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| DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 274, 13 October 2008 |
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Welcome to this year's 41st issue of DistroWatch Weekly! Mandriva Linux, traditionally the first among the major distribution releases, boldly unveiled its latest product late last week. Shipping with KDE 4.1.2, an updated system installer, and a variety of usability enhancements, version 2009 should have been the company's best release ever. It was somewhat spoilt by a long list of known bugs that weren't fixed in time for the release - hopefully these will be corrected through post-install package updates soon, but there are those who'd argue for a postponement of a release in such situations. No similar dilemma is ever likely to face the Debian development team. If it isn't ready, it won't be released - that's the message given to the user community which has been hoping for a timely arrival of "Lenny". And while most other distributions have been quietly fixing the bugs in their own development trees, DistroWatch has compiled another package management cheatsheet - now incorporating two distro-agnostic tools, as well as source-based distributions. Happy reading!
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| Feature Story |
Linux package management cheatsheet, part 3
Today DistroWatch presents the third episode of its package management cheatsheet designed for those who enjoy testing different distributions. Originally envisaged as a simple table listing a few popular package management utilities and a handful of common tasks, the table has been expanding as many readers suggested new additions and package management tools. This is the most complete version so far, although it's still doubtful whether it will satisfy every distro hopper out there.
The first table lists package management tasks in the four most popular distribution groups - Debian (including Ubuntu, Linux Mint, KNOPPIX, sidux and other Debian derivatives), openSUSE, Fedora (including Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, Scientific Linux and other Fedora-based distributions), and Mandriva Linux.
| Task |
apt (deb)
Debian, Ubuntu |
zypp (rpm)
openSUSE |
yum (rpm)
Fedora, CentOS |
urpmi (rpm)
Mandriva |
| Managing software |
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| Install new software from package repository |
apt-get install pkg |
zypper install pkg |
yum install pkg |
urpmi pkg |
| Install new software from package file |
dpkg -i pkg |
zypper install pkg |
yum localinstall pkg |
urpmi pkg |
| Update existing software |
apt-get install pkg |
zypper update -t package pkg |
yum update pkg |
urpmi pkg |
| Remove unwanted software |
apt-get remove pkg |
zypper remove pkg |
yum erase pkg |
urpme pkg |
| Updating the system |
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| Update package list |
apt-get update |
zypper refresh |
yum check-update |
urpmi.update -a |
| Update system |
apt-get upgrade |
zypper update |
yum update |
urpmi --auto-select |
| Searching for packages |
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| Search by package name |
apt-cache search pkg |
zypper search pkg |
yum list pkg |
urpmq pkg |
| Search by pattern |
apt-cache search pattern |
zypper search -t pattern pattern |
yum search pattern |
urpmq --fuzzy pkg |
| Search by file name |
apt-file search path |
zypper wp file |
yum provides file |
urpmf file |
| List installed packages |
dpkg -l |
zypper search -is |
rpm -qa |
rpm -qa |
| Configuring access to software repositories |
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| List repositories |
cat /etc/apt/sources.list |
zypper repos |
yum repolist |
urpmq --list-media |
| Add repository |
(edit /etc/apt/sources.list) |
zypper addrepo path name |
(add repo to /etc/yum.repos.d/) |
urpmi.addmedia name path |
| Remove repository |
(edit /etc/apt/sources.list) |
zypper removerepo name |
(remove repo from /etc/yum.repos.d/) |
urpmi.removemedia media |
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The second table lists package management utilities found in Slackware Linux and other Slackware-based distributions. As stated by Patrick Volkerding on several occasions, Slackware is unlikely to ever have any advanced (i.e. dependency-resolving) package management tool, so all installation, upgrade and removal tasks continue to be performed with pkgtools, a set of very simple scripts that haven't changed much in years. Nevertheless, Slackware's unsupported extra repository (available also on the installation DVD) does include slackpkg, a third-party package management tool that can be used for a more automated way of installing software on Slackware Linux. It's worth noting that some popular Slackware derivatives, such as VectorLinux, have standardised on slapt-get, another third-party utility imitating the behaviour of Debian's APT.
