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1 • Legacy vs Bleeding Edge Software (by Rev_Don on 2018-03-26 00:38:36 GMT from United States)
I've been burned way too many times by newer buggier software that constantly crashed, ran slower, and offered fewer options compared to their older and more mature version to blindly rely on it (think the abomination that is Gnome 3). I evaluate each and every new version on a test system prior to installing it on a production system. I value stability, reliability, usability, and performance over new, untested, and buggy technology infesting with the next big thing (like LED everything).
I just don't have the time or patience for alpha/beta testing these days. I have things I need to get done.
2 • New vs Legacy (by dhinds on 2018-03-26 00:56:22 GMT from Mexico)
"Do you embrace new options like GRUB2, GNOME Shell, KDE Plasma and systemd or do you prefer familiar software like GRUB Legacy and the MATE desktop"?
Since I don't build systems from scratch, my preferences don't fit into either category.
Grub2 is over 8 years old and is practically universal.
I prefer fast and stable desktop environments (or their substitutes) like Openbox, LXQt and Xfce (in that order) to either KDE or Gnome.
I will customize them a bit but use whatever works best and breaks least. What that means in practice is Sparky Multimedia (w/ Openbox), Gecko Leap 42.3 LXQt and Calculate or RedCore LXQt.
I use the xfce4-panel w/ 10 desktops on all of them along with either the Tint2 or LXQt panels.
So I prefer new but fast and stable over eye candy and complex.
3 • Legacy or .. (by MikeOh Shark on 2018-03-26 01:43:01 GMT from France)
I voted legacy only because too many developers like new for it's own sake and if it breaks WiFi, sound, and other important things, it's not worth the hassle to hunt down the fixes. New needs to be better.
I hate to admit but the service manager in Windows XP is what systemd needs to make it tolerable.
4 • The best of all worlds (running legacy / new technologies) (by Sofia Smith on 2018-03-26 01:57:46 GMT from Spain)
On my laptop, now, I run multiboot.
1. Fedora: Gnome, Uefi, Secure, rpm.
2. Debian: Cinnamon, stable, universal system, +50000 pkgs, deb.
3. Arch: Plasma, cutting edge, fast, pacman.
Usually, my prefered option is ThePerfectArch.
5 • I Evaluate Everything (by Darryl on 2018-03-26 04:06:27 GMT from United States)
I'm not a Linux n00b but I'm also not what I would consider an expert. I've seen a lot of things change since I first downloaded Linux. Some of it has been good, some not - I'm sure a lot of people like Gnome 3 but I personally hate it, it massively slows down my workflow. It's what drove me to XFCE and KDE.
New is not necessarily better. Functionality is much more important. Especially for people who need to get things done. That said, if the new shiny object can get the job done faster with less errors, then I'm all for it.
My desktop has 4 hard drives - Currently: Debian Testing (going on 3 years or so), Kubuntu, Windows 10, Windows 7. The drive currently holding Kubuntu Beta 18.04 gets a new distro generally weekly - sometimes daily - occasionally a little longer, but rarely.
6 • init: how is Void conservative? That and bleeding-edge vs conservative (by Brenton Horne on 2018-03-26 04:15:47 GMT from Australia)
I found the article by Jesse on his init work interesting, I also found it odd that he wasn't contributing code at the GitHub repo for SysV init he set up (https://github.com/slicer69/sysvinit) I thought he might have received so few donations he said, "Oh to .... with this!" But now I know why. Likewise I also found it odd that he was talking about how he likes conservative distributions and then mentioned a bleeding-edge rolling distro like Void as being commonplace on his drives. I suppose if you're looking for lightweight systemd-free distros you don't have a lot of choice, especially if compiling with Gentoo is out of the question.
As for bleeding-edge vs conservative, well I like to try out the latest technology (especially new GNOME and KDE releases), but I also like to keep a distro with conservative software versions, few surprises, i3 (which I find a very stable GUI) and my preferred i3 configs (https://github.com/fusion809/i3-configs) installed on my hard disk. Presently this distro is Debian.
7 • MATE because the passing of Ubuntu 10. (by Roy on 2018-03-26 05:03:57 GMT from United States)
I am really satisfied with UbuntuMATE. I will be glad when a fix comes to the GTK for webmoid but cheese is really all I need.
