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1 • Doxygen (by wayne040576 on 2006-05-01 11:28:55 GMT from Grays, United Kingdom)
Great to see Doxygen get the donation. I recently started a new job and it helped me a lot in my exploration of their code.
2 • Slackware (by Edo Hikmahtiar on 2006-05-01 11:55:19 GMT from Surabaya, Indonesia)
Wow....slack with kernel 2.6 (default) .....that's will be a great time........
also see for Frugalware.....
DW weekly is the best! :)
3 • GRUB & XFS (by Mark W. Tomlinson on 2006-05-01 12:15:03 GMT from Roswell, United States)
I read with great interest Robert Storey's tip on GRUB and XFS. I've been running Ubuntu Dapper for some months now (using the Reiser FS) but I've also been following increasing general interest in XFS. Since I already establish a separate /boot partition, it looks like it should be straight-forward to go with XFS on my next install (i.e., the next time I do something stupid and HAVE to reinstall).
Thanks, Robert - I think you just got me off the dime...
4 • freespire (by johansson on 2006-05-01 13:11:30 GMT from Minneapolis, United States)
Interesting interview with Linspire, thanks for: 1) taking the time to conduct the interview, and 2) for publishing it. I look forward to August, when I can 1) download Freespire, 2) install the OS, and 3) test it out for me ma.
5 • Slackware (by Bass on 2006-05-01 13:18:33 GMT from , Egypt)
Hope Slackware 11 will come out VERY soon.. Actually 2.4 kernels worked better for me than 2.6 ones. Ah well, we'll see..
-A
6 • Filesystems (by Luis on 2006-05-01 13:28:22 GMT from Madrid, Spain)
I've always been curious about filesystems, so finally decided to make my own tests/benchmarks (nothing that can be published, just for myself). My conclusions? For compatibility, reliability AND performance, stay with ext3 or ReiserFS. It's not by chance the important distributions support this two.
However, if you like to test new things, try JFS and XFS, or even Reiser4. You'll find out how many problems they have, but that's what testing is about, right?
I just don't understand that recommendation from some bechmarks to go for XFS as a general purpose FS. They should be careful with their conclusions before recommending that.
Great DW, thanks Ladislav !
7 • No subject (by Simon on 2006-05-01 13:38:39 GMT from Augustdorf, Germany)
Interesting as usual.
I'm looking forward to Slackware with 2.6 Kernel.
8 • ext2 for /boot (by C. Dominik Bodi on 2006-05-01 13:41:45 GMT from Falls Church, United States)
Using a journaling filesystem for your /boot partition is not a good idea:
1.) You only change data on /boot when you install a new kernel. Compared to the rest of the filesystem, that's almost never. Therefore the safety benefit you get for using a journaled fs on /boot is next to zero.
2.) That almost nonexisting benefit gets offset by the additional space needed for the fs journalling data. In the worst case, the journalling data can take up several hundred MBs. I've been tricked by meself more than once by using ext3 or reiser on /boot and then wondering why I wasn't able to install more than 2 kernels on a 100mb partition. Using ext2, you could easly install 50 kernels (ca. 15-20 kernels if you are using initial ramdisks) on a partition of that size.
9 • GRUB + XFS (by xzgv on 2006-05-01 13:50:25 GMT from , Panama)
Robert Storey does it again, thanks, pal.
10 • Freespire (by Jesse on 2006-05-01 14:01:24 GMT from Halifax, Canada)
I think the Freespire project is long over-due. The Linux community
could certainly use a supported, progressive distro which
supports non-free componets.
11 • Ubuntu Is A Pile Of Horseshit and FUD (by Sphinx on 2006-05-01 14:15:35 GMT from Sacramento, United States)
There is nothing wrong with XFS and GRUB, I install/run them together all the time. Whatever weakness Ubuntu has shame on them, it's low dirty trash to blame it on the software. You should put some other distro on XFS with GRUB until Ubuntu actually becomes ready for prime time. Guess it takes more than a brass band and a big PR campaign to make a decent distro.
12 • slack (by towsonu2003 on 2006-05-01 14:25:03 GMT from Baltimore, United States)
slack w. 2.6 kernel. oh yea.
the groklaw read on freespire was okay, but it was not very convincing. The link to a mailing archive (about doomsday) from that article, however, was much more convincing for me to review my shopping habits as well as my views on Linspire...
13 • Good for Linspire, BSD and Slackware (by Daniel Mery on 2006-05-01 14:25:58 GMT from Seffner, United States)
Welcome Linspire to "THE BAZAAR" world, it is a real free world.
Congratulation to PcBSD first stable release, good job.
Good news that the next Slackware 11.0 is coming with Kernel series 2.6.