| Task |
pkgtools
Slackware |
slackpkg
Slackware |
slapt-get
Vector |
| Managing software |
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| Install new software from package repository |
-- |
slackpkg install pkg |
slapt-get --install pkg |
| Install new software from package file |
installpkg pkg |
slackpkg install pkg |
slapt-get --install pkg |
| Update existing software |
upgradepkg pkg |
slackpkg install pkg |
slapt-get --install pkg |
| Remove unwanted software |
removepkg pkg |
slackpkg remove pkg |
slapt-get --remove pkg |
| Updating the system |
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| Update package list |
-- |
slackpkg update |
slapt-get --update |
| Update system |
-- |
slackpkg upgrade-all |
slapt-get --upgrade |
| Searching for packages |
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| Search by package name |
-- |
slackpkg search pkg |
slapt-get --search pkg |
| Search by pattern |
-- |
slackpkg search pattern |
slapt-get --search pattern |
| Search by file name |
-- |
-- |
-- |
| List installed packages |
ls /var/log/packages/ |
ls /var/log/packages/ |
slapt-get --installed |
| Configuring access to software repositories |
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| List repositories |
-- |
cat /etc/slackpkg/mirrors |
cat /etc/slapt-get/slapt-getrc |
| Add repository |
-- |
(edit /etc/slackpkg/mirrors) |
(edit /etc/slapt-get/slapt-getrc) |
| Remove repository |
-- |
(edit /etc/slackpkg/mirrors) |
(edit /etc/slapt-get/slapt-getrc) |
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In the next group we have a few (mostly) independent distributions that have been gaining popularity in recent years. Sabayon Linux, although derived from Gentoo, has introduced its own command-line package management utility called equo. Arch Linux's Pacman has been around for a long time and it's often considered one of the fastest package management utilities around. Conary, developed by rPath and popularised by Foresight Linux, is a completely new approach to package management, created by well-known ex-Red Hat engineers with many years of package management experience. In contrast, PiSi by Pardus Linux is a relatively new utility, but the distribution itself has been growing fast in the last couple of years.
| Task |
equo
Sabayon |
pacman
Arch |
conary
rPath, Foresight |
pisi
Pardus |
| Managing software |
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| Install new software from package repository |
equo install pkg |
pacman -S pkg |
conary update pkg |
pisi install pkg |
| Install new software from package file |
equo install pkg |
pacman -U pkg |
conary update pkg |
pisi install pkg |
| Update existing software |
equo install pkg |
pacman -S pkg |
conary update pkg |
pisi install pkg |
| Remove unwanted software |
equo remove pkg |
pacman -R pkg |
conary erase pkg |
pisi remove pkg |
| Updating the system |
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| Update package list |
equo update |
pacman -Sy |
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pisi update-repo |
| Update system |
equo world |
pacman -Su |
conary updateall |
pisi upgrade |
| Searching for packages |
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| Search by package name |
equo match pkg |
pacman -Ss pkg |
conary query pkg |
pisi search pkg |
| Search by pattern |
equo search pattern |
pacman -Ss pattern |
conary query pkg |
pisi search pkg |
| Search by file name |
equo belongs file |
pacman -Qo file |
conary query --path path |
pisi search-file path |
| List installed packages |
equo list |
pacman -Q |
conary query |
pisi list-installed |
| Configuring access to software repositories |
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| List repositories |
equo repoinfo |
cat /etc/pacman.conf |
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pisi list-repo |
| Add repository |
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(edit /etc/pacman.conf) |
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pisi add-repo name path |
| Remove repository |
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(edit /etc/pacman.conf) |
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pisi remove-repo name |
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Besides standard package management utilities that most distributions use as part of their systems, there are also some distro-agnostic ones that have been deployed with various levels of success in certain distributions. Smart, originally developed by Conectiva, hasn't been in the news lately, but some users seem to prefer it over Mandriva's urpmi or openSUSE's zypper (it also supports Debian and Slackware-based systems). More recently it is Fedora's PackageKit that has been gaining momentum as a way to manage packages across distributions and architectures. Now included in many other distributions, PackageKit's pkgcon command-line utility is effectively a unified front-end to the native package management tools of Fedora, Ubuntu, openSUSE, Mandriva and other distributions.
