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Pop!_OS 24.04 (with COSMIC Desktop) Just Hit Beta

System76's new COSMIC desktop environment has hit beta, and available for testing in the new Pop!_OS 24.04 beta. Both are available to download right now.

26 September 2025
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COSMIC Desktop Alpha 6 Released with Many Changes

A new alpha release of System76’s emergent Rust-based COSMIC Desktop environment is out with a clutch of important improvements, bug fixes, and new features in tow. Although COSMIC is very much a work-in-progress (i.e., unfinished, […]

21 February 2025

System76 Release COSMIC DE Alpha 5: What’s New?

A new alpha update to System76’s COSMIC desktop environment has arrived with a clutch of interactive improvements. This is the fifth alpha of the Rust-based DE since August 2024. More alphas will arrive each month […]

9 January 2025

COSMIC DE Alpha 4 Released, This is What’s New

Development on COSMIC, a new open-source desktop environment created by developers a Linux-based hardware company System76, continues at pace, with a 4th alpha now available. System76 said new alpha releases of the COSMIC DE would […]

5 December 2024

COSMIC Desktop Alpha 3 Brings More Improvements

System76’s COSMIC desktop environment continues to take shape, with a third alpha snapshot now available for testing. The first alpha brought the core essentials, the second alpha delivered stack of new features, and this third […]

1 November 2024

COSMIC DE Alpha 2 Released, This is What’s New

Chocks away —British saying, don’t stare at me weirdly— as the second alpha of System76’s homegrown COSMIC desktop environment has been released. To make it easy for us all to try out the latest improvements […]

26 September 2024

First Pop!_OS 24.04 Alpha with COSMIC DE Arrives August 8

Course set: the first alpha of Pop_OS 24.04 is scheduled for release on August 8th. So if you’ve been counting the days until you can try the new COSMIC desktop environment first hand… Well, keep […]

23 July 2024

System76 Share COSMIC DE Branding, Alpha Release Date

System76’s COSMIC desktop environment (ecosystem?) is shaping up to be something truly out of this world, combining modern design with intuitive navigation, embracing customisation, and taking full advantage of the benefits that being built in […]

26 June 2024

Pop!_OS Users Can Now Update to Linux Kernel 6.8

Pop!_OS user? You can now upgrade to Linux kernel 6.8 which has begun rolling out as a regular package update. Although the latest version of Pop!_OS is based on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS which currently tops […]

30 March 2024

System76’s COSMIC Desktop Already Looks Out of this World

When System76 announced plans to create its own desktop environment I’ll admit I did wonder if they could pull it off. It’s not that I doubt the company’s software development prowess or engineering nous (the […]

15 May 2023

New Pop!_OS Update Makes (Some) Computers Faster

We all dream of software updates that makes our computers faster. Now System76, who develop the Pop!_OS Linux distro, have made it a reality.

12 January 2023
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Eager to Try Pop!_OS 22.10? Well, You Can’t…

Don’t hate me but I’ve some bad (if not entirely unsurprising) news for the Pop!_OS fans who plan to pounce on the presumed-to-be upcoming 22.10 release: you can’t. Before anyone groans, I’m not about to […]

25 September 2022