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1 • DistroWatch to offer financial assistance to Free Software projects (by maceto on 2004-03-22 09:33:34 GMT)
COOOOOOL that rocks. True Linux spirit!
We`ll hammer you with hits, if the banners are measured by hits or klicks..?
hehe
2 • Timesavers (by Penguin Domesticus on 2004-03-22 10:13:36 GMT)
Thanks for the great site, with or without Timesavers. So you can keep my Timesavers money as a donation to DistroWatch...:-)
3 • Bayanihan (by Victor at 2004-03-22 11:33:26 GMT)
Dear Lad,
First, let me thank you for your commendable initiative to offer funding to free software projects. Indirectly, you are encouraging those developers to excel and to help drive this civilization forward to new frontiers with Linux. Kudos!
Secondly, I am not sure why Bayanihan Linux is not visible on the HPD list. This distribution is solid and dependable; comes with apt-get and the latest software. It is simple to install (Anaconda based), has a clean desktop and comes with the latest OpenOffice (1.1.0). I have used other Linux distros but each time I'll always come back to Bayanihan Linux. I think the developers deserve a pat on the back for producing a Red Hat based distro containing everything a desktop user needs on one disk.
And, by the way, keep up the good work of presenting to the world a no-holds-barred website for useful information on Linux.
4 • Floppy-based distros (by Varga Péter at 2004-03-22 13:13:30 GMT)
Hi,
I hope the Google AdSense will bring loads of money.
It would be good if you could add a page like "Distros by category", so extending the current CD-based, source-based and major distro sections.
Some useful categories would be:
-Floppy-based
-Architecture-specific with subcategories
...
Thanx
5 • RE: Floppy-based distros (by ladislav at 2004-03-22 13:24:37 GMT)
There is an actively maintained list of floppy-based distros on the links page: http://www.distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=links#floppy
6 • Great! (by Eavy at 2004-03-22 14:07:00 GMT)
It's great that DistroWatch will offer financial assistance to Free Software projects!
Here's a related idea I've had: If you could keep track of individual distro pages' ad impressions, it would be possible to divide the money accordingly. The most popular distros would get more hits and thus more money. Visitors vote by visiting their favorite distro's page, just like they do now, but instead of just its popularity its income could be boosted as well.
Of course, the disadvantage could be that then there would be even more of an incentive to try artificially boosting the rankings...
7 • RUNT Linux and timesavers (by Joel Ebel at 2004-03-22 15:04:07 GMT)
While I understand the lack of time to develop timesavers, I am saddened by their demise. I see the number of distributions constantly rising, and I can only imagine the time it takes to maintain a database containing all this information. In light of that, and as a result of last weeks pleas to not create distributions in DWW, I am concerned that I could be any part of the problem.
I Created RUNT Linux because I wanted a fully USB Pen drive based distribution. I was encouraged to make it publicly available by friends, and thus I did so. While it has received some popularity, it is certainly not at the top of the HPD. Since I created it, a few other distributions have also announced USB based versions. As for who came first, I don't know, but when I created it, I certainly couldn't find any. So, my concern is whether or not RUNT is a worthwhile projuct to continue? Is it unique enough to be worth Distrowatch's time to maintain? I'd like to think so. I still don't know any distros entirely USB based, and Patrick Volkerding himself sent me a couple emails telling me he thought RUNT was pretty cool. But I want to know what people think? Is RUNT Worth it? Should I try to merge RUNT back into slackware or some other project? Or is RUNT unique enough that it shoudl remain separate, deserving the time and attention of me and the Distrowatch team?
