COSMIC Encounter | LINUX Unplugged 574

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The COSMIC desktop is just around the corner. We get the inside scoop from System76 and go hands-on with an early press build.

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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• System76 tips Fedora Cosmic spin for 2025 release with Fedora 42 — It looks like System76's exciting new Rust-based Cosmic DE will get an official Fedora spin in the upcoming Fedora 42, potentially giving Linux users with bleeding-edge hardware an official way to try Cosmic.
• Pop!_OS Mattermost — An excellent place to engage if you want to bring COSMIC to a distro near you.
• iced — A cross-platform GUI library for Rust
• Smithay — A smithy for rusty wayland compositor
• Testing COSMIC — The easiest way to test COSMIC DE currently is by building a systemd system extension.
• Membership Summer Discount — Take $1 a month of your membership for a lifetime!
• Portal:Kalpa - openSUSE Wiki — openSUSE MicroOS Desktop Gnome was renamed to openSUSE Aeon, and the Plasma Desktop version is being renamed to openSUSE Kalpa.
• pop-os/kernelstub: A simple EFI boot manager manager for Linux
• Alpaca — GTK App to Chat with local AI models
• Alpaca on FlatHub