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1 • Haiku (by brain_death on 2018-11-26 00:38:21 GMT from France)
Does Haiku cover my computing needs? Pull the other one, lol!
2 • Haiku (by Tux Raider on 2018-11-26 01:21:56 GMT from United States)
i have not used Haiku, i tried its parent operating system (BeOS) back around 1998, i will have to give Haiku a spin soon to see how development is coming along,
3 • Haiku (by MikeOh Shark on 2018-11-26 02:19:39 GMT from Czech Republic)
I tried BeOS back when they released the first free to try version. The only positive thing I found was that it supported my 28.8 parallel port Microcom modem. The documentation then was almost nonexistent.
I'm glad to see Haiku will include documentation. Unfortunately, at this late date, it will have to offer something spectacular to catch up with the Linuxes.
4 • Haiku (by Des Lawson on 2018-11-26 03:02:09 GMT from Canada)
BeOS excelled when it came to playing multiple videos simultaneously for example, compared to Windows 9x or whatever we had then. Still, we should encourage alternative approaches like Haiku nowadays, just the same. It is pity BeOS died, but IMO Haiku is strictly a research or hobbyist OS in its current incarnation. Who will keep donating the funds and and/or giving up their life, to alter this situation?
5 • Haiku (by Sherman on 2018-11-26 03:15:27 GMT from United States)
Haiku is different, its a single user OS by default because adding multiple users will break things. Its probably a R2 goal.
I find WebPositive to horribly unstable, I don't use it. QupZilla rocks.
This is a BETA, more work is to be done.
6 • Haiku (by Bob on 2018-11-26 03:22:12 GMT from Australia)
90% of what I and my friends/family do on computer is web browsing and word documents, so yes it does that quite nicely even on old hardware. (if supported)
7 • Haiku empty space... (by v2 on 2018-11-26 04:40:08 GMT from United States)
If Haiku is like Beos, when you maximize a window and then another the tabs should not overlap as much as possible filling the "empty space" so that you have a tab interface to your open applications (similar to current web browsers).
8 • HAIKU (by coss_michael on 2018-11-26 04:45:49 GMT from United States)
I must admit that Haiku has always fascinated me as a concept, but I've never been able to get the system to boot up and I've been trying each time they introduce a new version). I wonder what the secret is...
9 • Default passwords on live media (by Toor on 2018-11-26 07:13:30 GMT from United Kingdom)
"If the user is being asked for a password prompt when running from a live disc, it could probably be considered a bug."
That's true, and it is because the developers are lazy enough to not to clear the user in their copy, before creating the squashed file for the live iso. Non-system users are users created by developers that have user id more than 999. This has to be nullified before releasing the live media.
10 • Haiku & p/w (by Someguy on 2018-11-26 07:54:33 GMT from United Kingdom)
Haiku worked and installed on most of my machines. Note that Jesse has reported failures on his desktop not infrequently recently - time to revamp some of those older boxes under the bed? avoid Intel machines? Greatest attribute of Haiku is that it'll be less likely to be hacked? Maybe!
Yes, more password grief than expected. Linuxes have suffered since inception from developer over-eagerness/blindness leading to user frustration. Time for greater efforts from the inner circle to influence the perpetrators. If users cannot use, developers will never get to be famous (note I avoided the usual phraseology which includes 'rich and....').
11 • Passwords on live media (by Jeff on 2018-11-26 09:09:20 GMT from United States)
When I find a password is required to use a live distro I usually just dump it and move on to the next distro, then in the future if I'm looking for a distro to hop to I don't bother with that distro again.
There are too many distros out there to waste time on poor ones.
If they have done such poor QC that they didn't fix that then most likely the rest isn't much better.
Most developers do not care about the end user, or so it seems.
12 • Haiku (by Jon Wright on 2018-11-26 09:42:46 GMT from Hong Kong)
I appreciate reading about progress on the Haiku and ReactOS projects, and hope Haiku can get another release out the door before, say, the James Webb telescope is operational. But I wish someone other than Jesse would review these two. Predictable reports of showstoppers running on real hardware is like hearing of issues installing solar panels on the White House. Predictable, no info served.
