# COSMIC Encounter

URL: /show/linux-unplugged/574/
> The COSMIC desktop is just around the corner. We get the inside scoop from System76 and go hands-on with an early press build.

- Show: [LINUX Unplugged](/show/linux-unplugged/)
- Episode: 574
- Date: 2024-08-04
- Hosts: chris, wes
- Duration: 01:05:26
- Audio: https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/f31a453c-fa15-491f-8618-3f71f1d565e5/2acf92d7-428a-4e7c-bd2f-dd9aea14a280.mp3



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### Episode Links

* [💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike](https://strike.me/ "💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike")
* [📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM](https://www.fountain.fm/show/dWiuBeqpDSM86AwXRXov "📻 LINUX Unplugged  on Fountain.FM")
* [System76 tips Fedora Cosmic spin for 2025 release with Fedora 42](https://www.notebookcheck.net/System76-tips-Fedora-Cosmic-spin-for-2025-release-with-Fedora-42.867943.0.html "System76 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](https://chat.pop-os.org/ "Pop!_OS Mattermost") — An excellent place to engage if you want to bring COSMIC to a distro near you.
* [iced](https://iced.rs/ "iced") — A cross-platform GUI library for Rust
* [Smithay](https://github.com/Smithay/smithay "Smithay") — A smithy for rusty wayland compositor
* [Testing COSMIC](https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-epoch?tab=readme-ov-file#testing "Testing COSMIC") — The easiest way to test COSMIC DE currently is by building a systemd system extension.
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* [Portal:Kalpa - openSUSE Wiki](https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Kalpa "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 Linux](https://github.com/pop-os/kernelstub "pop-os/kernelstub: A simple EFI boot manager manager for Linux")
* [Alpaca](https://jeffser.com/alpaca/ "Alpaca") — GTK App to Chat with local AI models
* [Alpaca on FlatHub](https://flathub.org/apps/com.jeffser.Alpaca "Alpaca on FlatHub")