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Authors
Avi Romanoff
Enthusiasm Evangelist
Attack of the Settings
Cassidy James Blaede
Former Co-founder & CXO
Updates for January, 2022
What’s new in OS 6.1, plus shifting development to OS 7
2021 UI Study Results
Digging into the dock, multitasking, and more
elementary OS 6 Updates for November, 2021
New features and improved design to get ready for the holidays
elementary OS 6 Updates for September, 2021
Big updates to AppCenter
elementary OS 6 Odin Available Now
It’s finally here, and it’s the biggest update to the platform yet
elementary Developer Week 2021
Online · June 26–27, 2021 →
elementary OS 6 Beta 2 Now Available
Installer, Flatpak, Online Accounts, Notifications, and more since Beta 1
elementary OS 6 Beta Available Today
What’s a beta, and what’s new for developers?
The New elementary Store is Here
Stand-alone, open source, and much more flexible
Hardware Improvements Coming to elementary OS
Working with device makers shows how a rising tide lifts all boats
Our 2020 in Review
…what a year.
elementary OS on Raspberry Pi
Continuing our experimental Early Access builds
How to Revitalize Your Mac or Windows PC
Bring back a struggling computer with elementary OS
Slimbook Joins the elementary OS Retailer Program
Plus, additional models from existing retailers
Let’s Talk elementary OS 6
Updates for July, plus early access to the next major version
Goodbye, Bountysource
We’re leaving Bountysource. Here’s why.
Now Shipping elementary OS
Over a dozen models from two retailers, and counting
Hera Updates for May, 2020
Improvements across AppCenter, Files, and more for OS 5.1.5
Hera Updates for April, 2020
Screen Time & Limits, a revamped Applications Menu, deep System Settings search, and more for OS 5.1.4
Hera Updates for March, 2020
OS 5.1.3 brings improvements and fixes across the board
AppCenter for Everyone Remote Sprint
What we accomplished despite postponing the in-person sprint
AppCenter for Everyone Campaign Results
Stats, sprint plans, and more
Hera Updates for February, 2020
Improvements to AppCenter, Files, Code, and more
Stretch Goal: Privacy & Security Sprint
Tackling further improvements to privacy and security in AppCenter and elementary OS 6 →
AppCenter Spotlight: Planner
Never worry about forgetting things again
Hera Updates for January, 2020
Focusing on developers, privacy, and fine tuning
Our 2019 in Review
And looking forward in 2020
Introducing elementary OS 5.1 Hera
A major update on a solid foundation
Rebuilding elementary OS
Our road to a better release process, automated builds, and more
Updates for October, 2019
The Flatpak Update. Plus: prepping for LAS and wrapping up Hacktoberfest.
Updates for September, 2019
Updates to apps, settings, and more—plus kicking off Hacktoberfest
Updates for August, 2019
Plus some info about the 5.1 release
elementary at GUADEC 2019
Hanging out with GNOME in Thessaloniki, Greece
Welcome to the New Blog
Why we left Medium, and how!
Updates for July, 2019
Lots of small updates, and a new blog!
Licensing for our Written Content
Using Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike
Get Settled into elementary OS with Onboarding
Designed to improve the first-run experience
The Need for a FreeDesktop Dark Style Preference
It’s time for the FreeDesktop to catch up
2019 UI Study Results
Regarding Custom Styles, Dark Modes, and Night Light
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 and controversial topic, I have been working over the past few years to...
Read more…Developer Tips: GitHub Workflow
Best practices to make development faster and easier
elementary AppCenter + Flatpak
Preparing for the future
Parental Controls & Metered Data Hackfest
Working with GNOME on shared features
Accessibility Features Are Just Features
An OS-wide curb-cutting effort
AppCenter Website Updates
Release notes, prices, and more
GNOME’s New App Icons Drop Pixel-Precision and Hinting
What it means for elementary OS
Privacy and elementary OS
How we protect your data from ourselves and others
AppCenter Spotlight: Fondo
Find the most beautiful wallpapers
AppCenter Spotlight: Write.as
Publish a thought in seconds
elementary OS 5 Juno is Here
Refinement, Productivity, & an Improved Developer Platform
AppCenter and Content Ratings
Using open standards to empower users and parents
We’re Back from LAS 2018
Sharing knowledge and wisdom in Denver, Colorado
AppCenter Spotlight: Minder
Create, develop, and visualize your ideas
Why We Use “Checks” in Checkboxes and Radio Buttons
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 or exclusive-select situation. Further, with radio buttons it can be...
