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1 • "systemctl will run without displaying any information" (by Oliver on 2014-01-13 08:26:30 GMT from Germany)
Isn't that the way any true Unix command line utility is supposed to work? Errors are reported to std error and silence means success?
There probably ought to be a verbose options too...
Best regards, Oliver
2 • sudo yast on openSUSE (by greenpossum on 2014-01-13 09:23:51 GMT from Australia)
>Running "yast" or "sudo yast" did not work.
sudo -i yast
3 • openSUSE as a server (by Pierre on 2014-01-13 10:04:58 GMT from Germany)
On administration webinterfaces: For some basic administration tasks there is a web interface for YaST available. So administration of openSUSE has a web interface option in the repos at least. But I have to mention that the last time I tried this web interface, it still lacked modules which are available from command line or gtk+ / qt graphical user interface. Some basic information can be found here: http://de.opensuse.org/Portal:WebYaST
Additionally you can always install tools like webmin, too. So on every Linux machine you can make a web administation available if needed.
On systemd/systemctl/journalctl: I think both ways, the tradition init systems and systemd have their very own advantages and disadvantages. I really like systemd for the so called everything-and-the-kitchen-sink approach. Feedback is given - at least the last times I needed to use systemctl. If something works there is a short info like 'service running', 'service started' etc. and more info is not needed in my eyes. If it's not working you are getting error messages. So what do one need more? It's ok for me.
4 • Live lessons evaluation criterium (by dbrion on 2014-01-13 10:14:43 GMT from France)
There is a livelessons evaluation criterium which is often overlooked : it is very nice to post videos with comments, but could someone who is deaf or does not hear spoken English (one can read a language and not understand it when it is spoken, even slowly and without slang) profit from it (maybe with the text being put under the video, or -incl.- added for google translation). Other criteria are : is it fully redundant with the text (ex in another domain: explaining how to solder electronic parts need video: a text is not sufficient; learning bash scripting/C/Python does not need video: a nicely laid out text -colors different for text, scripots and computer returns, say; a video would make people concentrating on moving fingers/characters/what people type on a screen and loose the essentials)
5 • There is also WebYaST in openSUSE... (by Xyz on 2014-01-13 10:24:58 GMT from Australia)
Furthermore, there is only 18 months OFFICIAL support for any current openSUSE release and "Evergreen" extended support is unofficial and limited in many aspects. I am using openSUSE 11.4 in the "Evergreen" mode of support, having also used openSUSE 11.1 and 11.2 with similar unofficial support, and thus I can speak from some personal experience about what "Evergreen" is and is not.
6 • gui available for systemd configuration? (by sendale on 2014-01-13 10:49:36 GMT from United States)
my question isn't specific to openSUSE. Somewhere (RPM package?) I ran across "systemd-ui" (i think that was the name). I'm wondering whether there's a standard gui app available, or whether it's up to each distro to create (or not) a dydtemd gui.
7 • GUI in server (by greg on 2014-01-13 10:51:49 GMT from Slovenia)
WebYaST, webmin etc. are all nice GUI, but the question here the review tried to answer is how good is certian system out of the box. linux being free and with so many packages available - each on can be modified to users liking. but the question is here how much work has been done for the user out of the box. dooes a comeplte beginner wanting to set up a home server need 30-60 minutes to set up a server or will it take them 3 hours + to hunt down all the stuff they need/want. i enjoy reading the comparisons of these OS. we can see how some have some difficulties setting up (extra reading required, bugs, stuff not working out of the box etc.), while others seem more fluent..
8 • Red Hat license (by Ariszló on 2014-01-13 13:12:23 GMT from Hungary)
How many machines are you allowed to install Red Hat Linux from a single installation medium?
Do you pay per machine, or per installation medium?
9 • RHEL License (by lock on 2014-01-13 13:37:43 GMT from United States)
From my understanding, it's per machine. The OS itself is actually free, you're just paying for the support of security patches and access to their repos, and it's a yearly fee. If you are planning on managing multiple servers, I recommend looking into RHEL satellite, or spacewalk. It makes it so much easier to push out configuration files, schedule updates, and even run scripts across a multitude of servers at one time.
10 • systemd (by schultzter on 2014-01-13 13:46:53 GMT from Canada)
"Using systemd felt like using a bulldozer to butter toast, slow and too much tool for the task at hand."
