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The COSMIC desktop runs on solnix — the graphical stack works on illumos

A big one: the COSMIC desktop now runs on solnix. That single result validates a whole stack that had never run on illumos before — Rust (COSMIC is Rust top to bottom), Wayland, GTK4, the font/toolkit plumbing, and hardware GPU acceleration through Mesa's RADV Vulkan driver. libadwaita is one build wave away. This is the concrete proof point for the GPU/graphics phase of the roadmap, and it puts a graphical desktop within reach. Next: packaging it into a graphical install ISO/DVD — there's a 'coming soon' placeholder for that on the download page. As always, it's early and unstable, but the hard part (does the graphical stack even work here?) now has a yes.

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