Read more…Introducing New AppCenter Sharing URLs
Easily share apps to users whether or not they’re on elementary OS
AppCenter Spotlight: Tootle
Lightning fast client for Mastodon
Developer Tips: Backgrounding & System Integration
Best practices for making your app a first-class citizen
AppCenter Spotlight: Transporter
Hassle-free file sharing
Why the Looped Square (⌘) Symbol?
Let’s talk about elementary OS 5 Juno
Introducing New AppCenter Categories
Better for both users and developers
Scratch is now elementary Code
More than a name change
Cleaning Up App Codenames
GitHub and RDNN make for a more sane scheme
Building the Future of elementary OS
Why AppCenter is the center of our platform
What is HiDPI
and Why Does it Matter?
Switching from macOS: Open Source
What exactly is Open Source about and why does it make elementary OS better?
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.
Switching from macOS: Creative Work
What it’s like to do creative work or work alongside a designer on elementary OS
Switching from macOS: Developer Environment
Part 2 of a 5-part series
Switching from macOS: The Basics
Part 1 of a 5-part series
GNOME West Coast Summit
Payments
Or, “Why we make you type $0”
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 more…A Music App Shouldn't Be a Podcast App
10×10 Design Process
The problem and a possible solution
Hello, Luna Beta 1
Managing Criticism on Both Ends
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...
Read more…Eating Our Own Dogfood
Woof!
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 contributor, developer, or someone...
Read more…Danielle Foré
Founder & CEO
Package Releases Are Almost Done, You Won't Believe What Happens Next!
A brief update with important features
Surprise! Big Updates for OS 7 Are Here!
And a progress update on OS 8
It's Disability Pride Month! Let's Get Accessible
OS 8 progress and community updates from June
Happy Pride! Have Some Updates!
OS 7 Updates and OS 8 progress during May
Visualizing The Finish Line
OS 8 progress during April
The System Settings Redesign Has Landed
OS 8 progress during March
GTK 4 Porting And A Bit Of Whimsy
OS 8 progress during February
OS 8 Now Available in Early Access
Plus a new version of Code
OS 7 Updates and More OS 8 News
Updates from the end of the year and the holidays
Let's Talk OS 8
Development on the next major version of elementary OS has begun
elementary OS 7.1 Available Now
Made with care, with you in mind
One Last Bug Fix Update Before The Big One
Updates for August, 2023
New Features For Mail, A More Personal Lock Screen, And System Settings Improvements
Updates for July, 2023
Big Feature Updates for Accessibility, Privacy, Security, and More
Updates for June, 2023
Getting in shape for summer
Updates for May, 2023
New features and settings, improved performance, and fewer bugs
Updates for April, 2023
Spring cleaning is in full effect
Updates for March, 2023
Big new features and a mountain of bug fixes
Updates for February, 2023
elementary OS 7 Available Now
Forward thinking and designed for real life
Updates for November, 2022
We heard you like clicking, so now you can click when you click
Updates for October, 2022
Oh yeah, it's all coming together
Updates for September, 2022
A new developer tool and steady OS 7 progress
Updates for August, 2022
Plus, our plan for responsive apps
Updates for July, 2022
A big themes update for Terminal and OS 7 progress
Updates for June, 2022
The focus turns back to OS 6 while we're stuck on OS 7
Updates for May, 2022
OS 6 still gets the latest goodies
Updates for April, 2022
Counting down to OS 7
elementary OS 6.1 Available Now
We come bearing gifts and Yule tidings!