Thanks to Distrowatch because all Mondays with can get a lot of news about "open source"
Regards,
Daniel Mery
14 • xfs (by towsonu2003 on 2006-05-01 14:27:29 GMT from Baltimore, United States)
#11 - Sphinx says: "There is nothing wrong with XFS and GRUB, I install/run them together all the time. Whatever weakness Ubuntu has shame on them, it's low dirty trash to blame it on the software."
I'll say: than go and tell them this on the bug report, not on an obscure DWI comment section.
15 • xfs and /boot (by Tariq on 2006-05-01 14:46:13 GMT from Rochdale, United Kingdom)
if you use recent/patched version of GRUB you don't need to have a separate non-XFS /boot. for example Linux Mandrake has had this feature for a while.
OpenSolaris uses GRUB too.
16 • Stallman ATI Protest (by cheetahman on 2006-05-01 16:19:13 GMT from Washington, United States)
http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/rms-ati-protest.html
17 • No subject (by Freespire announcement URL ? on 2006-05-01 16:22:49 GMT from Camberley, United Kingdom)
I think you have got this Link above wrong
the one here = 'announcement' about Freespire
As it goes to a Planning Dapper+1 by Mark Shuttleworth (of ubuntu)
18 • Litrix 6.4 bugs (by Fotograf on 2006-05-01 16:35:18 GMT from Victoriaville, Canada)
This live installer of Gentoo has a bug: could not boot in English ! Had to do try and error to turn the KDE to English after the hdd install - still many Menues remain Portugese....
Otherwise Good Distro - ADSL started from the Terminal:
"rppoe-setup" mp3 play from the Box - DVD after Emerging
libdvdcss too !
19 • XFS (by niklaren on 2006-05-01 16:37:32 GMT from Atlanta, United States)
I read the Debian file system comparison last week and was interested in the XFS results. I've been a suse user for a long time, but KDE 3.4 has been giving me problems on a AMD 64 machine. Looks like 10.1 will solve that when it finally comes out. I have a server with mostly graphics/multimedia files in Reiser partitions.
I would really appreciate it if we could search distributions on the file systems they support.
20 • Freespire (by william johnson on 2006-05-01 16:37:39 GMT from Wilmington, United States)
It will be interesting to see when you install Freespire if you can then
immediately play a cd, play a dvd movie, and stream radio stations.
I'm betting on NO WAY.
I guess PCLinuxOS .92 has got me spoiled.
21 • Filesystems (by Luis on 2006-05-01 17:56:33 GMT from Madrid, Spain)
I've been searching for benchmarks done in modern hardware that would confirm my own about JFS and XFS not being real options. Maybe they do work ok in old hardware (as those published benchmarks show), but in modern hardware they don't !
http://www.bullopensource.org/ext4/sqlbench/index.html
I hope this helps those wanting to give XFS a try.
22 • Linspire = Freespire (by Andy on 2006-05-01 18:18:08 GMT from Stevenage, United Kingdom)
Umm - Not too sure about this one. I just hope Mr.Carmony’s not trying to smoke screen everyone for his (Linspires) own financial gains. He can't blame the Linux community for being sceptical about Linspire’s motives.
From what I've read at Freespire it’s still unclear as to if these extra proprietary components will be free or not. What do they mean as an 'Option'? At Freespire it says that CNR will still cost $20 to receive non-free software, does this also mean the ‘Optional’ extra proprietary software that Carmony’s promoting Freespire with? If so then Freespire is no more than a free downloadable version of Linspire, with CNR disabled until you've paid your $20.00 to get access to the stuff we all want. Mind you I think this is something Linspire should have done a long time ago, why charge for the base operating system when you can make more money with CNR?
I guess only time will tell how this one plays out.
23 • Freespire (by Egon Spengler on 2006-05-01 20:29:55 GMT from , United States)
From comments and marketing-speak, it looks like you get two choices for download, one with nothing proprietary, one with the fairly cheap stuff thrown in (mp3 and the like), and then if you want to play DVDs, pony up the bucks to get it from CNR.
24 • Freespire (by Andy on 2006-05-01 21:30:24 GMT from Stevenage, United Kingdom)
I think your right Egon. Seems like theirs going to be a 3 way split. Firstly a pure GNU version, secondly a version like Suse Eval with a few commercial plugins, then thirdly the option to pay for a full CNR subscription to get things like DVD etc...
Personally I don't think the third option has any place in Freespire. Once CNR is installed Freespire will essentially become a full commercial paid for version of Linspire. I might be being cynical but maybe that's what Carmony’s counting on!
25 • XFS, /boot, and grub (by somethingdignified on 2006-05-01 23:29:26 GMT from Akron, United States)
1: /boot really should be its own partition, for security and for convenience in booting multiple distros.
