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Building the Aero7 Desktop

Aero7 is beginning work on its own desktop environment: a purpose-built Aero7 interface powered by a proven KDE, Wayland, and Linux foundation.

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Aero7 Weekly Devlog — August 30, 2026

This week marked the public arrival of Aero7 Desktop , our independently developed Wayland desktop environment.

Aero7 Weekly Devlog — August 23, 2026

Most development time this week went into the early architecture and development of Aero7 Desktop , our own desktop environment. Public GitHub activity was concentrated in the new Aero7 File Explorer repository, but those commits represent only part of the…

Aero7 Weekly Devlog — August 16, 2026

This week focused on improving Control Panel integration, installed-system defaults, virtual-machine testing, installer rendering, and clearer boundaries between the Aero7 ISO and shell projects.

Aero7 Weekly Devlog — August 9, 2026

This week Aero7 moved beyond VM-only installation, gained guarded physical-drive and advanced partitioning support, refreshed its desktop experience and documentation, and produced a verified August 9 Beta 1 image.

Aero7 Beta 1 is here

The first test release combines the graphical installer, guided OOBE, signed packages, and a cohesive Plasma 6 Wayland desktop.

Aero7 Weekly Devlog — August 2, 2026

This was Aero7’s first major development week: the repository was established, the Beta 1 desktop and installer were prepared, VM reliability improved, documentation and community infrastructure were added, and the first prerelease was published.

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