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1 • Mutiny (by bison on 2018-01-22 00:35:28 GMT from United States)
I briefly tried the Mutiny layout while in beta, and something I noticed is that the upper-left corner is dead space. This is primary desktop real estate (corners are easy to access quickly with the mouse) and should be used for something more useful than... nothing. Did this change in the final release? It doesn't appear to have.
2 • HiDPI screens (by Greg Zeng on 2018-01-22 00:48:35 GMT from Australia)
Very interesting topic, which is part of the reason for eventually moving from x.org, to either MIR or Wayland. There are the usual major problems. Bugs, feature missing, & poor optimizations, etc. Particularly in the early releases of the code.
Then the lack of alpha & beta testers, with their unusual, unpredictable setups & needs. Whatever "choices" made will be a compromise between speed, accuracy, fidelity, and adjustments.
On my old (2013 Dell notebook) hardware, will the GPU's handle the screen displays, easily & smoothly enough, for the moment? Are better GPU's needed? Many (most?) modern computers can run two or more screen displays, simultaneously. Often USB3, wireless-transmitters, or other plugins may be needed. When we use these external monitors, can the different DPI rates be handled at all, or simultaneously?
In the weeks ahead, all operating systems, including Linux, will be facing these challenges.
3 • Recovering pending deleted files (by pedro on 2018-01-22 02:02:27 GMT from United States)
cp 11 /home/jesse/Videos/recovered-file.mp4
This will try to copy a file named "11" to the target file "/home/jesse/Videos/recovered-file.mp4"
4 • VirtualBox support in the kernel: will it include host modules? (by Brenton Horne on 2018-01-22 03:11:23 GMT from Australia)
Seems like this improvement will only affect VirtualBox guests, not hosts. Guest support will make VirtualBox'in easier, but host support would also be great.
5 • HiDPI screen (by LiuYan on 2018-01-22 05:48:25 GMT from China)
Screen of my laptop is a 13 inch screen in 1920x1080 resolution, bought in 2013.
It's not really a HiDPI one, but I can get the feel of using a HiDPI screen if I zoom the web page to 200% or more.
6 • coments (by ficskrell on 2018-01-22 10:23:18 GMT from Thailand)
cool Ubuntu Mate review. I am on Mate via Mint 18.3 and hav recently tested Ubuntu Mate Ubuntu seems to beat mint in the speed department. Faster booting menu lag and system lag better with Ubuntu. Maybe time to switch?
. hey let's get some more readers and more comments! Where did everyone go?
7 • @ 6 Mate (by OstroL on 2018-01-22 10:45:25 GMT from Poland)
You'd find Mate on Debian much faster than Ubuntu Mate or Mate on Mint. On Debian stable and in Debian testing.
8 • Virtual box kernel modules (by Pikolo on 2018-01-22 11:30:14 GMT from United Kingdom)
Does their introduction mean you'll be able to run VBox without disabling Secure Boot on the host PC? That would only leave Nvidia as a major cause for Secure Boot disabling...
PS. I know Secure boot isn't the most bulletproof of technologies, but it never gets a good reaction across when you have to tell Linux converts they'll have to disable it for Y to run
9 • @6 mate/mint (by MarkE on 2018-01-22 12:13:07 GMT from United Kingdom)
Mint has some customizations for Mate, maybe that's why it's slower? Works fast enough on my laptop though, and I like the menus etc. I've not tried it, but I could guess that 'vanilla' mate would be faster.
10 • MATE Great (by Lee on 2018-01-22 14:30:39 GMT from United States)
Have used Gnome 2 or MATE for over a decade and love it. The MATE support are not particularly responsive tho. A bug in the weather app has prevented the radar map from displaying for over a year. Despite much discussion in the forums, no solution has been provided.
11 • HiDpi and Linux are not a great combo (by Clicktician on 2018-01-22 14:36:37 GMT from United States)
I have a couple of HiDpi monitors which work great on Win 10 boxes, but are unusable on most Linux distros without dropping the resolution to 1920x1080.
A few months ago, I bought a System 76 notebook with a 13.3 inch screen at 3200x1800 resolution. It came with PopOS! and while that distro looked good with the default apps, other apps I installed sometimes had microscopic gui controls or dialogs that were were unreadable or placement was a jumbled mess.