Thanks for the comments,
Joel Ebel
8 • Integrate (by Rahul on 2004-03-22 15:32:56 GMT)
Hi
There are such distros like RUNT which advance quickly through a market space for offering something unique. I sincerly believe though that by working with debian mandrake of fedora will help more users to use your hard work rather than creating an entire new distribution. If you distrubition's only advantage is USB it probably wont last for long. Please integrate your work into other distros and help Linux improve
regards
Rahul
9 • Contributions (by jlowell at 2004-03-22 15:41:15 GMT)
Ladislav,
While I feel that your initiative to fund truly free software projects is commendable, I am struck by the fact that a decision has already been made to fund GNUCash and Debian despite your avowed intention to leave the selection of beneficiaries to "maintainers, contributors and visitors of DistroWatch". Since advertising revenues and those generated from the sale of Distrowatch merchandise will represent the whole of the corpus of funds used for this purpose, one would be hardput to criticize any decision you might make respecting beneficiaries. But to the best of my knowledge, no "maintainers, contributors and visitors of DistroWatch" were consulted as to the GNUCash and Debian comittments. It makes little sense to announce a principle and violate it in its first instanciation, it seems to me. I would encourage you to hold off these initial contributions until you've solicited the input you say you want. It would be a shame to see this project get off on the wrong foot.
jlowell
10 • Supporting Distrowatch (by bin on 2004-03-22 16:21:08 GMT)
I regularly check Distrowatch. I also always surf with images turned off because banner ads are annoying. I've been slowly coming around to the fact that I should be supporting sites I frequent, where possible. While I can't afford to do it with outright cash outlays for something like Timesavers, and I stop visiting sites that insist on registration for content, I did continue to visit Distrowatch because most content was still available.
I've read the headlines about Distrowatch supporting Free Software projects, but didn't check the details yet. Thanks to the dropping of Timesavers, and the goodwill you've earned by the support of Timesavers, I'll make sure to check out some of your advertisers from time to time.
Others planning on doing the same should note that with Google and other advertisers, there are always scams attached. Similar to the Link Exchange scams of years ago for not paying for banner clicks for a multitude of excuses, Google's "Search Words" or whatever they call it, doesn't pay anything if you click on the ad and you don't have javascript turned on. This has the effect of Google getting paid by the advertiser, and the web site owner getting nothing. Don't know if this will affect Distrowatch if it is banner ads instead of the "Search Words" or whatever they call it, but I would expect the same, attempting to wiggle out of paying so that they increase their profits at the expense of the web site owner. After all, they are paying something, right? So what right do web site owners have to complain?
11 • Re: Contributions (by jlowell) (by elijah at 2004-03-22 16:22:05 GMT)
jlowell seems to be missing the boat entirely. He states that 'no "maintainers, contributors and visitors of DistroWatch" were consulted as to the GNUCash and Debian committments.' I'm a little confused as to what exactly jlowell thinks that Ladislav is. Perhaps a magician that snaps his fingers to make the distrowatch site magically appear out of thin air? Ladislav _is_ a maintainer, a contributor, and a visitor of DistroWatch. He picked the first two projects, now he's asking others for their input. Sounds to me like he's following his principle perfectly.
Frankly, I think his first two picks are perfect choices. I vote for them. In fact, why spread the funds thin? I think concentrating the funding on those two projects would be a great idea (despite the fact that I really don't use either one much).
12 • Re: Contributions (by MixMatch at 2004-03-22 16:35:18 GMT)
I think the decision to support GNUCash and Debian first was based on the fact that they have directly helped the distrowatch project. With that in mind, I think it is more than appropriate to give them the first chance...
As for me, I would like to see Knoppix supported, as they have proven to be one of the most revolutionary distros of the decade. Other projects that I find to be outstanding are Mozilla, OpenOffice, Apache, Blender 3D, Xine, and Wine.
13 • about money for free stuff (by Peter Damoc at 2004-03-22 17:43:48 GMT)
Well the idea is good at the core BUT I think it is applied the wrong way. Money is power, use this power, if you have it, to obtain something palpable. Initiate a reward system and give the money as a reward for something truly useful. There are so many things that need work in the Open Source universe.... pick some and make them atractive for the casual programer (everybody likes money) :D
A good example is documentation, most open source projects have "not so good" documentation because developers are too busy developing and yet good documentation is crucial for the begginer. For 150-500$ you'll find A LOT of people willing.... :D
another idea would be to organize "clean-up" contests where people would dive in "stinky" code from various projects and try to clean it up. There are a lot of bright students whom have free time and for whom the money you promise might mean a new machine or an much needed upgrade to some key component.
150-500$ are small change for big projects like Debian or GNUCash, let organizations like Apache Foundation take care of them, use the money wiser.
