GNOME OS Turns To Zswap To Deal With OOM Issues, Progress On Geary Email Client Fork
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In addition to this week's [1]GNOME 51 release were several other exciting developments in the GNOME desktop space.
For GNOME OS is now a [2]documentation website with guides and other information to help users in trying out GNOME OS and carryout related setup.
GNOME OS is also now employing Zswap to help with a fast and responsive system even if your system doesn't have too much memory. This change should help those that have experienced out-of-memory issues on GNOME OS with Zswap set to be used by default. GNOME OS is relying on a Rust-based zswap-gnerator script to create the proper systemd configuration for Zswap. Zswap-generator will respect zswap.enabled=0 on the kernel command-line for disabling the functionality.
In third-party GNOME app news, Convey has debuted on [3]Flathub as a fork of the Geary mail client. Convey forked Geary and added Microsoft 365 support, ported to the GTK4 toolkit, and brings other fixes and UI/UX enhancements.
More details on these interesting GNOME developments for the week via [4]This Week in GNOME .
[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-51-Released
[2] https://gnome.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/gnome-build-meta/docs/index.html
[3] https://flathub.org/en/apps/net.donnybeelo.Convey
[4] https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2026/09/twig-266/
For GNOME OS is now a [2]documentation website with guides and other information to help users in trying out GNOME OS and carryout related setup.
GNOME OS is also now employing Zswap to help with a fast and responsive system even if your system doesn't have too much memory. This change should help those that have experienced out-of-memory issues on GNOME OS with Zswap set to be used by default. GNOME OS is relying on a Rust-based zswap-gnerator script to create the proper systemd configuration for Zswap. Zswap-generator will respect zswap.enabled=0 on the kernel command-line for disabling the functionality.
In third-party GNOME app news, Convey has debuted on [3]Flathub as a fork of the Geary mail client. Convey forked Geary and added Microsoft 365 support, ported to the GTK4 toolkit, and brings other fixes and UI/UX enhancements.
More details on these interesting GNOME developments for the week via [4]This Week in GNOME .
[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-51-Released
[2] https://gnome.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/gnome-build-meta/docs/index.html
[3] https://flathub.org/en/apps/net.donnybeelo.Convey
[4] https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2026/09/twig-266/