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1 • Gentoo (by Nick at 2004-09-27 11:59:10 GMT)
The Gentoo Linux community is one of the most professional opensource projects around. They have great forums, nearly 7000 up2date packages in portage, and top notch documentation. Please accept this nomination for the Spetember donation. Thank you.
2 • nomination (by CJ on 2004-09-27 12:11:26 GMT)
Gentoo doesn't seem to like to play nice with distros based on it. For that reason alone, I don't believe they deserve anything.
With all the buzz surrounding Ubuntu, why not give it to them?
3 • September donation (by Anonymous on 2004-09-27 12:19:08 GMT)
How about supporting XFCE (http://xfce.org). In my opinion it is really stable, usable and fast desktop environment matching both KDE and Gnome. It i snot a commercial project, so I believe those developers would really appreciate every € they can get.
4 • Donation (by KaZe on 2004-09-27 12:22:33 GMT)
I agree with the comment on XFCE, It's really a fine environment to use (even if i don't use it everyday).
I use it on a small machine, and it's really usable.
5 • September donation: XFCE (by Jack Malmostoso at 2004-09-27 12:26:03 GMT)
My vote goes to XFCE too: it is really a great project. Think about them!
6 • Why? (by MIchael Massey at 2004-09-27 12:27:38 GMT)
I have been tracking and installing different Linux distros for years. I really would like to make the switch (and switch my family’s computers as well) but there are two main things that are stopping me. No, it is not games. It is not even the lack of apps its self. It is the fact that every one of the distros can not get fonts right in any browser that is included (or user downloaded browser). The other issue is the ability to install new apps and get them on the desk top or pull down menus easily with out having to go through many hoops.
When it comes to fonts in any browser, why is it that most web pages (and yes, many Linux web pages) had to have such tiny fonts as a default. I have read forums and manuals and help files and yes, I can get them (some what) to look reasonably readable. But why should I have do these tweaks? Can't all this tweaking be done before the distro goes out?
With app installation, every distro has there own way of doing it. Some work somewhat well and others take a PHD to install... Why? What will it take to have an easy, no brainer way of installing apps? I know there are a few paid distros that have their "ease of install, pay as you go" software install but can't there be a defacto standard of easy installation of any software for all distros?
Am I asking too much? Is Linux still an immature OS that these things are years away from happening? No Linux distro will ever be a "good" distro for the average Joe with these two things in the way.
7 • donations voting (by Mark on 2004-09-27 12:33:17 GMT)
XFCE or Enlightenment are my votes
8 • no problems here (by justin at 2004-09-27 12:41:43 GMT)
>The other issue is the ability to install new apps and >get them on the desk top or pull down menus easily >with out having to go through many hoops.
no problems here with Mdk 10 - apps are just added to the K menu when you install via urpmi
>When it comes to fonts in any browser
Konqueror on Mandrake 10 fonts are just fine out of the box.
> I know there are a few paid distros that have their >"ease of install, pay as you go" software install but >can't there be a defacto standard of easy installation >of any software for all distros?
Mandrake 10 - urpmi from the command line,
K menu -> System -> Configuration -> Packaging for a gui version.
>Linux still an immature OS that these things are >years away from happening? i really don't see what the problems are - not on the distro i'm using anyway.
9 • Why? (by Michael Valentine on 2004-09-27 13:20:14 GMT)
Have you tried Linspire, Lycoris or Xandros. They all offer easy to install software from repositories, great fonts, and are made for users coming from Windows.
10 • RE: XFce (by ladislav at 2004-09-27 13:27:28 GMT)
I can't find any donations button anywhere on the XFce web site. Anybody knows if they accept donations?
11 • @CJ (by Anonymous on 2004-09-27 13:30:07 GMT)
>> Gentoo doesn't seem to like to play nice with distros based on it.
1. Does RedHat playnaice when people rip it off? 2. Gentoo is opensource so people can take it and do what they want with, but they should not bother the Gentoo developers if they have a problem. Same as RedHat, Debian, or any other fork.
12 • Donation suggestion (by EEDOK on 2004-09-27 13:37:05 GMT)
Has the gcc project been donated to?