2: ext2 is the only sensible file system to use on /boot. You only read it once per boot anyway, so who cares about speed?
3. The XFS grub issue is now moot.
26 • Freespire/Linspire - re: comment by Egon Spengler (by Glenn Ewald on 2006-05-01 23:54:30 GMT from Gainesville, United States)
I agree 100%. I've never tried Linspire for that very reason. It reminds me too much of the old shareware/crippleware concepts. I may be in a minority, but I'd just as soon pay for software upfront. I'm pretty much sold on SUSE, and I buy the boxed set. It's a fairly hefty one time cost, but I know exactly what I'm getting for my money; and don't have to worry about getting nickeled or euro'd or 20-dollar'd to death afterwards in order to have a satisfactory system.
Just my 2 cents worth....
27 • WhiteBox has to rename FireFox because of legal issue? (by Nemo on 2006-05-02 00:41:13 GMT from Chicago, United States)
I just read about the release that they have to rename Firefox because of legal issue. I don't see other distro renaming theirs unless of course they have a license. But I thought it's free.?? Does anyone has more of this issue?
28 • STEPMANIA (by Rigodor on 2006-05-02 01:01:49 GMT from Philippine, Philippines)
hey... how about stepmania receiving next month's donation?
29 • packages (by JAG on 2006-05-02 01:35:39 GMT from Linden, United States)
Hey Ladislav...,
May I suggest another package for tracking...
How about 'Dovecot'...?
30 • Whitebox/Firefox (by Geo on 2006-05-02 02:17:08 GMT from , United States)
IIRC, non-official builds of FF are not allowed to use the Firefox trademark or artwork. Since WB is built entirely from RHEL sources, it would by necessity not be an official build.
31 • Will there be a Lite Freespire for older systems? (by ChiJoan on 2006-05-02 04:21:16 GMT from Reno, United States)
In the past, I tested Lindows/Linspire, but on my older systems it was not a good idea. So I had to look to other distros for friends with older systems with less RAM and older VGA cards.
I know I can't be the only person suffering at work on a Pentium CPUs at less than 200 mhz with WinNT. They keep saying I'll get a newer system, but I'm not holding my breath. Their reason...as a tech company they can't get rid of all these at the same time.
Smile, Linspire they shelf you next to Xandros and Corel's Word Perfect Office =)
Thanks, another great read for our Monday.
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33 • Filesystems (by Robzilla on 2006-05-02 05:38:06 GMT from Laguna Woods, United States)
RE:#6
I have to disagree with your conclusions. My experience using all of the linux filesystems, ext2,ext3,xfs,jfs,reiser fs,reiser4, on the same distro. I found that in reliability JFS and ext 3 were the best. In terms of speed and performance JFS and XFS were the best. The most unstable system I used was reiser. It was absolutely unstable. Reiser 4 was not much better. ext 2 was stable but performance was lagging and hope you don't have to force shut down. So if I was going to recommend a filesystem based on my experience it would be JFS. I think that there are many factors and the best thing to do is to try. If you have a choice try them all and see what works best for you and your machine and distro.
That is what makes Linux great, Choice!!
R
34 • Freespire (by Robzilla on 2006-05-02 05:43:55 GMT from Laguna Woods, United States)
Whether it is free or not Linspire needs to make a better distro. Work on performance and not charging for software!!
If I want to pay for a distro around $89.99 I would rather just buy a macintel and use apple for $129 and then dual boot my choice of truly free Linux.
Who cares about Linspire/Freespire when there are great distro's like PCLinux OS and PCBSD!!!
R
35 • Donations (by Johannes EVa on 2006-05-02 10:11:58 GMT from Haltern, Germany)
I just want to say i find it great you make these donations to open source projects. I didn't know it. Go on!
(And next time, think maybe about donate to Lilypond, it's a great project :)
36 • Linspire/Freespire (by Anonymous on 2006-05-02 15:32:21 GMT from Rancho Palos Verdes, United States)
The same day as the Freespire announcement on DW, I got a 50% off coupon for a Linspire CNR only license (no support).
Coincidence? I agree too little too late. I would have stuck with it if they offered this to me when my registration ran out (about 2 years ago). Now I've upgraded the PC's and moved on to PCLinuxOS.
37 • issue counter is wrong (by Anonymous on 2006-05-02 18:49:32 GMT from Eschborn, Germany)
"Welcome to this year's 17th issue of DistroWatch Weekly"
I think we have the 18th issue this week.
38 • Linspire... I rebuke you. Return to the kingdom of darkness. (by Paul on 2006-05-02 23:55:44 GMT from Saint Louis, United States)
After all that glow and pomp, I thought, "Hey. Maybe I'm just not giving Kevin Carmony a chance. DW has talked me into trying crazier things." So, I popped for a copy of Linspire. It arrived today, and I installed it in Vmware Workstation.
