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Shelf Stable Cosmic DE Will Arrive With a Pop! on December 11
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I could be wrong, but from where I sit I think that the upcoming release of Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS might be one of the most anticipated releases of a Linux distribution in ages. There are a couple of reasons for this. For one thing, in just eight years, Pop! has become one of the most popular desktop Linux distro’s, which is always comfortably placed in the top 10 on Distrowatch’s Page Hit Ranking.
The other reason — perhaps the biggest reason for this particular release — is Cosmic, the distro’s desktop environment which is developed in house.
It wouldn’t be hyperbolic to say that all eyes are on Cosmic as the next version of Pop! is being rolled out onto the launch pad for its expected launch in December. The launch date was announced this week by Carl Richell, the head honcho (actually, the founder and CEO) at the Linux-focused computer maker System76, which is the company behind both the distribution and its desktop.
The Register:
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Cosmic version 1 to hit desktops on December 11
Ubuntu Summit System76's POP!_OS is one of the more substantially modified Ubuntu based distros out there, and so it was something of a surprise to see the company's substantial presence at the Ubuntu Summit. And its stable release along with version 1.0 of its custom desktop, COSMIC, is imminent.
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.
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.