13 • Donation suggestion (by ladislav at 2004-09-27 13:45:36 GMT)
Has the gcc project been donated to?
No. This is the list of projects we have donated to: GnuCash, Quanta Plus, PCLinuxOS, GIMP, Vidalinux and Fluxbox.
14 • Donation (by Linux Freak! on 2004-09-27 14:25:05 GMT)
My vote goes to XFCE. It a really great desktop.
15 • Hikarunix (by Penguin on 2004-09-27 14:26:39 GMT)
"Hikarunix is a Damn Small Linux-based live CD and the only operating system dedicated to Go. "
Wow. This one is a must for go fans like me :)
Those interested to learn more about the oldest, best and the most beautiful strategy board game, you can take a look here: http://www.gobase.org/ But beware, you can get addicted...
16 • XFCE (by mike on 2004-09-27 14:29:23 GMT)
I _do_ use XFCE daily, and it suits me just fine on machines from a very creaky 266 MHz pentium II, to a new AMD 2800+ that spends about 99.9% of its time in the idle task, but was the cheapest thing I could find.
I actually like that they aren't trying to be another Windows (or at least, I don't think they are).
I do think highly of some of the gnome applications, it's my second desktop choice.
17 • the truth about gentoo (by butters at 2004-09-27 14:38:13 GMT)
I would say that vidalinux isn't playing nice with gentoo. They sync their portage trees with the same rsync mirror systems setup and maintained by the gentoo community. They didn't ask any of the gentoo devs if they could use their bandwidth and processor time, and quite frankly, I think that the vidalinux devs are the kind of people who wouldn't even think to ask.
On distrowatch we see projects come and go. Who knows if vidalinux or ubuntu will be relevent to the linux community this time next year. Seems to me that a distribution that uses the exact same packages as its parent but with a slightly better GPL installer, is doomed to be caught up to by the parent when they write a better installer. When it comes to community distributions, it is the infrastructure that matters. The legions of ebuild/deb/rpm hackers. The round-robbin of mirrors and repositories. The forum communities. The install-base. All the rest have is a downed webserver and broken english.
Don't believe the hype.
I'd also like to see some money go towards improving XFCE. With a more modern interface to its file manager, it could be better than GNOME on low-end or aging hardware.
18 • Donation Suggestion: k3b (by Anonymous on 2004-09-27 14:44:45 GMT)
I suggest k3b because its developers have "real" costs (namely all kinds of CDR and expensive DVD blanks) during the development of their software.
19 • donations (by Penguin on 2004-09-27 14:56:25 GMT)
One more vote to XFce.
Another good candidate might be Waimea window manager. It used to be a great, fast and pretty window manager, quite popular among advanced users too, but it's been a very long time since a new stable release. The code is now being totally rewritten which seems to take a lot time. Waimea: http://freedesktop.org/software/waimea
Otherwise, I suggest all potential donaters to consider the fields where GNU/Linux needs development most and donating to those things (i.e. some desktop software).
About Ubuntu Linux: The project seems to have some very high calibre developers behind it, so I would take that project quite seriously (unlike Vida Linux?), like the similar UserLinux too. But it might be useful for projects like User Linux and Ubuntu to join forces more (why reinvent the wheel many times?)
20 • donation (by ray carter at 2004-09-27 15:11:22 GMT)
Hopefully the XFCE team monitors this page enough to see that they could be in for a welcome surprise. Perhaps a scheme can be set up so that each month the top three or four candidates are invited to present their case, and a final choice made on the reply. I hate, in a way, to have it come down to 'grant writing', but it could, at least, help determine which teams really need the cash. The absence of any donation info on XFCE's page tends to make me think that possibly they don't really have the need. I can sure see the requirements for a group like k3b or cdrecord.
Ladislav - thanks for posting the past recipients - that's good info.
21 • Donations (by Anonymous on 2004-09-27 15:21:18 GMT)
I suggest the lightweight Dillo browser for the September donation. There are no lightweight browsers that's without rendering problems. Dillo is the best among them, and a donation could help the Dillo team fixing the problems.