Well, you didn't think I'd let it loose to run around the house and scare the dog, did you?
After the easy install in your choice of filesystems (as long as it's Reiser), I spent 5 minutes with it... about how long it took to boot; it seemed like 10 minutes, tho. As always the absolute first thing I did was try to update the distro. Then, personal information ensued, registration, nag, nag, nag, buy more stuff... then my mouse did the Vmware-VM-"Delete from disk" salute. I love Vmware. I love saluting even more.
Yeah, I'd say this is a good distro for Windows Developers. Yeah, I'd say Kevin isn't interested in the Linux developer audience at all. I just filed it in the same pile with "the Xandros experiment".
39 • DSL-N (by Anonymous Penguin on 2006-05-03 05:02:52 GMT from Milan, Italy)
I have noticed with joy that the DSL developer have finally given up their most sacred dogma: pass the 50 MB limit.
This finally introduces a 2.6 kernel.
I hope DSL-N is going to be more Debian compatible from now on, that is, a dist-upgrade is not going to break everything as it used to be.
I also hope they introduce reiserfs support.
With other words, I hope DSL-N is going to be a full citizen of the 21st century :)
40 • Mandriva and Page Hit Ranking (by Anonymous Penguin on 2006-05-03 05:33:04 GMT from Milan, Italy)
Well, we have said several times that H.P.D. is not a true meter of a distro popularity. And yet...
I predicted some time ago that Mandriva would become fourth here at Distrowatch and stay there. Well, I was wrong. Put the data span over the last 30 days and you'll notice that it has been overtaken by Mepis and PCLinuxOS. It might even be overtaken by Debian and DSL.
So what went wrong?
Here are my suggestions:
1)Releasing once a year. Mandriva 2006 feels already old. But wait until September and it will feel like a dinosaur. And contrary to SUSE, you don't find many serious updates, like KDE 3.5, Firefox 1.5...
2)The widely spread opinion that members get nothing for their money. If you don't believe me just visit the Mandriva Club forums.
And besides, where is the innovation? Mandrake changed a lot between 8.2 and 9.1. But if I compare 9.1 to 2006 I don't see all that difference, except of course for more recent packages.
So I don't know what business model the Mandriva management has in mind, but from what one can see it doesn't look like a very successful one.
41 • MCN wallpaper (by Misty on 2006-05-03 23:26:33 GMT from Elizabethtown, United States)
Anyone got a link to that wallpaper? I think it's beautiful, but, alas, I don't have the time to browse through kde-look.org anymore.
42 • Will the BSDs produce a liveCD ala SLAX? (by Antonio on 2006-05-04 03:08:52 GMT from Corpus Christi, United States)
Dear BSD developers,
I wonder when someone will produce a liveCD ala SLAX. That is with Copy2Ram, small fast and modular. FreeSBIE produces an ok CD, but went with XFCE, FreeSBIE-1.0 had KDE, KDE is nicer even though a bit heavier, FreeBSD has unionfs already, why not use squashfs and come up with BSD-Live scripts like Tomas's Linux-live scripts. Make a smaller KDE and put it under 256 MBs just like SLAX. This way BSDs will be tried more and more without installing. I hear lots of good things about PCBSD and DesktopBSD, which can be installed, but do not leave the LiveBSD's out. I have taken a look also at OliveBSD but it is using other WM other than familiar KDE/Gnome. Also FreeSBIE has torrents on developing versions, is there a direct iso link somewhere. Not everyone can go with torrents. Please consider the proposal of making a live BSD cd with the idea of SLAX. SLAX is an excellent live CD that small, fast and works beautifully. It has KDE installed, and fits in 184MB why can't BSD Live CD's achieve such a remarkable target. Take a look at linux-live scripts and adapt/convert them to BSD. I know there will be differences kernel, sound drivers, there are no alsa, instead of modprobe driver, use kload driver or something like that. But why not, If it can be done why not?
Thanks for reading
43 • Thank you (by tom on 2006-05-04 13:11:55 GMT from Helena, United States)
Thank you to Apress, Distrowatch, and Keir Thomas.
I just received my copy of Beginning Ubuntu Linux. Autographed by Keir Thomas!! Wow, nice touch.
I have looked through the text and it is wonderful, even includes an Ubuntu CD. I would recommend this book to to most Ubuntu users. It introduces the basics, but then goes a little beyond and is a great resource for more intermediate tasks. This text just cut my Google time in half!
