The COSMIC desktop is just around the corner. We get the inside scoop from System76 and go hands-on with an early press build.Sponsored By:Core Contributor Membership: Take $1 a month of your membership for a lifetime!Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! 1Password Extended Access Management: 1Password Extended Access Management is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMSystem76 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 RustSmithay — A smithy for rusty wayland compositorTesting 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 LinuxAlpaca — GTK App to Chat with local AI modelsAlpaca on FlatHub