| Task |
smart
Mandriva, openSUSE |
pkgcon
Fedora, Ubuntu, openSUSE, Mandriva |
| Managing software |
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| Install new software from package repository |
smart install pkg |
pkcon install pkg |
| Install new software from package file |
smart install pkg |
pkcon install-file pkg |
| Update existing software |
smart install pkg |
pkcon update pkg |
| Remove unwanted software |
smart remove pkg |
pkcon remove pkg |
| Updating the system |
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| Update package list |
smart update |
pkcon refresh |
| Update system |
smart upgrade |
pkcon upgrade |
| Searching for packages |
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| Search by package name |
smart search pkg |
pkcon search name pkg |
| Search by pattern |
smart search pattern |
pkcon search details pattern |
| Search by file name |
smart query file |
pkcon what-provides file |
| List installed packages |
smart query --installed |
-- |
| Configuring access to software repositories |
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| List repositories |
smart channel --show |
pkcon repo-list |
| Add repository |
smart channel --add name path |
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| Remove repository |
smart channel --remove name |
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Finally, a table for source-based distributions. Gentoo's Portage is well-documented and widely used, but other distributions that are designed to be built from scratch don't often feature in the Linux media, so their package management systems are not particularly well-known. Sorcerer, which existed even before Gentoo Linux was conceived, uses Bash scripts to "cast spells" or download, install and compile packages. Sorcerer was later forked into Lunar Linux and Source Mage GNU/Linux, both of which are included in the table below. Unfortunately, Sorcerer doesn't offer much in terms of online documentation so it has been omitted for now.
| Task |
portage
Gentoo |
lunar
Lunar |
sorcery
Source Mage |
| Managing software |
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| Install new software from package repository |
emerge pkg |
lin pkg |
cast pkg |
| Install new software from package file |
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| Update existing software |
emerge pkg |
lin pkg |
cast pkg |
| Remove unwanted software |
emerge -aC pkg |
lrm pkg |
dispel pkg |
| Updating the system |
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| Update package list |
emerge --sync |
lin moonbase |
scribe update |
| Update system |
emerge -NuDa world |
lunar update |
sorcery upgrade |
| Searching for packages |
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| Search by package name |
emerge --search pkg |
lvu search pkg |
gaze search -name pkg |
| Search by pattern |
emerge --search pattern |
lvu search pattern |
gaze search pattern |
| Search by file name |
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gaze from file |
| List installed packages |
qlist -I |
lvu installed |
gaze installed |
| Configuring access to software repositories |
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| List repositories |
layman -L |
-- |
scribe index |
| Add repository |
layman -a repo |
-- |
scribe add repo |
| Remove repository |
layman -d repo |
-- |
scribe remove repo |
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As always, we welcome your comments and corrections.
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| Miscellaneous News |
Mandriva's long errata list, Lenny release delays
 The first major distribution release of the season, Mandriva Linux 2009, is out. Apart from a couple of first-look reviews, we haven't seen any comprehensive product evaluations so far, but the initial reaction seems mixed. Although the release came out on time and included a plethora of interesting improvements, some readers have questioned the logic behind declaring a distribution stable while the list of known issues is as long as the one for Mandriva 2009. But as explained by Mandriva's community manager Adam Williamson, most of the issues can be fixed with post-release updates with the same effectiveness as holding back the release and fixing them in the ISO images. In any case, the deed is done, and Mandriva Linux 2009 is now available from dozens of FTP servers around the world. If you are among the more adventurous users and don't mind a bit of post-installation work, do take it for a spin, otherwise you might consider waiting for a couple of weeks until the most pressing issues are corrected.
Mandriva Linux 2009 "Free" edition comes as a classic installation DVD with a choice of desktop environments.