14 • XOrg shouldn't be *that* much less mature than XFree86 (by J. J. Ramsey at 2004-03-22 18:34:16 GMT)
From <http://xorg.freedesktop.org/Software/XOrgRepository>:
"The tree has been kept in sync with XFree86, through the release of their version 4.4 with the exception of changes to their files that contain their new version 1.1 license."
In short, XOrg is roughly the same as XFree86 4.4.
15 • thank you (by FlS on 2004-03-22 18:59:53 GMT)
Thanks for financially supporting those Free Software projects!
You truly are a great person! :)
16 • Nominate MythTV (by Matt R on 2004-03-22 19:50:55 GMT)
I would like to nominate MythTV http://www.mythtv.org/
The project is doing an outstanding job bringing PVR capability to Linux. In fact MythTV is probably the best PVR software available including Windows based offerings.
17 • RE: Contributions (by ladislav at 2004-03-23 00:03:22 GMT)
I wanted to avoid it, but it looks like I will have to put up some small print about "the decision being final and once it's made, no further communication will be entered into", or something similar.
If you'd like to nominate a candidate for receiving the next donation, please do so.
18 • RE: about money for free stuff (by ladislav at 2004-03-23 00:15:24 GMT)
You make good points. I just want to emphasise again, that the donations will be available to all worthy projects - if somebody wants to write documentation for an application that lacks it, we'll be happy to consider donating to this kind of project. This would, however, brake the "no strings attached" policy, which is easier to apply to well-established projects. But I agree that this is a good idea: we can invite people to write documentation and earn some cash in the process.
Anyway, I am open to other suggestions during this week and we can summarise things up in next week's DistroWatch Weekly.
19 • Nominate Quanta Plus for funding (by Eric Laffoon at 2004-03-23 04:47:11 GMT)
Hi, I think it's great you're offering the challenge to fund FLOSS projects. I have personally funded our project quite a bit and we have others in the community helping, but we have grand goals. Currently we sponsor one developer full time. I'm in communication with two other developers at this time. Probably I will start one or both of them part time. Hopefully an announcement when we reach that point will help generate community support. However at this time I'm sure we will be making additions. This will make a substantial amount of sponsored development for a very popular project. If you decide to give us the nod that would be nice and it would be put to good use.
20 • Nomination (by Andrew on 2004-03-23 07:10:27 GMT)
I'd like to nominate Puppy Linux for funding, I feel they're doing great work and are not just redoing Knoppix with a different slant, which seems to be the flavour of the month.
21 • RE: about money for free stuff (by Peter Damoc at 2004-03-23 08:47:12 GMT)
I know is hard but... provide leadership. DistroWatch is already the leader of news about Linux distros, use this leader position to stear development.
It is not enough to say "donations will be available to all worthy projects" instead name things that need to change, offer rewards, raise the rewards.
I don't think you need more examples but here goes another one:
Gaim is praised as "THE ONE", after all, Gnome uses it, but hey where the heck is audio conference? or video conference? ok, ok... you can say some things about the protocols and the fact that they are proprietary BUT why not provide fallback for the think-alikes? I mean if I use Gaim and my friend uses Gaim we should be able to do everything (text-voice-video) if one of us has a static IP and there are no nasty firewalls involved in our conversation.
I would not pay 500$ for such a feature BUT you can and if 500$ is not enough offer 1000$, 2000$, whatever.
I refuse to believe that what I'm suggesting is imposible to do.
22 • mailing list (by Peter Damoc at 2004-03-23 08:51:51 GMT)
how about turning DistroWatch Weekly into something people can subscribe to?, something like a mailing list.
23 • Financial support (by dukeinlondon on 2004-03-23 11:34:44 GMT)
I always assumed that any profitable open source related shop (website, distros, consultants) was supporting a number of projects that they see as important for there own development.
I hope I am right. Commercial Linux distros should maybe list their yearly contributions, in code or in cash.
24 • Nitpick over wording of Debian's decision to keep Non-Free (by Syntaxis at 2004-03-23 16:15:54 GMT)
"Yet, it shows that the FSF ideals, pure as they may be, are not always practical, even rejected by the developers of a popular non-commercial distribution, such as Debian."
