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We design and develop the fast, open, and privacy-respecting replacement for Windows and macOS
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2026 2
2025 12
- elementary OS 8.1 Available Now
- Who Monitors The Monitor?
- More Apps, More Features, More Cowbell!
- elementary OS 8.0.2 Available Now
- Developer Tools, Hardware Enablement, and Multitasking Futures
- Supporting Disability Is Our Social Responsibility
- Package Releases Are Almost Done, You Won't Believe What Happens Next! A brief update with important features Danielle Foré Mon, Sep 9, 2024 3 min read
- The First Pride Was a Riot, and So Are These Updates
- elementary OS 8 Available Now Carefree because you're cared for Danielle Foré Tue, Nov 26, 2024 15 min read
- A Little Bit Now, A Lotta Bit Later
- Happy Holidays! We Come Bringing Gifts! It's already time for OS 8 updates Danielle Foré Fri, Dec 13, 2024 4 min read
- elementary OS 8.0.1 Available Now A bundle of bug fixes and a couple creature comforts Danielle Foré Tue, Mar 18, 2025 7 min read
2024 8
- OS 8 Now Available in Early Access Plus a new version of Code Danielle Foré Tue, Feb 6, 2024 5 min read
- GTK 4 Porting And A Bit Of Whimsy OS 8 progress during February Danielle Foré Mon, Mar 4, 2024 5 min read
- The System Settings Redesign Has Landed OS 8 progress during March Danielle Foré Fri, Apr 5, 2024 6 min read
- Visualizing The Finish Line OS 8 progress during April Danielle Foré Sat, May 4, 2024 5 min read
- Happy Pride! Have Some Updates! OS 7 Updates and OS 8 progress during May Danielle Foré Tue, Jun 4, 2024 5 min read
- It's Disability Pride Month! Let's Get Accessible OS 8 progress and community updates from June Danielle Foré Wed, Jul 3, 2024 7 min read
- Surprise! Big Updates for OS 7 Are Here! And a progress update on OS 8 Danielle Foré Wed, Aug 7, 2024 7 min read
- Getting in shape for summer Updates for May, 2023 Danielle Foré Fri, Jun 2, 2023 5 min read
2023 10
- Big Feature Updates for Accessibility, Privacy, Security, and More Updates for June, 2023 Danielle Foré Wed, Jul 5, 2023 8 min read
- New Features For Mail, A More Personal Lock Screen, And System Settings Improvements Updates for July, 2023 Danielle Foré Sat, Aug 5, 2023 8 min read
- One Last Bug Fix Update Before The Big One Updates for August, 2023 Danielle Foré Wed, Sep 6, 2023 6 min read
- elementary OS 7.1 Available Now Made with care, with you in mind Danielle Foré Tue, Oct 3, 2023 22 min read
- Let's Talk OS 8 Development on the next major version of elementary OS has begun Danielle Foré Fri, Nov 3, 2023 9 min read
- OS 7 Updates and More OS 8 News Updates from the end of the year and the holidays Danielle Foré Fri, Jan 5, 2024 4 min read
- Updates for September, 2022 A new developer tool and steady OS 7 progress Danielle Foré Wed, Oct 5, 2022 4 min read
- Updates for October, 2022 Oh yeah, it's all coming together Danielle Foré Tue, Nov 1, 2022 3 min read
- Updates for November, 2022 We heard you like clicking, so now you can click when you click Danielle Foré Thu, Dec 1, 2022 2 min read
- elementary OS 7 Available Now Forward thinking and designed for real life Danielle Foré Tue, Jan 31, 2023 17 min read
2022 10
- Big new features and a mountain of bug fixes Updates for February, 2023 Danielle Foré Mon, Mar 6, 2023 4 min read
- Spring cleaning is in full effect Updates for March, 2023 Danielle Foré Wed, Apr 5, 2023 4 min read
- New features and settings, improved performance, and fewer bugs Updates for April, 2023 Danielle Foré Fri, May 5, 2023 5 min read
- 2021 UI Study Results Digging into the dock, multitasking, and more Cassidy James Blaede Thu, Jan 27, 2022 15 min read