I've installed several fave distros on this notebook searching for a love match. None of them knew what to do with a HiDpi screen. I always have to set the resolution to 1920x1080 or lower and put up with the rougher look.
I've been able to tweak gnome, XFCE, and some apps (notably browsers) to make them work better at HiDpi, but the average new user who wants to try Ubuntu on a notebook they saw at CES this year will probably just give up.
12 • Re: KDE to focus on Wayland features (by silent on 2018-01-22 15:18:49 GMT from Hungary)
So, no new features will be added to the X11 branch and there will be no wayland support in kwin for the proprietary nvidia driver? It sounds like KDE is going to lose some linux gamers just because "NVIDIA still does not support the standard Linux solution gbm". I immediately checked out NASDAQ: NVDA, shall I go short now? On the other hand KDE was never really something for the low end hardware, because it is quite heavy. The stated goal of KDE is "a lean, mean productivity machine for ordinary users who are not skilled at the command line".
Well, probably a poll could be launched as to which DE/WM fits this goal the best at the moment.
13 • MATE Desktop (by Winchester on 2018-01-22 16:05:44 GMT from United States)
The best experiences that I have had with the MATE desktop have been under Calculate Linux, Ultimate Edition , Debian 8, and Korora Linux.
Maybe worth noting that Calculate Linux Desktop - MATE doesn't fill up ~/.local/share/ with tons of "recently-used.xbel" files as the Debian / Ubuntu family does using the MATE desktop. The same goes for ~/.config/caja/ with desktop-metadata files. No "Mutiny lay-out" option that I am aware of,however. I have never really looked into it.
I just thought that I would throw that out there for anyone who uses this desktop.
14 • debian/ ubuntu mate (by Tim Dowd on 2018-01-22 17:11:24 GMT from United States)
@7 I use both, and haven't really noticed a difference. For my hardware they're both quite good.
Ubuntu MATE's real strength in my opinion is in how polished it is. Everything just works straight out of the box, to a higher degree than other distros I've used. I like to start with Debian and install just the packages I need, but with the string of non-standard and buggy hardware I've had recently, I've really appreciated how much easier Ubuntu MATE has made my life. I also feel like I can give it to a non-Linux user and they'll be impressed
15 • HiDPI or Not (by M.Z. on 2018-01-22 18:24:24 GMT from United States)
I double checked the nicest monitors I had & feel well short of the 213 DPI minimum Wikipedia's pixel density page listed as being high DPI. For those that want to check themselves you may want to try the following:
xdpyinfo | grep -B 2 resolution
16 • VirtualBox Support being added to Linux Kernel (by mrpuck on 2018-01-22 19:07:21 GMT from United States)
My thought would how could the Kernel keep up with all of the VBox updates/
17 • Enso test on Nvidia hp laptop (by Scott Eno on 2018-01-22 19:11:52 GMT from United States)
So far in testing on my laptop ENSO is passing and working great. NVDIA r installed no issue. Tv using hauppage usb and kaffeine no issue, Playback of of s and blurays after installing MAKEMKV AND LIbDVD-PKG no issues. The only issue was they add in by default plank and if misuninstall that annoying program wrong can effect the Panther launcher. On the launcher much better then default xfce found in standard Ubuntu great find there. Out of 10 rate it a 8.5. One point lost because of including Plank and half point deducted for no playback till programs added. A very good fast light system on my HP Pavillion laptop. intel 7 12 gb ram with nvidia mobile card with bluray player slot load . If helps you know machine i use to test distros.
18 • Recovering open files (by Will Senn on 2018-01-22 20:03:11 GMT from United States)
Just wanted to say how much I appreciated the tip. I hadn't thought of the possibility of recovering a deleted open file, but I was glad to see that the mechanism existed and that is was so completely unix in it's implementation. Great stuff.
19 • @4 VirtualBox support in the kernel: will it include host modules? (by Darkman on 2018-01-22 21:54:05 GMT from United States)
"Seems like this improvement will only affect VirtualBox guests, not hosts. Guest support will make VirtualBox'in easier, but host support would also be great."