This could give the impression that Debian vets software freedom in the same manner as the FSF, which clearly isn't the case - Debian uses its own Free Software Guidelines (http://www.debian.org/social_contract.html), not the FSF's Free Software Definition (http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html).
The fact that debian-legal has already deemed the GNU FDL as being Non-Free is perhaps the best illustration of the differing views between the two organizations.
25 • MythTV (by vic on 2004-03-23 19:50:50 GMT)
Contrary to another post, I'd have to recommend against MythTV. According to the head developer himself, he is working on the project for his own benefit, not for the benefit of others. His statment, not mine. While many other techies find MythTV great, it is not something designed to be easy to install, or to compete with Tivo on ease of use. Ease of use is what will bring mass adoption, and more development help, and more user support.
While there may exist deb packages and CD distros for MythTV installations, it still is not as easy as it should be, and taken into consideration the head developer's goal of making an app for himself, it won't be made easy to work with any time in the near future.
MythTV is not worthy of support at this time. I hope the development direction changes, to take into account other uses, and ease of use, but until it does, this is not a community project in the true sense of, or following the ideals of, Free Software.
26 • Add a vote for Quanta (by List1 on 2004-03-23 21:51:13 GMT)
I'll add a vote for Quanta support. It's a great project, with great leadership.
While I haven't seen their implementation of wysiwyg, or VPL yet, I'm hopeful that former Dreamweaver users, and even, dare I say it, former Frontpage users find it useable. One of the applications that is frequently cited as holding back individuals and small business owners from migrating to Linux is Dreamweaver (and even Frontpage). They use it to maintain their small business and personal web sites. While wine, vmware, and win4lin are out there, some cost in the hundreds of dollars, and the rest are not trivial to get the needed apps up and running. Quanta Plus offers another tool to eliminate this area as the excuse or block that prevents migration from Windows to Linux.
Quanta Plus is a project that reflects a selfless interest in developing a Free Software application that is useable for a very large group of users. Furthermore, it is an important application that will help further goals of increased usage and an increased installed base, benefitting all Linux users by increasing overall usage of Free and Open Source Software, and benefitting potental Linux users who are suffering through their use of an insecure and expensive operating system such as Windows.
Quanta Plus is a FOSS project that is clearly worthy of support. And due to the structure of the project, even minor support will help a great deal. Please consider this project.
27 • Supporting Distrowatch (by bin on 2004-03-24 17:37:43 GMT)
I regularly check Distrowatch. I also always surf with images turned off because banner ads are annoying. I've been slowly coming around to the fact that I should be supporting sites I frequent, where possible. While I can't afford to do it with outright cash outlays for something like Timesavers, and I stop visiting sites that insist on registration for content, I did continue to visit Distrowatch because most content was still available.
I've read the headlines about Distrowatch supporting Free Software projects, but didn't check the details yet. Thanks to the dropping of Timesavers, and the goodwill you've earned by the support of Timesavers, I'll make sure to check out some of your advertisers from time to time.
Others planning on doing the same should note that with Google and other advertisers, there are always scams attached. Similar to the Link Exchange scams of years ago for not paying for banner clicks for a multitude of excuses, Google's "Search Words" or whatever they call it, doesn't pay anything if you click on the ad and you don't have javascript turned on. This has the effect of Google getting paid by the advertiser, and the web site owner getting nothing. Don't know if this will affect Distrowatch if it is banner ads instead of the "Search Words" or whatever they call it, but I would expect the same, attempting to wiggle out of paying so that they increase their profits at the expense of the web site owner. After all, they are paying something, right? So what right do web site owners have to complain?
28 • My votes go to... (by motub on 2004-03-24 17:45:31 GMT)
Ladislav, great idea, good for you! You've already done (and continue to do) so much with this site, and now you're doing even more.
I'd like to vote for two projects:
GATOS. Linux users with ATI video cards get precious little support from the manufacturer. But because of the GATOS project, I have hope that I might be able to use the TV-in features of my AIW 9800 SE someday in the not-too-distant future. If a bit of cash could enable them to write a few exra letters to ATI, or pay the phone bill to call and request more chipset information, I'd really like to see them get the help.