- Updates for January, 2022 What’s new in OS 6.1, plus shifting development to OS 7 Cassidy James Blaede Mon, Jan 31, 2022 10 min read
- Updates for April, 2022 Counting down to OS 7 Danielle Foré Tue, May 3, 2022 5 min read
- Updates for May, 2022 OS 6 still gets the latest goodies Danielle Foré Tue, May 31, 2022 5 min read
- Updates for June, 2022 The focus turns back to OS 6 while we're stuck on OS 7 Danielle Foré Sat, Jul 2, 2022 4 min read
- Updates for July, 2022 A big themes update for Terminal and OS 7 progress Danielle Foré Fri, Aug 12, 2022 3 min read
- Updates for August, 2022 Plus, our plan for responsive apps Danielle Foré Tue, Sep 6, 2022 5 min read
2021 15
- elementary OS 6 Odin Available Now It’s finally here, and it’s the biggest update to the platform yet Cassidy James Blaede Tue, Aug 10, 2021 22 min read
- elementary OS 6 Updates for August, 2021 Just three weeks since the release, and we already have more goodies Danielle Foré Tue, Aug 31, 2021 8 min read
- elementary OS 6 Updates for September, 2021 Big updates to AppCenter Cassidy James Blaede Mon, Oct 4, 2021 10 min read
- elementary OS 6 Updates for October, 2021 All the small things Danielle Foré Sat, Oct 30, 2021 10 min read
- Cassidy on GNOME, Themes, and More The Linux Experiment interviews Cassidy for a video Nick Fri, Nov 12, 2021 17 min read
- elementary OS 6 Updates for November, 2021 New features and improved design to get ready for the holidays Cassidy James Blaede Mon, Nov 29, 2021 9 min read
- elementary OS 6.1 Available Now We come bearing gifts and Yule tidings! Danielle Foré Mon, Dec 20, 2021 27 min read
- Look & Feel Changes Coming to elementary OS 6 Visual design updates that are more than skin deep Danielle Foré Fri, Mar 5, 2021 9 min read
- Cheers to 10 Years elementary OS rounds out its first decade Danielle Foré Wed, Mar 31, 2021 6 min read
- The New elementary Store is Here Stand-alone, open source, and much more flexible Cassidy James Blaede Mon, Apr 26, 2021 3 min read
- elementary OS 6 Beta Available Today What’s a beta, and what’s new for developers? Cassidy James Blaede Fri, Apr 30, 2021 13 min read
- AppCenter Dashboard Sprint Spring 2021 Big steps for the Flatpak-based AppCenter Danielle Foré Thu, May 27, 2021 5 min read
- elementary OS 6 Beta 2 Now Available Installer, Flatpak, Online Accounts, Notifications, and more since Beta 1 Cassidy James Blaede Wed, Jun 16, 2021 6 min read
- elementary Developer Week 2021 Online · June 26–27, 2021 → Cassidy James Blaede Sat, Jun 26, 2021 1 min read
- Platform Changes in elementary OS 6 New technology that improves your experience Danielle Foré Mon, Oct 5, 2020 9 min read
2020 26
- How to Revitalize Your Mac or Windows PC Bring back a struggling computer with elementary OS Cassidy James Blaede Fri, Oct 16, 2020 7 min read
- Dark Style Progress for elementary OS 6 The Dark Side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be… unnatural Danielle Foré Thu, Nov 5, 2020 7 min read
- Multi-touch Gestures in elementary OS 6 Our swipiest operating system ever Danielle Foré Tue, Dec 1, 2020 5 min read
- elementary OS on Raspberry Pi Continuing our experimental Early Access builds Cassidy James Blaede Fri, Dec 4, 2020 5 min read
- Our 2020 in Review …what a year. Cassidy James Blaede Thu, Dec 31, 2020 12 min read
- Hardware Improvements Coming to elementary OS Working with device makers shows how a rising tide lifts all boats Cassidy James Blaede Wed, Feb 3, 2021 9 min read
- Linux++ Interviews Cassidy An excerpt from Linux++ issue 20 Eric Londo Sat, Jun 20, 2020 4 min read
- Goodbye, Bountysource We’re leaving Bountysource. Here’s why. Cassidy James Blaede Wed, Jun 24, 2020 4 min read
- Hera Updates for June, 2020 Fixes and improvements with OS 5.1.6, plus a note about the future Danielle Foré Wed, Jul 1, 2020 5 min read