8 • SysV (by Florin on 2018-03-26 05:59:16 GMT from Romania)
Thank you for the info about the new beta release. I'm working to a OpenRC based version of Lunar Linux (a source based distro - see lunar-linux.org).
9 • choices galore (by samuel on 2018-03-26 06:23:53 GMT from United States)
> if you're looking for lightweight systemd-free distros
without-systemd.org
looks like more than 100 to choose from, up to you to decide what qualifies as 'lightweight'
10 • @9 Fair point (by Brenton Horne on 2018-03-26 06:59:21 GMT from Australia)
Fair point, but some require compiling, others have tiny repositories (and yes Jesse reviews a few from time to time it might be good to have reasonably-sized repos), small communities (including dev communities, to fix packages when issues occur, also minimal help in the case of problems, granted he's likely to be able to fix many of them, but we all need help from time to time), strict on open-source (e.g. Parabola), bleeding edge (as opposed to conservative like Jesse wants), etc. But I take your point well, there are more than I probably thought of, I was really thinking of more well-known ones. Thanks for correcting me, if I ever get the itch to kick systemd to the curb I'll know of more options :).
11 • Package lists on Distrowatch (by Andrew Yeomans on 2018-03-26 08:45:20 GMT from United Kingdom)
Many thanks for all your work collating the package lists.
Would it be possible to additionally upload the "raw" full package lists, such as generated by "dpkg -l"? That would allow people to manually compare the other packages that you don"t track in your database.
12 • Old vs New, SysV init - Init's alive (by Alexandru on 2018-03-26 09:13:18 GMT from Romania)
I voted "I evaluate each on a case-by-case basis", because I didn't find the more appropriate option. I don't try new software for the sake to see what it has to offer. I only use new software alternatives when they have a feature I need, which is not available in old software and has no visible regression from old one.
I want to praise Jesse for involvement in SysV Init project. This is the most straight-forward way to support the software. Congratulations!
13 • SysV (by X-Hacker on 2018-03-26 09:15:40 GMT from Greece)
Thank you, Jesse for the beta update, It's essential to keep SysV alive & hopefully it can evolve with a steady pace. Linux is about choices, after all!
14 • Legacy vs. bleeding edge? (by M. Edward (Ed) Borasky on 2018-03-26 10:00:18 GMT from United States)
Are you kidding? I run Arch Linux ;-)
15 • @6 - Void linux is conservative? (by Hoos on 2018-03-26 10:05:51 GMT from Singapore)
Void is a rolling distro and the packages are pretty new, but it is surprisingly stable even if you don't update for weeks, even months.
I installed Void+pre-installed cinnamon from an 11-month old live image, then downloaded and installed all 11 months' worth of updates at one go. It was super fast and problem-free.
Initiating updates in Void does feel like updating a Debian Stable installation - I don't read any update news or warnings, and just update "brainlessly" with a terminal command without needing to do anything else.
On that basis I guess you could consider Void conservative once you've got it up and running the way you like. However, the initial setting up did take some time as I was unfamiliar with it.
16 • @15: Void (by Brenton Horne on 2018-03-26 10:29:35 GMT from Australia)
I've installed Void too, several times too, initial set up was tedious for me too. It was fairly stable, except for two major problems:
* Flatpak had a bug that made it unusable. Tried installing packages with it and it failed. Needed Flatpak as Void's repos were too small to meet my needs. The funny thing is when I went into the #voidlinux IRC channel people were essentially saying if I wanted to use Flatpak I shouldn't be using Void Linux.
* A weird issue with the 4.15.x series kernel wherein while it would boot it would freeze up very quickly and become unusable.
Conservative to me means keeping old, well-tested, yet secure versions of software in its official repos. So I'm using it similarly to the term "legacy", in that way Void isn't.
As for the lack of need of frequent updates I've found Arch is just as safe and easy to update after months of being left to collect dust. Just because it's stable after such a while without updates doesn't mean it's secure to do so. After all some (and after months this would add up to quite a few) updates are security updates.
17 • Happy Voidlinux user (by mcg on 2018-03-26 11:13:57 GMT from Finland)
Voidlinux is not a fork, rolling release, runit, libressl. Extremly fast and stable. xbps pkg manager is fast. Whole installation really takes less space than any other distro out there. I am long time Void linux user and I will never go back to systemd distro. Void linux is best of all! Sure it is not for beginners but even the beginner can install it following the wiki. whats more Void linux community forum is really friendly. Have a nice day!
