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1 • physical access (by wlly on 2021-05-31 00:28:56 GMT from United States)
If the bad guys have physical access I'm more worried about recovery, backups etc.
I use complex password just to keep others from accidental mess-ups.
2 • physical access (by papapico on 2021-05-31 01:07:34 GMT from Australia)
important content is encrypted, cases are locked, racks are locked. If someone has physical access to my hardware I am more worried about how they did than what I have on it.
I know my collection of joecartoon and newgrounds flash games are high value targets so I might need to look at a new base of operations. Anyone renting out a volcanic island?
3 • DistroWatch turns 20 (by Bob on 2021-05-31 01:18:51 GMT from United States)
Cheers! My first linux desktop experience was Ubuntu Karmic Koala back in 2009.
4 • Physical Access (by Ken on 2021-05-31 02:26:23 GMT from United States)
Since I am prone to lose things, I've secured my laptop under the assumption that I will eventually lose it. To that end, it uses Libreboot with encrypted boot, full-disk encryption, user account with another complex password, and all of my important files are kept on a Nitrokey with encrypted partition.
5 • DistroWatch Tips and Tricks (by Tech in San Diego on 2021-05-31 04:57:59 GMT from United States)
What a valuable resource! I never knew this existed as it was not obvious to me from the DW home page. I have already found many useful tools in just the short time I have been perusing through it. My "Red Hat" goes off to the entire DW team. Is this something that the DW community can add too?
All the Best!
Tech in San Diego
6 • 20 years (by x on 2021-05-31 05:46:12 GMT from United States)
To all who contributed over the years to make Distrowatch a success, thank you.
My first encounter with Distrowach was the static page. Since that time the content has grown considerably large. The information provided is informative, relevent and usefull. The changes made have kept it viable and I hope Distrowatch continues to add to it's content.
Distrowatch has evolved into a historical record of the open source operating systems and to some degree the programs that have been available over the years. I hope the information never disappears.
Ladislav, Thanks for sharing your initial research. Did you ever think it would become what it is today?
7 • Steamboy?? (by Dave on 2021-05-31 06:13:56 GMT from United States)
Pretty sure a company was trying to make a portable 'Steam Machine' back in 2015ish and I don't think it ever got off the ground. I suppose if Valve is actually doing it themselves this time around, then it will probably happen, but will it be as much of a 'success' as the steam controllers? Hardly anybody uses those. Sometimes it seems like Valve undertakes projects so they can avoid fixing critical flaws in their games.
8 • Thanks Distrowatch (by Karan on 2021-05-31 06:22:16 GMT from India)
Distrowatch reader for roughly 11 years now, Thank you for all that you do...
9 • EndeavourOS & Access (by Someguy on 2021-05-31 06:51:07 GMT from United Kingdom)
Another nice, comprehensive review from Jesse - thanks. Explains why I shall never use it, apart from not liking Arch, pacman, etc - over-convoluted setup and use, bloated, just clumsy and unnecessary.
As for physical access issues, surely you don't expect folks to list their modus operandi on a public website, not even behind an alias?!
10 • Happy anniversary, Distrowatch! (by Dino on 2021-05-31 07:22:23 GMT from Denmark)
Happy 20th anniversary to Distrowatch. It was one of the first websites I turned to when exploring Linux since 2003 (Fedora Core 1), and I still enjoy reading its Weekly every Monday. Thank you so much for your efforts, all of you.
11 • Happy 20th, Distrowatch :D (by A. Dill on 2021-05-31 07:55:45 GMT from Australia)
Happy 20th, Distrowatch :)
1980s Basic, Assembly & Dos was a good start,
after a decade hiatus Win98SE was an ok return,
but since being introduced to Mepis i've been a Foss dude -
and have loved reading DW every Monday for _years_
THANKYOU :D
12 • 20 ! (by frimical on 2021-05-31 07:58:10 GMT from France)
Hello!
20 years already! you're there and we too!
Happy Anniversary and a big thank you!