- Leaving Google Analytics is Finally Plausible Reviewing another big step towards privacy and transparency Danielle Foré Thu, Jul 16, 2020 7 min read
- Let’s Talk elementary OS 6 Updates for July, plus early access to the next major version Cassidy James Blaede Fri, Aug 7, 2020 7 min read
- elementary OS on Pinebook Pro An experimental case of hardware enablement David Hewitt Fri, Aug 28, 2020 10 min read
- Slimbook Joins the elementary OS Retailer Program Plus, additional models from existing retailers Cassidy James Blaede Thu, Sep 24, 2020 3 min read
- Hera Updates for February, 2020 Improvements to AppCenter, Files, Code, and more Cassidy James Blaede Sun, Mar 1, 2020 2 min read
- AppCenter for Everyone Campaign Results Stats, sprint plans, and more Cassidy James Blaede Mon, Mar 9, 2020 4 min read
- AppCenter for Everyone Remote Sprint What we accomplished despite postponing the in-person sprint Cassidy James Blaede Sat, Mar 28, 2020 7 min read
- Hera Updates for March, 2020 OS 5.1.3 brings improvements and fixes across the board Cassidy James Blaede Sun, Apr 5, 2020 5 min read
- Hera Updates for April, 2020 Screen Time & Limits, a revamped Applications Menu, deep System Settings search, and more for OS 5.1.4 Cassidy James Blaede Fri, May 1, 2020 5 min read
- Hera Updates for May, 2020 Improvements across AppCenter, Files, and more for OS 5.1.5 Cassidy James Blaede Wed, Jun 3, 2020 3 min read
- Now Shipping elementary OS Over a dozen models from two retailers, and counting Cassidy James Blaede Thu, Jun 11, 2020 5 min read
- Introducing elementary OS 5.1 Hera A major update on a solid foundation Cassidy James Blaede Tue, Dec 3, 2019 18 min read
- Our 2019 in Review And looking forward in 2020 Cassidy James Blaede Wed, Jan 15, 2020 10 min read
- Hera Updates for January, 2020 Focusing on developers, privacy, and fine tuning Cassidy James Blaede Mon, Feb 3, 2020 4 min read
- New Hera ISO Available for Download Our new release process brings us elementary OS 5.1.2 Keli Grubb Wed, Feb 5, 2020 2 min read
- AppCenter for Everyone Taking the indie, open source app store to the next level → Danielle Foré Fri, Feb 7, 2020 1 min read
- AppCenter Spotlight: Planner Never worry about forgetting things again Cassidy James Blaede Tue, Feb 18, 2020 6 min read
2019 32
- Stretch Goal: Privacy & Security Sprint Tackling further improvements to privacy and security in AppCenter and elementary OS 6 → Cassidy James Blaede Tue, Feb 25, 2020 1 min read
- Welcome to the New Blog Why we left Medium, and how! Cassidy James Blaede Thu, Aug 15, 2019 16 min read
- Say Hello to the New Greeter Our redesigned login and lock screen Danielle Foré Tue, Aug 27, 2019 6 min read
- elementary at GUADEC 2019 Hanging out with GNOME in Thessaloniki, Greece Cassidy James Blaede Thu, Sep 5, 2019 20 min read
- Updates for August, 2019 Plus some info about the 5.1 release Cassidy James Blaede Thu, Sep 19, 2019 4 min read
- Updates for September, 2019 Updates to apps, settings, and more—plus kicking off Hacktoberfest Cassidy James Blaede Wed, Oct 2, 2019 4 min read
- Updates for October, 2019 The Flatpak Update. Plus: prepping for LAS and wrapping up Hacktoberfest. Cassidy James Blaede Fri, Nov 1, 2019 8 min read
- Rebuilding elementary OS Our road to a better release process, automated builds, and more Cassidy James Blaede Tue, Nov 5, 2019 7 min read
- Juno Updates for May, 2019 New features and fixes Peter Uithoven Sun, Jun 2, 2019 3 min read
- A Wild Karen Sophia Has Appeared! And she’s bringing stickers back Karen Sophia Fri, Jun 7, 2019 4 min read
- Juno Updates for June, 2019 A Few Little Big Fixes Peter Uithoven Mon, Jul 1, 2019 2 min read
- Get Settled into elementary OS with Onboarding Designed to improve the first-run experience Cassidy James Blaede Tue, Jul 23, 2019 10 min read