My primary focus has always been newbies. I teach others Linux so they can install, run, and migrate to Linux. Very rewarding work in itself as I learn a great deal answering (at times researching) their questions. Beginning Linux clearly answers a number of common newbie questions and will reduce my research time. I would not want to give the impression that this book is only for newbies and find coverage of intermediate topics such as security, CLI, and sys admin are covered better then most “beginning” books.
This text will obviously be a great tool/vehicle to teach others Linux. Thank you from Helena Montana !!
PS I'm a recovering Windows'aholic. Now 2 weeks without booting windows. Cravings for windows are decreasing......
Although I am no sys admin or programmer, I am contributing, in my own way, back to the open source community and have been working with wine and the Ubuntu community with voice recognition. Linux developers have at least been open to feedback from users, some have even been helpful. It has been a wonderful to work with and contribute, albeit small contributions, to the open source effort. Never had the opportunity to communicate with developers in other software communities and never felt I could contribute.
44 • neurotically based ubuntu bashing (by john on 2006-05-04 13:12:30 GMT from Boston, United States)
sphinx claims ubuntu is at fault for the xfs-grub issue but several distros and the grub webpage itself actually states that xfs is unsupported.
A lot of the linux aristocrats want to tell us how horrible it is that ubuntu exsists. I presume it really bothers them that the average person can use linux too. I don't know about the cliam of animal excrement but the FUD is in their minds.
45 • Tom in Helena 43 (by AC on 2006-05-04 21:29:51 GMT from , United States)
Sounds wonderful!
46 • 44 neurosis (by AC on 2006-05-05 00:29:40 GMT from , United States)
Thank you, Dr. Freud.
While I agree that the criticism regarding the grub/xfs issue is ill-informed and misplaced, I do take issue with your assessment of Ubuntu critics generally.
First, "average people" can use Debian - or Slackware or even Gentoo. It just takes a bit of patience. In the case of Debian, sarge is really not much more difficult. In some ways easier, since sources for non-free software aren't changing with each release. And there are many distros people apparently find easier to use than Ubuntu that don't draw the same flack.
I believe there is a general suspicion of hype and I don't think anyone can deny that Ubuntu does get hyped. For me, there's also the issue of talking peace, love, brotherhood, and commitment to Free Software, while trying to get developers locked into the proprietary Launchpad as a development platform. And suspicions of Ubuntu drawing developers away from Debian, the base on which they're built. Whether they give back more than they take is hard to say, but the concern is understandable.
I see nothing "neurotic" in these concerns. Or "aristocratic".
47 • A bit of patience (by John AKA Dr Freud on 2006-05-05 18:52:16 GMT from Albany, United States)
At the risk of being labeled I've decided to contiune the discussion.
Several years ago I took a kayaking course in Maine. The instructor was a very personable and experiance teacher and guide. We had a few mintues before the group got together and this instructor offered me what I took as his wisdom. he said "if it takes more than 15 minutes to learn (reflecting on the mindset he saw most often) then I don't want to learn it". Almost 10 years has past since that exchange and I don't think that the culture(s) I see have become more patient. This isn't a condemnation just an observation. People are busy and ubuntu does make it easier and faster to just use linux for what you need to do. I have about six years experiance with linux, having used windows at work-because I had to, and mac OS 7 thru 10 at home. I installed debian when it was considered pretty hard to install, and also with the new installer more recently(there's no comparision really becasue debian's recent installer can't configure network or even identify the graphics card while ubuntu can). I also have slackware 10.2 installed. I have installed over two dozen linux distros. Recently I've come to the conclusion that for saving time and reducing aggravation ubuntu is one of the best distros I could use. I also spend time answering questions at various forums. I know how much people like to diss ubuntu.
I guess it's seen as an idiots linux. I think I understand the concerns about taking debian developers away but then again I don't see that criticism leveled at a commercial debian based distro like xandros. Anyway I'm semi-retired so I may have more time to figure out problems than other people do. It all depends on how you decide to use your time.
48 • 47 (by AC on 2006-05-05 19:29:30 GMT from , United States)
First, I'm glad you've found a GNU/Linux distribution that fits your needs (and your hardware).
The distinction between Xandros and Ubuntu is that, while Xandros uses Debian packages, Ubuntu (or rather Canonical) has put a lot of money into hiring many Debian developers to work on their project, developers who now (arguably) spend a lot less of their time on Debian itself. And unlike Xandros, Ubuntu has forked the entire codebase, breaking compatibility at many turns. Under Xandros hasn't tried to wrap itself in the rhetoric of software freedom and community as it pursues its own corporate agenda.
I'm not particularly a fan of Xandros, just trying to explain the difference in attitude. Of course the biggest difference: Xandros isn't number one on Distrowatch or regularly in the news, so you hear less comment about it either way.