Ditto. I want to run Linux as my host OS and that other OS as the guest. Still, I applaud the effort.
20 • Ubuntu MATE (by Rick on 2018-01-23 13:25:32 GMT from United States)
The new Mutiny panel is another indication that Ubuntu MATE has lost its focus and the main reason it was created in the first place to renew the Gnome 2 desktop. It's a real shame. Ubuntu MATE 14.04.x was their best work. Their ranking on Distrowatch dropped from #14 in 2016 to #26 in 2017. It is now #31 for the past 30 days. Unless the developers refocus their efforts, Ubuntu MATE's glory days are gone.
21 • Mate DE (by aquila on 2018-01-23 13:58:19 GMT from France)
With Debian, you'd get three distros for your liking, stable, buster (testing) and sid (unstable), while with Ubuntu, only the unstable. So, you are always safe with Debian.
22 • Everything Just Works (by Winchester on 2018-01-23 14:42:48 GMT from United States)
Maybe I just have standard and non-buggy hardware but,"everything just works" in nearly all 12 GNU/Linux distributions that I have installed.
Only one of them,NetRunner,being from the Debian (or Ubuntu) family.
A couple of exceptions being "Steam" (which I don't use myself) not working under PClinuxOS and the LibreOffice Database software not working under Calculate Linux. To be fair though,I haven't tried it in some time. The issue could have been corrected with an update.
The firewire connection for external hard drives to save USB ports doesn't seem to work in any GNU/Linux distribution where I have attempted it. That even includes Linux Mint a couple of years back.
Camera card readers are always a hassle if you want to mount the cards Read \ Write. I have had to resort to a USB to SD adapter to be able to mount the SD card as read \ writable instead of using the reader built into the computer or the reader built into my printer.
23 • More Distros. (by willi,amp on 2018-01-23 14:46:36 GMT from United Kingdom)
Why, Jessie, are you trying to encourage more hobbiests to build Distros? Aren’t several hundred enough? What we want are better Distros and if these people have anything useful to offer ….a big if…..would they not be better employed joining an existing one. I cannot but feel that current Linux desktop workstations are not as good as they were a few years ago. Typically the spelling checker on LibreOffice 5 doesn’t work; it did on 4.4.3. And why do they include a Screensaver, hands up all those still using a CRT monitor. KDE4 was working fine until an ‘upgrade’ made it jump, fade, bounce and bits to disappear, using KDE is like trying to nail a jelly to the wall. Thank goodness for Whisker on Xfce. I could go on but you get the idea.
24 • Screen Saver (by Winchester on 2018-01-23 15:07:21 GMT from United States)
LCD displays also suffer burn-in. Not nearly as easily as plasma,OLED,CRT but,it can still happen. The LCD panel where I work has major burn-in.
In most cases there are settings options to either disable or change the time-out of the screen saver kicking in.
25 • More distros (by Jesse on 2018-01-23 15:48:31 GMT from Canada)
@23: "Why, Jessie, are you trying to encourage more hobbiests to build Distros? .. What we want are better Distros and if these people have anything useful to offer ….a big if…..would they not be better employed joining an existing one."
That is exactly why I suggested people join an existing distribution and learn its ins and outs before creating their own project. It contributes to existing distributions and only encourages the creation of new projects if the necessary changes cannot be added to an existing project.
26 • @23 same distros... (by Per on 2018-01-23 16:30:19 GMT from France)
Would you buy the same car your neighbour has? The same mobile phone as your work mates have? Or have the same wife, as the neighbour?
27 • @26 same distros (by Lancre on 2018-01-23 17:03:06 GMT from United States)
Off topic answer to your questions: Yes, yes, and no.
On topic - Get you feet wet by working to improve existing distros first. Only create your own when you can't add the changes/features you need to the existing distros.
28 • not really (by Tim Dowd on 2018-01-23 17:08:08 GMT from United States)
@21
As someone who regularly runs both, I have to say that this is not an accurate characterization of Debian v. Ubuntu
The purpose of Debian unstable is to host the most up to date packages. The purpose of Debian testing is to make the packages that haven't screwed up unstable too much work together to build the next Debian stable. The purpose of neither is to run a production computer.
