The Northern hemisphere is moving into autumn and FOSS vendors are falling over themselves in their efforts to get new versions out for the season.

The thumbnail summary of COSMIC is that it's very much like recent versions of GNOME shell, but with more options and customizability built in

Various open source OS projects are putting out the first previews of future major releases, or at least telling the world when these will appear in the near future. New versions of FreeBSD, Pop!_OS, and the new KDE Linux are all coming our way.

Getting Cosmic vibes

To start with arguably the longest awaited, US Linux box-shifter System76 posted on X to announce that Pop!_OS 24.04 and the team's in-house desktop COSMIC are both going into beta in a couple of weeks.

The version number isn't a typo: P

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