I switched to Arch because of systemd and it's so much better than init rc scripts!!! My computers boot so much faster, managing services is much easier (no more scripting, just a config file, a couple systemctl commands, and that's it), and monitoring and debugging is easier too because everything starts with systemctl and journalctl!
Yes, it took a while to stop thinking in terms of hacking an rc.script and a bit of reading to start thinking in systemd terms. But it was worth it!
11 • server reviews (by octathlon on 2014-01-13 17:33:22 GMT from United States)
Thanks for these reviews, Jesse.
openSUSE: If you want to install the minimal server, do you really have to download a 4.1 GB install image? If installing Samba resulted in extra work (and skill required) resolving package conflicts, why did it get a 5 for ease of installation?
Zentyal: sounds really good and easy for a home server. Does it also make it just as easy to add more drives to the LVM?
12 • RHEL Pricing (by Frank on 2014-01-13 17:48:37 GMT from United States)
@8:
The mainline RHEL server is priced per socket and 1 physical or 2 virtual nodes. So to answer your question, its priced per machine. They do have licenses for Desktops/Workstations, and purely Virtual Machines as well. At least their licensing scheme makes sense. I work in a Mixed Environment and the UNIX and Microsoft server licenses tend to not make a shedload of sense,
What you're paying for though is support through Red Hat and access to precompiled software as 9 said. You can get the uncompiled source for free without Red Hat Inc.'s branding, per the GPL, which is how CentOS and Oracle have basically the same underlying code as RHEL, but CentOS is priced for free, and Oracle charges.
13 • Support length of Zentyal (by Scott Dowdle on 2014-01-13 19:07:49 GMT from United States)
Just a little niggle about the length of support for Zentyal. I assume it is based on the most recent Ubuntu LTS release which is 12.04... which goes EOL on 17.04... which is a lot less than 5 years from date of review.
14 • RE: RHEL Pricing (by :wq on 2014-01-13 20:22:00 GMT from United States)
Red Hat does offer discounted self-support academic subscriptions (http://www.redhat.com/solutions/industry/education/subscription.html), but even then I think it would price out or otherwise disinterest most home users who qualify; admittedly this isn't really RHEL's target audience anyway.
Downloading Oracle Linux from oracle.com requires a registration, and Oracle charges for support, but access to binary updates is free (http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20120326#news). I wish this applied to Solaris instead, as Oracle Linux is not my first, second, or third (and then some) preferred RHEL derivative.
15 • distro support length (by Jordan on 2014-01-13 20:31:47 GMT from United States)
Well heck I wonder how many users of any OS keep the same machine for five years. Five years! I know that they are around... I mean, I have a few old ones here. But do users USE their old machines? As in work and take advantage of all that linux has to offer, etc, with a computer they've had for FIVE YEARS??
16 • @15 distro support length (by greenpossum on 2014-01-13 21:41:12 GMT from Australia)
For servers, compared to user desktops, if it works you leave it alone.
17 • distro support length (by Jordan on 2014-01-13 22:08:09 GMT from United States)
@greenpossum sure I agree. But I'm wondering how many leave the same distro on that machine. Some distros promise years of support. That implies that a user will install that distro and leave it on their hard drive (or flash drive) for 5 years?! Not even a rolling release would last that long on most single machines, I suspect.
Not sure, but I think most linux users probably have that one distro on for a lot shorter time than 5 years. The emphasis seems to be trying different distros all the time, as I read in here and elsewhere.
No way to gather data on that, I guess.
18 • Using old machines (by Georgios on 2014-01-13 22:14:09 GMT from Greece)
@15: Well, that's the purpose of using Linux! I actually use 3 old machines.
My office machine is 7 years old and has been running Debian testing and lately Debian stable (but it is still a powerful machine - Dell Precision 690).
My media center at home is 6 years old and I see no reason to replace it for the next 5-6 years (again, a pretty powerful computer - Fujitsu Siemens Scaleo E). Now it runs Openelec and XBMC, but for the first 5 years it run Debian with MythTV and later XBMC.
The laptop I use for lectures/presentations is 9 years old (!). It is a Compaq Presario nx9030 with 512MB RAM and runs Debian wheezy with xfce (just because the GPU is not capable of running GNOME3). It runs quite smoothly, and has been the reason that many of my students decided to try Linux.
Only my laptop at home is a 2 year old machine.
