 DistroWatch Weekly |
| Tip Jar |
If you've enjoyed this week's issue of DistroWatch Weekly, please consider sending us a tip.
(Tips this week: 0, value: US$0.00) |
|
|
|
 bc1qxes3k2wq3uqzr074tkwwjmwfe63z70gwzfu4lx  lnurl1dp68gurn8ghj7ampd3kx2ar0veekzar0wd5xjtnrdakj7tnhv4kxctttdehhwm30d3h82unvwqhhxarpw3jkc7tzw4ex6cfexyfua2nr  86fA3qPTeQtNb2k1vLwEQaAp3XxkvvvXt69gSG5LGunXXikK9koPWZaRQgfFPBPWhMgXjPjccy9LA9xRFchPWQAnPvxh5Le paypal.me/distrowatchweekly • patreon.com/distrowatch |
|
| Extended Lifecycle Support by TuxCare |
|
|
| Reader Comments • Jump to last comment |
1 • Opinion Poll (by Guido on 2021-03-22 01:39:22 GMT from Philippines)
I miss an option: I don't use any remote running service or remote machines! This is for me the case. The easier option is probably the laptop or netbook, that you can bring to work and take home.
2 • SHELLS. Closed source, commercial version of ?? (by Greg Zeng on 2021-03-22 01:40:49 GMT from Australia)
> "Access Windows From Any Device"
> "Turn Your Ipad or Chromebook into a Windows PC"
> "Any web-enabled device, ... can connect to Shells."
No mention of Apple, Raspberry Pi, etc. Distrowatch lists 50 "shells", excluding many web browser & VPS products. Seems to me that this commercial product is another version of the standard CLI, VPS, desktop environments, etc.
All products, both commercial & open source, have bugs, versions, limitations, etc. As end-users, we expect these parameters to be explained to us.
3 • Shells - fast setup (by Andy Prough on 2021-03-22 02:20:17 GMT from United States)
@Jesse wrote: "For instance, setting up a new operating system in Shells is faster than doing it locally, either on bare metal or in a virtual machine. There is no need to do the initial configuration and the new operating system is ready within two minutes."
A personalized snapshot of antiX can usually be installed in 2-4 minutes in my experience. A personalized snapshot of MX might take a couple minutes longer, but not much. At least with respect to antiX and MX, there would be no real noticeable advantage in terms of time savings.
4 • Entropy Piano Tuner (by mmphosis on 2021-03-22 03:14:27 GMT from Canada)
The most unusual thing I've done with Linux is use the Entropy Piano Tuner to tune a piano.
5 • Shells - spare Me! (by Bobbie Sellers on 2021-03-22 03:18:52 GMT from United States)
I have not bothered with distributed computing of any sort in the 45 years or so I have
been using personal/home computers. I find the suggestion of moving personal sensitive
material to and from the Shells system is a big security hole and begs for the need to
back up everything that you do there.
I prefer my own choice of OS running on my own computer where the mistakes can
all be blamed on my administrator namely myself.
bliss - “Nearly any fool can use a Linux computer. Many do.” After all here I am...
6 • Strange, unusual and fun (by Gary W on 2021-03-22 03:44:42 GMT from Australia)
...I think so, anyway :-)
I record free-to-air TV with Kaffeine (on a dedicated computer in the "box room"), play back with mpv, and manage with mc. Kodi didn't work for me, when I last tried it. I don't watch it live, I have regular TV hardware for that. Still missing me-tv :-|
As for Shells, yes I can see the benefits, but as a lifetime geek, I'm with @5, I prefer the freedom to mix and match my own choices of hardware and software.
7 • Dumbest Things (by Wedge009 on 2021-03-22 05:10:07 GMT from Australia)
Thanks for being brave enough to share that 'dumbest thing' story. I had a similar experience with DOS, on my dad's computer when I was in early high school or late primary school. USB flash drives were still several years off and portable storage was most commonly 3.5" diskettes, usually mounted as 'A-drive' in DOS.
I wanted to clean up my disk when I was done with my work for the evening, so I wrote 'del *.*'. To my horror, I realised the prompt was at C: instead of A:. Thankfully when my father returned we were able to recover the OS but I learned my lesson. Not quite as dumb as 'rm -rf /*' but pretty close.
