All Systems Go! 2025

Modernizing GNOME
2025-10-01 , Gallery

GNOME has collected some very old code over the years. During the recent GNOME 49 release, we've made some drastic cleanups. Most visibly, we've dropped support for X11 and gained many dependencies on systemd. Let's explore some of the what and why for these changes!

Long time GNOME contributor: GNOME OS maintainer, Release Team member, and STF contractor. Recently, working at Red Hat on the desktop team