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 For a while it looked as if "Lenny", the upcoming release of Debian GNU/Linux, might arrive as originally planned - in September 2008. But as the month "M" past by without any update from the release team, it has become clear that the project's much awaited version 5.0 has not achieved the required levels of stability and reduction in the number of bugs to be released to the general public. However, for those readers who are new to Linux, it's worth reminding that Debian does not have a fixed release schedule and all of its stable version have followed the "released when ready" policy. Of course, the next question is: when will it be ready? Unfortunately, the answer is unlikely to please those who expect a timely release as the removal of the remaining release-critical bugs might still take months rather than weeks - according to some estimates. So is there any way to speed up the release? Yes, says Alexander Reichle-Schmehl. Anybody, even those without any programming skills, can help with making the release possible.
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| Released Last Week |
Puppy Linux 4.1
Barry Kauler has announced the release of Puppy Linux 4.1: "Version 4.1 continues the hectic pace of development, with ground-breaking new applications and under-the-hood architectural improvements over 4.00. Ground-breaking applications include our new Psip VOIP and PPLOG personal blog. Under-the-hood includes faster boot times, much better hardware detection, and new 'pup_event' architecture (including desktop drive icons). Here is a summary of milestones: 2.6.25.16, 2.6.21.7 kernels; more drivers; SCSI kernels; LZMA-enabled kernel; improved PCMCIA support; hardware detection; new pup_event system; faster boot; Psip VoIP; PPLOG blog; Pmusic audio player; Ayttm chat client; virus checker; network wizard; huge number of updated applications...." Read the comprehensive release notes for further details.
Puppy Linux 4.1 - introducing a variety of new lightweight applications
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Bluewhite64 Linux 12.1R1 "LiveDVD"
Attila Crăciun has announced the release of Bluewhite64 Linux 12.1R1 "LiveDVD", a Slackware-based live DVD for 64-bit processors: "New revised version of Bluewhite64 Linux 12.1R1 'KDE3 LiveDVD' is available. Also, we are introducing a Bluewhite64 Linux 12.1R1 'KDE4 LiveDVD'. The 'KDE3 LiveDVD' has received important security and stability updates. These updates include new versions of the KDE, X.Org, Pidgin, ALICE, OpenSSH and OpenSSL, Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird and SeaMonkey, BIND, Amarok and many more. New feature, BW64installer, which is a GUI installation program for installing Bluewhite64 Linux Live to a hard drive, has been added. Bluewhite64 Linux 12.1R1 'KDE4 LiveDVD' contains KDE 4.1.2 with dependencies and some extra KDE 4 packages created by the Bluewhite64 community." Here is the full release announcement.
ALT Linux 4.1 "Desktop"
Alexey Rusakov has announced the release of ALT Linux 4.1 "Desktop" edition, a general-purpose GNU/Linux distribution intended for use on desktops, laptops and netbooks: "We're happy to announce our new release, ALT Linux 4.1 'Desktop'. Changes since version 4.0: based on the new stable 4.1 repository branch; 2.6.25 kernel with better hardware support; KDE 3.5.10 (GNOME 2.22 and Xfce 4.4.2 can be installed from DVD); Firefox 3; NetworkManager allows managing any network interface without root privileges; a new look of the system management center; updated bootloader and display management modules; Kaffeine as the default player of audio and video files; updated and revised menu; new applications - QtEmu (QEMU with a GUI), VirtualBox." See the detailed release notes for further information.
ALT Linux 4.1 "Desktop" remains faithful to the stable and well-tested KDE 3.5.
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EnGarde Secure Linux 3.0.21
Guardian Digital has announced the release of EnGarde Secure Linux 3.0.21, a server distribution featuring a web-based system administration tool: "Guardian Digital is happy to announce the release of EnGarde Secure Community 3.0.21. This release includes many updated packages and bug fixes and some feature enhancements to Guardian Digital WebTool and the SELinux policy. New features include: a totally redesigned Health Center backend which should yield much more reliable and accurate results, you can help us improve this new backend by following the instructions below, immediately following this section; a new package, perl-Convert-ASN1 (0.22); the latest stable versions of MySQL (5.0.67), Asterisk (1.4.21.2), Dovecot (1.1.3), Linux kernel (2.6.26.5), OpenLDAP (2.4.11), OpenSSH (5.1p1), PostgreSQL (8.2.10), Samba (3.2.4)...." Read the rest of the release notes for more details.