I also like the story about replacing the expensive proprietary back-up software. Always fun to show how *NIX can replace Windows. There may be a time and place for Windows software, but a lot of the time it's just a case of being comfortable only with what they are familiar with.
---
Like some others who have commented before me, I'm also don't have any need or want for remote computing so abstained from the poll.
8 • dumbest or possibly weirdest (by Matt on 2021-03-22 05:35:45 GMT from United States)
I uninstalled a running kernel once on a machine that only had one kernel installed. That was probably the dumbest thing I did when learning Linux.
The most painful lesson I learned was not specific to linux:
Years ago, my main desktop computer at work went dead. I assumed that the power supply failed. When the power button was pressed, nothing happened. I hadn't backed up data in two weeks. Rather than trouble shoot anything, I took the hard drive home with me to get the data off it. I opened up my desktop computer at home and installed my work hard drive as an additional drive. When I pressed the power button, nothing happened. My home computer was now dead too.
Somehow the hard drive failed. The failing hard drive somehow caused the motherboard to fail. Now I had two dead computers, and neither one had been backup up recently.
I got prices on forensic data recovery from the broken drive. You'd be amazed at how expensive that is. I decided I'd just lose two weeks of work instead of paying the extreme cost of trying to get the data off the disks.
Ever since then, my work machine uses RAID 1 and I back up regularly.
9 • Shells (by Any on 2021-03-22 05:49:24 GMT from Spain)
Shells - another step to the cloud computing.
No, thank you.
10 • Shells, 5 & 9 (by Someguy on 2021-03-22 07:49:06 GMT from United Kingdom)
Agreed. Nil response in Poll this week. Running several machines with interchangeable drives, swapped, backed-up and cloned regularly - none ever leave my control. Just how difficult is it to carry an SSD on your person if necessary?! 'Cloud' is just a by-word for your data on someone else's server. Don't do it , sooner or later they'll want $$$ or worse...
11 • Shells Remote service. Trust no way. (by Hank on 2021-03-22 08:26:39 GMT from Germany)
For the price of giving my data to a more or less unknown company, having a crappy browser dictated and the monthly bill no way way I would ever use this kind of disservice.
12 • The most crazy task on Linux (by Alexandru on 2021-03-22 09:54:47 GMT from Austria)
It was a time when BTRFS was not available in Linux, but it was era of ReiserFS. Mainstream kernel supported it and I never had any problem with it. At that time much hope was put in Reiser4 filesystem. It never arrive to mainstream Linux, so I downloaded kernel source, Reiser4 patch, applied it and compiled the kernel. But than no Linus installer offered an option to install Linux onto Reiser4 formatted disk.
So I start playing. I divided the hard disk into 2 large partitions and installed Linux on ReiserFS on the 2nd one. Then I put freshly compiled kernel with Reiser4 support, installed reiser4progs and formatted the first partition as Reiser4. I then mounted that partition and copied the whole Linux installation to the 1st partition.
The next problem was no Linux bootloader was able to read Linux kernel from Reiser4 partition. So I formatted small swap partition to ReiserFS, copied kernel and grub configuration to it and configured /etc/fstab to use this partition as /boot. I reinstalled GRUB and viola, it worked!
When I finally could boot into Linux on Reiser4 partition, I deleted large Reiserfs partition where the Linux was firstly installed, created one more small partition for swap and one large partition for /home.
I enjoyed that experience. However I had many other issues with that kernel, so I ended up using mainstream kernel and supported filesystems.
13 • Shells review (by Otis on 2021-03-22 14:46:49 GMT from United States)
After reading all that, and "There are limitations to Shells, such as requiring a quick, stable Internet connection to access it" I truly LMAO.
But, hey, maybe it'll get big like AOL did. For. A. While.
14 • BAD DAY (by Bob on 2021-03-22 14:48:58 GMT from United States)
I accidentally deleted my storage partition with all my docs, music, videos, etc.
PANIC-MODE!
