System76 Transmission Log Episode 10: COSMIC updates, Hardware Updates and an interview with members of the COSMIC development team at System76

System76 Transmission Log

Listen to the latest on System76 computers, manufacturing, Pop!_OS and COSMIC DE. This episode features an interview with Carl, Maria and Jeremy from the COSMIC Development Team. We’ll also talk about new hardware updates, community happenings and even play a fun game at the end!

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Blog: blog.system76.com

Laptops: s76.co/WuEDOnoS

Desktops: s76.co/Zn4NXTf9

Pop!_OS: s76.co/D_IWRvWD

:47 Hardware News- Starling Ampere Servers and Thelio Mira price drop

2:24 COSMIC News, new branding, logo, tagline

3:00 Story behind the COSMIC logo

4:40 Community News

5:30 Software Freedom Day

6:12 Interview Intro

6:35 Interview with COSMIC team begins

6:47 What is COSMIC?

07:45 What drove team to make COSMIC?

10:00 User Friendly experience

15:40 Design System

16:50 Theming

25:30 How did you decide who to choose to build COSMIC?

28:10 RUST eco system

32:25 Iced Toolkit

37:45 Make it easy to develop applets

42:00 UI components on their own

45:00 Nice defaults and ability to customize

50:58 What is everyone excited for?

57:00 On COSMIC for 18 months

1:00:00 What to expect from Alpha

1:03:00 COSMIC Icon Guessing Game

1:05:40 Outro