A better lightweight browser should be especially important in third world countries where the alternative on old hardware is Win9x+IE.
http://www.dillo.org/donations.html
22 • Gentoo (by Anonymous at 2004-09-27 15:22:39 GMT)
I aggree with that first statement. Gentoo is , despite their own opinion, the most stable of dists out there.
KB http://os.gwos.org
23 • Donation: Onebase (by Michael Salivar at 2004-09-27 15:24:59 GMT)
Onebase in hopes that they'll stop making us hack their damned website just to check the size of the ISO.
24 • re: the truth about gentoo (by Stew on 2004-09-27 15:26:06 GMT)
I would say that vidalinux isn't playing nice with gentoo. They sync their portage trees with the same rsync mirror systems setup and maintained by the gentoo community. They didn't ask any of the gentoo devs if they could use their bandwidth and processor time, and quite frankly, I think that the vidalinux devs are the kind of people who wouldn't even think to ask.
Sorry, I don't quite follow. Gentoo users take up bandwidth from rsync mirrors just as do Vidalinux users. A Vidalinux user is, essentially, a Gentoo user. I mean, at least they're trying to fork Gentoo or something.
25 • Donation (by Isamoor at 2004-09-27 15:30:37 GMT)
My vote is also for Xfce. They make a great DE. Can't wait for 4.1.
K3B is also a great backup vote in my opinion. As mentioned, they do have to purchase blanks. And K3B is the only reason I have kdebase on my pc.
26 • donation (by jsaak at 2004-09-27 16:01:06 GMT)
my vote goes to wxWidgets the best cross-platform GUI library imho it should be a standard of some kind
27 • Donation (by foo on 2004-09-27 16:23:54 GMT)
Here's another vote for Xfce, a superb light desktop! Keep up the good work Olivier, hope you get a distrowatch bonus. Thanx for supporting the community, Ladislav.
foo
28 • XFCE Donation (by Tofu Bandit at 2004-09-27 16:41:32 GMT)
I vote for XFCE - though I can't find any donation info on their site either...
perhaps K3B can be considered for October?
29 • Gentoo (by Anonymous at 2004-09-27 17:02:31 GMT)
I aggree with that first statement. Gentoo is , despite their own opinion, the most stable of dists out there.
KB http://os.gwos.org
30 • about double posts (by Penguin on 2004-09-27 18:36:25 GMT)
hmm... There seems to be quite a lot double messages on this forum often.
Ladislav: Could there be any chance to technically prevent people from double-posting their messages? It is too easy to press enter just after posting. Was it also that just refreshing the page - with the comment still showing on the text field - can cause a double post?
Sorry, I don't know PHP well enough to suggest a solution though. But I was thinkin that, for example, only pressing the "Submit comment" button publishes the comment but not just pressing Enter? Or that the same person cannot post another (= the same) comment within too short a time (like 10 seconds) - or something like that?
31 • Re: Donation: Onebase (by Anonymous on 2004-09-27 19:14:47 GMT)
You can PM me in the community forums if you have trouble accessing the page for which you have donated already. sorry for the inconvience - all4one
32 • donation (by johnleemk on 2004-09-27 19:27:30 GMT)
I vote for XFCE as well. They're brilliant.
33 • Donation: (by Anonymous Coward on 2004-09-27 21:14:59 GMT)
I vote for XFCE too... I use them alot, and they're a really great desktop.
34 • No subject (by anon on 2004-09-27 21:48:54 GMT)
Index: xfce-mixer-profilebox-detail.c =================================================================== I guess xfce doesn't need money just donate it to world hunger...kinda like VIM. Oh well I still vote for XFCE only that is if they''ll accept it and and distribute evenly among their 17 developers.