13 • Haiku (by Alexandru on 2018-11-26 10:19:32 GMT from Romania)
Haiku has the traction, especially with recent R1B1 release.
Haiku has much to offer, really. Besides what was already said regarding its speed, light weight, straight-forward installation, configuration, update, install / uninstall of software and documentation, there are some more points.
There is no concept as "maximize window" in Haiku. Instead, the right button rather means "optimize size", which resizes the window sufficiently to show as much of its contents as possible without any scroll.
The BFS file system allows one to define and use properties for each file, which can be then used in searches. Very welcoming feature.
Different OS parts communicate with each other through the same system-wide communication protocol. This enables to expose certain application aspects to scripting API, used by "hey" command.
P.S. Haiku developers and users prefer to name the application icon "leaf", not "feather", admittedly it can be recognized as both.
14 • Haiku, passwords (by Romane on 2018-11-26 10:24:30 GMT from Australia)
Well, downloaded Haiku, and it refused to fully boot. Pulled the USB stick out after about five minutes and held the power button for that mandatory 5 seconds. Also what did boot was v e r y v e r y slow. The idea has great merit, but in application - well, more work needed.
I'm like #11 above - if I boot up on a live disc to be confronted with a login prompt, I immediately hold the power button on the PC for the mandatory 5 seconds, then reboot into my usual system. There is absolutely zero reason to have a login dialogue on a live disc. Be dashed if I am going to waste my time looking on any website for something that should not even be asked.
15 • Haiku network hardware compatibility (by Eric Hawk on 2018-11-26 12:38:58 GMT from United States)
"Driver compatibility is incomplete, and unlikely to cover all kinds of BeOS drivers. 2D graphics drivers in general work exactly the same as on R5, as do network drivers. Moreover, Haiku offers a source-level FreeBSD network driver compatibility layer, which means that it can support any network hardware that will work on FreeBSD."
16 • Passwords on live media (by Pierre on 2018-11-26 13:12:25 GMT from Australia)
this issue does usually occur when the screen_saver kicks in,
and the default password is asked - which is an unknown.
the screen_saver, is of course, set too short, and does kick in
when the installation takes too long to finalize.
- as the machine has slow / older hardware .. ..
17 • Software Tables and Slax (by cydodrone on 2018-11-26 14:23:17 GMT from Canada)
In the software tables on each distro's Distrowatch page, why not have a "default init" Package row instead of "systemd", I noticed Haiku does not use systemd, I'm curious what init it does use. I refuse to follow the herd and use anything with systemd.
Slax is a misnomer now, just a suggestion to the author, rename it to 'Dax' or 'Slaxian'?
18 • init software (by Jesse on 2018-11-26 14:40:03 GMT from Canada)
@17: "In the software tables on each distro's Distrowatch page, why not have a "default init" Package row"
We do, it's right up near the top of the feature list. The table row is called Init Software.
19 • Haiku (by Kevin on 2018-11-26 15:05:57 GMT from United States)
Haiku doesn't meet my needs. Having to choose between it meeting or not meeting my friends and family's needs prevents me from being able to anser this poll. Logic would dictate that it might meet the needs of some of my friends and/or family without meeting the needs of other friends and/or family.
20 • @18 Thank you for answering but... (by cykodrone on 2018-11-26 15:27:11 GMT from Canada)
First of all, I stand corrected, I missed it, but...from the DW Haiku page, "Init Software...other". I am just being lazy, I will dig and find the answer. :)
21 • Haiku exemplifies worst problems of Linux. (by Sanderson on 2018-11-26 15:55:52 GMT from Moldova, Republic of)
Unique. Must be learned. Little software available (yeah, not so much now).
Unfinished.
No reason to switch.
22 • Haiku and Passwords (by Friar Tux on 2018-11-26 16:35:59 GMT from Canada)
I tried Haiku. It was fast and worked quite well. My problem was NO TASKBAR and lots, and lots, and lots of menu chasing. Not very productive in my case.