I got on another computer and searched for a solution. I found a way to recover it from the command-line by installing testdisk on a live-linux disk. Worked perfectly. Everything was BACK!
https://www.simplified.guide/linux/disk-recover-partition-table
15 • SSH Tunneling (by Luke on 2021-03-22 14:49:20 GMT from United States)
Great story in the Q&A. I consider myself pretty handy with SSH, but SSH Tunneling is still a bit like black magic to me. I don't use it often, so when I do I have to look up how to use it, whether to use -L or -R, where to start the tunneling process, etc.
Not sure I have any cool stories, except I went through a phase where I put Linux on everything I could. My PS3, a PogoPlug, my router, etc. I ran a super custom version of Arch on my laptop where I ran plain OpenBox and wrote a couple of the GUI tools myself using Python. I still have a couple of those $9 CHIP computers that I've used to set up webservers, openVPN servers, etc.
One of my laptops, on which I was dual-booting Linux and Windows, received almost 32 oz of strawberry lemonade directly to the keyboard about 8 years ago now. It obviously shut itself down, I called it a loss, bought a new computer, installed Linux on the new one, and moved on. But then, on a whim, I tried to turn it on. It worked. The keys were sticky (and a few like Esc don't work), the fans whined, the hinges were a little rough, but it actually worked. But only my main Linux install did. Windows wouldn't boot, my distro-hopping partition wouldn't boot, but miraculously, the laptop worked. It still runs to this day, in fact, and I boot it up once or twice a year, on the rare occasion when I need to use the CD/DVD drive. I think there are probably bad sectors on the RAM and HDD, so it's probably just happenstance that Linux works and not Windows, but it's still kind of a fun story.
16 • Shells... a Linux DaaS solution (by Scott Dowdle on 2021-03-22 17:11:57 GMT from United States)
I was curious as to which remoting protocol (or variant) Shells might be using. Scouring their website revealed nothing... but I did use their contact form to ask. Maybe they'll send me a reply.
I did download their client and run the strings command on it. Nothing really stood out.
I have setup desktop environments on cloud-based systems several times. x2go would be my preferred remoting protocol but it is getting long in the tooth and is lacking in good client support these days. VNC is so close to be usable... especially the noVNC javascript client that runs in a browser... but copy and paste doesn't work, multi-media doesn't work... and neither does remote device access (USB drives, for example). VNC is fine for simple stuff though.
SPICE has been deprecated in RHEL and was mostly only for KVM VMs. I really like NoMachine's products but I wish there were an FLOSS option for commercial use.
17 • Shells... a Linux DaaS solution (by Scott Dowdle on 2021-03-22 17:17:33 GMT from United States)
I heard back from the Shells folks and they say they are using SPICE. So I guess they use the javascript SPICE client as well as a rebranded SPICE client of some sort. Multi-media via SPICE on a LAN is generally fairly good if you have reasonable PC to run it on... but over WAN, it is one of the more bandwidth intensive remoting protocols comparatively.
18 • Remote Computing (by Simon Plaistowe on 2021-03-22 19:54:34 GMT from New Zealand)
I have no need for such, but the poll has no option for that. I prefer to keep my data and backups on local machines. Unless you count MegaSync, which should allow me to retrieve my most important documents in the event of theft, fire, nuclear holocaust or zombie apocalypse :o)
19 • Shells 16 &17. (by Clicktician on 2021-03-22 23:15:03 GMT from United States)
My experience ditto... even down to pouring a 16oz soda on the keyboard of a Thinkpad x230. Yup. Still works. Those things are tanks.
I'm taking baby steps. Have a fast, headless box running VMware I access with AnyDesk ( a NoMachine protocol derivative). It's just, "ok." I'm exploring options for when I'm older and won't be able to own and house whatever machine I want for a variety of physical security and facility policy reasons. I may only have an internet connection and a throw-away device. And in my experience with people older than I am, that is highly likely. Better to acclimate to a solution now, than to be without options later, as most of them are.
20 • Shells (by R. ain on 2021-03-23 03:23:42 GMT from United States)
Yes, I read Jesse Smith's thorough, very-well-done (as usual) review.
Some here have been, rightly or wrongly, less than complimentary.