13 • endeavour os (by vasea on 2021-05-31 08:12:16 GMT from Moldova)
Is it possible to install pamac in endevour os ???
so that it will be a command line package manager with decent syntax + a nice GUI for pacman/aur/flatpak/snap
14 • 20 Years Wow (by kc1di on 2021-05-31 10:04:01 GMT from United States)
Congrats on 20 years of service to the Linux / Open Source community. DW is a great tool to keep track of what going on. Thanks for all the work!
15 • endeavour os (by dooley on 2021-05-31 10:23:43 GMT from Finland)
@vasea
"Is it possible to install pamac in endevour os ???"
Sure it is. Just type: yay -S pamac in terminal.
16 • HBD DW (by fonz on 2021-05-31 10:26:03 GMT from Indonesia)
congrats guys, hoping for more to come in the later years...
also congrats to endeavorOS, ive had a few issues with antergos a while back on separate occasions also failing to install. i do wonder why ante. arch, artix and co offer 'full' ISOs, but forces us to download during installation? shouldnt that be held off til later when we feel like it? why not offer netboot ISOs isntead?
IMHO i feel steam is making a wrong move. nvidia now and gulag stadia are making lots of progress, i was hoping steam would also follow along and blow the others out of the water. welp my guesstimation was off. i dont think ive heard of many praises from steamOS either...
IMHO unless youre wanted by some organization, you dont really have to worry about some stranger danger touching your PC. 'a mans home is his castle', defend it. most countries will defend home owners compared to dumdums. why steal a PC when you can steal a phone? why steal a phone when most users have them locked and tracked? a friend had his phone stolen before, in under 10 min he got it back with the popos, with a ton more locked phones eventually returned...
17 • Endeavor, Security (by eganonoa on 2021-05-31 10:42:19 GMT from Belgium)
I don't use Endeavor, but the review highlighted something that the distros I like do: make minimal changes over the core distribution. I'm a big fan of the way PureOS makes minimal changes to Debian to result in a very function OS that is productive for upstream (by-and-large, those changes highlighted in the PureOS article this week are things that will ship with stock Debian Bullseye but which Purism contributed to). Similar, how you've described Endeavor and the changes since you last reviewed it, evidence an attempt to keep things very simple, take out as much complexity of managing the distro over stock Arch as possible and just provide the few things that set Endeavor apart from Arch (mostly the installer). I much prefer this way of doing things, see it as much more productive that making huge tweaks and fracturing linux further.
On Security I very much like what Ken (No. 4) says, and approach things similarly. At work, it's about ensure that computer that are left at the office are sufficiently secured against break-in and theft, and that travel devices are protected similarly against theft, loss and perhaps tampering (all things that have happened in the past). At home the assumption is similar, frankly. We use a variety of different things mentioned above, and some not mentioned. But what is very surprising to me is the numbers who don't use disk encryption and complex passwords. So much data resides on hard drives (personal data for personal devices, data on others for work devices) that it seems odd not to uniformly use it and ensure computers are actually shut down when not in use so the encryption actually works. I find the obsession with boot speed to be very strange in this regard. I'd much rather everyone wait a minute every day to boot up a work computer, than have instant on because the computer was just asleep or 10 second boot speeds because the disk was not encrypted. Having said all that, none of it actually matters if people walk around with the very same data residing on always on mobile phones!
18 • Security (by dragonmouth on 2021-05-31 12:58:59 GMT from United States)
When I still was a cube rat, it was up to the company to provide and maintain electronic and physical security. And they did. I was given only enough access to do my job. Even if I wanted to, I could not make any changes to the PC.
At home, I do not keep my entire personal life on the computer(s). Any interactions that involve sensitive data I make sure to conduct in person or by landline. If a nogoodnik gained physical access to my computers, the most personal data he would ferret out is my browsing history. Or he could make my PC(s) part of a bot net. But a bare metal re-install of the O/S would remedy that.
"The truth is the idea that physical access automatically leads to root access is overly simplistic and often incorrect."
And it is based on the false assumption that, in a work environment, every cube denizen has the same unfettered access to their computer and its configuration as they do at home. In my experience, corporations lock up the computers used by their employees tighter than the proverbial clam's a**'
19 • Wayland & Endeavor OS (by Veto on 2021-05-31 13:26:02 GMT from United States)
Curious to know if Wayland works well with Plasma on Endeavor and which version of Plasma Endeavor is running. Currently using Neon Testing on a Surface GO, the advantages being Wayland and the very latest Plasma.