Also, regarding password prompts on live media:- I do the same as Romane (#14). Hold down the power button for 5 seconds and move on. As Romane stated, there is absolutely NO reason to have a password on a live media. There are plenty of distros to test/play with so it's 'OK, time to move on'.
23 • @21 Sanderson: (by dragonmouth on 2018-11-26 19:53:59 GMT from United States)
Haiku:
"Unique"
May or may not be a problem. Depends on one's point of view.
"Must be learned"
So does every other new O/S that you want to try.
If you use Windows or OS/X and want to switch to Linux, you must learn it.
If you are using Debian and wish to use Slackware or Gentoo, you must learn them. Although all three are Linux, there are enough differences so there is a learning curve.
Whether Haiku is or is not finished is a different question altogether.
24 • @22 - NO TASKBAR (by pogo on 2018-11-26 20:12:22 GMT from Italy)
https://www.haiku-os.org/docs/userguide/en/deskbar.html
25 • Haiku (by Roy Davies on 2018-11-26 21:39:17 GMT from United Kingdom)
Haiku, like React OS, is best described as a work in progress, not yet ready for public consumption.
Needs a LOT more work. Not for me.
#5 refers to Haiku being Beta. Just how long can something remain in that category?
26 • Haiku (by gekxxx on 2018-11-26 22:05:19 GMT from Belgium)
Interesting project. I was reading and fot now there is no flash support. Need that to play my games on Facebook. When support comes I will try for sure.
27 • Haiku GUI (by vongrippen on 2018-11-26 22:26:38 GMT from United States)
One fantastic aspect of the Haiku GUI's use of tabs instead of full width title bars (in my opinion) is that you can move the tab's location by holding shift and dragging. It makes it so that you can effectively have you applications behave as though they are tabs in your browser.
https://www.haiku-os.org/docs/userguide/en/gui.html
28 • RE# 11 Passwords and live media. (by More Gee on 2018-11-27 05:00:55 GMT from United States)
I agree move on, i wasted 2 hours attempting to install Manjaro and I should have tossed it in the trash. Another thing should be the mentioned requirement that wireless setup should be on the iso and state if that the internet is required to install.
I wasted at least 10 minutes each boot for it to try and find the internet without asking. When the live cd would come up you had to manually run a batch file to connect to the internet and download the updated repository to fix all the problems with the installer. After that it did not fix the installer completely, the biggest one was not creating a boot loader properly. The install would just hang up.
When I used the installer the first time it destroyed the mbr, and err 15 the first partition by overwriting without asking and creating another swap on another drive. Don't bother dual booting or using GPT and use the installer. After I got everything back it now it error 15s on the Manjaro but the others work fine.
BTW the password is #5, the distro name. Another thing I am seeing a lot lately is the screensaver kicking in while it is installing and making you use the root password again to unlock the screen and it returns to a timed out installer, another no no in my book. You have to sit there and press a key every minute or so to keep it from crashing.
29 • Haiku for Fun (by Tran Older on 2018-11-27 06:53:12 GMT from Vietnam)
With today's hard disk capacity of 1 terabyte or more, we could have 4 OS on the same computer. Dubbed FOSSIL ( the FOSS implemented laptop), my computer would have enough room for 2 ready-for-productivity OSs and 2 hobbyist OSs, namely Linux, FreeBSD, AROS (Icaros Desktop) and Haiku. The Linux distro of choice would be rolling-release, either Manjaro or siduction, with K desktop and Tweak's Amiga icon theme. The FreeBSD choice would be GhostBSD, with Mate desktop and BeOS icon theme. Qupzilla and LibreOffice would be installed on Linux, BSD and Haiku partitions to provide a unified web-browsing-and-number-crunching experience. Klondike (and probably Wolfenstein) would be on all 4 partitions for a different type of experience. FOSSIL would have a standard sound theme "similar to" Microsoft's Dangerous Animals sound theme.
