Jeremy Soller 🦀 (@soller@fosstodon.org)
fosstodon.org
COSMIC and Pop!_OS are fully funded through @system76 hardware sales. Our hardware includes a wide range of products built for Linux, from desktop computers with open hardware chassis, to laptops running open source firmware, to open hardware keyboards: https://system76.com/ If you can't find something that meets your needs, let me know what we need to add! We can often offer options beyond those in the system configurator.

If you can’t find something that meets your needs, let us know what we need to add! We can often offer options beyond those in the system configurator.

  • Michael Murphy (S76)OPMEnglish
    18•1 year ago

    It’s a privately-owned company. Profits are used for R&D in both Pop!_OS, and thereby COSMIC; as well as expanding the hardware manufacturing capabilities for the line of laptops and desktops. So every purchase of a System76 system is directly funding Pop!_OS & COSMIC. Neither would exist without the hardware sales.

    On the hardware side of things, a key area of interest is funding R&D on manufacturing laptops in-house in Denver with Virgo. We’re also passionate about the pursuit of open source firmware, and therefore a lot of R&D goes into open firmware projects which benefit all in in the hardware space. Purism, for example, uses System76 EC in their products.

    On the software side, Pop!_OS engineers are funneling all efforts into improvements to Pop!_OS and the development of COSMIC. By extension, this also includes the community support we provide here and elsewhere. A key benefit of being funded by desktop hardware sales is that the desktop experience is vital to our core business. Therefore the Linux desktop is what we care about most.

    This is why there’s a lot of effort into optimizing and improving the experience that Pop!_OS offers as a Linux desktop OS, and why the team has a very user-centric focus when choosing projects to work on. COSMIC will enable us to better align with a lot of needs that people want from Pop!_OS in a desktop environment. So if you enjoy using Pop!_OS and want COSMIC, then the next time you need to buy a system, think about giving System76 a chance.