WINE. What is there to say? Nothing. Everything. There are so many reasons that we (still?) need Wine, and so many things that Wine does better than WineX... but the things that WineX and the commercial versions of Wine do better than "regular" Wine must surely be somehow attributable to money. Money for licenses. Money to feed people while they try to figure out DirectX. I don't know, but if it would help the Wine project blossom into the titan it struggles to grow into, I'm all for it. Because I suspect that there's a whole undiscovered universe of benefits to Wine, far beyond the simple ability to run Windows apps "normally" under Linux.
But whatever you decide, thanks so much for implementing this program. Peter Damoc's idea is really good too, but maybe that's something for "phase 2" :-) .
29 • Money to worthwhile projects (by Ric de France at 2004-03-25 01:47:37 GMT)
Lasislav,
Just a comment on your idea of donating to worthy projects. Kudos to you for standing up and financially helping projects. The only thing I would have like to have seen, but you appear not to allow in your rules, is a donation to Mandrake.
I think news sites (like distrowatch) followed closely the plight of Mandrake as they went into the french version of Chapter 11. I myself know that if it wasn't for distros like Mandrake, I most likely would have given up on Linux a long time ago (I prefer using Gentoo now - what triggered the switch of distros was your article on RPM hell).
Which leads me now to nominating Gentoo as a project to benefit from your generosity.
Keep up the great work. The site is awesome.
30 • Re:MythTv (by hughesjr at 2004-03-25 01:48:51 GMT)
How hard is it to type:
apt-get install mythtv-suite
And the project has mnay people providing support .. not just one.
MythTV is an excellent project that is installable via:
Mandrake using urmpi
RedHat/Fedora via aptrpm
Debian via apt
Gentoo via emerge
31 • Nomination for cdrecord & k3b (by Jalil on 2004-03-25 05:22:03 GMT)
I believe many people use it, that's why I am nominating for cdrecord & k3b as well for KDE and GNOME.
32 • How to choose from the plethora of candidates? (by fdavid on 2004-03-25 12:55:21 GMT)
I think many open source porjects worth supporting. Almost every visitor of DistroWatch can drop in a new one. How will it be decided, which one of them gets the donation?
I would suggest, that Ladislav should nominate 3 projects every month, to choose from. I would be happy, even if there were no way for us to influence the decision, which project will be donated. After all, it's Ladislav's money. So thank tou, Ladislav, for supporting open source projects.
33 • RE: Nomination of MythTV (by Matt R on 2004-03-25 18:28:51 GMT)
I would like to reemphasize my nomination for MythTV.
On this day the 50th anniversary of color television.
See the article…
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/business/2466940
An excerpt from the article
“TV ownership blanketed the country as far back as 1960, when 87 percent of homes had one, according to the bureau. Now they are nearly universal, in more than 98 percent of homes. “
It seems that if you want Linux penetration and general public support then supporting a Linux application that is applicable to more than 98 percent of all households makes sense.
Therefore, I again nominate MythTV!!!
34 • DW Donations (by Leo on 2004-03-26 19:15:10 GMT)
Thanks a lot Ladislav for the idea :-)
And thank you for asking. I think it would be great if DW donated money mostly to Linux Distros, just because this is the topic of DW.
I am talking about Distros that satisfy certain criteria that you think is reasonable. For instance:
* provide free (gratis) downloads, and/or
* be fully GPL, and/or
* non-commercial, and/or
* "very" active or popular, etc.
All of these things are subjective. I would rather fund Ark than RedHat, because Ark has less ways of becoming profitable. But it's up to you. In any case, defining some criteria and choosing a distro at a time meeting it would be cool. Maybe you can cycle among a pool of distros ...
35 • Why Debian? (by Anonymous on 2004-03-26 22:39:02 GMT)
If you want to give money to open source, give it to projects and not to Linux distributions like Debian, so everyone using an open source operating system (*BSD flavor or Linux distribution) can benefit from that.
BTW, I still don't understand why you monitor lots of Linux distributions (more than a hundred?) and not the three main BSD flavors as well (FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD). Afterall, they're open source operating systems and both share some stuff (there are some BSD tools in Linux and some GNU tools in *BSD).