18 • new vs legacy (by DaveT on 2018-03-26 11:20:04 GMT from United Kingdom)
I have always run debian unstable on my laptops so mainly 'new and cutting-edge' software. The changeover from GRUB to GRUB2 would break my system daily but that settled down and since then nothing has broken in a big way. I dislike bloat so I abandoned KDE and Gnome many years ago.
Everything else runs nicely stable devuan ascii or OpenBSD or NAS4Free.
19 • Void Linux (by nano-me on 2018-03-26 11:57:03 GMT from United Kingdom)
@15,16: I too have started using Void Linux [again] as it offered a flexible way to get Spectre-Meltdown aware verions of Firefox, GCC and a recent [4.14.18+] kernel [compiled with up-to-date GCC]. The Runit init system is robust and accessable. XFCE4 completes. The xbps package manager is as "cool" as Debian's APT.
Of course, I really use a sinit-based init scheme, custom module-free "libre" kernels, Openbox as a DE, etc etc. However the base live XFCE4 system that comes with Void is entirely workable, and I retain the boot-time option of using vanilla Void.
Yes, Void uses a rolling release model. However, I would not call it "bleeding-edge". We are dependent on upstream package creators not releasing "still wet" versions of their code into the wild.
20 • New / legacy (by Bonky Ozmond on 2018-03-26 12:33:08 GMT from Nicaragua)
I generally use new... I use Gentoo / Calculate and void , but i am not someone who updates that regular,, I have rarely had any issues in the last 3 / 4 yrs
I also have a Slackware distro running which is as legacy as it gets and keeps plodding on
I did have Manjaro which did cause me problems a couple of times which was odd as the same updates didnt have same issues with Gentoo
21 • Full package lists (by Jesse on 2018-03-26 13:13:01 GMT from Canada)
@11: "Would it be possible to additionally upload the "raw" full package lists, such as generated by "dpkg -l"? That would allow people to manually compare the other packages that you don"t track in your database."
We have been doing this for a while. In each project's release announcement on our front page there is a link to the distro's "pkglist", that's the full package list. In addition, if you visit a distro's information page, right above the list of tracked packages there is a field called "Full Package List" with links to a full package dump for each version of the distro. Here is the package list for NuTyX 10.1, for example: https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=nutyx&pkglist=true&version=10.1#pkglist
22 • init and Void (by |Jesse on 2018-03-26 13:47:21 GMT from Canada)
@6 "I found the article by Jesse on his init work interesting, I also found it odd that he wasn't contributing code at the GitHub repo for SysV init he set up"
Very early on in development of the fork (on GitHub) I updated the project's page (readme file) to mention all work had been upstreamed and future development was happening there with links to the Savannah repo.
"Likewise I also found it odd that he was talking about how he likes conservative distributions and then mentioned a bleeding-edge rolling distro like Void as being commonplace on his drives."
Void uses cutting-edge packages, but its approach to technology is conservative. It's much like PCLinuxOS in that respect. Void doesn't usually have the latest bells and whistles (Wayland, Snapd, etc). It's up to date, but in a technologically simple way. I'd also like to point out I didn't list Void as an example of a conservative distro, I listed it as an example of a low-resource system.
23 • systemd vs other init (by Carson on 2018-03-26 15:23:39 GMT from Canada)
As a user, I've never noticed a difference when using one distro with a traditional init, and another with systemd. It boots, I see my login manager, and then I'm in.
24 • INIT (by rel on 2018-03-26 15:53:27 GMT from United States)
Jesse,
Kudos for picking up the torch for SysV init... may it have many years of life ahead of it.
Is there a way to donate a specific amount to your efforts (one time), other than the patreon method?
rel
25 • Many a question of Distrowatch doesn't offer sufficient choice of answering to (by Gerhard Goetzhaber on 2018-03-26 16:18:39 GMT from Austria)
The current poll appears outstandingly tricky:
1. As far referring the basic system, me, I always try to get the latest version run, and this is even more true concerning the very latest kernel available from a certain distributor by fairly easy installing - which opinion exactly originates my clear current preference to Fedora Rawhide.
2. Regarding the great modern desktop environments' sad tendency towards endless imperfection, I have found my personal golden way with Xfce, evenly on my powerful workstations. I will never leave!