19 • @17 distro support length (by greenpossum on 2014-01-13 23:00:37 GMT from Australia)
Some distros are supported for > 5 years. E.g. RHEL5 came out 2007 and is supported in production until 2017. Remember that these are work servers, not machines subject to the whim of an individual user wanting to "try stuff". You have to stop thinking that these are personal machines. These servers may pass through the hands of several sysadmins during their lifetime. And these days they are usually hosted in VM environments, meaning RAID storage behind the scenes. No flimsy stuff like flash drives.
20 • @17 • distro support length (by Rev_Don on 2014-01-14 01:58:28 GMT from United States)
"But I'm wondering how many leave the same distro on that machine. Some distros promise years of support. That implies that a user will install that distro and leave it on their hard drive (or flash drive) for 5 years?! Not even a rolling release would last that long on most single machines, I suspect. "
First off it doesn't imply that at all. What it means is that one doesn't HAVE to replace it every few months. On servers it's quite common to simply update them from time to time and not actually upgrade them until something breaks or you have a real need to do so. For many servers that will be 5 to 10 years, possibly longer.
Even on home systems, there is a significant amount of the user base who only upgrade when there is a REAL need. As long as it works they just keep updating and running it like it is. Look at all of the people still running Windows XP on 2002 to 2004 Pentium 4's and are happy as pigs in slop doing so. All they want is a computer that allows them to do what they need to do. They could care less about the latest dodads, glitz, etc. They just want something that works and as much as Linux Fan Boys hate to admit it, XP just works. This people want to install an OS ONE TIME and use it until it either stops working, the hardware breaks, or they run into a need for an application that they can't run on it. They want to USE their computer to "get things done", not spend their time re-installing a new OS every few months, spend weeks configuring it, and the rest of the time just playing with it until the next "hot" distro comes along. That's why LTS distros are the ones that REAL COMPUTER USERS install and use. Let the "fan boys" putz around with the Beta releases (essentially anything that isn't a LTS release is nothing more than a glorified beta).
21 • @ 4 • Live lessons evaluation criterium (by gregzeng@gmail.com on 2014-01-14 03:07:46 GMT from Australia)
The original poster is noticing the outputs of computer coders (including Youtube publishers) who ignore aged, impaired or non-English-language users. This has fear of education and ergnomics has been noticed been observed in many disciplines, many languages and many publications for several decades now.
In Distrowatch observations, it has been noticed by the non-comment of invisible screens (white text on a near-white background, dark text on a dark background, etc). Youtube presenters seem proud of the lack of subtitles, lack of spoken keystrokes, and extremely rapid speech with complex words, unusual acronyms, etc.
Love it or not, Internet has allowed everyone to be an incompetent expert, with no regard to any publishing standards. Apologies to the non-English-language comments here. Your spelling & grammar shows who you are. Readers like myself judge less harshly than Internet's usual "instant experts".
22 • @17 (by Adam Williamson on 2014-01-14 03:16:07 GMT from Canada)
It happens, quite a lot. It's not that unusual for someone to pop up in #fedora or on the fedora forums, for instance, and say 'how can I update my Fedora Core 6 system?!' or something like that. I mean, I can see why you might not think so if you judge Linux users by DWW comments...but people really do leave even distros that aren't designed for long lifespans on systems for years and years, never mind the ones that *are*.
23 • @14 (by Adam Williamson on 2014-01-14 03:19:10 GMT from Canada)
We actually offer a self-supported 'developer' subscription - which anyone can buy - for $99:
https://www.redhat.com/apps/store/developers/
we probably don't promote it hard enough, though. Almost no-one seems to know about it. I didn't, until Thomas Cameron told me. If you just want/need to have access to the 'proper' RHEL distro and update servers, but don't want a support contract, that's your cheapest option.
24 • @15 (by Adam Williamson on 2014-01-14 03:21:08 GMT from Canada)
Oh, and BTW, my primary machine - the one I'm typing this on - is nearly five years old now, and the only upgrade I've given it over that time is an SSD. I don't feel any urge to replace it, either. Hardware is still getting faster every year, but the impact of that improvement on most typical use cases is drastically less than it used to be. I can't really feel any difference between the performance of my nearly-five-year-old CPU (an overclocked Q6600) and the latest Haswell stuff.
25 • Torrents, & faster distro downloads. (by gregzeng on 2014-01-14 03:41:50 GMT from Australia)
With Distrowatch's download url, the newest Netrunner distro was taking 4 hours to download into Australia right now (3.30am GMT).