36 • No subject (by Anonymous on 2004-03-27 01:38:21 GMT)
"Yet, it shows that the FSF ideals, pure as they may be, are not always practical, even rejected by the developers of a popular non-commercial distribution, such as Debian." - well, I think FSF ideals are just slightly less than pure, but they're pretty dang close. and ideal is *always* the most practical. just add a little wisdom, and any ideal is practical.
and many thanks for the promotion of the free software foundation! ^_^ I didn't realize you were turning a profit with this wonderful service. the ads fit in so nicely that this page feels so gratis! as it happens, I'm putting in money for a free software project, too, but I don't think anyone will see it for a while. q= development *is* going fast, tho.
when I started selling SuSE loaded systems, I read through the licenses, and the YaST license already read pretty similar to GPL. smart move, though. (-: Novell will benefit greatly by sticking to ideals and producing Linux within standards...
(running SuSE 9.0 on kernel 2.6.4 and Slackware 9.1 on kernel 2.6.0)
37 • Feather 0.3.9 (by Juan T. on 2004-03-28 12:14:07 GMT)
Very good this small distro.
The correction, in the present release, of the ABS spreadsheet size at start, is well done.
*JT.
38 • campesinos - bolivia (by Marco Antonio Mejia Teran at 2004-04-05 01:58:47 GMT)
Santa Cruz-Bolivia, 4 de abril del 2004
Señores:
DistroWatch
De mi mayor consideración.
Mediante la presente carta, tenemos el gusto de dirigirnos a ustedes.
Somos un grupo de voluntarios que trabajamos con organizaciones campesinas e indigenas en Bolivia, este año conjuntamente con otros compañeros que utilizan linux, tenemos planeado impulsar algunas experiencias de poder conformar telecentro comunitarios en el campo para poder facilitar la apropiación de los comunarios de estas tecnologias y contribuir al desarrollo integral de las mismas.
En tal sentido nos hemos enterado que ustedes estan apoyando emprendiientos de este tipo, nos ustaria puedan darnos mayores explicaciones sobre esta ayuda financiera, consideramooque juntos podemos socializar el conocimiento y uso de linux en bolivia, sobre todo en zonas mas marginales del país.
Sin mas que decirles y esperando una respuesta positiva de su parte nos despedimos.
fraternalmente
marco mejia teran, miguel lucana, alejo mamani, julio mejia.
39 • Donations (by Simon Brown at 2004-07-27 00:29:51 GMT)
Donating to those who have contributed code for everyone's benefit is good in itself. If it encourages or enables them to do more this is even better. Presumably the assumption that it will lead to further advancements is true.
One of the biggest impediments to the migration to linux on the desktop is the legacy of software which is compiled only for one operating system, predominantly Microsoft Windows in its various forms. Two complimentary projects address this problem. The first is WINE. This aims to provide an urgently needed short-term solution, but is going painfully slow. It deserves a lot of help. See www.winehq.org. The other is wxWidgets, formerly kmown as WxWindows (www.wxwidgets.org). This lets programmers write GUIs almost independantly of the OS to which they are compiled. If commercial and OS programmers were more aware of wxWidgets we would all benefit.
