Michael Murphy ( Michael Aaron Murphy ), Developer Developer Leader POP! _OS and developing a Redox operating system, confirmed Information about the development of the company System76 of the new desktop environment, not based on GNOME Shell and written in rust.
System76 specializes in the production of laptops, PCs and servers supplied with Linux. For pre-installation, the Ubuntu Linux is developing – Pop! _Os . After the transition of Ubuntu on the UNITY shell in 2011 in the Pop! _OS distribution, its user environment was proposed on the basis of the modified GNOME Shell shell and several extensions to GNOME Shell. After the return of Ubuntu on GNOME in 2017 in Pop! _OS continued to supply their shell, which in the summer release was transformed into the desktop COSMIC . The use of GNOME technologies continued in COSMIC, but conceptual changes are made beyond additions to GNOME Shell.
In accordance with the new plan, System76 intends to completely get away from building a user environment based on GNOME Shell and develop a new desktop, Applying RUST language when developing. It should be noted that System76 has extensive development experience on Rust. The company has Jeremy Soller ( Jeremy Soller ), the founder of the operating system Redox , graphic shell orbital and tulkta Orbtk written in RUST. In Pop! _Os already supplied components on Rust, as update manager , Energy Management System , Toolkit Firmware Management, service for running programs , Installer , Settings widget and Configurators . The developers POP! _OS also previously experimented with the creation of a new panel Cosmic-Panel written on Rust.