Searching for faster downloads with qBittorrent found nothing. The distros home site gives a torrent download. Saving this into my torrent folder meant not just one slow Distrowatch url, but 4 - 16 other urls, SIMULTANEOUSLY.
Since Linux, its reviewers and end-users are often at opposite ends of this planet, perhaps more distros should include qBittorrent (Linux & Windows), instead of its greatly inferior Linux substitutes (Transmission, kTorrent, etc).
26 • @25 (by Adam Williamson on 2014-01-14 04:29:46 GMT from Canada)
What makes qbittorrent so much better than other clients, in your estimation? So far as I can see it's just a pretty typical torrent frontend wrapped around libtorrent-rasterbar, not much different to Transmission or Deluge or anything else.
27 • Will that complete your order today? (by kernelKurtz on 2014-01-14 05:34:30 GMT from United States)
"The talks, which are available for download from the InformIT website for $149.99... ...quite a lot to cover in five hours"
Actually, a three-credit community college Linux course of my recent acquaintance cost just under that. And you get nine times as many contact hours. And you get college credit. And the book used was free as in speech, and beer too.
"...less expensive and less time consuming than a college course..."
So not less expensive. You are right about the "less time consuming", but so is wolfing a chalupa in the drive-through.
28 • Package Managers - so easy to use (by Alice on 2014-01-14 06:54:18 GMT from Switzerland)
"Since Linux, its reviewers and end-users are often at opposite ends of this planet, perhaps more distros should include qBittorrent (Linux & Windows), instead of its greatly inferior Linux substitutes (Transmission, kTorrent, etc)."
So is it really that difficult for you to uninstall program X and install program Y?
I'm not seeing the problem here.
It's not Windows, where you have to run to one or several sites to download 3rd party programs.
Please post when you have something constructive to say, thanks.
29 • server distros (by Kazlu on 2014-01-14 12:17:09 GMT from France)
Interesting and instructive series of reviews. There is just one thing I would like to know, Jesse: you say you use a single CPU machine to run the server distros, you indicate it's usage percentage in a few use cases, but what is the frequency of your CPU?
Going on about this subject, I would like to hear opinions of you guys about the machine to choose to run a server. I plan on using one soon and I first considered purchasing a low-power ARM based machine (like a Cubox or Raspberry Pi) to run a server. Since I also want to use a HTPC, I wondered if I could use the same machine on which the server was running, but in that case a higher end machine (like a dual core CPU laptop ar maybe a Mintbox, which is passively cooled) would be required. I wonder, especially on a power consumption perspective, if it is relevant to use a single machine and to have, say, a "server" user who is always logged on and simultaneously a "HTPC" user who logs on occasionnaly while the server keeps running. Or would it be preferable to have a separate mini-PC dedicated to server use and a separate HTPC ?
30 • Test environment (by Jesse on 2014-01-14 21:27:04 GMT from Canada)
>> "Jesse: you say you use a single CPU machine to run the server distros"
I use a dual-core host running VirtualBox. The VirtualBox virtual environment gets one CPU with which to work.
"you indicate it's usage percentage in a few use cases, but what is the frequency of your CPU?"
The host CPU runs at about 2GHz.
31 • @24 - Haswell vs older chips (by Andy Prough on 2014-01-15 03:57:36 GMT from )
Adam - where Haswell really shines for me is the increased battery life. I'm getting 11 hours on my new i5 ultrabook.
Other than battery life, I agree. My 3-year old 6-core AMD processor on my workstation can still run circles around this i5 on certain CPU-intensive processes. Of course, I've got to run 4 fans in the tower to keep it from overheating, whereas the Haswell hardly seems to use the fan at all.
32 • @26 • Linux torrent applications (by gregzeng on 2014-01-15 06:51:22 GMT from Australia)
26 • @25 Linux torrent applications
Transmission, Ktorrent, ... to a Linux distro producers might seem the same. But to a Linux USER, they are different from each other. Only a few of the many apps are available in both in Windows and Linux. qbitTorrent & Vuze are two better torrent apps which offer both search and download powers. Vuze (Java-based) is slower to load because it has many other powers besides torrent search and download.
Searching for torrents (e.g. "Snowlinux-4", which the coders claim they will allow in the next distro release) can be done by specialized apps, or web-browser add-ons, or by Google-type searching in web browsers. Only qbitTorrent is recommended by an independent reviewer of Torrent apps: https://www.foresightlinux.se/the-best-torrent-clients-for-linux/
33 • re (by greg on 2014-01-15 09:54:46 GMT from Slovenia)
@ 29 server distros - what kind of server? how many services? Rpi runs at the power of about p2 250 mhz i believe. i would get separate maschine for PC and for server.