49 • Too many distros to keep track of! (by Steve on 2006-05-06 01:03:24 GMT from Meridian, United States)
There are so many distributions that I will never have time to check them all out. It would be nice if DW could somehow categorize the distributions. There seem to be several different types. There are firewall distributions, desktop, live CD, Debian derivitives, Fedora derivitives, BSD things, servers, rescue CD's, etc. If all of the entries were aranged by type then people could browse through what interests them. Just a thought.
50 • 49 • Too many distros to keep track of! (by ladislav on 2006-05-06 01:08:38 GMT from Taipei, Taiwan)
Please visit the search page at http://distrowatch.com/search. There you can filter distributions based on various criteria. Have fun!
51 • XFS file system (by Jack Wind on 2006-05-06 08:45:22 GMT from Fern Tree Gully, Australia)
I have been using the XFS file system for ages. I dont have a problem installing grub ???
People might need to study linux a bit more, and for that matter, partitions in general.
You gave the answer in the following paragraphs Robert!
52 • 52 (by AC on 2006-05-06 09:17:18 GMT from , United States)
I believe the confusion is this: grub works just fine booting an XFS partition, if grub is installed on the MBR. But if grub is in the boot sector of an XFS partition, there's a problem. I'm not certain what the specific situation with Ubuntu is.
53 • GRUB in MBR and XFS (by Winfied on 2006-05-07 05:28:27 GMT from Grnwald, Germany)
This is absolutely correct. To proof just set up two machines: One machine with three partitions. XFS, XFS, EXT3, another machine with XFS,EXT3,EXT3. Then install GRUB in MBR of XFS and on the other machine in /boot of XFS. Then see what is going to happen.
54 • 53 (by Anonymous on 2006-05-07 05:32:32 GMT from , United States)
An even easier test, using a single machine, install grub both in the MBR and in the boot sector of the / partition and have / formatted XFS. Set up grub on the MBR with two entried. One to boot the partition directly and the other to chainload, booting from the grub installed to the boot sector of the XFS partition.
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| • Issue 1178 (2026-06-22): TBLock reviewed, the AUR compromised, Fedora's growing community, reasons to avoid immutable desktop distributions, Ubuntu to get speech-to-text, Canonical updates its beta policy, highlights in Plasma 6.7 |
| • Issue 1177 (2026-06-15): TROMjaro 2026.05.08, Ubuntu MATE updates, Asahi fixes dual-boot issue with macOS 27, AUR infected with malware, setting variables across shells |
| • Issue 1176 (2026-06-08): Redcore Linux 2601, the problem with minimal system requirements, Red Hat account linked to compromised npm repositories, COSMIC to get frosted glass effect, openSUSE shows off system extension manager, Origami merges with RakuOS |
| • Issue 1175 (2026-06-01): PineTab2 with various distros, less common words of wisdom, Canonical shutting down Ubuntu's Pastebin, Murena nears 100k users, DistroWatch turns 25 |
| • Issue 1174 (2026-05-25): Solus 4.9, Linux tablets, Haiku boots on Apple M1 machines, Fedora drops Deepin packages, Mint improves Nemo performance |
| • Issue 1173 (2026-05-18): Sylve on FreeBSD, the benefit of BleachBit, Debian commits to reproducible builds, Debian publishes updated install media, Haiku introduces SMP support on ARM64 processors, Rocky Linux creates opt-in security repository, Fedora reconsiders AI tools, KDE receives generous donation |
| • Issue 1172 (2026-05-11): Fedora 44, dealing with extra fonts, Fedora plans to provide AI tools, problems with Ubuntu's new coreutils, TrueNAS extends its development cycle, postmarktetOS improves the boot splash screen, Redox ports tmux |
| • Issue 1171 (2026-05-04): Xubuntu 26.04, extending memory with VRAM, Ubuntu plans AI features, Devuan developer forks GTK2, Mint introduces hardware enablement builds, Linux running on a PlayStation 5, local kernel exploit found in Linux |
| • Issue 1170 (2026-04-27): ENux 5.2.1, picking a second distro, AlmaLinux expands CPU support, FreeBSD publishes Status Report, Ubuntu MATE skips 26.04 release |
| • Issue 1169 (2026-04-20): Lakka 6.1, free software and source-based distributions, FreeBSD Foundation publishes compatible laptop list, Debian holds Project Leader election, Haiku progresses ARM64 port, Mint to extend development cycle, Linux 7.0 released |