RCS file: /var/cvs/xfce/xfce4/xfce4-mixer/src/xfce-mixer-profilebox-detail.c,v retrieving revision 1.2 retrieving revision 1.3 diff -u -d -r1.2 -r1.3 --- xfce-mixer-profilebox-detail.c 20 Feb 2004 15:28:36 -0000 1.2 +++ xfce-mixer-profilebox-detail.c 21 Feb 2004 10:22:30 -0000 1.3 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -/* Generated by GOB (v2.0.6) on Fri Feb 20 16:25:31 2004 +/* Generated by GOB (v2.0.6) on Sat Feb 21 11:21:05 2004 (do not edit directly) */ /* End world hunger, donate to the World Food Programme, http://www.wfp.org */ @@ -489,6 +489,9 @@ return; }
35 • Why call it Helix? (by Howard Coles at 2004-09-27 23:38:32 GMT)
Doesn't Real (of RealAudio) already have a "Helix" project with about that same logo? Why confuse the world and call your distro by the same name? Maybe I just don't get something here, but it seems that if you want people to clearly know who you are you come up with a unique name.
36 • Nomination for donation (by Ed Borasky at 2004-09-28 03:40:03 GMT)
Well, the momentum seems to be towards either Gentoo or XFCE. As you may know, I run mostly Gentoo and I'm a big fan. It was certainly my first choice for a nomination.
I think I'll throw one more project on the table ... Agnula. This is a Debian-based European distribution dedicated to audio. They used to have a Red Hat version, but I think that's gone by the wayside since the Red Hat/Fedora split. So ... Gentoo this month, XFCE next month, then Angula.
37 • Python or Quanta (by Al on 2004-09-28 04:05:29 GMT)
I hope that the donation goe sto Quanta or Python, these projects are simply incredible.
38 • Oops... (by Al on 2004-09-28 04:08:23 GMT)
I just read Quanta was actually donated to already, in that case I vote for KDE and Python. (GNOME's got enough cash comapred to KDE anyway. (sellouts j/k) :)
39 • Donation Nomination (by KnightFire on 2004-09-28 06:58:36 GMT)
My nominations would be for: WideStudio http://www.widestudio.org/EE/ Enlightenment http://enlightenment.org/ XFce http://www.xfce.org/
40 • XFCE and Demo Linux. (by Tariq on 2004-09-28 07:05:06 GMT)
My vote goes for XFCE and thanks Ladislav for selecting XFCE.
Oliver has been developing XFCE now for more then half decade with some code contributions from others and support from Moongroup.com [ Lunarlinux folk ]. Why there is no button for donations because Oliver believes in giving, he has proven that for all these years.
Agree! Oliver does not need DistroWatch donation for the survival of XFCE project.. IMHO Distrowatch donation is more about recognition and honour then the amount offered.
When it was decided to make donation it was never discussed that only those projects soliciting support will be considered.
Oliver has earned this let us inform him and it is for him to decide not us. If we recognize merit and honour those who have earned right to be honored this will enhance that stature of Distrowatch.
Next I will plead the case of Demo Linux.
Demo Linux is Live CD and only one which will work on PI with 32 MB ram [ Agree bit slow ] 48 Mb ram workable, 64 Mb Ram quite good.
It is against the very idea of Linux/Unix " do not fix if it is not broken" a live distro is different from installed one as it is more like an appliance.
There are no more new P1 boxes coming from factories but for lots of people in developing world they are getting the first computer and they are same PI. There is no other Live Distro which can work on hardware they can afford and let them try out a Live Distro. We should not deprive them.
I think in case of Demo Linux an exception could be made, its listing should be maintained for some more time. Now that we all are aware of problem, some thing could be done.
41 • K3b or BitTorrent (by Soloact at 2004-09-28 07:43:38 GMT)
My vote goes to K3b, for reasons mentioned by others, as well as an excellent tool for rescuing my friends' computer files via "Live" distros. My 2nd choice would be BitTorrent, but since they sound like such a logical choice to me, I may be ignorant if they've already received the donation. Just a note on my personal opinion: My fave Live distro is Berry LInux, as it seems to boot on a larger variety of machines than Knoppix. Also, about the new search by package, Way to go! I like it. Suggestion for another search option, by platform such as x86-64, which is beginning to come of age. Best to everyone!
42 • Visitors (by Marcel Gommans at 2004-09-28 11:51:26 GMT)
I noticed that allmost all the distro's have gotten less page hits in the distrowatch charts. Are less people visiting distrowatch? I hope not! I visit this page at least once a day to see what is going on in the wonderful world of linux! Thanks Ladislav!
