The following launch of Ubuntu is due any time now. That model is 22.10 which highlights the GNOME 43 desktop surroundings. Since Pop!_OS started, it has adopted the Ubuntu launch schedule very intently, which makes excellent sense, given the OS is predicated on Canonical’s desktop working system.
However with the discharge of Ubuntu 22.10 comes a giant shift for System76. As a substitute of bothering with remaining in lockstep with Canonical, the corporate has determined to focus all of its efforts and get its new, in-house, Rust-based desktop surroundings prepared for the plenty. That surroundings is COSMIC Desktop and it makes excellent sense for System76 to take this step.
Within the Reddit r/pop_os group, System76 developer Michael Aaron Murphy acknowledged, “We’re going to focus our improvement time onto the Rust implementation of COSMIC as a substitute of twenty-two.10. It takes plenty of effort to help a number of releases of Ubuntu, and the 6 month launch cycle actually eats into improvement time and stability of the product.”
For individuals who are involved that Pop!_OS will then fall behind the curve, bear in mind the present launch is an LTS (Lengthy Time period Help), so there is not any fear Pop!_OS will unexpectedly develop into unreliable or insecure.
One factor that’s unsure (in keeping with Murphy) is whether or not or not System76 may also skip the 23.04 and 23.10 releases. To that, Murphy says it is a determination that might be made “after we get there.”
