COSMIC DE and Pop!_OS 24.04 are alpha, and other cool crap of the week
COSMIC is Pop!_OS's tiling desktop environment, developed by System76. Up until now it's been a modified GNOME session, but they've been busy working the last couple years on writing a new desktop environment from scratch in RUST. Well, it's finally hit alpha status. I'm sure you'll see plenty of coverage on various tubes (here, here), so there's not a whole heck of a lot for me to say.
I downloaded the Pop!_OS 24.04 ISO and did a quick install to grab some screenshots.
I've already been playing with COSMIC for a while on my laptop's install of openSUSE Tumbleweed, so here are some screenshots of that as well.
Other Cool Crap of the Week
- Google loses DOJ’s big monopoly trial over search business
- According to statcounter, Linux has hit 4.45% desktop market share as of July 2024
- elementaryOS, and project that is not dead and has multiple contributors, has announced a bunch of surprise updates for OS 7.
- Drupal 11 was released! If you're not familiar, Drupal is an open source PHP content management system. It's one of the many options out there if you're looking to build a blog, website, or just get away from WordPress.
Website | Git - Manjaro announced on their forum that an immutable version is available for testing. GamingOnLinux covered it, which is how I heard about it. Manjaro is a desktop-oriented rolling Linux distribution, based on Arch, and has optional enterprise support.
Website | Gitlab - Federated discussions have entered the chat in Nextcloud Talk.
Website | Github - Roundcube now has optional enterprise support.
- The AlmaLinux blog announced ELevate gets a huge update, plus 2 more OSes and hardware detection. ELevate will help you upgrade your older CentOS machines to newer Enterprise Linux derivatives.
- We Distribute has released Decentralized Social Icons, a font of icons for the various projects across the fediverse.
Codeberg - Andy Warhol's Lost Amiga Art Found
- There's a QBasic Website Generator. Wait. Wut? It's called Qub.
Github - Speaking of QBasic, it still exists. It's called QB64. It runs on Windows, Linux, and macOS.
Website | Github - As a long time user of Friendica, I was thrilled to see this blog post: The Future of Social is Here: a Show and Tell (part 3: Friendica)
- While I hate the term smishing, and wish every *ishing other than phishing would go away, this story is great: USPS Text Scammers Duped His Wife, So He Hacked Their Operation
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