| • Issue 1168 (2026-04-13): pearOS 2026.03, EndeavourOS 2026.03.06, which distros are adopting age verification, Arch adjusts its firewall packages, Linux dropping i486 support, Red Hat extends its release cycle, Debian's APT introduces rollbacks, Redox improves its scheduler |
| • Issue 1167 (2026-04-06): Origami Linux 2026.03, answering questions for Linux newcomers, Ubuntu MATE seeking new contributors, Ubuntu software centre is expanding Deb support, FreeBSD fixes forum exploit, openSUSE 15 Leap nears its end of life |
| • Issue 1166 (2026-03-30): NetBSD jails, publishing software for Linux, Ubuntu joins Rust Foundation, Canonical plans to trim GRUB features, Peppermint works on new utilities, PINE64 shows off open hardware capabilities |
| • Issue 1165 (2026-03-23): Argent Linux 1.5.3, disk space required by Linux, Manjaro team goes on strike, AlmaLinux improves NVIDIA driver support and builds RISC-V packages, systemd introduces age tracking |
| • Issue 1164 (2026-03-16): d77void, age verification laws and Linux, SUSE may be for sale, TrueNAS takes its build system private, Debian publishes updated Trixie media, MidnightBSD and System76 respond to age verification laws |
| • Issue 1163 (2026-03-09): KaOS 2026.02, TinyCore 17.0, NuTyX 26.02.2, Would one big collection of packages help?, Guix offers 64-bit Hurd options, Linux communities discuss age delcaration laws, Mint unveils new screensaver for Cinnamon, Redox ports new COSMIC features |
| • Issue 1162 (2026-03-02): AerynOS 2026.01, anti-virus and firewall tools, Manjaro fixes website certificate, Ubuntu splits firmware package, jails for NetBSD, extended support for some Linux kernel releases, Murena creating a map app |
| • Issue 1161 (2026-02-23): The Guix package manager, quick Q&As, Gentoo migrating its mirrors, Fedora considers more informative kernel panic screens, GhostBSD testing alternative X11 implementation, Asahi makes progress with Apple M3, NetBSD userland ported, FreeBSD improves web-based system management |
| • Issue 1160 (2026-02-16): Noid and AgarimOS, command line tips, KDE Linux introduces delta updates, Redox OS hits development milestone, Linux Mint develops a desktop-neutral account manager, sudo developer seeks sponsorship |
| • Issue 1159 (2026-02-09): Sharing files on a network, isolating processes on Linux, LFS to focus on systemd, openSUSE polishes atomic updates, NetBSD not likely to adopt Rust code, COSMIC roadmap |
| • Issue 1158 (2026-02-02): Manjaro 26.0, fastest filesystem, postmarketOS progress report, Xfce begins developing its own Wayland window manager, Bazzite founder interviewed |
| • Issue 1157 (2026-01-26): Setting up a home server, what happened to convergence, malicious software entering the Snap store, postmarketOS automates hardware tests, KDE's login manager works with systemd only |
| • Issue 1156 (2026-01-19): Chimera Linux's new installer, using the DistroWatch Torrent Corner, new package tools for Arch, Haiku improves EFI support, Redcore streamlines branches, Synex introduces install-time ZFS options |
| • Issue 1155 (2026-01-12): MenuetOS, CDE on Sparky, iDeal OS 2025.12.07, recommended flavour of BSD, Debian seeks new Data Protection Team, Ubuntu 25.04 nears its end of life, Google limits Android source code releases, Fedora plans to replace SDDM, Budgie migrates to Wayland |
| • Issue 1154 (2026-01-05): postmarketOS 25.06/25.12, switching to Linux and educational resources, FreeBSD improving laptop support, Unix v4 available for download, new X11 server in development, CachyOS team plans server edtion |
| • Issue 1153 (2025-12-22): Best projects of 2025, is software ever truly finished?, Firefox to adopt AI components, Asahi works on improving the install experience, Mageia presents plans for version 10 |
| • Issue 1152 (2025-12-15): OpenBSD 7.8, filtering websites, Jolla working on a Linux phone, Germany saves money with Linux, Ubuntu to package AMD tools, Fedora demonstrates AI troubleshooting, Haiku packages Go language |
| • Issue 1151 (2025-12-08): FreeBSD 15.0, fun command line tricks, Canonical presents plans for Ubutnu 26.04, SparkyLinux updates CDE packages, Redox OS gets modesetting driver |
| • Issue 1150 (2025-12-01): Gnoppix 25_10, exploring if distributions matter, openSUSE updates tumbleweed's boot loader, Fedora plans better handling of broken packages, Plasma to become Wayland-only, FreeBSD publishes status report |
