"He highlighted that it's built from composable components. For example, this means the user can choose whether they want a panel and a dock, or just a panel, and pick the contents and their order and position. He described COSMIC as "a platform as much as a desktop." It has support for branding, so vendors can stamp their corporate identity on it."
"All the way back in 2021, US Linux box-shifter System76 took on an ambitious new project: building an entirely new Linux desktop environment from the ground up, in the also quite new Rust programming language. Now, in 2025, the company's CEO Carl Richell, along with developer Victoria Brekenfeld, presented Elevating The Linux Desktop with COSMIC DE at the recent summit."
"The big day for Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS and COSMIC Epoch 1 should be December 11 - which for those outside of the Christian tradition is a fortnight before December 25th, or Newtonmas as we call it around these parts. The big reveal in the talk was the December 11 release date for version 1.0. It has been a long road: we reported on the alpha version in September 2024 and the beta release in September 2025."
Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS and COSMIC Epoch 1 are scheduled for release on December 11. COSMIC is a custom desktop environment built from composable components allowing users to choose panels, docks, contents, order, and position. COSMIC supports vendor branding and can mimic Windows, GNOME, or macOS layouts or be reduced to a minimal, auto-hiding panel. Development began in 2021 using Rust, and the desktop was presented by System76 CEO Carl Richell and developer Victoria Brekenfeld. The Wayland compositor work continues and some features, such as HDR support, will not be included in the 1.0 release.
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