Running Debian testing is great until it very suddenly isn't. Maybe a driver has been dropped from the most recent Xorg, or maybe a toolkit is being switched, or maybe a package is removed from testing with a serious bug. You're out of luck until it gets fixed, and if its because of a permanent change (like when AMD dropped the non-free video driver) it will never get fixed.
Ubuntu is the compromise: it freezes unstable and works on whatever is in the snapshot to get as many benefits of up to date packages but without the risk of something major changing
Note that this isn't a crack on Debian, it's just that the point of testing is to slowly make changes and sometimes those are major.
Ubuntu is not unstable, in the world of Debian it's somewhere between stable and testing.
If Debian stable fits your needs, then its a great choice. If you want to contribute to the future, Debian testing is a great choice. But if you need up to date packages and some stability, Ubuntu is a great choice.
29 • @ 28 (by OstroL on 2018-01-23 22:20:40 GMT from Poland)
"If Debian stable fits your needs, then its a great choice. If you want to contribute to the future, Debian testing is a great choice."
This is true.
"But if you need up to date packages and some stability, Ubuntu is a great choice."
This is not and never was. The so-called LTS is the frozen one that practically never changes for nearly 5 years, but the LTS become somewhat stable, only after the 1st point release. But, it is already older than Debian stable, by that time. Check the Ubuntu 16.04.3 against Debian stable.
30 • @29 Ubuntu LTS (by verndog on 2018-01-24 01:23:37 GMT from United States)
"The so-called LTS is the frozen one that practically never changes for nearly 5 years..."
Obviously, you never used LTS. compare LTS point issue, say from .1 to .3, then you will see how great the changes are.
31 • @30 (by OstroL on 2018-01-24 11:43:15 GMT from Poland)
"The so-called LTS is the frozen one that practically never changes for nearly 5 years..."
Put the emphasis on the word 'practically'. The changes of Ubuntu LTS is not that much. By the time, the LTS comes to point 3, it is already older than Debian Stable.
You can find the changes here, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/XenialXerus/ReleaseNotes/ChangeSummary/16.04.3 and they are mostly correcting internal problems. And, those internal problems comes from releasing an LTS, before the packages are really stable. The massive amount of those problems shows that how unstable the Ubuntu LTS is. Even at point 3, the release is not yet ready. The coming 18.04 LTS would also not be ready when it is released. That was the way all along the history of Ubuntu.
32 • different things (by Tim Dowd on 2018-01-24 14:40:53 GMT from United States)
@ 29
I don't disagree with you but we're talking about different things. Perhaps I should have been more clear, my comments were meant to refer to the Ubuntu releases every 6 months and not the LTS ones. I think they're a good compromise between stability and up-to-date.
As for the utility of the Ubuntu LTS releases (or Debian Stable, for that matter) I think it's important to evaluate each of these based on individual use cases. Each of these is simply a frozen version of unstable that's had bug fixes applied for a long period of time. If the software you like is at a version that meets your needs and isn't buggy, then sticking with an individual release as long as possible can make sense. Debian squeeze and Jessie with backports were like that for me, and if Ubuntu 15.04 and 17.04 were LTS I would probably still be using them.
This of course will be different for each person and their own tastes and hardware
33 • @ 32, 30, 29 (by Per on 2018-01-24 16:37:32 GMT from France)
The thing is that Cannonical abandons projects as soon as it cannot make money. It had more or less dropped the desktop, keeping just a front for it now. 18.04 might be the last LTS from Cannonical.
On the other hand, Debian lives because of the community. And, as it is not a business entity, a corporate honcho want make the development to stop. One is better off with Debian.
34 • both (by Tim Dowd on 2018-01-24 19:30:43 GMT from United States)
@ 33
I guess the idea that I reject is that by running Ubuntu one is being anti-Debian. At the moment I'm using Ubuntu-MATE, 2 different Debian releases, Mint, and a Spanish educational distro called Lliurex.
They're all good, they're all on different machines and running different packages. My default strategy is that when new hardware arrives, I install whatever I'm currently happiest with. I check all of my essential programs, and if one doesn't work I file a bug and then try one of the other available family members. Once I've got one working right then I stick with it until I need to upgrade.
