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Popsicle – flash disk images to multiple USB drives

November 7, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Utilities

Popsicle writes disk images to multiple USB drives in parallel, with a COSMIC interface, checksum verification, and command-line support.

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Zainium OS – independent immutable Linux distribution

November 7, 2026 Erik Karlsson Distro

Zainium OS is an independent, immutable Linux distribution featuring the COSMIC desktop, atomic upgrades, and musl/glibc support.

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COSMIC System Monitor – graphical system resource monitor

November 5, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

COSMIC System Monitor tracks CPU, memory, GPU, disk and network activity with live charts, process lists and application controls.

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Calculator – simple calculator for the COSMIC desktop

October 8, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Calculator is a simple graphical calculator for the COSMIC desktop with a useful history of previous calculations.

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matrixOS – Gentoo-Based Immutable Distribution with Atomic Upgrades

September 27, 2026 Erik Karlsson Distro

matrixOS is a Gentoo-based immutable distribution using OSTree for atomic upgrades and rollbacks.

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RakuOS – hybrid atomic Fedora-based distribution

September 23, 2026 Erik Karlsson Distro

RakuOS is a Fedora-based atomic Linux distribution with bootc image updates, rollback, persistent RPM overlays and multiple desktop editions.

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Tasks – simple task manager for the COSMIC desktop

September 9, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Tasks is a simple graphical task manager for the COSMIC desktop with search, reminders, sorting, favourites, trash and Flatpak support.

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Color Picker for COSMIC – color utility for COSMIC desktop

September 1, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Color Picker for COSMIC is a native colour picker supporting six colour spaces, screen sampling, HEX editing, graphs and clipboard copying.

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Enroll – fingerprint management

March 30, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Security

Enroll offers fingerprint management for single and multi-user systems. Allows you to register, verify and delete prints.

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Oboete – flashcards for the COSMIC desktop

February 20, 2025 Steve Emms Education, GUI

Oboete is a COSMIC flashcard app with FSRS scheduling, images, Anki import, local storage and a straightforward study interface.

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Examine – system information viewer for COSMIC

February 18, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, System Software

Examine is a COSMIC system information viewer that presents distribution, processor, PCI and USB details in a native libcosmic interface.

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