Founder and CEO of System76. Maker of Linux computers, COSMIC DE and Pop!_OS.
Joined July 2008
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Last Call For The Phoronix 22nd Birthday Premium Special
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COSMIC 1.0.15 has been released. This update significantly levels up COSMIC gaming.
Multiple fullscreen windows on a single workspace has been implemented meaning transitioning from Steam Big Picture to a game and back is smooth. Games launch fullscreen as intended. Wayland pointer constraints protocol fixes the FPS games experience. And in-game menus are working well.
Available in Pop!_OS now and your favorite distro soon (if not already!)
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COSMIC Frosted Glass is getting closer. The effect is subtle by default but can get very glassy if that's your thing. Or turn the effect off all together. Toggles and sliders in Settings fine tune the look to the style you want.
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The most "boring" drive between two American cities: Denver to Kansas City, MO.
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COSMIC Epoch 1.0.14 has been released.
Key features and improvements include the ability to reorder folders in the Applications Library, key bind support for non-latin layouts, X11 games opening fullscreen correctly, and fixes for some sleeping displays not returning on nvidia multi-display setups.
See details for all improvements and bug fixes here: github.com/pop-os/cosmic-epo…
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May 25
California amended their AB-1856 Age Attestation legislation to exclude open source software using the Colorado exemption example.
Thank you to the folks in California advocating for open source.
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California's Age Verification Law May End Up Exempting Most Linux Distributions
But likely not SteamOS.
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We make open source software because we believe computing is too important and valuable to be proprietary. I think that's a similar belief for many others in open source.
To lose trust in open source with antics like intentional vulnerabilities would be profoundly stupid and bad for the world.
May 21
Supply chain attacks and OSS sustainability go hand in hand. I've semi-seriously joked for years that OSS upstreams should periodically purposely inject full vulns into their code and let downstreams fuck around and find out. Downstreams can pay to get the non-FAFO version.
The not joke part is simply that OSS maintainers aren't a supply chain. OSS maintainers are not responsible for monitoring CVEs (because, they are not a supply chain). OSS maintainers are not at fault when bad shit happens to downstreams, because basically every OSS license (MIT, Apache, GPL, etc.) literally says: the software is provided "as-is, without warranty." You get what you pay for (that is to say: absolutely nothing!)
Now, the joke part is that I do believe there is an ethical obligation to try to prevent harm downstream. But "try" is the key word. So, this isn't a serious proposal.
But, if you're using OSS code and you're not paying for a license with a contract that promises some kind of warranty, you have no supply chain. You (the downstream user of an OSS lib) ARE the supply chain.
To use a metaphor: physical goods have a real supply chain. Car manufacturers, chips, clothes, toys, etc. You have a signed commercial agreement with all your suppliers that promises quantity AND quality and blowback if either are missed. Thats a supply chain.
If someone puts some chips on the side of the road with a "FREE" sign, then you integrate those into a product, then find out those chips are hacking customers, its your fault, not the person who dropped them on the side of the road.
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If you use "Show desktop", when do you use it (for what purpose). What do you do after showing the desktop? Thinking about the feature for COSMIC.
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May 19
All that Musk vs. Altman dirty laundry aired and not a single word mattered.
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Ubuntu 26.04 LTS is getting closer to shipping pre-loaded on @system76 hardware.
DDOS attacks on Ubuntu infra slowed things down. We built new infrastructure to remove our Launchpad dependency and speed up releases moving forward.
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Windows adopting features of the COSMIC desktop. I'm flattered.
May 15
Your PC, your way 🎉. Rolling out more personalization improvements to Windows Insiders, including moving your taskbar to any edge of the screen, and making taskbar smaller. Read on to see what you can start trying today in the Experimental channel 👇: aka.ms/WIPTaskbarStart
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A mechanical dandelion with the seeds blown off.
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PC Gamer: "My time with Linux has been eye-opening, genuinely. Pop! OS is such a beautiful place to be. There was never a day when I got back to the office that I wasn't looking forward to booting up my PC and getting to do some work in the Cosmic environment."
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I wouldn't call Pop the default COSMIC environment but it's all good.
COSMIC Desktop 1.0.13 brings compositor, Files, setup, OSD, media player, and workspace fixes, plus translation and dependency updates.
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"The new System76 Thelio Major delivers immense performance capabilities while operating more energy efficient and with noticeably better thermals... The improved thermals also led to the Thelio Major being quieter than its predecessors."
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