Mandriva Linux 2009
Mandriva Linux 2009 has been released: "We have released Mandriva Linux 2009, the new release of our distribution. 2009 is a bold release which brings the new KDE 4.1 as the default desktop, along with a re-designed installer and Mandriva Control Center, and many other new features. Other significant updates include GNOME 2.24, OpenOffice.org 3, Mozilla Firefox 3, and kernel 2.6.27. Key features include new graphical in-line upgrade capability, netbook compatibility, class-leading hardware support, and support for working with mobile devices." Read the release announcement and release notes for more information, but also check out the errata page for a list of known issues and workarounds.
Momonga Linux 5
Masahiro Takahata has announced the release of Momonga Linux 5, a Japanese community distribution (with support for Japanese and English) loosely modelled on Fedora. Some of the main features and changes compared to the project's previous version include: reduced the size of the installation media to one DVD (additional packages can be installed via yum); Linux kernel 2.6.26 with extended hardware support, virtualisation and support for new file systems (btrfs and nilfs, reiser4fs); X.Org 7.4 and Mesa 7.1 with improved graphics card support and Compiz compatibility; replaced SysVInit with Canonical's Upstart for faster booting; switched to the GCC compiler 4.3 series; replaced Sun Java with OpenJDK 1.6; introduced support for virtualisation with OpenVZ and Xen. Read the release announcement and release notes (both links in Japanese) for a detailed introduction to the Momonga project's latest release.
Momonga Linux 5 - a new major release from the former developers of Kondara MNU/Linux
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CDlinux 0.6.2
Ben Zhao has announced the release of CDlinux 0.6.2, a minimalist live CD combining the Xfce desktop with a careful selection of lightweight applications: "We are pleased to announce the release of CDlinux 0.6.2. This release features great enhancements over version 0.6.1: smart handling codepage (FAT/NTFS) of hotplugable media; power management support (ACPI/CPUfreq); auto guessing current time zone; multimedia keyboard support; booting from Linux RAID and ATA RAID; improved support for newer hardware (video, WLAN, Linux UVC), and several new GUI configuration tools (more details in the changelog). This release ships with Linux kernel 2.6.26.6, X.Org 7.3, Xfce 4.4.2, and a bundle of carefully selected popular applications." Visit the project's news page to read the full release announcement.
Absolute Linux 12.1.08
Paul Sherman has announced the release of Absolute Linux 12.1.08, a lightweight modification of Slackware Linux with the IceWM window manager. What's new? "OpenOffice.org upgraded to version 3.0.0 on CD2, supports latest MS Office format; rebuilt AbiWord 2.6.4 against updated Enchant, libgnomeprint and libgnomecups, also includes support for MS Word and OpenOffice.org docs; HTMLpage, the Firefox 'View Source' viewer and editor has been updated to 2.0, now uses Python's urllib to grab online pages; finished testing with updated UTF-8 settings; updated XULRunner 1.9.0.3, updated and recompiled Firefox 3.0.3, compiled Thunderbird, which now replaces Sylpheed as the default mail program; Updated to Slackware 'current' with latest HAL, dbus, udev, glibc; updated GIMP to 2.6.0...." Find more details in the changelog.
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Development, unannounced and minor bug-fix releases
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New distributions added to database
- iMagic OS. iMagic OS is a commercial desktop Linux distribution based on Kubuntu. Its major features are ease of use, bleeding-edge desktop, easy installation, and compatibility with Microsoft software.
