mastodon 4.7.3Founder and CEO of System76. Maker of open hardware, firmware and software.
I received the amended Colorado Age Attestation bill.
I testify Thursday and can use your help! I need your stories about incredible things kids have made thanks to access to open source software. Share here or DM me.
On Pop!_OS 24.04
Arriving for other distros once we tag the release next Tuesday. Have a great weekend!
The latest COSMIC frosted glass WIP.
Today, I met with Colorado Senator Matt Ball, co-author of Colorado OS Age Attestation Bill SB26-051.
Sen. Ball suggested excluding open source software from the bill. This appears to be a real possibility.
Amendments are expected for the CA age attestation bill. It's my hope we can move fast enough to influence excluding open source in the CA bill amendments.
No illusions, it's an uphill battle, but we have an open door to advocate for the open source community.
California amended their AB-1856 Age Attestation law to exclude open source software using the Colorado exemption example.
Thank you to the folks in California advocating for open source.
Update on the Colorado Age Attestation bill: Everyone that participated in the meeting last week submitted proposed changes to the bill. They included good ideas to improve consumer protection and privacy and exempt open source software.
Sen. Ball responded this morning that they'll now draft potential amendments.
I think we're making good progress. I'm off for a ski weekend with the kids. Have a great weekend everyone!
COSMIC 1.0.9 has been released. It includes performance improvements, input method support, text ellipsizing, wifi network search in settings, screenshots saved in a separate folder, and more polish and quality of life improvements.
https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-epoch/releases/tag/epoch-1.0.9
COSMIC updates this week: https://linuxiac.com/cosmic-desktop-1-0-13-improves-compositor-files-and-setup/
Large features are also in the works.
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."
Native COSMIC printer setup and dialog were accepted for GSOC! Big thanks to @till@ubuntu.social for leading the initiative.
https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/programs/2026/projects/iYwK7khC
https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/programs/2026/projects/vTB6j0HO
Went to the capitol today to meet Sen Ball, Rep Paschal, Rep Ricks, and three additional Denver constituents with concerns about SB26-051's effect on open source software, privacy, and security.
It was an hour and a half meeting that could have gone longer if it weren't for the building being shut down.
Our concerns were heard and shared. The next step is exchanging and discussing specific language changes to the bill including an exemption for open source software.
COSMIC 1.0.11 has been tagged. There's now a toggle to enable/disable workspace wrapping, file names are selected up to the extension when renaming, fixed an issue with XWayland window resizing on move and more improvements. See the change summary at: https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-epoch/releases/tag/epoch-1.0.11
Notably, Firefox 150 was also released today. It fixes issues with compositors like cosmic-comp: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2018866
Released on Pop and coming to your distro soon.
Perhaps the most perverse consequence of age verification laws: many require advertising the age bracket of the user to the open web. Children will be known to be children even to those that would exploit that information without regard for any other "safety" law.
Beautiful day in Colorado.
Join me on a tour of the @system76@fosstodon.org Denver factory where people transform raw materials into premium desktops and keyboards.
https://youtu.be/9366taDty-k?si=bLrliDiDXhhI42tV
Thanks Pavel Dmitriev for visiting and recording the tour.
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS is getting closer to shipping pre-loaded on @system76@fosstodon.org hardware.
DDOS attacks on Ubuntu infra slowed things down. We built new infrastructure to remove our Launchpad dependency and speed up releases moving forward.
COSMIC Sync demo + theme integration with keyboard backlights
Congrats to the Ubuntu team on another great release!
To the moon!
Some folks pointed out language in the SB51 OSS exemption could not include the GPL due to redistribution conditions. Improved the language for clarity.
ARTICLE 30 DOES NOT APPLY TO:
AN OPERATING SYSTEM PROVIDER OR DEVELOPER THAT DISTRIBUTES AN OPERATING SYSTEM OR APPLICATION UNDER LICENSE TERMS THAT PERMIT A RECIPIENT TO COPY, REDISTRIBUTE, AND MODIFY THE SOFTWARE WITHOUT PLATFORM-IMPOSED TECHNICAL OR CONTRACTUAL RESTRICTIONS BY THE PROVIDER OR DEVELOPER ON INSTALLING MODIFIED VERSIONS.
"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."
One of the coolest things about living in Breckenridge is the mining town history. You can casually hike up to a historic mine and browse through an old blacksmith shop.
Tomorrow
New Thelio Mira arriving March 17th. This is the milled steel front power button and ports bar.
Bluebird day. Conditions in Vail are more like late May. 60 degrees and slushy.
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.