3. What belongs to certain software packages I frequently use, more and more I have come to compiling their most recent versions at least into rather conservative distributions (as for example OpenSUSE Leap) from source. For I have seen this better done with RPM based distros there is one more reason for me to prefer Fedora and SUSE before Debioids.
26 • Init software (by Jesse on 2018-03-26 16:21:03 GMT from Canada)
@24: Yes, indeed. If anyone wants to send a one-time donation they can send it to my e-mail address through PayPal. Anything going to jsmith at resonatingmedia dot com will come to me. Thank you.
27 • Bleeding edge or conservative approach? Difficult to answer (by Jyrki on 2018-03-26 17:10:27 GMT from Czech Republic)
I like it the way Void does it. Apps are up to date but technologically it's matured and proven. But I don't like their package manager (pacman rulez) and also they don't have enough apps in repos too.
As for destkop I left KDE long time ago and I use Xfce everywhere. It's flexible, customisable enough, it's rock stable and easy to use.
As for init - I always favoured bsd style init (not the one used in Slackware, I loved init in the good old Arch), I use OpenRC nowadays.
Since Manjaro openrc is dead, I run Artix on all PCs but some thing break from time to time, last time it was networkmanager so I am seeking an alternative.
I tried DragonflyBSD on some machines and I like it more and more.
28 • New or legacy software? (by Sam Crawford on 2018-03-26 17:35:16 GMT from United States)
I've settled on Debian stable as my operating systems, especially as I run it on a laptop, as well as a desktop, and i just works.
That said I run Chrome that gets updated often, and a few backports. So I guess I like a stable OS but current software for programs I use daily.
29 • Absolutely Both (by Carl on 2018-03-26 17:47:17 GMT from Austria)
I've tried to avoid KDE as much as I could some time ago. Gnome was a no-go, stumbled over XFCE, didn't like it, Then LXDE, tried to like it but it felt quite a bit outdated. Now I am back to KDE with the upcoming openSuse Leap 15.0. Fastest boot times I have seen so far on any KDE based system and surprisingly stable. Never liked their Tumbleweed approach though - alpha testing is not my thing. My approach is to stay conservative with the OS but selectively install the newest versions of some programs as deemed necessary.
Maybe there is someone out there who can answer the following queston: Fedora and openSuse used to be amongst the major distros for a long time. But lately both of them dropped dramatically in the DistroWatch ranking. Any clue why?
30 • Support SYSV development (by Kingneutron on 2018-03-26 17:50:26 GMT from United States)
If you don't like SystemD (like me) I'm only working part time at the moment but I can afford $5/month to support Jesse's efforts. I switched from AntiX to MX17 and it's running well with ZFS -- and no systemd. Join up with the rest of us and help Jesse out!
31 • cutting edge (by Tim Dowd on 2018-03-26 18:28:10 GMT from United States)
I answered "evaluate each on a case-by-case" but I mostly want to stick with software I know and have used as long as possible. I only want to upgrade if there's been a major bug fix or a major advance in functionality. In the past 5 years for me that's been exactly two things: XBMC/Kodi as it has gotten more and more stable and LibreOffice5. Other than that my MATE desktop in 2018 looks a lot like my GNOME desktop in 2012. For me that's a positive thing.
32 • The Poll doesn't have my answer! (by Gary on 2018-03-26 18:33:21 GMT from United States)
My answer isn't up there. My answer would have been to get the best software that is able to do the thing I need it to do, legacy or not. I feel that I am in the majority here if people had been offered that option. Someone might have said that i could have pick a certain option, and that would have been close enough. But, that would be like an airline in Los Angeles saying to me that the closest they could get me to Miami is Atlanta. That is still too far away, in fact, not even close.The polling options don't come close to my answer (how I feel). So, I couldn't participate in the poll this week.
33 • Your Review on NuTyX and Jesses'opignon about sysV (by Tnut on 2018-03-26 18:42:04 GMT from Switzerland)
In behalf of my team, I would like to thanks you for this very honest and very true test on NuTyX. It's realy appreciate. Here are a few comments on my side:
- the install-nutyx script can in fact be used without any option which in that case will install in the default folder "/mnt/hd", using the stable branch, download from the standard depot server., installing the standard set of packages.
- The website is render by cards software as well that's why we enjoy this packages searching tool
- The issue with password will be fixed this week ;) thanks for reporting
- Thanks for reporting all the small missings apps they will be added in the next MATE ISO.