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And this concludes the latest issue of DistroWatch Weekly. The next instalment will be published on Monday, 20 October 2008. Until next week,
Ladislav Bodnar
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| • Issue 1009 (2023-03-06): Nemo Mobile and the PinePhone, matching the performance of one distro on another, Linux Mint adds performance boosts and security, custom Ubuntu and Debian builds through Cubic |
| • Issue 1008 (2023-02-27): elementary OS 7.0, the benefits of boot environments, Purism offers lapdock for Librem 5, Ubuntu community flavours directed to drop Flatpak support for Snap |
| • Issue 1007 (2023-02-20): helloSystem 0.8.0, underrated distributions, Solus team working to repair their website, SUSE testing Micro edition, Canonical publishes real-time edition of Ubuntu 22.04 |
| • Issue 1006 (2023-02-13): Playing music with UBports on a PinePhone, quick command line and shell scripting questions, Fedora expands third-party software support, Vanilla OS adds Nix package support |
| • Issue 1005 (2023-02-06): NuTyX 22.12.0 running CDE, user identification numbers, Pop!_OS shares COSMIC progress, Mint makes keyboard and mouse options more accessible |
| • Issue 1004 (2023-01-30): OpenMandriva ROME, checking the health of a disk, Debian adopting OpenSnitch, FreeBSD publishes status report |
| • Issue 1003 (2023-01-23): risiOS 37, mixing package types, Fedora seeks installer feedback, Sparky offers easier persistence with USB writer |
| • Issue 1002 (2023-01-16): Vanilla OS 22.10, Nobara Project 37, verifying torrent downloads, Haiku improvements, HAMMER2 being ports to NetBSD |
| • Issue 1001 (2023-01-09): Arch Linux, Ubuntu tests new system installer, porting KDE software to OpenBSD, verifying files copied properly |
| • Issue 1000 (2023-01-02): Our favourite projects of all time, Fedora trying out unified kernel images and trying to speed up shutdowns, Slackware tests new kernel, detecting what is taking up disk space |
| • Issue 999 (2022-12-19): Favourite distributions of 2022, Fedora plans Budgie spin, UBports releasing security patches for 16.04, Haiku working on new ports |
| • Issue 998 (2022-12-12): OpenBSD 7.2, Asahi Linux enages video hardware acceleration on Apple ARM computers, Manjaro drops proprietary codecs from Mesa package |
| • Issue 997 (2022-12-05): CachyOS 221023 and AgarimOS, working with filenames which contain special characters, elementary OS team fixes delta updates, new features coming to Xfce |
| • Issue 996 (2022-11-28): Void 20221001, remotely shutting down a machine, complex aliases, Fedora tests new web-based installer, Refox OS running on real hardware |
| • Issue 995 (2022-11-21): Fedora 37, swap files vs swap partitions, Unity running on Arch, UBports seeks testers, Murena adds support for more devices |
| • Issue 994 (2022-11-14): Redcore Linux 2201, changing the terminal font size, Fedora plans Phosh spin, openSUSE publishes on-line manual pages, disabling Snap auto-updates |
| • Issue 993 (2022-11-07): Static Linux, working with just a kernel, Mint streamlines Flatpak management, updates coming to elementary OS |
| • Issue 992 (2022-10-31): Lubuntu 22.10, setting permissions on home directories, Linux may drop i486, Fedora delays next version for OpenSSL bug |
| • Issue 991 (2022-10-24): XeroLinux 2022.09, learning who ran sudo, exploring firewall tools, Rolling Rhino Remix gets a fresh start, Fedora plans to revamp live media |
| • Issue 990 (2022-10-17): ravynOS 0.4.0, Lion Linux 3.0, accessing low numbered network ports, Pop!_OS makes progress on COSMIC, Murena launches new phone |
| • Issue 989 (2022-10-10): Ubuntu Unity, kernel bug causes issues with Intel cards, Canonical offers free Ubuntu Pro subscriptions, customizing the command line prompt |
| • Issue 988 (2022-10-03): SpiralLinux 11.220628, finding distros for older equipment and other purposes, SUSE begins releasing ALP prototypes, Debian votes on non-free firmware in installer |
| • Issue 987 (2022-09-26): openSUSE's MicroOS, converting people to using Linux, pfSense updates base system and PHP, Python 2 dropped from Arch |
| • Issue 986 (2022-09-19): Porteus 5.0, remotely wiping a hard drive, a new software centre for Ubuntu, Proxmox offers offline updates |
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