20 • Endeavouring (by Tad Strange on 2021-05-31 13:30:11 GMT from Canada)
I'm running Manjaro, just because I'm more comfortable with the more conservative approach to updating, but Endeavour is looking like my #2 as I test it on both an older laptop and in VMs.
To get the automatic desktop resize working for it (and any other Arch where it does not work), make certain that virtualbox-guest-utils is installed and then issue "systemctl enable vboxservice.service" - in your guest, of course.
That is the tl:dr distillate from the Arch wiki
I agree that the lack of the graphical package manager is something of a deliberate oversight in this day and age and cannot understand the stuffy sounding "command line centric" philosophy on its pedestal. This is a desktop OS. Even though I tend to use CLI to do updates, I find yay and pacman less than friendly for searching, and prefer pamac for that.
Otherwise, it's certainly a nicer install than Arch. I've only done the online one, since I prefer Plasma, though their XFCE layout looks fine.
21 • Tips and Tricks (by Jesse on 2021-05-31 14:12:10 GMT from Canada)
@5: For those unfamiliar with the Tips and Tricks articles (along with other resources), please check out the main menu under the Tutorials and Learning section.
We do welcome guest articles which share tips, especially if they are broadly applicable (ie not limited to working on just one distribution). You can learn more about sending us articles, reviews, tips, etc on our Contributing page:https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=contributing#writing
22 • Happy 20th DW! (by Rick on 2021-05-31 14:53:30 GMT from United States)
All the best to Jesse and staff of DW. My first encounter was in 2006 when I tried Linux for the first time, Ubuntu 5.10 Breezy Badger. Went from there to Linux Mint MATE in 2011 and then now all my laptops are running MX Linux 18.3./19.3 with the MATE desktop. DW keep up the great work you do!
23 • Happy 20th (by Geo. Savage on 2021-05-31 15:02:04 GMT from Canada)
@11
Yes, Mepis was the tipping point for me too.
:-)
24 • Congratulations on 20 years (by James LaRue on 2021-05-31 15:35:31 GMT from United States)
It's just possible I've been checking in with Distrowatch for almost the whole time! Thank you for being a high quality source for what's up with Linux. I've leaned on you since Red Hat 8.0... But it was probably PC-LinuxOS that brought me firmly over to the camp. These days, a Chromebook, and ElementaryOS.
May you enjoy another score years of success!
25 • 20 years and counting (by zhymm on 2021-05-31 16:06:05 GMT from United States)
For me, almost daily visits to DW since 2003. For many years DW ably fed my distro-hopping addiction. Nowadays I just want stability with my OS and that's been with MX-Linux the past few years. Thanks to DW for being here as a prime resource for the linux community and may that continue for the next 20+ years.
26 • Two Decades of Learning From This Site (by Otis on 2021-05-31 16:07:22 GMT from United States)
Thank you!
27 • Distrowatch??? Hmmmm.... (by tom joad on 2021-05-31 16:27:34 GMT from Germany)
I truly stumbled across DW during a search back in my Edgy Elf days I believe. Finding the DW page was an immediate WOW! Really. I have been back every week since.
As for access I do full disk encryption using very long passwords.I also encrypt my non operating system zip drives again with long passwords. By doing that I think I may slow down the bad guys, whomever they may be, a bit...maybe a bit more.
Using Linux Mint 19.3 these days, no more hopping. I gotta get stuff done...you know.
28 • 20th anniversary (by David Milovanovic on 2021-05-31 16:58:49 GMT from Serbia)
Happy 20th anniversary! I learned a lot from you guys and I can't imagine my Sundays without reading Distrowatch Weekly. You are doing a great job!
29 • Raiders of the lost ark security (by eee shepherd on 2021-05-31 17:12:53 GMT from United Kingdom)
I have 30 eee pc. Upon which is my treasured collection of nonsense? Good luck.
Also, always claim 'all of the above' to put off less sceptical attackers.
30 • 20 (by Alex on 2021-05-31 21:10:21 GMT from Romania)
Happy 20th, DW, and many years from now on! Thank you!