elementary OS 6 Updates for October, 2021
All the small things
elementary OS 6 Updates for August, 2021
Just three weeks since the release, and we already have more goodies
AppCenter Dashboard Sprint Spring 2021
Big steps for the Flatpak-based AppCenter
Cheers to 10 Years
elementary OS rounds out its first decade
Look & Feel Changes Coming to elementary OS 6
Visual design updates that are more than skin deep
Multi-touch Gestures in elementary OS 6
Our swipiest operating system ever
Dark Style Progress for elementary OS 6
The Dark Side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be… unnatural
Platform Changes in elementary OS 6
New technology that improves your experience
Leaving Google Analytics is Finally Plausible
Reviewing another big step towards privacy and transparency
Hera Updates for June, 2020
Fixes and improvements with OS 5.1.6, plus a note about the future
AppCenter for Everyone
Taking the indie, open source app store to the next level →
Say Hello to the New Greeter
Our redesigned login and lock screen
Today Is My 30th Birthday
And I have a small request
Juno Updates for April, 2019
New settings, redesigned dialogs, smashed bugs, and more
Juno Updates for March, 2019
While we made a pretty big announcement on April 1, March wasn’t without its own hard work
A New Native File Chooser
And how you can get your apps ready for it
Juno Updates for February, 2019
Bug fixes and performance improvements
Juno Updates for January, 2019
We’re back from the holidays with plenty of updates
Our 2018 in Review
A look back at the past year of elementary
Juno Updates for December, 2018
Happy Holidays and Happy New Year!
Juno Updates for November, 2018
It’s not the end of the cycle, it’s just the beginning
Things We Learned at GUADEC 2018
You can drink on the beach in Almería
Building the Next Generation of Apps
Platform improvements and goals for Juno
Meet the Upcoming Installer
Making elementary OS more “gettable”
About AppCenter Payments
Building a sustainable app ecosystem
Our 2017 in Review
Looking back on a year of active development
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 features, and other improvements. We’ve also made...
Read more…AppCenter & the Future of the Universe
How elementary OS can “cross the chasm”
Peace Out, About Dialogs
and hello metadata standards
So You Wanna Publish on AppCenter
Helpful tips, common pitfalls, and frequently asked questions
elementary + GitHub
We’ve completed our move
You Are Not the Product
A reminder about our stance on advertising and tracking
Making System Settings Access a Cross-Desktop Feature
A new cross-desktop URL scheme specification
Busting Major Myths Around elementary OS
A look at the facts
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 pieces of misinformation when reporting on...
Read more…We’re Now Hosting Valadoc.org
RE: Geary
Continuing the legacy
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 relationship with Yorba....
Read more…Our 2015 in Review
To get into the New Year’s Eve spirit, here’s our year in review!
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 the New Year’s Eve spirit, here’s our...
Read more…What’s Up With HiDPI Icons?
Thoughts from the GNOME WestCoast Summit
Goodbye Sourceforge
Our time with them has come to a close
Why we write elementary apps in Vala
A tremendously effective tool for our needs
The Heuristics of Headerbars
What's (Still) Up With Window Controls?
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 experiment for about a...
Read more…What's Up With Window Controls?
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…Distros, Platforms, and Where We Fit In
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 distro make up for home users consists of...
Read more…David Hewitt
Desktop Engineer
elementary OS on Pinebook Pro
An experimental case of hardware enablement
Joey Sneddon
OMG! Ubuntu!
Karen Sophia
Customer Engagement
A Wild Karen Sophia Has Appeared!
And she’s bringing stickers back
Keli Grubb
Developer
New Hera ISO Available for Download
Our new release process brings us elementary OS 5.1.2
Eric Londo
Editor of Linux++
Linux++ Interviews Cassidy
An excerpt from Linux++ issue 20
Peter Uithoven
Front-end Developer
Juno Updates for June, 2019
A Few Little Big Fixes
Juno Updates for May, 2019
New features and fixes
Nick
The Linux Experiment
Cassidy on GNOME, Themes, and More
The Linux Experiment interviews Cassidy for a video