43 • Demolinux (by Marcel Gommans at 2004-09-28 11:58:26 GMT)
Sorry Tariq, but Demolinux seems to be discontinued!
44 • Please don't take this the wrong way..... (by FunkyMunky on 2004-09-28 12:14:31 GMT)
Great site. Great job. But.....
Any chance of cranking through the waiting list just a little bit faster? The minimum 90-day waiting period is getting to be a bit of a joke. The following distros have now been waiting over a year:
Locust Mesh AP Linux (submitted on 2003-07-11) Sunrise Linux (submitted on 2003-07-20) SPB-Linux (submitted on 2003-07-22) GNUMafia (submitted on 2003-07-25) HRID (submitted on 2003-08-19) Salvare (submitted on 2003-08-22) Navaho Linux (submitted on 2003-08-27) DebToo (submitted on 2003-08-29) Trinity Rescue Kit (submitted on 2003-09-26
45 • RE: Please don't take this the wrong way..... (by ladislav at 2004-09-28 12:23:55 GMT)
Any chance of cranking through the waiting list just a little bit faster?
How about helping out? If you'd like to have distribution listed soon, please go ahead and fill in the submission form:
http://distrowatch.com/submit
In most cases, your distribution will be listed within 24 hours.
But remember one thing: many projects start with great enthusiasm but fade away at the first hurdle. Just look through the web sites of some of those distributions that you listed and you'll see immediately what I mean.
46 • RE: Visitors (by ladislav at 2004-09-28 12:27:25 GMT)
I noticed that allmost all the distro's have gotten less page hits in the distrowatch charts.
That was caused by a glitch in one of the scripts yesterday - all hits generated after about 6am GMT were ignored - sorry about that. It was fixed today, shortly after midnight GMT.
47 • the growing waiting list (by FunkyMunky on 2004-09-28 12:41:52 GMT)
"How about helping out? If you'd like to have distribution listed soon, please go ahead and fill in the submission form:
http://distrowatch.com/submit
In most cases, your distribution will be listed within 24 hours."
We are approaching the one-year anniversary since I did this for the Xbox Debian (which is still healthy and has had at least one further release). I know much of the detailled information may have been absent (it's that long ago now that I don't know) but it is basically Debian tailored to the Xbox. There's not much more to be said.
It's kind of disheartening to watch the list get longer and the lagtime increase. While Xbox Debian may be niche, I suspect there is plenty over the 90 days mark that would be of interest to the majority of visitors.
If "90 days" is actually closer to "a year" in practice, maybe it'd be an idea to earmark some of the donations money being donated to get someone in to 'beast' the list and get it back down to a sensible level?
48 • No subject (by Anonymous on 2004-09-28 12:45:23 GMT)
Someone nominated SLAX last time. What happened to SLAX? No one has mentioned it. I nominate SLAX as it is a very robust live cd and it simply works great. If Slax does not win, I hope that k3b gets more mention and someday get something. It works great! And thanks to all the developers of the k3b team. I have not used XFCE, but many people say it is a great desktop. Either way, I hope that all good projects receive funds to continue in their quest to improve open source software and make this world a better place for all of us.
49 • RE: the growing waiting list (by ladislav at 2004-09-28 14:31:52 GMT)
If "90 days" is actually closer to "a year" in practice, maybe it'd be an idea to earmark some of the donations money being donated to get someone in to 'beast' the list and get it back down to a sensible level?
Hehe, a good one!
Now, instead of ranting and going around in circles, why don't you fill in the submission form? In full, please.
50 • Nomination (by John on 2004-09-28 16:02:19 GMT)
I think you should consider Arch LInux for the donation. This is in my opinion one of the most underrated distros in the entire linux world.
I have used Gentoo and like it, but Arch is really what people expect Gentoo should be.
Is there anybody that has tried this distro that hasn't loved it's simplicity and elegance.
Anybody agree?