30 • Haiku (by Vytas on 2018-11-27 07:30:11 GMT from Lithuania)
I would be interested to try Haiku, but it lacks Firefox so probably not.
31 • Haiku (by Trihexagonal on 2018-11-27 20:39:02 GMT from United States)
I have Haiku Live Disks going back to Haiku R1 Alpha 3. I don't get a login screen requesting a password on it or Haiku R1 Beta booting from a USB stick. Only a screen asking what Language to use before loading the desktop on each.
The menu is available by right-click or by using the desktop icons. The number of applications has increased substantially since my Alpha version. Their browser, WebPositive, crashed before loading the full page here or I would have used it to post. I don't get web connectivity out of the box with my Alpha disk but did the Beta. All hardware appeared to be recognized on my Thinkpad W520 with Nvidia Optimus.
Does it meet my needs for a desktop OS? No, I require more out of a desktop but don't see it as difficult to use. I did have a problem getting it to boot a second time from the same USB stick or would have installed it to the HDD for a while before upgrading one of my OpenBSD boxen.
It is still in Beta stage but has moved up from Alpha so I wouldn't count Haiku out yet.
32 • If a distro doesn't make finding a password easy, toss it. (by Thrush on 2018-11-27 22:59:34 GMT from United States)
It looks like whoever puts distros together don't even care if used.
33 • Haiku (by Roger on 2018-11-27 23:24:03 GMT from Belgium)
I used BeOS in 1998 an 1999 without any problems.
Switched to Red Hat and than left Linux for some years because Windows 2000 Pro filled all my needs.
Have lately tested Haiku and don't find it ready for daily use, but I am still following it to see what it can become.
I use Linux Mint with Mate now for years and really like it, so don't think that a switch to Haiku is in the pipeline.
For my accounting I use Win 7 Pro, better support for the printers and scanners.
No Win 10, that's rubbish.
34 • Passwords (by phoenax on 2018-11-28 01:05:38 GMT from Australia)
Hi all, I for one do not consider passwords any use at all on a live distro. The second i am asked for one i immediately reset my computer, dump the wasted disk in the rubbish bin and move on.There are plenty of GOOD distros around that do not ask for passwords....Someone may be able to tell me what is the point of them on a live distro..
35 • Removing non-system users, before creating the live iso... (by Toor on 2018-11-28 08:20:09 GMT from Greece)
In chroot, do
for i in `cat /etc/passwd | awk -F":" '{print $1}'`
do
uid=`cat /etc/passwd | grep "^${i}:" | awk -F":" '{print $3}'`
[ "$uid" -gt "998" -a "$uid" -ne "65534" ] && userdel --force ${i} 2> /dev/null
done
This would remove a user with uid 999 if present, because that uid is preserved for the live cd user.
Some developers have forgotten this or too lazy to do it.
36 • ;Haiku and live passwords (by Gary on 2018-11-28 03:37:11 GMT from United States)
Looked at Haiku many moons ago. Had given up on seeing them again. Too bad they will take another many moons before they catch up with the apps software. Have run across a number of distro's over the past 12? years. Usually try to figure them out. A lot are as Jessie said above or on the website. I WILL check since I've taken the time to download it and make live copy. If not, yep, trash it and usually shy away from that distro in the future.
37 • It's ok (by Kat on 2018-11-29 04:54:00 GMT from United States)
Definitely not something that I'd use on a daily basis. GNU/Linux as a whole suffices for me. I don't see much of a use for Haiku other than hobbyist uses and niche cases. But I'm glad to see it hit beta, I've watched it for quite some time just to see how they're doing with it.
38 • Haiku > file system. (by Yuri on 2018-11-29 05:41:42 GMT from Russia)
Hi.
I heard that Haiku uses unique file system - BFS.
Please, a few words about it.
BFS support tags as in MacOS?