| • Issue 1149 (2025-11-24): MX Linux 25, why are video drivers special, systemd experiments with musl, Debian Libre Live publishes new media, Xubuntu reviews website hack |
| • Issue 1148 (2025-11-17): Zorin OS 18, deleting a file with an unusual name, NetBSD experiments with sandboxing, postmarketOS unifies its documentation, OpenBSD refines upgrades, Canonical offers 15 years of support for Ubuntu |
| • Issue 1147 (2025-11-10): Fedora 43, the size and stability of the Linux kernel, Debian introducing Rust to APT, Redox ports web engine, Kubuntu website off-line, Mint creates new troubleshooting tools, FreeBSD improves reproducible builds, Flatpak development resumes |
| • Issue 1146 (2025-11-03): StartOS 0.4.0, testing piped commands, Ubuntu Unity seeks help, Canonical offers Ubuntu credentials, Red Hat partners with NVIDIA, SUSE to bundle AI agent with SLE 16 |
| • Issue 1145 (2025-10-27): Linux Mint 7 "LMDE", advice for new Linux users, AlmaLinux to offer Btrfs, KDE launches Plasma 6.5, Fedora accepts contributions written by AI, Ubuntu 25.10 fails to install automatic updates |
| • Issue 1144 (2025-10-20): Kubuntu 25.10, creating and restoring encrypted backups, Fedora team debates AI, FSF plans free software for phones, ReactOS addresses newer drivers, Xubuntu reacts to website attack |
| • Issue 1143 (2025-10-13): openSUSE 16.0 Leap, safest source for new applications, Redox introduces performance improvements, TrueNAS Connect available for testing, Flatpaks do not work on Ubuntu 25.10, Kamarada plans to switch its base, Solus enters new epoch, Frugalware discontinued |
| • Issue 1142 (2025-10-06): Linux Kamarada 15.6, managing ZIP files with SQLite, F-Droid warns of impact of Android lockdown, Alpine moves ahead with merged /usr, Cinnamon gets a redesigned application menu |
| • Issue 1141 (2025-09-29): KDE Linux and GNOME OS, finding mobile flavours of Linux, Murena to offer phones with kill switches, Redox OS running on a smartphone, Artix drops GNOME |
| • Issue 1140 (2025-09-22): NetBSD 10.1, avoiding AI services, AlmaLinux enables CRB repository, Haiku improves disk access performance, Mageia addresses service outage, GNOME 49 released, Linux introduces multikernel support |
| • Issue 1139 (2025-09-15): EasyOS 7.0, Linux and central authority, FreeBSD running Plasma 6 on Wayland, GNOME restores X11 support temporarily, openSUSE dropping BCacheFS in new kernels |
| • Issue 1138 (2025-09-08): Shebang 25.8, LibreELEC 12.2.0, Debian GNU/Hurd 2025, the importance of software updates, AerynOS introduces package sets, postmarketOS encourages patching upstream, openSUSE extends Leap support, Debian refreshes Trixie media |
| • Issue 1137 (2025-09-01): Tribblix 0m37, malware scanners flagging Linux ISO files, KDE introduces first-run setup wizard, CalyxOS plans update prior to infrastructure overhaul, FreeBSD publishes status report |
| • Issue 1136 (2025-08-25): CalyxOS 6.8.20, distros for running containers, Arch Linux website under attack,illumos Cafe launched, CachyOS creates web dashboard for repositories |
| • Issue 1135 (2025-08-18): Debian 13, Proton, WINE, Wayland, and Wayback, Debian GNU/Hurd 2025, KDE gets advanced Liquid Glass, Haiku improves authentication tools |
| • Issue 1134 (2025-08-11): Rhino Linux 2025.3, thoughts on malware in the AUR, Fedora brings hammered websites back on-line, NetBSD reveals features for version 11, Ubuntu swaps some command line tools for 25.10, AlmaLinux improves NVIDIA support |
| • Issue 1133 (2025-08-04): Expirion Linux 6.0, running Plasma on Linux Mint, finding distros which support X11, Debian addresses 22 year old bug, FreeBSD discusses potential issues with pkgbase, CDE ported to OpenBSD, Btrfs corruption bug hitting Fedora users, more malware found in Arch User Repository |
| • Issue 1132 (2025-07-28): deepin 25, wars in the open source community, proposal to have Fedora enable Flathub repository, FreeBSD plans desktop install option, Wayback gets its first release |
| • Issue 1131 (2025-07-21): HeliumOS 10.0, settling on one distro, Mint plans new releases, Arch discovers malware in AUR, Plasma Bigscreen returns, Clear Linux discontinued |
| • Issue 1130 (2025-07-14): openSUSE MicroOS and RefreshOS, sharing aliases between computers, Bazzite makes Bazaar its default Flatpak store, Alpine plans Wayback release, Wayland and X11 benchmarked, Red Hat offers additional developer licenses, openSUSE seeks feedback from ARM users, Ubuntu 24.10 reaches the end of its life |
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