- The documentation process is a huge work, It's actually a continue process which can only be done by me it look like.
- Personaly I would like to thanks the team of DW for the amazing work you are doing to publish all thoses reviews.
- And last but not least, Thanks to Jesse for his effort on sysV project, we need that. I will most probably join. Even systemd is bigger, you probably notest they use the same method as sysV
for launching services ... the link :)
34 • new and old packages (by a on 2018-03-26 19:10:58 GMT from France)
It’s strange to add libdvdcss to your packages list when DVDs have been obsolete for quite a few years. Meanwhile I still use gFTP and would use vsftpd if I needed an FTP server... (gFTP isn’t great, though, but I don’t know of anything better.)
35 • @34 Re: DVDs (by Rev_Don on 2018-03-26 20:34:16 GMT from United States)
DVDs aren't even close to being obsolete.
36 • Needed 'feature' (by Kragle von Schnitzelbank on 2018-03-26 20:48:52 GMT from United States)
@16 "Needed Flatpak as …'s repos were too small …" … "… if I wanted to use Flatpak I shouldn't be using …"
…
If you need packages not included in a distro's repository(ies), there are several choices - build from source (and consider contributing packages), import binaries (via ABI adaptation like alien?), or use one of several methods that trade vast storage space for 'convenience' - AppImage (generic), or Flatpak or Canonical's Snap (sandbox-ish, FreeDesktop etc) - by including runtime libraries and other 'standard' features, trying to avoid some dependency issues inherent in complex systems while creating others. Flatpak usage is only one option.
…
If the distro development community in question prefers a more robust, efficient and secure approach, and your priority is that some perceived convenience is more important, then I would agree you should only use other distros that agree with your choices.
Trying to wag a tiger by the tail is just too risky.
37 • @16, @36 (by Hoos on 2018-03-27 04:00:45 GMT from Singapore)
To be fair to @16, Flatpak has a Void wiki entry and would appear to be an all-in-one-bundle+sandbox format that Void accepts.
https://wiki.voidlinux.eu/Flatpak
It's not as if the wiki entry said, DON'T USE FLATPAK!
From my limited use, some Flatpak packages work better than others. I have no idea whether it's the packager's fault or a flaw/weakness of the whole Flatpak system.
38 • Flatpak (by Brenton Horne on 2018-03-27 11:50:27 GMT from Australia)
@37 Ya it does seem odd for a distro to have a package, a wiki entry for the package and yet people say one shouldn't be using the distro if one wants to use said package.
@27 Have you tried just putting up with XBPS? I find if you put up with something long enough it begins to not irritate you as much. XBPS seemed odd to me too but I decided to just deal with it and eventually I got used to it enough for it not to be so bad any more. Some things are nigh impossible to just put up with (like when you've got programs you just have to have) but package managers are seldom ever one of them. XBPS isn't too different from pacman (e.g. they both have syntaxes that take a bit of getting used to, they're both written in C and Shell, they're both very fast), the main difference is that pacman uses just one program (/usr/bin/pacman) to do almost everything (but packaging), while XBPS has several different programs (e.g. /usr/bin/xbps-install, /usr/bin/xbps-query, /usr/bin/xbps-remove, etc.) to do everyday package management stuff. Once you get used to that (which can be simplified by using shell aliases) it's not all that different from pacman.
39 • Artix (by Jake on 2018-03-27 21:02:11 GMT from United States)
@27: Yeah, Artix kind of breaks stuff a lot. I've moved on to Void because of it.
I also hate how their default grub menu is a large resolution (not 640x480) because it forces my VMs to display on a different monitor and doesn't fit into a nice size like my other "app" VMs. They do have some cool tools to build custom ISOs, but it's not documented, and I haven't found where the grub stuff is being pulled in (hopefully they will continue to improve the tool; I still like the idea of Artix and every so often try to make it work again, if only in a VM).
40 • Turning into a bearded sandals and socks guy (by Matt on 2018-03-28 03:45:08 GMT from United States)
I grew tired of trying the latest and greatest software. It wastes my time fixing things. Now I just want a few applications that work. That is why I run Debian stable on every computer I use. Part of that may be due to the fact that the older, stable stuff works a lot better than it did 15 years ago. The other reason is that I am probably slowly turning into one of those grumpy, bearded, sandals-and-socks kind of guys.