39 • Haiku R1B1 (by oldhw on 2018-11-29 08:38:55 GMT from United States)
Haiku runs well on my 2003 32-bit-only notebook, which has been compatible since at least A4. Hardware support, as noted, is a work in progress. Since Haiku has a 64-bit version available now, I expect hardware support will improve.
40 • Re: Haiku > file system -- Post #38 (by brain_death on 2018-11-29 20:12:38 GMT from France)
@Yuri -- Seems like a good article on BFS...
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/07/the-beos-filesystem/
b(-_-)d
41 • Haiku (by Jumpin jack flash on 2018-11-30 02:41:04 GMT from United States)
An os it is
worth my time though
the jury is out
I don't care that wsn't a true Haiku. This is a distro that proves how easily we all disconnect from mankind on OS needs, well you all at least. No one is gonna abandon Windows 10 for this buggy crap not even in a decade. Be real.
For me, its just damn ugly. If I am gonna fix my own OS bugs, my inner designer wants it to be a little more appealing, yeah yea low spec hardware and never giving up you 32-bit dinosaur, WHATEVER. Look at Apple's butcher to hell BSD, it is a ACTUAL CONTENDER of course the crappiest of them all is king by a wide margin and one reason is.... not systemd its the WAY IT LOOKS. if it looks like windows 2000 people will think it is and yes they are stupid but that's the world we have to share with them. CS majors didn't make anyone nobility now.
42 • hobby OSs (by hobbits on 2018-11-30 04:42:22 GMT from Australia)
Windows & MAC were able to generate user excitement and dev participation in the proprietary world.
Linux was able to do the same in the FOSS world..
OSs - like Haiku, ReactOS, Redox, Minix, etc - have so far been unable to generate much excitement or dev participation.in the hobby world. They need to find an angle to do so if they want to be desktop contenders..
43 • Haiku (by Nathan on 2018-11-30 14:45:54 GMT from United States)
I have enjoyed using Haiku, though since it booted for me I suppose that I got (partially) lucky with hardware compatibility. That said, I never got WiFi working perfectly and connected over ethernet instead. For me, the one dissapointment was that it didn't have audio support on the machine I used.
I am extremely grateful for the hard work the Haiku devs have put in. More FOSS options is always a good thing since variety is a win for users. I like that Haiku is a single-user system, and I would have to run as root to emulate this on a Linux or BSD installation.
The tabs on the windows could work if they allowed tabbing multiple windows Fluxbox style. Even if they didn't, the tabs don't take up more room than a normal window title bar would; they're just visually different. The only UI design choice I disagree with is the application menu. It should be much skinnier - make it a horizontal or vertical bar and it would be golden.
44 • New distro on waiting list - not cool (by TheTKS on 2018-11-30 16:17:32 GMT from United States)
I saw a new distro on the waiting list, Avouch, and went to check their website.
Parts look like a direct lift off of elementary's website, when Loki was the most recent version - going from memory. The website changed around the time of Juno's release.
I'm talking about these sections of text
- near the top, specifically "Open Source", "No Ads. No Spying.", "Safe & Secure"
- lower, "Apps You Need"
Forking an open source distro you like, to offer the same underlying distro with different DEs? OK, fine (although I don't see what they're offering to call this anything other than a vanity distro.)
But taking text from the original distro's website, being too lazy to come up with your own marketing? And they're proud to announce that, per their Nov 26 news. Not cool, and I can't take someone(s) like that seriously.
Here's a question for other commenters: if the original distro's website has changed and archived the old material, is using the original's old marketing text a copyright violation? I noticed that these guys declare copyright at the bottom of their website, but I didn't see any acknowledgement of elementary anywhere.
TKS
45 • copy&past (by SimpleSimon on 2018-11-30 19:33:47 GMT from Germany)
@44 I can't tell you about the situation with the copyright of your question. BUT it's a big difference to copy&past some headlines of functions or for example a big tutorial with about 50000 words.