35 • Ubuntu LTS vs Debian Stable (by Jesse on 2018-01-24 19:39:11 GMT from Canada)
>> "The changes of Ubuntu LTS is not that much. By the time, the LTS comes to point 3, it is already older than Debian Stable."
The flip side to that argument is that by the time Ubuntu LTS hits a .3 or .4 release, new versions of both Debian Stable and Ubuntu LTS have been released too. Both distributions publish new stable versions approximately every two years, so a .3 or .4 update will arrive around the same time as a new stable/LTS version of either project.
My point is that people who continue on with LTS into the .3 or .4 range want to be running older, unchanging versions of software. If they wanted something newer, they'd do an upgrade to the next LTS version.
36 • @ 35 (by Per on 2018-01-25 08:34:54 GMT from France)
"If they wanted something newer, they'd do an upgrade to the next LTS version."
Only this time, the users won't get the same known DE, if they upgrade to the "new" LTS. The LTS users, who usually make the change after the first point release may not like what they get. That is, if they had not been distro hopping.
The other matter is that Cannonical had lost interest in the desktop.
37 • LTS (by Kragle von Schnitzelbank on 2018-01-25 21:22:03 GMT from United States)
One reason to use an LTS release is to have a reliable, stable platform to work from - many use "backported" apps to keep up.
To put it another way, nobody likes constant earthquakes in their floor.
Except maybe jugglers who want the constant practice.
38 • @37 LTS (by OstroL on 2018-01-25 21:59:55 GMT from Poland)
Long Term Support is long term support, not asking people to live with constantly getting old packages. Arch Linux also gives you long term support with its always up to date packages.
Arch like Debian is a community developed operating systems, without a corporate honcho.
39 • Debian (by imnotrich on 2018-01-25 23:47:11 GMT from Mexico)
When Linux was my hobby, Debian was my daily driver.
When that changed and I use Linux primarily for work, I switched to Mint. Why? Because I don't have hundreds of hours spare time to fight with printing, wired/wireless networking, display drivers and other stuff which most distros consider basic functionality.
But another reason I switched? Cinnamon. Because Unity and Gnome 3 are garbage. Like Windows 8.
40 • HiDPI display (by Sitwon on 2018-01-26 02:29:20 GMT from United States)
I would love to have a beautiful HiDPI display on a future laptop. Unfortunately what I've witnessed on other people's laptops is that the existing software ecosystem of many Linux distros render poorly on those displays. Rather than having to fight with obscure configurations to get my desktop to look nice, I've been opting for more conservative FHD resolutions and hoping that the situation will improve over time.
41 • RRecovering deleted files (by UKguy on 2018-01-26 04:47:38 GMT from Latvia)
Your example:
This recovery method only works if the application keeps the deleted file open, if the file is loaded entirely into memory and closed, then we do not have a file reference anymore and may need to turn to another file recovery method.
Question :
Why wouldn't you just use the open app to resave the file?
42 • Recovering deleted files (by Jesse on 2018-01-26 13:36:40 GMT from Canada)
@41: "Why wouldn't you just use the open app to resave the file?"
Lots of applications do not have an option for saving an open file. If you're working on a text document or editing an image, then you can certainly resave and no harm is done. But most video players, audio players, many image viewers, PDF viewers, etc do not have a save feature.
43 • Ubuntu woes (by aquila on 2018-01-26 18:00:08 GMT from France)
Ubuntu after the short adventure with Gnome and Wayland is shifting back to good old Xorg. That Gnome shell works badly with Wayland and hard to be recovered is one of the main problems.
https://community.ubuntu.com/t/xorg-will-be-the-default-in-18-04-lts/3623/6
44 • Archbang (by Justin on 2018-01-26 19:46:29 GMT from United States)
It seems that Archbang has taken down their website and has switched to Sourceforge only for updates (so their forums are down too). They also deleted their non-systemd versions (specifically Archbang-Artix). I'm sad to see this distribution slowly going away. It was my first introduction to Arch.
As an aside, when I tried to torrent the archbang-artix files from DW, I couldn't connect to the tracker. Do older releases continue to be offered, or do they disappear after a while?
