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OSNews@osnews@mstdn.social (2026-07-09 07:24:00)
The state of accessibility in GNOME
With July being Disability Pride Month, GNOME's Sophie Herold published a blog post taking stock of where GNOME stands on this front, progress that's been made, as well as areas where the project comes short. One particular paragraph from her introduction really hits the nail on the head about accessibility discussions in tech circles:
The reality of tech communi
https://www.osnews.com/story/145481/the-state-of-accessibility-in-gnome/
#Gnome
OSNews@osnews@mstdn.social (2026-07-09 07:07:44)
Next release of Cinnamon finally supports Wayland
Linux Mint's Cinnamon is one of the last desktops to still not support Wayland, and is relegated to only being compatible with legacy X11 environments. With the next release of Cinnamon, however, this is finally going to change.
We worked really hard on Wayland and we got to the point where it feels solid and the experience is almost
https://www.osnews.com/story/145479/next-release-of-cinnamon-finally-supports-wayland/
#Wayland
OSNews@osnews@mstdn.social (2026-07-08 08:18:10)
Most slopcode projects are abandoned and deleted within months of release
About a month ago, Flathub announced a ban on slopcoded applications. Evangelos "GeopJr" Paterakis, developer of a number of popular Linux applications and ton of other things, did some research into just how many applications tagged with "AI slop", a tag Flathub reviewers used to keep tra
https://www.osnews.com/story/145469/most-slopcode-projects-are-abandoned-and-deleted-within-months-of-release/
#ClownCar
OSNews@osnews@mstdn.social (2026-07-08 06:06:41)
Linux ported to the Atari Jaguar
Only a few days ago we had Linux on the Mega Drive, and someone took that as a challenge, so now we have Linux on the Atari Jaguar. The Jaguar has a very different architecture than the Mega Drive, but does happen to use a processor from the same 68000-family.
Interestingly enough, to this day, Linux has architecture code for the 68000-family of processors. 68040, 6803
https://www.osnews.com/story/145467/linux-ported-to-the-atari-jaguar/
#Linux