46 • Avouch, Elementary, @44 (by Angel on 2018-11-30 22:28:29 GMT from Philippines)
Curiosity got me, and I went to look. Indeed Avouch's website looks like a haphazard copy of elementary's. If you look at the link below with Flash disabled, they refer to themselves as elementary in the text, and clicking on any of the "Avouch Applications" listed will take you to elementary's GitHub page for same. Whether legal or not, unless they have permission or belong to elementary, it all seems a bit sleazy.
https://avouch.org/open-source.php
Curiosity also got me to download the Plasma iso. Would not boot on Virtualbox.
47 • Haiku (by GreginNC on 2018-12-01 11:08:14 GMT from Canada)
Personally I had a decent experience using Haiku a couple years back.
I ran it on my laptop multi-booting with Win7 and Slackware.
I played with it quite a bit and the only thing I found that really bothered me was a lot of the software you could install would throw up an error dialog saying the application had crashed, but would work perfectly as long as you didn't click "ok" on the dialog, as soon as you did that the perfectly working application would close.
I had an Hp laptop and had Haiku installed to the HD and never had any issues with wireless networking on that system.
I still hold out hope for the future of Haiku especially since I will never use a system with SystemD so are sure to have to move from Linux eventually and really don't care for BSDs from what experiences I've had with them.
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| • Issue 1151 (2025-12-08): FreeBSD 15.0, fun command line tricks, Canonical presents plans for Ubutnu 26.04, SparkyLinux updates CDE packages, Redox OS gets modesetting driver |
| • Issue 1150 (2025-12-01): Gnoppix 25_10, exploring if distributions matter, openSUSE updates tumbleweed's boot loader, Fedora plans better handling of broken packages, Plasma to become Wayland-only, FreeBSD publishes status report |
| • Issue 1149 (2025-11-24): MX Linux 25, why are video drivers special, systemd experiments with musl, Debian Libre Live publishes new media, Xubuntu reviews website hack |
| • Issue 1148 (2025-11-17): Zorin OS 18, deleting a file with an unusual name, NetBSD experiments with sandboxing, postmarketOS unifies its documentation, OpenBSD refines upgrades, Canonical offers 15 years of support for Ubuntu |
| • Issue 1147 (2025-11-10): Fedora 43, the size and stability of the Linux kernel, Debian introducing Rust to APT, Redox ports web engine, Kubuntu website off-line, Mint creates new troubleshooting tools, FreeBSD improves reproducible builds, Flatpak development resumes |
| • Issue 1146 (2025-11-03): StartOS 0.4.0, testing piped commands, Ubuntu Unity seeks help, Canonical offers Ubuntu credentials, Red Hat partners with NVIDIA, SUSE to bundle AI agent with SLE 16 |
| • Issue 1145 (2025-10-27): Linux Mint 7 "LMDE", advice for new Linux users, AlmaLinux to offer Btrfs, KDE launches Plasma 6.5, Fedora accepts contributions written by AI, Ubuntu 25.10 fails to install automatic updates |
| • Issue 1144 (2025-10-20): Kubuntu 25.10, creating and restoring encrypted backups, Fedora team debates AI, FSF plans free software for phones, ReactOS addresses newer drivers, Xubuntu reacts to website attack |
| • Issue 1143 (2025-10-13): openSUSE 16.0 Leap, safest source for new applications, Redox introduces performance improvements, TrueNAS Connect available for testing, Flatpaks do not work on Ubuntu 25.10, Kamarada plans to switch its base, Solus enters new epoch, Frugalware discontinued |
| • Issue 1142 (2025-10-06): Linux Kamarada 15.6, managing ZIP files with SQLite, F-Droid warns of impact of Android lockdown, Alpine moves ahead with merged /usr, Cinnamon gets a redesigned application menu |
| • Issue 1141 (2025-09-29): KDE Linux and GNOME OS, finding mobile flavours of Linux, Murena to offer phones with kill switches, Redox OS running on a smartphone, Artix drops GNOME |