45 • Torrents (by Jesse on 2018-01-26 20:01:03 GMT from Canada)
@44: We seed torrents of releases for a week and track for about a year.
46 • Virtualbox support Linux Kernel RAW-HiDE (by Vitton Virtual on 2018-01-26 20:19:44 GMT from Canada)
Virtualbox support inclusion into linux kernel 4.14.xxx will ease up at-least two things, regardless od resources consumption.
1) dynamic binary translations and,
2) allow execution of ring 0 instructions in ring 3.
47 • LTS (by Tim Dowd on 2018-01-26 20:22:46 GMT from United States)
@38
I don't think most users care that something is up to date- they care about the functionality of their computers. If something is working right, it's ok that it's old.
The advantage of an LTS distro for the average person is that it doesn't matter that a company stops making the graphics driver available, or that someone migrated between toolkits, or that a package got orphaned and is no longer available. What's in the distro is in the distro, and it works until support ends. It's also unlikely that a major bug is going to appear.
The only things that make the average user really need to jump are major feature upgrades in a package they rely on, or new hardware that requires a newer kernel. For me, honestly, the only package that's become vastly improved in recent years has been LibreOffice as it went to v5 (I'm a science teacher and the new functionality in the spreadsheet was tremendous.) Everything else I use is not significantly different now than it was in 2015. One of the dumber things I did in recent years was upgrade from Debian Jessie (with backports), because I've had no new functionality since then and a lot of work trying to work around bugs that weren't in those older versions of software
48 • @47 (by OstroL on 2018-01-26 22:14:00 GMT from Poland)
I agree about the functionality. It maybe because of that, Ubuntu is defaulting to Xorg (see post 43).
I used to use the spreadsheet extensively few years ago, but I don't need it any more. Actually, I don't need the office suite at all any more.
49 • If it works, … (by Somewhat Reticent on 2018-01-27 00:15:59 GMT from United States)
@47 "… it works until support ends…"
It works until requirements change, as noted: "… major feature upgrades in a package they rely on, or new hardware …". Support (and constant harassment about vague "threats") rarely drives gambling on buggy new code.
50 • Spectre and Meltdown Mammoth (by Immy Idiotta on 2018-01-28 00:14:35 GMT from Canada)
"Stop installing our buggy Spectre CPU firmware fixes, Intel says"
The firmware patches designed to protect Intel processors against nasty Spectre CPU exploits have a big downside: They’re forcing more frequent reboots and other performance issues on some systems, including PCs that released in 2017. The problem is severe enough that Intel is now recommending that users not install currently available patches and instead wait for new ones to be released. As of the date, couples of kernels are gone buggy as well.
Thanks all those who over trusted these intel's tech idiots more than themselves and recommended to apply patches immediately. And would be more thankful than ever before if
idiotties technology can ever get fixed. Anyone here up for the bet?
Who cares? where any any thing goes... goes where?
In a drain and a tech-sump.
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PS : My mainframe is neither based on Intel nor AMD. Do I have to care?
51 • Ubuntu Mate 17.10 Traditional DE (Very good edition) (by Peter on 2018-01-28 01:32:07 GMT from Australia)
I am an openSUSE user for over 10 years now (currently using Leap 42.3 Plasma 5 / KDE) and I am quite satisfied with it thus far. I wanted to try the Mate DE in openSUSE Leap 42.1 because I previously used openSUSE 11.4 Gnome 2.32 edition for over 4 years (due to having an old laptop at the time) and liked the interface but found it unsuitable.
After playing around with Mint Mate 18/18.1, I tried UbuntuMate 16.10 (which rebased to Gnome 3.x) and found it to be an excellent edition. Upgraded to 17.04 and that was also stable and very good edition.
Lastly, the upgrade from 17.04 to 17.10 did not work because the kernel did not get upgraded and I had to do a clean reinstall. Though I was very disappointed with the failed upgrade, UM17.10 is now very stable and a very usable distro. I plan to upgrade to 18.04 Lts and possibly make it my main OS on my aging hp 6550b laptop.
