Carl Richell

Founder and CEO of System76. Maker of Linux computers, COSMIC DE and Pop!_OS.

[Carl Richell @carlrichell]

@djberg96 I've been to that museum!

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Fact

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The most "boring" drive between two American cities: Denver to Kansas City, MO.

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@esrtweet We've discussed app overrides. Now that I've played with thickness and opacity settings, I'm not sure it'll be necessary. Nonetheless, we'll adjust as we get feedback.

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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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@djberg96 COSMIC desktop is portable to BSD. Just needs someone motivated to package, test and maintain.

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@murphcid141 Yes, the backend for this is done. The UI will arrive with applet settings.

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@777Nikitf Yes, it's the standard background effect protocol.

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@kobago555 It's built into the cosmic-comp compositor and libcosmic toolkit.

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@JohnDCook @reidatcheson Glad you're back up and running. Those items aren't too surprising with the move to our new COSMIC desktop. They won't change for upgrades going forward.

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@JohnDCook @reidatcheson What broke?

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@redyos963963963 @system76 Not without a chosen implementation.

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@imgraypilled Yes, and yes, that was possible from the start.

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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: https://t.co/N7VJPRZow6

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@dranok4ever @tomshardware @fedora @elementary @system76 @debian @midnightbsd System76 wrote the exemption that's in the CO and CA bills.

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@redyos963963963 @system76 Read the blog post. It's in the second paragraph.

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@coolcryptocuban @system76 Thank you for your support.

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A couple things to think about with regard to your concerns: non-free and free software are obligated to comply with child safety laws regarding targeted advertising, addictive design patterns, profiling children, and collecting and processing the personal information of children. Non-free apps that engage in this behavior are obligated to comply regardless of an age signal from the operating system. Those laws are separate from age attestation.

We don't spend any time thinking about those obligations because they're antithetical to open source philosophy - we just don't do these things in the operating system or our app ecosystem. For this very reason, Linux is safer for children. Collecting a child's age or age bracket and advertising that information would turn the operating system into a demographic information source, contradicting what I believe to be our values and undercutting the right to privacy we cherish.

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@privtechy @system76 I can't provide a specific timeline but I expect arranging desktop icons to be prioritized.

[Carl Richell @carlrichell]

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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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.

https://t.co/VFXMrCKMuv

[Phoronix @phoronix]

California's Age Verification Law May End Up Exempting Most Linux Distributions

But likely not SteamOS.

https://t.co/FlIsAozwgy