@32 there is transmission for windows, ktorrent for windows. there is also utorrent for linux now. transmission appears in a lot of "smartTV", media players etc. so it's questionable what users really know (are familiar with) and what they don't.
34 • @33 server distros (by Kazlu on 2014-01-15 13:23:18 GMT from France)
I'm thinking about a small home server for local file sharing and hosting an ownCloud. That will be all in the beginning but I may be interested in more services as time goes on. A Rpi should be right for this OR a HTPC usage, but for both... Their web site says performance is like a 300MHz pentium 2 with much better graphics, so you're right :) The latest middle-end Cubox has a dual core CPU and 1GB of RAM so it may be enough.
35 • Musix (by Peter Jones on 2014-01-16 21:10:59 GMT from Canada)
The latest distribution of Musix, Distribution Release: Musix GNU+Linux 3.0 , appears to be identical to Development Release: Musix GNU+Linux 3.0 RC2
Take a look at what I downloaded: [jones@localhost musix]$ ls -lrt total 3953696 -rw-rw-r-- 1 jones jones 61 Oct 31 23:58 MUSIX_GNU+Linux_3.0stable.md5 -rw-rw-r-- 1 jones jones 61 Nov 1 09:38 MUSIX_GNU+Linux_3.0rc2.md5 -rw-rw-r-- 1 jones jones 2024284160 Nov 1 19:08 MUSIX_GNU+Linux_3.0stable.iso -rw-rw-r-- 1 jones jones 2024284160 Nov 1 19:08 MUSIX_GNU+Linux_3.0rc2.iso [jones@localhost musix]$ ls -lrt total 3953696 -rw-rw-r-- 1 jones jones 61 Oct 31 23:58 MUSIX_GNU+Linux_3.0stable.md5 -rw-rw-r-- 1 jones jones 61 Nov 1 09:38 MUSIX_GNU+Linux_3.0rc2.md5 -rw-rw-r-- 1 jones jones 2024284160 Nov 1 19:08 MUSIX_GNU+Linux_3.0stable.iso -rw-rw-r-- 1 jones jones 2024284160 Nov 1 19:08 MUSIX_GNU+Linux_3.0rc2.iso [jones@localhost musix]$ cksum *md5 3797711714 61 MUSIX_GNU+Linux_3.0rc2.md5 3797711714 61 MUSIX_GNU+Linux_3.0stable.md5 [jones@localhost musix]$ cksum * | sort 1635378482 2024284160 MUSIX_GNU+Linux_3.0rc2.iso 1635378482 2024284160 MUSIX_GNU+Linux_3.0stable.iso 3797711714 61 MUSIX_GNU+Linux_3.0rc2.md5 3797711714 61 MUSIX_GNU+Linux_3.0stable.md5
In other words, I downloaded 2G for nothing. I should have made sure the MD5's were different before starting to download the supposedly newer version. See http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=musix for the links.
36 • Torrent clients (by LinuxMan on 2014-01-17 19:23:23 GMT from United States)
@32, "Only qbitTorrent is recommended by an independent reviewer of Torrent apps: https://www.foresightlinux.se/the-best-torrent-clients-for-linux/"
My feeling is that if you don't need RSS feeds or to search within an application then Transmission is the way to go. The reviewer does agree to an extent when he states, "The best client is Deluge, Qbittorrent or Transmission." Also he states that he hasn't used KTorrent so he can't comment on that one. It really is all a matter of taste and what you need or want in a torrent client.
37 • OT: frustration with "progress" (by R on 2014-01-18 02:52:54 GMT from United States)
I still can't figure out how to use to their partition-er... and I've had success installing Arch, Debian and even OpenBSD...
38 • Torrent clients, for END USERS, only! (by gregzeng on 2014-01-19 11:58:03 GMT from Australia)
Torrent clients, for END USERS, only!
Too much of Distrowatch is focussed on coders, rather than the mass-audience: End-users.
Some geeks here in Distrowatch have a bad attitude: end-user MUST never touch the GUI. So to use a Linux torrent program, only use bare-bone sub-component apps, rather than a complete torrent package. If you only give the torrent sub-component, such as Ktorrent or Transmission, you are forcing the end-user to abandon Torrent use.
