{"id":285194,"date":"2026-07-03T03:46:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T07:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/03\/ultramarine-linux-44-released-with-fedora-44-base-and-desktop-updates\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T04:25:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T08:25:05","slug":"ultramarine-linux-44-released-with-fedora-44-base-and-desktop-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/03\/ultramarine-linux-44-released-with-fedora-44-base-and-desktop-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Ultramarine Linux 44 Released with Fedora 44 Base and Desktop Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/ultramarine-linux-44-released-with-fedora-44-base-and-desktop-updates\/\">Ultramarine Linux 44 Released with Fedora 44 Base and Desktop Updates<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/ultramarine-linux-44-released-with-fedora-44-base-and-desktop-updates\/\">https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/ultramarine-linux-44-released-with-fedora-44-base-and-desktop-updates\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-07-03 03:46:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"linuxiac.com\">linuxiac.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Powered by Linux kernel 7.0, Fyra Labs has released Ultramarine 44, the latest version of its Fedora-based distribution, which offers a comprehensive out-of-the-box experience and multiple desktop editions while preserving compatibility with Fedora\u2019s package base.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A key feature is the Plasma edition, shipping with the latest KDE Plasma 6.7. The Budgie edition now uses Wayland, adopts SDDM, and includes a new Bluetooth application.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, users upgrading from Ultramarine 43 will need to follow the project\u2019s manual migration instructions, as the developers decided not to automatically move existing installations to SDDM for stability reasons.<\/p>\n<p>Ultramarine Linux 44<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The GNOME edition includes several usability improvements. Ultramarine 44 refines the \u201cWindow is Ready\u201d notification for more natural window focus, enables minimize and maximize buttons by default, adds calculator support to overview search, and displays battery percentage in the top panel on laptops.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the same time, Pop!_Shell has been removed from the GNOME edition because it is no longer maintained. Fyra Labs says users can still install it manually through DNF or try a similar extension, though compatibility may vary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Beyond the desktop editions, Ultramarine 44 introduces a refreshed release model. While the distribution will continue to align its major releases with Fedora, the team says it plans to ship more features throughout the year as they become ready, instead of holding everything for major version bumps.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Among the upcoming work mentioned are a public preview of Ultramarine Atomic and new hardware ports expected later this summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The out-of-box setup experience, Taidan, has been improved as well. Users can now set the system hostname during setup, enable the CachyOS kernel, and activate MTU probing. Nightlight has been removed from the setup flow, and the project has returned to bundled RPMs for traditional installations to simplify the process.<\/p>\n<p...<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/ultramarine-linux-44-released-with-fedora-44-base-and-desktop-updates\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ultramarine Linux 44 Released with Fedora 44 Base and Desktop Updates https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/ultramarine-linux-44-released-with-fedora-44-base-and-desktop-updates\/ Publish Date: 2026-07-03&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":285195,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ultramarine44.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[97,71],"class_list":["post-285194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-fedora","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285194"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":285196,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285194\/revisions\/285196"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}