51 • re: xfce (by arvan reese at 2004-09-29 04:18:06 GMT)
I definitely agree with all who suggested XFCE! I've used it everytime I compiled from source. XFCE and Mozilla compile quickly and allow me to tinker with Gnome, KDE or whatever. It's also a low resource user, so when I'm compiling a lot of anything, I use XFCE. They definitely put out a great product.
52 • Bittorent and fonts (by Andrew on 2004-09-29 04:47:40 GMT)
I'll second the nomination for bittorrent. I can't imagine not having bittorrent to download those huge distro .iso's, especially when they've just been released and the ftp servers are getting hammered.
And about the web browser fonts that were mentioned earlier... have you tried adjusting the preferences for your browser? I know i can scale the fonts anywhere from around 4pts (tiny) to giganticly unreadable sizes in Epiphany just by using the preferences dialog. Not only that, but the Bitstream Vera fonts look great.
53 • internet access (by Marty Young at 2004-09-29 16:54:59 GMT)
For us poor people/those that can't afford cable or dsl access/ how about donating to any group who can access aol or walmart dialups in linux so those of us who have low cost dialups can enjoy the use of our favorite os/linux online. Great site, from linux.org to groklaw and distrowatch is a great way to start the linux day. I use suse 9.1, slax and redhat and am enjoying many others. again good job Marty Young ct. usa never had any luck with pengy
54 • MDK 10.1 (by Lord-Storm on 2004-09-29 20:05:10 GMT)
Updates broken.................................OMG back to 10.0 I go
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• 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 |
• Issue 1067 (2024-04-22): LocalSend for transferring files, detecting supported CPU architecure levels, new visual design for APT, Fedora and openSUSE working on reproducible builds, LXQt released, AlmaLinux re-adds hardware support |
• Issue 1066 (2024-04-15): Fun projects to do with the Raspberry Pi and PinePhone, installing new software on fixed-release distributions, improving GNOME Terminal performance, Mint testing new repository mirrors, Gentoo becomes a Software In the Public Interest project |
• Issue 1065 (2024-04-08): Dr.Parted Live 24.03, answering questions about the xz exploit, Linux Mint to ship HWE kernel, AlmaLinux patches flaw ahead of upstream Red Hat, Calculate changes release model |
• Issue 1064 (2024-04-01): NixOS 23.11, the status of Hurd, liblzma compromised upstream, FreeBSD Foundation focuses on improving wireless networking, Ubuntu Pro offers 12 years of support |
• Issue 1063 (2024-03-25): Redcore Linux 2401, how slowly can a rolling release update, Debian starts new Project Leader election, Red Hat creating new NVIDIA driver, Snap store hit with more malware |
• Issue 1062 (2024-03-18): KDE neon 20240304, changing file permissions, Canonical turns 20, Pop!_OS creates new software centre, openSUSE packages Plasma 6 |
• Issue 1061 (2024-03-11): Using a PinePhone as a workstation, restarting background services on a schedule, NixBSD ports Nix to FreeBSD, Fedora packaging COSMIC, postmarketOS to adopt systemd, Linux Mint replacing HexChat |
• Issue 1060 (2024-03-04): AV Linux MX-23.1, bootstrapping a network connection, key OpenBSD features, Qubes certifies new hardware, LXQt and Plasma migrate to Qt 6 |
• Issue 1059 (2024-02-26): Warp Terminal, navigating manual pages, malware found in the Snap store, Red Hat considering CPU requirement update, UBports organizes ongoing work |
• Issue 1058 (2024-02-19): Drauger OS 7.6, how much disk space to allocate, System76 prepares to launch COSMIC desktop, UBports changes its version scheme, TrueNAS to offer faster deduplication |
• Issue 1057 (2024-02-12): Adelie Linux 1.0 Beta, rolling release vs fixed for a smoother experience, Debian working on 2038 bug, elementary OS to split applications from base system updates, Fedora announces Atomic Desktops |
• Issue 1056 (2024-02-05): wattOS R13, the various write speeds of ISO writing tools, DSL returns, Mint faces Wayland challenges, HardenedBSD blocks foreign USB devices, Gentoo publishes new repository, Linux distros patch glibc flaw |
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