| • Issue 1140 (2025-09-22): NetBSD 10.1, avoiding AI services, AlmaLinux enables CRB repository, Haiku improves disk access performance, Mageia addresses service outage, GNOME 49 released, Linux introduces multikernel support |
| • Issue 1139 (2025-09-15): EasyOS 7.0, Linux and central authority, FreeBSD running Plasma 6 on Wayland, GNOME restores X11 support temporarily, openSUSE dropping BCacheFS in new kernels |
| • Issue 1138 (2025-09-08): Shebang 25.8, LibreELEC 12.2.0, Debian GNU/Hurd 2025, the importance of software updates, AerynOS introduces package sets, postmarketOS encourages patching upstream, openSUSE extends Leap support, Debian refreshes Trixie media |
| • Issue 1137 (2025-09-01): Tribblix 0m37, malware scanners flagging Linux ISO files, KDE introduces first-run setup wizard, CalyxOS plans update prior to infrastructure overhaul, FreeBSD publishes status report |
| • Issue 1136 (2025-08-25): CalyxOS 6.8.20, distros for running containers, Arch Linux website under attack,illumos Cafe launched, CachyOS creates web dashboard for repositories |
| • Issue 1135 (2025-08-18): Debian 13, Proton, WINE, Wayland, and Wayback, Debian GNU/Hurd 2025, KDE gets advanced Liquid Glass, Haiku improves authentication tools |
| • Issue 1134 (2025-08-11): Rhino Linux 2025.3, thoughts on malware in the AUR, Fedora brings hammered websites back on-line, NetBSD reveals features for version 11, Ubuntu swaps some command line tools for 25.10, AlmaLinux improves NVIDIA support |
| • Issue 1133 (2025-08-04): Expirion Linux 6.0, running Plasma on Linux Mint, finding distros which support X11, Debian addresses 22 year old bug, FreeBSD discusses potential issues with pkgbase, CDE ported to OpenBSD, Btrfs corruption bug hitting Fedora users, more malware found in Arch User Repository |
| • Issue 1132 (2025-07-28): deepin 25, wars in the open source community, proposal to have Fedora enable Flathub repository, FreeBSD plans desktop install option, Wayback gets its first release |
| • Issue 1131 (2025-07-21): HeliumOS 10.0, settling on one distro, Mint plans new releases, Arch discovers malware in AUR, Plasma Bigscreen returns, Clear Linux discontinued |
| • Issue 1130 (2025-07-14): openSUSE MicroOS and RefreshOS, sharing aliases between computers, Bazzite makes Bazaar its default Flatpak store, Alpine plans Wayback release, Wayland and X11 benchmarked, Red Hat offers additional developer licenses, openSUSE seeks feedback from ARM users, Ubuntu 24.10 reaches the end of its life |
| • Issue 1129 (2025-07-07): GLF OS Omnislash, the worst Linux distro, Alpine introduces Wayback, Fedora drops plans to stop i686 support, AlmaLinux builds EPEL repository for older CPUs, Ubuntu dropping existing RISC-V device support, Rhino partners with UBports, PCLinuxOS recovering from website outage |
| • Issue 1128 (2025-06-30): AxOS 25.06, AlmaLinux OS 10.0, transferring Flaptak bundles to off-line computers, Ubuntu to boost Intel graphics performance, Fedora considers dropping i686 packages, SDesk switches from SELinux to AppArmor |
| • Issue 1127 (2025-06-23): LastOSLinux 2025-05-25, most unique Linux distro, Haiku stabilises, KDE publishes Plasma 6.4, Arch splits Plasma packages, Slackware infrastructure migrating |
| • Issue 1126 (2025-06-16): SDesk 2025.05.06, renewed interest in Ubuntu Touch, a BASIC device running NetBSD, Ubuntu dropping X11 GNOME session, GNOME increases dependency on systemd, Google holding back Pixel source code, Nitrux changing its desktop, EFF turns 35 |
| • Issue 1125 (2025-06-09): RHEL 10, distributions likely to survive a decade, Murena partners with more hardware makers, GNOME tests its own distro on real hardware, Redox ports GTK and X11, Mint provides fingerprint authentication |
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