Recently System76 (the company specializing in the production of laptops, PCs and servers that ship with Linux) announced the launch of the new version of your Linux distribution «Pop! _OS 21.10 ».
As mentioned in the name of the new version, it is based on Ubuntu 21.10 And the distribution is primarily aimed at people using a computer to create something new, such as developing content, software products, 3D models, graphics, music, or scientific work.
The distribution comes with a COSMIC desktop, built on the basis of a GNOME Shell modified and a set of original plugins for GNOME Shell, its own theme, its own icon set, other sources (Fira and Roboto Slab) and changed. settings.
Unlike GNOME, COSMIC still uses a split view to navigate open windows and installed applications. For window manipulation, both the traditional mouse control mode, which is familiar to beginners, and the tile window layout mode, which allows you to control the work only with the keyboard, are provided.
Main novelties of Pop! _OS 21.10
In this new version the developers after this release of pop! _OS 21.10, intend to transform COSMIC into a standalone project It does not use GNOME Shell and is developed in the Rust language.
Regarding the changes that were made to the distribution, we can find that the interface was redesigned to navigate installed applications. Instead of a full-screen view, the list of applications and tools available to search for programs is now displayed in a small window that is displayed above the contents of the desktop.
The list of programs can be opened via the top panel, with a gesture on the touchpad (slide four fingers to the right) or the Super + A hotkey.
Among the latests Moravia's compositions new interface features for application navigation, there is an improvement in working on multi-monitor systems (the window opens to the screen on which the mouse cursor is located), alphabetical ordering, the ability to group applications into subdirectories in drag and drop mode drop (the separation resembles the use of tabs), support to filter the output of already installed applications and applications available for installation, design that is more optimal for widescreen monitors.
On the other hand, it is noted that the formation of experimental compilations for Raspberry Pi 4 has begun to be generated.
It is also highlighted that hardware support has been expanded, because in this new version the system ships with the Linux kernel 5.15.5 and new proprietary drivers from NVIDIA. Before launch, the distribution was tested on a wide range of chipsets, processors, and hardware components.
It is also highlighted that the system update process has been simplified. During the launch of the installer, the presence of an already installed version of Pop! _OS and if detected, the option is offered to update the system without a complete reinstallation and with the preservation of user files, which is available at the stage before the encrypted partitions are unlocked.
To improve the reliability of the update, disk partition spare (restoration) now updated separately and before the main operating system is updated, allowing it to remain operational in the event of a failure during the update.
Of the other changes that stand out from this new version:
- Improved handling of user changes to / etc / fstab.
- Disabled user-added PPA repositories.
- Deployed distribution of package updates from its own repository.
- Launch of a continuous integration infrastructure to test and evaluate the quality of packages before placing them in the repository.
- Ported fixes and improvements from the current GNOME code base.
- Support for sorting by current and past connections, as well as signal strength, has been moved to the Wi-Fi settings interface.
- The ability to dynamically refine search results as you enter a search query has been moved to the file manager.
Finally if you want to know more about it about this new release, you can check the details In the following link.
Download Pop! _OS 21.10
In order to obtain this new system image and install this Linux distribution on your computer or you want to test it under a virtual machine. You just have to go to the official website of the distribution and in its download section you can get the image of the system.
As for people who have an older version, they can upgrade to the new version by typing the following commands:
sudo apt update sudo apt full-upgrade