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| • Issue 1108 (2025-02-10): Serpent OS 0.24.6, Aurora, sharing swap between distros, Peppermint tries Void base, GTK removinglegacy technologies, Red Hat plans more AI tools for Fedora, TrueNAS merges its editions |
| • Issue 1107 (2025-02-03): siduction 2024.1.0, timing tasks, Lomiri ported to postmarketOS, Alpine joins Open Collective, a new desktop for Linux called Orbitiny |
| • Issue 1106 (2025-01-27): Adelie Linux 1.0 Beta 6, Pop!_OS 24.04 Alpha 5, detecting whether a process is inside a virtual machine, drawing graphics to NetBSD terminal, Nix ported to FreeBSD, GhostBSD hosting desktop conference |
| • Issue 1105 (2025-01-20): CentOS 10 Stream, old Flatpak bundles in software centres, Haiku ports Iceweasel, Oracle shows off debugging tools, rsync vulnerability patched |
| • Issue 1104 (2025-01-13): DAT Linux 2.0, Silly things to do with a minimal computer, Budgie prepares Wayland only releases, SteamOS coming to third-party devices, Murena upgrades its base |
| • Issue 1103 (2025-01-06): elementary OS 8.0, filtering ads with Pi-hole, Debian testing its installer, Pop!_OS faces delays, Ubuntu Studio upgrades not working, Absolute discontinued |
| • Issue 1102 (2024-12-23): Best distros of 2024, changing a process name, Fedora to expand Btrfs support and releases Asahi Remix 41, openSUSE patches out security sandbox and donations from Bottles while ending support for Leap 15.5 |
| • Issue 1101 (2024-12-16): GhostBSD 24.10.1, sending attachments from the command line, openSUSE shows off GPU assignment tool, UBports publishes security update, Murena launches its first tablet, Xfce 4.20 released |
| • Issue 1100 (2024-12-09): Oreon 9.3, differences in speed, IPFire's new appliance, Fedora Asahi Remix gets new video drivers, openSUSE Leap Micro updated, Redox OS running Redox OS |
| • Issue 1099 (2024-12-02): AnduinOS 1.0.1, measuring RAM usage, SUSE continues rebranding efforts, UBports prepares for next major version, Murena offering non-NFC phone |
| • Issue 1098 (2024-11-25): Linux Lite 7.2, backing up specific folders, Murena and Fairphone partner in fair trade deal, Arch installer gets new text interface, Ubuntu security tool patched |
| • Issue 1097 (2024-11-18): Chimera Linux vs Chimera OS, choosing between AlmaLinux and Debian, Fedora elevates KDE spin to an edition, Fedora previews new installer, KDE testing its own distro, Qubes-style isolation coming to FreeBSD |
| • Issue 1096 (2024-11-11): Bazzite 40, Playtron OS Alpha 1, Tucana Linux 3.1, detecting Screen sessions, Redox imports COSMIC software centre, FreeBSD booting on the PinePhone Pro, LXQt supports Wayland window managers |
| • Issue 1095 (2024-11-04): Fedora 41 Kinoite, transferring applications between computers, openSUSE Tumbleweed receives multiple upgrades, Ubuntu testing compiler optimizations, Mint partners with Framework |
| • Issue 1094 (2024-10-28): DebLight OS 1, backing up crontab, AlmaLinux introduces Litten branch, openSUSE unveils refreshed look, Ubuntu turns 20
| | • Issue 1093 (2024-10-21): Kubuntu 24.10, atomic vs immutable distributions, Debian upgrading Perl packages, UBports adding VoLTE support, Android to gain native GNU/Linux application support |
| • Issue 1092 (2024-10-14): FunOS 24.04.1, a home directory inside a file, work starts of openSUSE Leap 16.0, improvements in Haiku, KDE neon upgrades its base |
| • Issue 1091 (2024-10-07): Redox OS 0.9.0, Unified package management vs universal package formats, Redox begins RISC-V port, Mint polishes interface, Qubes certifies new laptop |
| • Issue 1090 (2024-09-30): Rhino Linux 2024.2, commercial distros with alternative desktops, Valve seeks to improve Wayland performance, HardenedBSD parterns with Protectli, Tails merges with Tor Project, Quantum Leap partners with the FreeBSD Foundation |
| • Issue 1089 (2024-09-23): Expirion 6.0, openKylin 2.0, managing configuration files, the future of Linux development, fixing bugs in Haiku, Slackware packages dracut |
| • Issue 1088 (2024-09-16): PorteuX 1.6, migrating from Windows 10 to which Linux distro, making NetBSD immutable, AlmaLinux offers hardware certification, Mint updates old APT tools |