- Today Is My 30th Birthday And I have a small request Danielle Foré Tue, Jul 30, 2019 2 min read
- Licensing for our Written Content Using Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike Cassidy James Blaede Thu, Aug 1, 2019 1 min read
- Updates for July, 2019 Lots of small updates, and a new blog! Cassidy James Blaede Sun, Aug 4, 2019 6 min read
- elementary AppCenter + Flatpak Preparing for the future Cassidy James Blaede Mon, Apr 1, 2019 9 min read
- Parental Controls & Metered Data Hackfest Working with GNOME on shared features Cassidy James Blaede Fri, Mar 22, 2019 7 min read
- Juno Updates for March, 2019 While we made a pretty big announcement on April 1, March wasn’t without its own hard work Danielle Foré Tue, Apr 2, 2019 4 min read
- Developer Tips: GitHub Workflow Best practices to make development faster and easier Cassidy James Blaede Mon, Apr 8, 2019 10 min read
- Juno Updates for April, 2019 New settings, redesigned dialogs, smashed bugs, and more Danielle Foré Thu, May 2, 2019 2 min read
- 2019 UI Study Results Regarding Custom Styles, Dark Modes, and Night Light Cassidy James Blaede Fri, May 17, 2019 8 min read In my time contributing to elementary and GNOME, I’ve become familiar with pleas from users to implement official support for arbitrary themes — while that itself is a large a
- The Need for a FreeDesktop Dark Style Preference It’s time for the FreeDesktop to catch up Cassidy James Blaede Fri, May 17, 2019 18 min read
- Privacy and elementary OS How we protect your data from ourselves and others Cassidy James Blaede Wed, Jan 9, 2019 6 min read
- GNOME’s New App Icons Drop Pixel-Precision and Hinting What it means for elementary OS Cassidy James Blaede Wed, Jan 23, 2019 9 min read
- AppCenter Website Updates Release notes, prices, and more Cassidy James Blaede Mon, Jan 28, 2019 4 min read
- Juno Updates for January, 2019 We’re back from the holidays with plenty of updates Danielle Foré Sat, Feb 2, 2019 4 min read
- Accessibility Features Are Just Features An OS-wide curb-cutting effort Cassidy James Blaede Sat, Feb 16, 2019 4 min read
- Juno Updates for February, 2019 Bug fixes and performance improvements Danielle Foré Sat, Mar 2, 2019 5 min read
- A New Native File Chooser And how you can get your apps ready for it Danielle Foré Tue, Mar 12, 2019 3 min read
- elementary OS 5 Juno is Here Refinement, Productivity, & an Improved Developer Platform Cassidy James Blaede Tue, Oct 16, 2018 36 min read
- AppCenter and Content Ratings Using open standards to empower users and parents Cassidy James Blaede Mon, Sep 24, 2018 4 min read
- Juno Updates for November, 2018 It’s not the end of the cycle, it’s just the beginning Danielle Foré Fri, Nov 30, 2018 2 min read
2018 20
- AppCenter Spotlight: Write.as Publish a thought in seconds Cassidy James Blaede Thu, Dec 20, 2018 7 min read
- Juno Updates for December, 2018 Happy Holidays and Happy New Year! Danielle Foré Tue, Jan 1, 2019 4 min read
- Our 2018 in Review A look back at the past year of elementary Danielle Foré Mon, Jan 7, 2019 8 min read
- AppCenter Spotlight: Fondo Find the most beautiful wallpapers Cassidy James Blaede Mon, Jan 7, 2019 5 min read
- Developer Tips: Backgrounding & System Integration Best practices for making your app a first-class citizen Cassidy James Blaede Tue, May 15, 2018 6 min read
- AppCenter Spotlight: Tootle Lightning fast client for Mastodon Cassidy James Blaede Fri, Jun 15, 2018 3 min read
- Introducing New AppCenter Sharing URLs Easily share apps to users whether or not they’re on elementary OS Cassidy James Blaede Fri, Jul 20, 2018 6 min read
- Things We Learned at GUADEC 2018 You can drink on the beach in Almería Danielle Foré Wed, Jul 18, 2018 8 min read