I will confine my comments to one simple subject: I simply don't see a compelling reason for the existence of this.
What does it "bring to the party". What compelling reason is there to pay for a "service" (or "services") which any fairly knowledgeable user can create / generate for him-/ herself at no cost; have GREATER flexibility (much!); and not continually be worrying about (a) how often this service will be upgraded to provide state-of-the-art capability, and (b) how long this company is going to be in business providing this "service"--the number of 'big names' which have provided hardware and dedicated software, and then--ignominiously--abruptly decided to go out of that particular business, to not support their grandiose "You Can't Live Without This Whatsis" is now legendary. And have, unfortunately, made the lives of people who develop capabilities such as SHELLS much more difficult.
TL;DR--This is a solution looking for a problem. Can't get past that.
21 • No personal use - maybe business (by M.Z. on 2021-03-23 03:44:32 GMT from United States)
So the Shells thing looks a fair bit like the Citrix remote Desktop I use all the time for work. I open up a remote connection to Windows 10 via a corporate VPN & load up all the specialty software needed to do my job. If the Shells website had desktop preset & ready to tweak for specific corporate tasks I can certainly see the utility. Got Geodata to map & do QA on? Start with a preset Shell package that has QGIS & other essentials pre-loaded & allow the client to add other custom software as needed, so they can quickly bring on remote workers as needed. Got a graphic design project? There could be a Shell package with GIMP & other essentials ready to go, with the option to customize a profile that loads other licensed software & deploy to a team at scale, with as many remote Desktop Shells as needed.
All that is to say I could see great utility in this with some modifications & tweaking to meet possible business needs. That being said the personal use cases seem like they would be far fewer & further between.
22 • Shells (by Alessandro di Roma on 2021-03-23 10:13:38 GMT from Italy)
In order to feed my small Internet site with daily data I don't use a remote machine but a dedicated Raspberry Pi in my home, acting as a H24 microserver. By the way, I see the Shells machine have a public-facing IP address, so I wonder if it can run a public web server.
23 • #22 Web Server (by Shane on 2021-03-23 15:58:53 GMT from United States)
Sure can! By default the Shells share an IP address much like how a VPN does, this way it can't be seen whos running what/doing what and there's no logging. For $1 a public facing IP address can be purchased and then utilized and you can run the desktop as a server a well!
24 • Shells... newest incarnation of an old pipe dream (by Sitwon on 2021-03-23 16:45:47 GMT from United States)
Shells seems like just the latest stab at a very old pipe dream: a ubiquitous computing environment that follows you wherever you go and is available from whatever device you have available.
The appeal of this is simple, rather than managing multiple desktop environments, each with it's own interface/quirks, and trying to keep them all in sync... just have one single desktop environment that you can "bring with you" and doesn't need syncing because the state is persistent regardless of how you're accessing it.
OQO tried to offer this way back with their pocketable computing device.
A few other manufacturers tried to offer this with wallet-sized compute modules that would plug into laptop-like and desktop-like docks.
I've personally worked on a few lazy approaches that combined a live computing environment with some portable USB storage.
Ubuntu/MaruOS are working on this in different ways by allowing your phone to be plugged into a larger display and keyboard to become your desktop.
This is what the "convergence" movement in desktop interface design is all about.
Shells is just the latest stab at this, adding in the factor of "the cloud". And it's a perfectly reasonable and natural evolution. We can see the lineage of this in:
1) Streaming gaming demonstrating that the bandwidth for remote computing exists.
2) The legacy of thin-clients and remote computing from corporate environments of old.
3) The very name "Shells" evokes (for those us old enough to remember) the concept of Unix Shells which used to be the way that students and hobbyists would get access to a slice of resources on a Unix-ish computer allowing us to run long-running Internet tasks/scripts (like servers) without tying up the phone line indefinitely (remember dial-up?). Hacker movies from the 90s still referenced "hacking shells", even as actual *nix shells were dying out online in favor of running Linux locally.
This isn't intended to be a solution for everyone, or even most people. Most of us are probably not the likely audience for Shells. But I do think an audience exists for which Shells (or a very similar offering) would absolutely provide value.
