System76 Releases COSMIC Alpha Desktop - It's Looking Quite Interesting

System76 today is releasing an alpha build of Pop!_OS 24.04 that is built atop Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and making it very interesting is that it includes the alpha version of their Rust-written COSMIC desktop environment. I've been playing around with this Pop!_OS 24.04 alpha in advance of today's embargo lift and it's been working out quite well...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/System76-COSMIC-Alpha

Canonical Moves To Shipping Very Latest Upstream Kernel Code For Ubuntu Releases

Following decisions like exploring -O3 package builds for Ubuntu Linux, another newly-announced change by Canonical I must applaud is their decision to commit to shipping the very latest upstream kernel code at release time...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Releases-Fresher-Kernels