End-users want apps that work in the GUI. IOS, Windows, Android, etc. Could we please agree: death to the CLI, for end-users? And no more user-hostile bare-bone sub-component apps! Or: use qbitTorrent, rather than older software designs.
39 • GUI (basic, advanced, hack) and CLI all have their place (by Fossilizing Dinosaur on 2014-01-19 15:07:05 GMT from United States)
A GUI allows focus on the task at hand rather without the distractions of syntax, spelling and byzantine options. The effectiveness gained should never be sacrificed to pedants, but the ideal system provides for differing levels of complexity, right down to assembler patching.
40 • I would love to keep a distro on my laptop for 5 years (by imageek on 2014-01-19 22:25:55 GMT from Mexico)
I would love to keep a distro on my laptop for 5 years, problem is...no distro is compatible! And that's why I'm a distro hopper! Out of necessity. I've spent thousands of hours experimenting and configuring searching forums and chatrooms plus re-formatting over the years. Wasted several hundred cd's and dvd's. I'm kinda stuck with this laptop's integrated ATI video card, but I've tried several wireless cards. Seems that I'm asking too much for Linux to support video and wireless. And it's funny when you go visit those chat rooms or forums asking about how to fix this bug or that...the self appointed subject matter experts claim they don't know about this issue (even though it's been reported in forums going back many years). In one case I even involved the distro's author. No luck. Frustrating!
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• 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 |
• Issue 1055 (2024-01-29): CNIX OS 231204, distributions patching packages the most, Gentoo team presents ongoing work, UBports introduces connectivity and battery improvements, interview with Haiku developer |
• Issue 1054 (2024-01-22): Solus 4.5, comparing dd and cp when writing ISO files, openSUSE plans new major Leap version, XeroLinux shutting down, HardenedBSD changes its build schedule |
• Issue 1053 (2024-01-15): Linux AI voice assistants, some distributions running hotter than others, UBports talks about coming changes, Qubes certifies StarBook laptops, Asahi Linux improves energy savings |
• Issue 1052 (2024-01-08): OpenMandriva Lx 5.0, keeping shell commands running when theterminal closes, Mint upgrades Edge kernel, Vanilla OS plans big changes, Canonical working to make Snap more cross-platform |
• Issue 1051 (2024-01-01): Favourite distros of 2023, reloading shell settings, Asahi Linux releases Fedora remix, Gentoo offers binary packages, openSUSE provides full disk encryption |
• Issue 1050 (2023-12-18): rlxos 2023.11, renaming files and opening terminal windows in specific directories, TrueNAS publishes ZFS fixes, Debian publishes delayed install media, Haiku polishes desktop experience |
• Issue 1049 (2023-12-11): Lernstick 12, alternatives to WINE, openSUSE updates its branding, Mint unveils new features, Lubuntu team plans for 24.04 |
• Issue 1048 (2023-12-04): openSUSE MicroOS, the transition from X11 to Wayland, Red Hat phasing out X11 packages, UBports making mobile development easier |
• Issue 1047 (2023-11-27): GhostBSD 23.10.1, Why Linux uses swap when memory is free, Ubuntu Budgie may benefit from Wayland work in Xfce, early issues with FreeBSD 14.0 |
• Issue 1046 (2023-11-20): Slackel 7.7 "Openbox", restricting CPU usage, Haiku improves font handling and software centre performance, Canonical launches MicroCloud |
• Issue 1045 (2023-11-13): Fedora 39, how to trust software packages, ReactOS booting with UEFI, elementary OS plans to default to Wayland, Mir gaining ability to split work across video cards |
• Issue 1044 (2023-11-06): Porteus 5.01, disabling IPv6, applications unique to a Linux distro, Linux merges bcachefs, OpenELA makes source packages available |
• Issue 1043 (2023-10-30): Murena Two with privacy switches, where old files go when packages are updated, UBports on Volla phones, Mint testing Cinnamon on Wayland, Peppermint releases ARM build |
• Issue 1042 (2023-10-23): Ubuntu Cinnamon compared with Linux Mint, extending battery life on Linux, Debian resumes /usr merge, Canonical publishes fixed install media |
• Issue 1041 (2023-10-16): FydeOS 17.0, Dr.Parted 23.09, changing UIDs, Fedora partners with Slimbook, GNOME phasing out X11 sessions, Ubuntu revokes 23.10 install media |
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