A Chromebook user that needs to occasionally run some Windows software, for instance. A developer or team that wants to test their software on a variety of popular platforms without the hassle of setting up, hosting, and maintaining each target environment themselves. Especially for a distributed team, it allows multiple members of the team to share access to the actual environment in which a bug has been reproduced. Or malware researchers who want to execute untrusted software in an inspectable environment with less risk of leaking their identity to the malware author(s).
25 • cloudy shells (by null recruit on 2021-03-24 04:56:07 GMT from France)
old proverb: "shells can be shucked by skilled phishermen."
no thankyou.
26 • PC in the cloud instead of cloud in a PC (by fonz on 2021-03-24 09:07:10 GMT from Indonesia)
awesome weekly, going for something unique and unorthodox. sure some of the more conservative people may judge it harshly, but there are some good uses BTW. theres always an option to not put more private data on it. wonder when some of the bigger thugs might try this...
im still an active beta tester for both gulag stadia and nvidia (cant think of any new name) now, although both arent available in my country. ive got a special pass for a special person. the ETA for a fully global release is like in, around a lifetime i guesstimate. ive also tried and still use steam (also no new name) link and thought it was nice, and wondered if the next evolution was this.
distrotest was awesome where we could try out live distros before putting any effort to install it to our machines. wonder when theyll spice things up and move from using VNCs.
ive always hated the cloud in a PC approach as many things tend to be bult in to the system. like for example trying to remove all those stuff from KDE and numb might bork everything else. luckily smaller DEs like XFCE and LXQT arent too evil. havent tried mate and cinnamon for a long time, but from what ive remembered they too were nicer. wandows OTOH is just pure insanity, with 9000% chance of more insanity with 11...
27 • Ssh tunnels (by Wally on 2021-03-24 20:16:23 GMT from United States)
In a production environment I supported once, we had our appliances dial home to our admin server on-prem. That way, our support personnel could connect to the appliance boxes for maintenance, upgrades, etc. It was required in the contract to our customers that the devices had ssh access to our admin systems back at the mothership.
I used to need tar z mydir/ | ssh servername "(cd /dest/path/ ; tar x )" or whatever the exact syntax would be. It was amusing. An interesting link, but mostly unrelated, about compression speeds/times: https://www.rootusers.com/gzip-vs-bzip2-vs-xz-performance-comparison/. It mattered what compression format I used because of the compute power versus network throughput to the destination.
28 • Shells — Recycled Idea (by missTell on 2021-03-25 06:42:18 GMT from Switzerland)
I forgot what was the exact name of the Magix's “Cloud OS” some 15 years ago, but I remember that it didn't last for long — as well as some dozen of others.
I can imagine a couple of use cases for such operating systems, but because of their price and limitations, they aren't interesting for a wider audience.
In my opinion, that'll not change any time soon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_OS
https://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2008/01/hands-on-with-xios-the-cloud-os-that-runs-in-a-browser/
29 • Ah, memories (by CS on 2021-03-25 20:12:52 GMT from United States)
I did something similar to that, way back in the days of Slackware 4 I think?
cp /lib/libc.so.upgrade /lib/libc.so.oldversion
Learned a thing or 2 that day.
30 • Weird things (by Cheker on 2021-03-25 22:35:44 GMT from Portugal)
Probably the most peculiar thing I've done was live boot into Kali and use dd to make a compressed image of a very old Windows 95 installation that I want to preserve. That PC is probably gonna die any day now. That machine doesn't even have USB ports, I had to connect that HDD to another PC, that's also old but not as much as the 95.
Number of Comments: 30
Display mode: DWW Only • Comments Only • Both DWW and Comments
| | |
| TUXEDO |
TUXEDO Computers - Linux Hardware in a tailor made suite
Choose from a wide range of laptops and PCs in various sizes and shapes at TUXEDOComputers.com. Every machine comes pre-installed and ready-to-run with Linux. Full 24 months of warranty and lifetime support included!