- Why We Use “Checks” in Checkboxes and Radio Buttons Cassidy James Blaede Fri, Jul 20, 2018 2 min read Checkboxes and radio buttons are honestly used pretty sparingly in elementary OS, and even more sparingly together. When they are used, it’s fairly obvious from context whether it’s a multi-select o
- AppCenter Spotlight: Minder Create, develop, and visualize your ideas Cassidy James Blaede Mon, Sep 3, 2018 5 min read
- We’re Back from LAS 2018 Sharing knowledge and wisdom in Denver, Colorado Cassidy James Blaede Wed, Sep 12, 2018 3 min read
- Introducing New AppCenter Categories Better for both users and developers Cassidy James Blaede Wed, Jan 17, 2018 4 min read
- About AppCenter Payments Building a sustainable app ecosystem Danielle Foré Mon, Feb 5, 2018 6 min read
- Let’s talk about elementary OS 5 Juno Cassidy James Blaede Mon, Feb 12, 2018 6 min read
- Meet the Upcoming Installer Making elementary OS more “gettable” Danielle Foré Fri, Feb 23, 2018 7 min read
- Why the Looped Square (⌘) Symbol? Cassidy James Blaede Thu, Mar 1, 2018 2 min read
- Building the Next Generation of Apps Platform improvements and goals for Juno Danielle Foré Mon, Apr 9, 2018 6 min read
- AppCenter Spotlight: Transporter Hassle-free file sharing Cassidy James Blaede Tue, May 15, 2018 5 min read
- elementary + GitHub We’ve completed our move Danielle Foré Mon, Jun 19, 2017 3 min read
- So You Wanna Publish on AppCenter Helpful tips, common pitfalls, and frequently asked questions Danielle Foré Mon, Jun 26, 2017 4 min read
2017 7
- Peace Out, About Dialogs and hello metadata standards Danielle Foré Wed, Jun 28, 2017 3 min read
- Cleaning Up App Codenames GitHub and RDNN make for a more sane scheme Cassidy James Blaede Fri, Jul 21, 2017 4 min read
- AppCenter & the Future of the Universe How elementary OS can “cross the chasm” Danielle Foré Sat, Aug 26, 2017 5 min read
- Our 2017 in Review Looking back on a year of active development Danielle Foré Mon, Jan 1, 2018 8 min read Every month this year, we’ve published a blog post outlining all of the updates that we’ve released during that month. We’ve made a strong effort to support Loki with regular bug fixes, new feat
- Scratch is now elementary Code More than a name change Cassidy James Blaede Tue, Jan 2, 2018 3 min read
- Switching from macOS: Open Source What exactly is Open Source about and why does it make elementary OS better? Cassidy James Blaede Sun, Nov 6, 2016 4 min read
- We’re Now Hosting Valadoc.org Danielle Foré Sat, Nov 12, 2016 2 min read
2016 10
- Busting Major Myths Around elementary OS A look at the facts Danielle Foré Fri, Nov 18, 2016 11 min read The open source desktop landscape is complicated. There are many distros, many desktop environments, and so many things to know about each of them. We often see folks fall into some of the same p
- What is HiDPI and Why Does it Matter? Cassidy James Blaede Wed, Nov 23, 2016 8 min read
- Making System Settings Access a Cross-Desktop Feature A new cross-desktop URL scheme specification Danielle Foré Thu, Dec 8, 2016 3 min read
- Building the Future of elementary OS Why AppCenter is the center of our platform Cassidy James Blaede Wed, Feb 8, 2017 4 min read
- You Are Not the Product A reminder about our stance on advertising and tracking Danielle Foré Mon, Apr 24, 2017 3 min read
- What’s Up With HiDPI Icons? Thoughts from the GNOME WestCoast Summit Danielle Foré Wed, Jul 15, 2015 6 min read
- Our 2015 in Review To get into the New Year’s Eve spirit, here’s our year in review! Danielle Foré Thu, Dec 31, 2015 6 min read We can’t believe that 2015 is almost over! It’s been a great year for elementary. So much has happened and we’re super excited to see what 2016 has in store. To get into th