| • Issue 1087 (2024-09-09): COSMIC desktop, running cron jobs at variable times, UBports highlights new apps, HardenedBSD offers work around for FreeBSD change, Debian considers how to cull old packages, systemd ported to musl |
| • Issue 1086 (2024-09-02): Vanilla OS 2, command line tips for simple tasks, FreeBSD receives investment from STF, openSUSE Tumbleweed update can break network connections, Debian refreshes media |
| • Issue 1085 (2024-08-26): Nobara 40, OpenMandriva 24.07 "ROME", distros which include source code, FreeBSD publishes quarterly report, Microsoft updates breaks Linux in dual-boot environments |
| • Issue 1084 (2024-08-19): Liya 2.0, dual boot with encryption, Haiku introduces performance improvements, Gentoo dropping IA-64, Redcore merges major upgrade |
| • Issue 1083 (2024-08-12): TrueNAS 24.04.2 "SCALE", Linux distros for smartphones, Redox OS introduces web server, PipeWire exposes battery drain on Linux, Canonical updates kernel version policy |
| • Issue 1082 (2024-08-05): Linux Mint 22, taking snapshots of UFS on FreeBSD, openSUSE updates Tumbleweed and Aeon, Debian creates Tiny QA Tasks, Manjaro testing immutable images |
| • Issue 1081 (2024-07-29): SysLinuxOS 12.4, OpenBSD gain hardware acceleration, Slackware changes kernel naming, Mint publishes upgrade instructions |
| • Issue 1080 (2024-07-22): Running GNU/Linux on Android with Andronix, protecting network services, Solus dropping AppArmor and Snap, openSUSE Aeon Desktop gaining full disk encryption, SUSE asks openSUSE to change its branding |
| • Issue 1079 (2024-07-15): Ubuntu Core 24, hiding files on Linux, Fedora dropping X11 packages on Workstation, Red Hat phasing out GRUB, new OpenSSH vulnerability, FreeBSD speeds up release cycle, UBports testing new first-run wizard |
| • Issue 1078 (2024-07-08): Changing init software, server machines running desktop environments, OpenSSH vulnerability patched, Peppermint launches new edition, HardenedBSD updates ports |
| • Issue 1077 (2024-07-01): The Unity and Lomiri interfaces, different distros for different tasks, Ubuntu plans to run Wayland on NVIDIA cards, openSUSE updates Leap Micro, Debian releases refreshed media, UBports gaining contact synchronisation, FreeDOS celebrates its 30th anniversary |
| • Issue 1076 (2024-06-24): openSUSE 15.6, what makes Linux unique, SUSE Liberty Linux to support CentOS Linux 7, SLE receives 19 years of support, openSUSE testing Leap Micro edition |
| • Issue 1075 (2024-06-17): Redox OS, X11 and Wayland on the BSDs, AlmaLinux releases Pi build, Canonical announces RISC-V laptop with Ubuntu, key changes in systemd |
| • Issue 1074 (2024-06-10): Endless OS 6.0.0, distros with init diversity, Mint to filter unverified Flatpaks, Debian adds systemd-boot options, Redox adopts COSMIC desktop, OpenSSH gains new security features |
| • Issue 1073 (2024-06-03): LXQt 2.0.0, an overview of Linux desktop environments, Canonical partners with Milk-V, openSUSE introduces new features in Aeon Desktop, Fedora mirrors see rise in traffic, Wayland adds OpenBSD support |
| • Issue 1072 (2024-05-27): Manjaro 24.0, comparing init software, OpenBSD ports Plasma 6, Arch community debates mirror requirements, ThinOS to upgrade its FreeBSD core |
| • Issue 1071 (2024-05-20): Archcraft 2024.04.06, common command line mistakes, ReactOS imports WINE improvements, Haiku makes adjusting themes easier, NetBSD takes a stand against code generated by chatbots |
| • Issue 1070 (2024-05-13): Damn Small Linux 2024, hiding kernel messages during boot, Red Hat offers AI edition, new web browser for UBports, Fedora Asahi Remix 40 released, Qubes extends support for version 4.1 |
| • Issue 1069 (2024-05-06): Ubuntu 24.04, installing packages in alternative locations, systemd creates sudo alternative, Mint encourages XApps collaboration, FreeBSD publishes quarterly update |
| • Issue 1068 (2024-04-29): Fedora 40, transforming one distro into another, Debian elects new Project Leader, Red Hat extends support cycle, Emmabuntus adds accessibility features, Canonical's new security features |
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