Learn more about our full service package and all benefits from buying at TUXEDO.
|
| Archives |
| • 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 |
| • Issue 1060 (2024-03-04): AV Linux MX-23.1, bootstrapping a network connection, key OpenBSD features, Qubes certifies new hardware, LXQt and Plasma migrate to Qt 6 |
| • Issue 1059 (2024-02-26): Warp Terminal, navigating manual pages, malware found in the Snap store, Red Hat considering CPU requirement update, UBports organizes ongoing work |
| • Issue 1058 (2024-02-19): Drauger OS 7.6, how much disk space to allocate, System76 prepares to launch COSMIC desktop, UBports changes its version scheme, TrueNAS to offer faster deduplication |
| • Issue 1057 (2024-02-12): Adelie Linux 1.0 Beta, rolling release vs fixed for a smoother experience, Debian working on 2038 bug, elementary OS to split applications from base system updates, Fedora announces Atomic Desktops |
| • Issue 1056 (2024-02-05): wattOS R13, the various write speeds of ISO writing tools, DSL returns, Mint faces Wayland challenges, HardenedBSD blocks foreign USB devices, Gentoo publishes new repository, Linux distros patch glibc flaw |
| • Issue 1055 (2024-01-29): CNIX OS 231204, distributions patching packages the most, Gentoo team presents ongoing work, UBports introduces connectivity and battery improvements, interview with Haiku developer |
| • Issue 1054 (2024-01-22): Solus 4.5, comparing dd and cp when writing ISO files, openSUSE plans new major Leap version, XeroLinux shutting down, HardenedBSD changes its build schedule |
| • Issue 1053 (2024-01-15): Linux AI voice assistants, some distributions running hotter than others, UBports talks about coming changes, Qubes certifies StarBook laptops, Asahi Linux improves energy savings |
| • Issue 1052 (2024-01-08): OpenMandriva Lx 5.0, keeping shell commands running when theterminal closes, Mint upgrades Edge kernel, Vanilla OS plans big changes, Canonical working to make Snap more cross-platform |
| • Issue 1051 (2024-01-01): Favourite distros of 2023, reloading shell settings, Asahi Linux releases Fedora remix, Gentoo offers binary packages, openSUSE provides full disk encryption |
| • Issue 1050 (2023-12-18): rlxos 2023.11, renaming files and opening terminal windows in specific directories, TrueNAS publishes ZFS fixes, Debian publishes delayed install media, Haiku polishes desktop experience |
| • Issue 1049 (2023-12-11): Lernstick 12, alternatives to WINE, openSUSE updates its branding, Mint unveils new features, Lubuntu team plans for 24.04 |
| • Issue 1048 (2023-12-04): openSUSE MicroOS, the transition from X11 to Wayland, Red Hat phasing out X11 packages, UBports making mobile development easier |
| • Issue 1047 (2023-11-27): GhostBSD 23.10.1, Why Linux uses swap when memory is free, Ubuntu Budgie may benefit from Wayland work in Xfce, early issues with FreeBSD 14.0 |
| • Issue 1046 (2023-11-20): Slackel 7.7 "Openbox", restricting CPU usage, Haiku improves font handling and software centre performance, Canonical launches MicroCloud |
| • Full list of all issues |
| Star Labs |
Star Labs - Laptops built for Linux.
View our range including the highly anticipated StarFighter. Available with coreboot open-source firmware and a choice of Ubuntu, elementary, Manjaro and more. Visit Star Labs for information, to buy and get support.
|
| Random Distribution | 
Freeduc-Sup
Freeduc-Sup was a French distribution based on Morphix. It was specially designed for use in schools and educational institutions. It also includes a book in French derived from an Linux administration training course.
Status: Discontinued
|
| TUXEDO |
TUXEDO Computers - Linux Hardware in a tailor made suite
Choose from a wide range of laptops and PCs in various sizes and shapes at TUXEDOComputers.com. Every machine comes pre-installed and ready-to-run with Linux. Full 24 months of warranty and lifetime support included!
Learn more about our full service package and all benefits from buying at TUXEDO.
|
| Star Labs |
Star Labs - Laptops built for Linux.
View our range including the highly anticipated StarFighter. Available with coreboot open-source firmware and a choice of Ubuntu, elementary, Manjaro and more. Visit Star Labs for information, to buy and get support.
|
|
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