52 • CPUs CHIPZILLAS (by Foggy Forgetti on 2018-01-28 01:58:10 GMT from Canada)
CPUs CHIPZILLAS are cooking two or three more bugs as a ingredients of buggy soup, as of this day. It's only matter of time How long do they take to cook, and How long does it take to make it publicly available.
Just in case, if you have some extra-cash-fund please support their development, and they deserve, please!
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| • Issue 1103 (2025-01-06): elementary OS 8.0, filtering ads with Pi-hole, Debian testing its installer, Pop!_OS faces delays, Ubuntu Studio upgrades not working, Absolute discontinued |
| • Issue 1102 (2024-12-23): Best distros of 2024, changing a process name, Fedora to expand Btrfs support and releases Asahi Remix 41, openSUSE patches out security sandbox and donations from Bottles while ending support for Leap 15.5 |
| • Issue 1101 (2024-12-16): GhostBSD 24.10.1, sending attachments from the command line, openSUSE shows off GPU assignment tool, UBports publishes security update, Murena launches its first tablet, Xfce 4.20 released |
| • Issue 1100 (2024-12-09): Oreon 9.3, differences in speed, IPFire's new appliance, Fedora Asahi Remix gets new video drivers, openSUSE Leap Micro updated, Redox OS running Redox OS |
| • Issue 1099 (2024-12-02): AnduinOS 1.0.1, measuring RAM usage, SUSE continues rebranding efforts, UBports prepares for next major version, Murena offering non-NFC phone |
| • Issue 1098 (2024-11-25): Linux Lite 7.2, backing up specific folders, Murena and Fairphone partner in fair trade deal, Arch installer gets new text interface, Ubuntu security tool patched |
| • Issue 1097 (2024-11-18): Chimera Linux vs Chimera OS, choosing between AlmaLinux and Debian, Fedora elevates KDE spin to an edition, Fedora previews new installer, KDE testing its own distro, Qubes-style isolation coming to FreeBSD |
| • Issue 1096 (2024-11-11): Bazzite 40, Playtron OS Alpha 1, Tucana Linux 3.1, detecting Screen sessions, Redox imports COSMIC software centre, FreeBSD booting on the PinePhone Pro, LXQt supports Wayland window managers |
| • Issue 1095 (2024-11-04): Fedora 41 Kinoite, transferring applications between computers, openSUSE Tumbleweed receives multiple upgrades, Ubuntu testing compiler optimizations, Mint partners with Framework |
| • Issue 1094 (2024-10-28): DebLight OS 1, backing up crontab, AlmaLinux introduces Litten branch, openSUSE unveils refreshed look, Ubuntu turns 20
| | • Issue 1093 (2024-10-21): Kubuntu 24.10, atomic vs immutable distributions, Debian upgrading Perl packages, UBports adding VoLTE support, Android to gain native GNU/Linux application support |
| • Issue 1092 (2024-10-14): FunOS 24.04.1, a home directory inside a file, work starts of openSUSE Leap 16.0, improvements in Haiku, KDE neon upgrades its base |
| • Issue 1091 (2024-10-07): Redox OS 0.9.0, Unified package management vs universal package formats, Redox begins RISC-V port, Mint polishes interface, Qubes certifies new laptop |
| • Issue 1090 (2024-09-30): Rhino Linux 2024.2, commercial distros with alternative desktops, Valve seeks to improve Wayland performance, HardenedBSD parterns with Protectli, Tails merges with Tor Project, Quantum Leap partners with the FreeBSD Foundation |
| • Issue 1089 (2024-09-23): Expirion 6.0, openKylin 2.0, managing configuration files, the future of Linux development, fixing bugs in Haiku, Slackware packages dracut |
| • Issue 1088 (2024-09-16): PorteuX 1.6, migrating from Windows 10 to which Linux distro, making NetBSD immutable, AlmaLinux offers hardware certification, Mint updates old APT tools |
| • Issue 1087 (2024-09-09): COSMIC desktop, running cron jobs at variable times, UBports highlights new apps, HardenedBSD offers work around for FreeBSD change, Debian considers how to cull old packages, systemd ported to musl |