41 • @34 & 35 Re: DVDs (by elcaset on 2018-03-28 05:40:36 GMT from United States)
@34 & 35 Agreed, I still use optical discs fairly often watching DVD & Bluray movies, listening to music CDs, backing up data using BD-Rs, DVD-RWs, etc. Way more reliable for me than using hard drives & SSDs for backup.
42 • First stupid Distrowatch poll I've seen (by ned on 2018-03-28 08:03:10 GMT from Austria)
Just leaving a choice between the options
* new
and
* legacy
.....
how about
* working
??
Or would that be too revolutionary?
43 • Legacy (by Nick on 2018-03-28 09:51:48 GMT from United States)
I use SysV init for my daemon processes systemctl will never be on any of my systems until force.
As for KDE - I was forced to use plasma 5 because kde 4 broke down too much and is no longer maintained.
So in short - I use legacy for as long as I can until I see it as too much work to fight for.
44 • @34 @40 and happy to hear about Jesse's work (by StephenC. on 2018-03-28 19:48:37 GMT from United States)
@34 CDs and DVDs are a long, long way from being obsolete. Especially if you are dealing with someone like "Janitor Joe down the street" who works a minimum-wage night job and can't get email to work because Windows keeps crashing. Even peripherals like thumb drives never seem to cross their radar. They take it for granted that TV shows have lots of exciting computer magic used by smart people with lots of money, but never imagine that a lot of it could be possible at their own level.
@40 Somehow that happened to me also. I run Debian stable + some AppImage apps and everything else rarely gets beyond experimental VMs.
Best wishes to success in Jesse's work on SysV init.
45 • legacy vs new (by Jordan on 2018-03-28 22:23:06 GMT from United States)
Hey, today's new is tomorrow's legacy.
I run the new and take my chances. Within reason. ;)
46 • Sysvinit (by Wally on 2018-03-29 14:54:01 GMT from United States)
Thank you, Jesse, for taking up the maintenance of SysV init. I've drunk the koolaid of systemd because I use RHEL7 at work and Fedora at home primarily. But I also use Devuan on a few systems because I want to make sure I can still use SysV init. I plan on setting up sending a little money for you on an ongoing basis later this week. This will be the first time I contribute $$ to open source development, because it matters so much to me.
47 • SysV Init and bootchartd (by Jake on 2018-03-29 16:51:59 GMT from United States)
I'm not sure if this is a feature of SysV Init or not, but I like the compatibility with bootchartd. It's nice to be able to generate a graphical plot of boot times. I know part of this feature is something that systemd integrated into it, but it's nice.
48 • NuTyx (by RJA on 2018-04-01 16:52:57 GMT from United States)
At a glance, it appears to be another KISS distro from Switzerland, just like good ol' SliTaz!
But the review by Robert Rijkhoff, reported bad documentation, which starkly reminds me of Lunar Linux! (which I didn't even try, because of their bad documentation, IIRC)
It's disappointing that the GUI password utility, don't even point to the correct directory.
This is another distro that deserves a chance.
I would like to see those bugs squished!
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| • Issue 1037 (2023-09-18): Bodhi Linux 7.0.0, finding specific distros and unified package managemnt, Zevenet replaced by two new forks, openSUSE introduces Slowroll branch, Fedora considering dropping Plasma X11 session |
| • Issue 1036 (2023-09-11): SDesk 2023.08.12, hiding command line passwords, openSUSE shares contributor survery results, Ubuntu plans seamless disk encryption, GNOME 45 to break extension compatibility |
| • Issue 1035 (2023-09-04): Debian GNU/Hurd 2023, PCLinuxOS 2023.07, do home users need a firewall, AlmaLinux introduces new repositories, Rocky Linux commits to RHEL compatibility, NetBSD machine runs unattended for nine years, Armbian runs wallpaper contest |
| • Issue 1034 (2023-08-28): Void 20230628, types of memory usage, FreeBSD receives port of Linux NVIDIA driver, Fedora plans improved theme handling for Qt applications, Canonical's plans for Ubuntu |
| • Issue 1033 (2023-08-21): MiniOS 20230606, system user accounts, how Red Hat clones are moving forward, Haiku improves WINE performance, Debian turns 30 |
