GNOME OS Safe Mode Improving The System Reliability
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GNOME OS Safe Mode)
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At GNOME's annual GUADEC conference happening this week in Spain, an update was shared on the current state of GNOME OS.
Abderrahim Kitouni of the GNOME Release Team and a GNOME OS maintainer provided an update on the status of GNOME OS as their Linux platform serving as a GNOME development/testing environment and more.
One of the interesting elements of the GUADEC 2026 presentation is the new "safe mode" of GNOME OS. With GNOME OS relying on systemd-sysupdate for updates and systemd-sysext for system extension images, the safe mode provides a fallback if something goes wrong for this image-based Linux system.
The safe mode can be used if the system becomes unbootable such as issues with the NVIDIA driver or with system extensions. When booting into safe mode, it will skip loading all systemd-sysexts so the system becomes bootable even if bad system extension images are installed.
Some of the other work to GNOME OS includes improvements for mobile device support and getting GNOME OS working on Android devices. There is also improved codec handling, more reliable printing support, [1]KMSCON for the console , firewalld for the firewall, and Thermald support too.
More details on recent work to GNOME OS can be found via the GUADEC presentation's [2]PDF slide deck and the video recording embedded above.
[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-OS-KMSCON
[2] https://events.gnome.org/event/306/contributions/1637/attachments/897/1597/presentation.pdf
Abderrahim Kitouni of the GNOME Release Team and a GNOME OS maintainer provided an update on the status of GNOME OS as their Linux platform serving as a GNOME development/testing environment and more.
One of the interesting elements of the GUADEC 2026 presentation is the new "safe mode" of GNOME OS. With GNOME OS relying on systemd-sysupdate for updates and systemd-sysext for system extension images, the safe mode provides a fallback if something goes wrong for this image-based Linux system.
The safe mode can be used if the system becomes unbootable such as issues with the NVIDIA driver or with system extensions. When booting into safe mode, it will skip loading all systemd-sysexts so the system becomes bootable even if bad system extension images are installed.
Some of the other work to GNOME OS includes improvements for mobile device support and getting GNOME OS working on Android devices. There is also improved codec handling, more reliable printing support, [1]KMSCON for the console , firewalld for the firewall, and Thermald support too.
More details on recent work to GNOME OS can be found via the GUADEC presentation's [2]PDF slide deck and the video recording embedded above.
[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-OS-KMSCON
[2] https://events.gnome.org/event/306/contributions/1637/attachments/897/1597/presentation.pdf