving world of open-source desktop environments, the GNOME Project has unveiled its latest milestone with the release of GNOME 49, codenamed “Brescia.” This update, arriving just in time for integration into upcoming distributions like Fedora 43 and Ubuntu 25.10, marks a significant step forward in usability, performance, and modernization. Drawing from detailed coverage in Phoronix, the release emphasizes refined user experiences…
GNOME 49 Officially Released with New Video Player & Document Viewer
GNOME developer team finally announced the 49 release of this popular Linux Desktop environment! If everything goes well, GNOME 49 will be the default desktop for Ubuntu 25.10, Fedora Workstation 43, and optional for Arch, Manjaro, etc Linux distributions. The new desktop release introduced Showtime to replace Totem as the default video player, and Papers to replace Evince as the default document viewer. Both use the GTK4 plus LibAdwaita librari…
The Gnome project has introduced the desktop environment Gnome 49. Six months of work are stuck in the new edition with the code name "Brescia". The latter does not come by chance, in the Italian Brescia took place this year the Gnome conference GUADEC. In Gnome 49, Showtime Totem replaces as a standard video player application. Showtime is more modern and based on GTK 4 and Libadwaita, instead of on
GNOME 49 'Brescia' Desktop Environment Released
prisoninmate shares a report from 9to5Linux: The GNOME Project released today GNOME 49 "Brescia" as the latest stable version of this widely used desktop environment for GNU/Linux distributions, a major release that introduces exciting new features. Highlights of GNOME 49 include a new "Do Not Dist...
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