- RE: Geary Continuing the legacy Danielle Foré Sun, Feb 21, 2016 3 min read Sometime last year the Yorba website was subtly changed from “Yorba is a non-profit free software group” to “Yorba was…”. This made us very, very sad at elementary. Before that, we’d been working on building a better relation
- Switching from macOS: The Basics Part 1 of a 5-part series Cassidy James Blaede Wed, Nov 2, 2016 4 min read
- Switching from macOS: Developer Environment Part 2 of a 5-part series Cassidy James Blaede Thu, Nov 3, 2016 6 min read
2015 6
- Switching from macOS: Creative Work What it’s like to do creative work or work alongside a designer on elementary OS Cassidy James Blaede Fri, Nov 4, 2016 3 min read
- Switching from macOS: Hardware In the Apple world, you have one choice for hardware: whatever Apple makes. With elementary OS, your options are far more vast. Cassidy James Blaede Sat, Nov 5, 2016 3 min read
- The Heuristics of Headerbars Danielle Foré Thu, Nov 21, 2013 3 min read
- A Music App Shouldn't Be a Podcast App Cassidy James Blaede Tue, Apr 8, 2014 1 min read
- Why we write elementary apps in Vala A tremendously effective tool for our needs Danielle Foré Mon, May 12, 2014 3 min read
- Payments Or, “Why we make you type $0” Cassidy James Blaede Sun, Feb 15, 2015 6 min read While our desktop developers are hard at work making Freya happen (we just released beta 2!), our web developers and many new contributors are collaborating over at GitHub to bring our new website to life. Read
2014 2
- We’re Going to WestCoast Summit! Unknown Author Tue, Jun 2, 2015 3 min read At the end of June, we’ll be meeting up with GNOME developers from the United States to discuss our future plans and how we can collaborate. It’s a wonderful opportunity to meet other players from the open source world in...
- Goodbye Sourceforge Our time with them has come to a close Danielle Foré Wed, Jun 17, 2015 3 min read
2013 2
- GNOME West Coast Summit Cassidy James Blaede Wed, Jul 1, 2015 4 min read
- Distros, Platforms, and Where We Fit In Danielle Foré Thu, Aug 4, 2011 3 min read We often get asked to distribute software like LibreOffice, Firefox, Google Chrome, WINE, applications that use Qt, etc. And for the traditional Linux distribution this is a perfectly reasonable request. The typical di
2012 2
- Attack of the Settings Avi Romanoff Thu, Aug 18, 2011 4 min read
- Managing Criticism on Both Ends Cassidy James Blaede Fri, Aug 19, 2011 4 min read I’ve been working with elementary and the community for quite some time now, and I’ve gotten a pretty good feel for the individuals that make up the awesome team. Not only that, but I know the direction of the project.
2011 5
- What's Up With Window Controls? Danielle Foré Sat, Nov 26, 2011 7 min read It’s the stuff of epic flame wars. “My button position is better than yours” surely gets the blood boiling. So let’s take a second and talk window controls. What do they do, why do we have them, what order should... Read more
- Hello, Luna Beta 1 Cassidy James Blaede Wed, Nov 14, 2012 9 min read
- What's (Still) Up With Window Controls? Danielle Foré Wed, Dec 19, 2012 4 min read In my original post, “What’s Up With Window Controls?”, I outlined some of the things we were thinking about window controls in elementary and the beginning of an experiment. As of now, we’ve been running that experim
- 10×10 Design Process The problem and a possible solution Cassidy James Blaede Mon, Jan 21, 2013 3 min read
- Eating Our Own Dogfood Woof! Cassidy James Blaede Mon, Jul 11, 2011 4 min read Eating your own dog food. Taking what you dish out. Talking the talk and walking the walk. It’s a seemingly simple concept that has very important ramifications for the entire development process. If you’re an elementary