| • Issue 1086 (2024-09-02): Vanilla OS 2, command line tips for simple tasks, FreeBSD receives investment from STF, openSUSE Tumbleweed update can break network connections, Debian refreshes media |
| • Issue 1085 (2024-08-26): Nobara 40, OpenMandriva 24.07 "ROME", distros which include source code, FreeBSD publishes quarterly report, Microsoft updates breaks Linux in dual-boot environments |
| • Issue 1084 (2024-08-19): Liya 2.0, dual boot with encryption, Haiku introduces performance improvements, Gentoo dropping IA-64, Redcore merges major upgrade |
| • Issue 1083 (2024-08-12): TrueNAS 24.04.2 "SCALE", Linux distros for smartphones, Redox OS introduces web server, PipeWire exposes battery drain on Linux, Canonical updates kernel version policy |
| • Issue 1082 (2024-08-05): Linux Mint 22, taking snapshots of UFS on FreeBSD, openSUSE updates Tumbleweed and Aeon, Debian creates Tiny QA Tasks, Manjaro testing immutable images |
| • Issue 1081 (2024-07-29): SysLinuxOS 12.4, OpenBSD gain hardware acceleration, Slackware changes kernel naming, Mint publishes upgrade instructions |
| • Issue 1080 (2024-07-22): Running GNU/Linux on Android with Andronix, protecting network services, Solus dropping AppArmor and Snap, openSUSE Aeon Desktop gaining full disk encryption, SUSE asks openSUSE to change its branding |
| • Issue 1079 (2024-07-15): Ubuntu Core 24, hiding files on Linux, Fedora dropping X11 packages on Workstation, Red Hat phasing out GRUB, new OpenSSH vulnerability, FreeBSD speeds up release cycle, UBports testing new first-run wizard |
| • Issue 1078 (2024-07-08): Changing init software, server machines running desktop environments, OpenSSH vulnerability patched, Peppermint launches new edition, HardenedBSD updates ports |
| • Issue 1077 (2024-07-01): The Unity and Lomiri interfaces, different distros for different tasks, Ubuntu plans to run Wayland on NVIDIA cards, openSUSE updates Leap Micro, Debian releases refreshed media, UBports gaining contact synchronisation, FreeDOS celebrates its 30th anniversary |
| • Issue 1076 (2024-06-24): openSUSE 15.6, what makes Linux unique, SUSE Liberty Linux to support CentOS Linux 7, SLE receives 19 years of support, openSUSE testing Leap Micro edition |
| • Issue 1075 (2024-06-17): Redox OS, X11 and Wayland on the BSDs, AlmaLinux releases Pi build, Canonical announces RISC-V laptop with Ubuntu, key changes in systemd |
| • Issue 1074 (2024-06-10): Endless OS 6.0.0, distros with init diversity, Mint to filter unverified Flatpaks, Debian adds systemd-boot options, Redox adopts COSMIC desktop, OpenSSH gains new security features |
| • Issue 1073 (2024-06-03): LXQt 2.0.0, an overview of Linux desktop environments, Canonical partners with Milk-V, openSUSE introduces new features in Aeon Desktop, Fedora mirrors see rise in traffic, Wayland adds OpenBSD support |
| • Issue 1072 (2024-05-27): Manjaro 24.0, comparing init software, OpenBSD ports Plasma 6, Arch community debates mirror requirements, ThinOS to upgrade its FreeBSD core |
| • Issue 1071 (2024-05-20): Archcraft 2024.04.06, common command line mistakes, ReactOS imports WINE improvements, Haiku makes adjusting themes easier, NetBSD takes a stand against code generated by chatbots |
| • Issue 1070 (2024-05-13): Damn Small Linux 2024, hiding kernel messages during boot, Red Hat offers AI edition, new web browser for UBports, Fedora Asahi Remix 40 released, Qubes extends support for version 4.1 |
| • Issue 1069 (2024-05-06): Ubuntu 24.04, installing packages in alternative locations, systemd creates sudo alternative, Mint encourages XApps collaboration, FreeBSD publishes quarterly update |
| • Issue 1068 (2024-04-29): Fedora 40, transforming one distro into another, Debian elects new Project Leader, Red Hat extends support cycle, Emmabuntus adds accessibility features, Canonical's new security features |
| • 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 |
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