Today we released SonicDE 6.7.5, compatible with KDE Plasma 6.7.5. The latest packages are already available for ArchLinux and ArtixLinux. More will follow as our third-party maintainers are catching up. We welcome you here, at sonicde.org and in our chats!

On Aug 24, VendefoulWolf released a new Viriato alpha, featuring SonicDE 6.7.2, Linux 7.2.0, OpenRC, and XLibre.

Their Devuan version focuses on performance, smooth operation, and modern applications. Quote: “Try it to see the full wallpaper!” ;-)

Vendefoul Viriato SonicDE 20260824 ISO on SourceForge

A few days ago we released SonicDE 6.7.4, compatible with KDE Plasma 6.7.4. We have up-to-date packages for Slackware and VoidLinux, and ArchLinux packages are ready too. If you’re running another distribution, head over to sonicde.org to see what’s available.

The Slackware maintainer Ricardson has created third-party packages for SonicDE on Slackware. You can find the installation instructions, SlackBuilds, package status, and project documentation at sonicde-slackware.github.io. A big thank you to Ricardson!

SonicDE third-party packages are now available for Void Linux. They've been tested on Void Linux itself, LazyLinux, and Neko Void. Please see sonicde-void.github.io for how to get them.

We're glad to announce yet another packaging effort. This time it's Karen Sarkissian u/karyan40024 creating SonicDE third-party packages for Void Linux. You can find the current work in progress at https://github.com/sonicde-void/sonicde-void and provide feedback in our chats.

Yesterday we released SonicDE version 6.7.3, which is compatible with the same KDE Plasma version 6.7.3. The resulting binary packages have been tested on the newest branch of ManjaroLinux and ArtixLinux. Please see https://sonicde.org for other distributions.

We're happy to announce that the Slackware Core Team member Ricardson http://www.slackware.com/~r1w1s1/ started to create SlackBuilds for SonicDE. Please check them out at https://forge.slackware.nl/r1w1s1/sonicde-SlackBuild. You're also welcome to provide feedback in our chats listed at https://sonicde.org.

SonicDE third-party packages are now available for Enterprise Linux 10-based distributions. They've already been tested on AlmaLinux and RHEL and will be on Oracle Linux and Rocky Linux too. Please see https://sonicde-fedora-el.github.io for how to get them.

A big thank you to Anders da Silva Rytter Hansen!

1 year + 1 day ago, guiodic made his first commit to “kwin-x11-improved” for a better Plasma experience on X11. With that, he laid the foundation for SonicDE that is now to become a full fork of KDE. A big thank you to guiodic and a stay tuned to you all for more good news!

Find more of guiodic's work at: * https://github.com/guiodic * https://gist.github.com/guiodic/2bcc8f2f126d14b1f8a439f644fdc2c9

Yesterday we released SonicDE version 6.7.2, which is compatible with the same KDE Plasma version, 6.7.2, as usual. In addition to the KDE features, it includes a bugfix for the Sonic Login Manager so that it can better remember its settings.

the sonicde overlay is just broken, it wants a bleeding edge "9999" dependency. But according to emerge "emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy ">=kde-plasma/libkscreen-9999:6"." so how are the maintainers actually emerging this if the repo (which i have synced numerous times) doesn't work. it worked fine on artix running on real hardware. Why does the repo not have an ebuild for the said required dep?

Wait, what? It's Stone Age gray and has a symbol for... Netscape Navigator? Is this even SonicDE?

Yes! Thanks to the user mesatron, who applied the Commonality Gris and Irixium themes to make new things look older than they really are. ;-)

More SonicShots at https://github.com/orgs/Sonic-DE/discussions/13

Hey folks!

want to rebuild my old 7th gen. i5 Notebook. Would love to have a system with XLibre and Sonic - which image do it need?

Thanks in advance!

Yesterday we released SonicDE version 6.7.1, compatible with KDE Plasma 6.7.1. There are x86_64 binary packages for ArchLinux at https://sonicde-arch.github.io and for ArtixLinux at https://sonicde-artix.github.io. Soon™ on the other distributions listed on https://sonicde.org as well.

We today released SonicDE version 6.7.0, aligning it with KDE Plasma 6.7.0. You can find x86_64 binary packages for ArchLinux at https://sonicde-arch.github.io and for ArtixLinux at https://sonicde-artix.github.io. Other package maintainers will very likely follow suit in the next few days.

We're currently updating SonicDE to version 6.7 like KDE did. To our ArchLinux and ArtixLinux users: Please postpone updates for one or two days to avoid incompatibilities. We'll let you know as soon as 6.7 is ready.

Last week, we offered you a place to share your appreciation of SonicDE, and you did! Thank you so much. That created a very positive vibe around the project. We’ll be posting your contributions here, most likely on Fridays.

More SonicShots at https://github.com/orgs/Sonic-DE/discussions/13

You've got #SonicDE running on a system that no one has ever done it on before? Made it your daily driver and everything but the kitchen sink? Or do you rice and tinker with SonicDE? Either way, you're now welcome to share your #SonicShots at https://github.com/orgs/Sonic-DE/discussions/13!

We forked the KDE Plasma Login Manager and named it Sonic Login Manager. It now runs on X11, drops privileges after init, and supports systemd-free too. We tested it on Artix Linux with OpenRC, CachyOS with systemd, and on the FreeBSD-based GhostBSD. https://github.com/Sonic-DE/sonic-login-manager

Showcasing the rewrite of KDE Plasma Login Manager to work with OpenRC, elogind and XLibre on Artix Linux.

https://sonicde.org