| • Issue 1032 (2023-08-14): MX Linux 23, positioning new windows on the desktop, Linux Containers adopts LXD fork, Oracle, SUSE, and CIQ form OpenELA |
| • Issue 1031 (2023-08-07): Peppermint OS 2023-07-01, preventing a file from being changed, Asahi Linux partners with Fedora, Linux Mint plans new releases |
| • Issue 1030 (2023-07-31): Solus 4.4, Linux Mint 21.2, Debian introduces RISC-V support, Ubuntu patches custom kernel bugs, FreeBSD imports OpenSSL 3 |
| • Issue 1029 (2023-07-24): Running Murena on the Fairphone 4, Flatpak vs Snap sandboxing technologies, Redox OS plans to borrow Linux drivers to expand hardware support, Debian updates Bookworm media |
| • Issue 1028 (2023-07-17): KDE Connect; Oracle, SUSE, and AlmaLinux repsond to Red Hat's source code policy change, KaOS issues media fix, Slackware turns 30; security and immutable distributions |
| • Issue 1027 (2023-07-10): Crystal Linux 2023-03-16, StartOS (embassyOS 0.3.4.2), changing options on a mounted filesystem, Murena launches Fairphone 4 in North America, Fedora debates telemetry for desktop team |
| • Issue 1026 (2023-07-03): Kumander Linux 1.0, Red Hat changing its approach to sharing source code, TrueNAS offers SMB Multichannel, Zorin OS introduces upgrade utility |
| • Issue 1025 (2023-06-26): KaOS with Plasma 6, information which can leak from desktop environments, Red Hat closes door on sharing RHEL source code, SUSE introduces new security features |
| • Issue 1024 (2023-06-19): Debian 12, a safer way to use dd, Debian releases GNU/Hurd 2023, Ubuntu 22.10 nears its end of life, FreeBSD turns 30 |
| • Issue 1023 (2023-06-12): openSUSE 15.5 Leap, the differences between independent distributions, openSUSE lengthens Leap life, Murena offers new phone for North America |
| • Issue 1022 (2023-06-05): GetFreeOS 2023.05.01, Slint 15.0-3, Liya N4Si, cleaning up crowded directories, Ubuntu plans Snap-based variant, Red Hat dropping LireOffice RPM packages |
| • Issue 1021 (2023-05-29): rlxos GNU/Linux, colours in command line output, an overview of Void's unique features, how to use awk, Microsoft publishes a Linux distro |
| • Issue 1020 (2023-05-22): UBports 20.04, finding another machine's IP address, finding distros with a specific kernel, Debian prepares for Bookworm |
| • Issue 1019 (2023-05-15): Rhino Linux (Beta), checking which applications reply on a package, NethServer reborn, System76 improving application responsiveness |
| • Issue 1018 (2023-05-08): Fedora 38, finding relevant manual pages, merging audio files, Fedora plans new immutable edition, Mint works to fix Secure Boot issues |
| • Issue 1017 (2023-05-01): Xubuntu 23.04, Debian elects Project Leaders and updates media, systemd to speed up restarts, Guix System offering ground-up source builds, where package managers install files |
| • Issue 1016 (2023-04-24): Qubes OS 4.1.2, tracking bandwidth usage, Solus resuming development, FreeBSD publishes status report, KaOS offers preview of Plasma 6 |
| • Issue 1015 (2023-04-17): Manjaro Linux 22.0, Trisquel GNU/Linux 11.0, Arch Linux powering PINE64 tablets, Ubuntu offering live patching on HWE kernels, gaining compression on ex4 |
| • Issue 1014 (2023-04-10): Quick looks at carbonOS, LibreELEC, and Kodi, Mint polishes themes, Fedora rolls out more encryption plans, elementary OS improves sideloading experience |
| • Issue 1013 (2023-04-03): Alpine Linux 3.17.2, printing manual pages, Ubuntu Cinnamon becomes official flavour, Endeavour OS plans for new installer, HardenedBSD plans for outage |
| • Issue 1012 (2023-03-27): siduction 22.1.1, protecting privacy from proprietary applications, GNOME team shares new features, Canonical updates Ubuntu 20.04, politics and the Linux kernel |
| • Issue 1011 (2023-03-20): Serpent OS, Security Onion 2.3, Gentoo Live, replacing the scp utility, openSUSE sees surge in downloads, Debian runs elction with one candidate |
| • Issue 1010 (2023-03-13): blendOS 2023.01.26, keeping track of which files a package installs, improved network widget coming to elementary OS, Vanilla OS changes its base distro |
| • 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 |
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