31 • 20 Years (by Jules on 2021-05-31 23:00:30 GMT from Australia)
Hi,
20 years - great work and really awesome...
Here is to another 20 years..
32 • Happy birthday, long live DW!! (by Daniel on 2021-06-01 01:33:37 GMT from Brazil)
To all you guys that dedicate so much to keep DW online, a big thank you from Brazil! Weekly reading is great because of you guys. Cheers!!!!
33 • tipping point (by zcatav on 2021-06-01 07:56:08 GMT from Turkey)
@23 and @11
For me, Libranet was the tipping point.
34 • Congrats DW! Looking Forward To Another 20 Years! (by Insufficient Funds on 2021-06-01 08:15:48 GMT from Kenya)
Congrats DW. You're something I've been looking forward to every Monday for the last 17 years! Many are the times when I came close to quitting Linux in the early years (anyone remember trying to install and configure Debian Woody?) but DW is one of the reasons I hang in there. Linux has been my main OS for almost two decades now and I love it, something I could never be able to say about that other operating system!
35 • twenty years (by Alessandro di Roma on 2021-06-01 09:03:47 GMT from Italy)
After years of distrohopping, now I'm comfortable with Xubuntu, but I still read DW every Monday, with great interest and pleasure! Many many thanks, and good luck for the next twenty years and beyond!
36 • 20th anniversary (by UnoMas on 2021-06-01 10:18:11 GMT from Spain)
Congratulations, and thanks a lot.
37 • Happy 20th Anniversary !!! (by GB*e on 2021-06-01 10:20:08 GMT from United Kingdom)
Congratulations. A great website and service.
38 • Happy 20th birthday (by TK on 2021-06-01 12:00:20 GMT from Finland)
Twenty years of Great work, Best homepage about Linux distros.
39 • EndeavourOS ZFS? (by Ankleface Wroughlandmire on 2021-06-01 14:19:52 GMT from Ecuador)
If memory serves me correctly, Antergos used to offer a ZFS on root installation option. Is this no longer available in EndeavourOS?
40 • ZFS (by Jesse on 2021-06-01 14:26:27 GMT from Canada)
@39: Yes, Antergos used to offer a ZFS install option. Only for guided installs, not for manual partitioning. However, I could never get it to work, the installer always crashed when I tried to select ZFS on root when setting up Antergos.
Endeavour I don't think offers a guided ZFS on root option. Endeavour uses a different installer which makes the setup much more stable, but it has different features.
41 • "None of the above"??? (by CS on 2021-06-01 15:14:36 GMT from United States)
I'm seeing "None of the above" at 37%. I think a lot of people have encrypted disks and don't realize it, that's how simple it is these days. No good reason to not encrypt your disk.
42 • Re: "None of the above"??? (by Sitwon on 2021-06-01 15:34:32 GMT from United States)
@41: The only "good" reason that comes to mind is to make forensic data recovery easier. In some cases, that might be desirable.
Before I had reliable, automated off-site backups I didn't encrypt my hard drives by default.
Now, my drives are encrypted by default, but I have a couple of systems where I'm more concerned about the data being destroyed than leaked, so those specific disks are unencrypted (the files on them may be encrypted though).
Every choice has a trade-off and understanding your threat model allows you to make intentional choices about which trade-offs you want.
43 • I guard my files with: (by Mike Cebula on 2021-06-01 17:27:45 GMT from United States)
At home, each PC is secured with a user account password. When I travel (pleasure, no business) I take my ThinkPad T430 and swap out the SDD for a 160G encrypted drive that only has Thunderbird and Firefox on it. No personal files. Only takes 10 minutes (5 of which is finding where I last stored the 160G drive). Also temporarily set the power-on password. Works for my peace of mind.
44 • 20th Anniversary (by justanotherDistroWatcher on 2021-06-01 17:47:38 GMT from Germany)
Congratulations guys! This website is one of the best places to look at, when you want to inform yourself about the many different linux/unix-distributions out there.
I switched from Win2K to Ubuntu 8.10 and shortly after tumbled over DistroWatch. Since then I'm a regular visitor.
Thx to Ladislav Bodnar and all the other people, who made DistroWatch, what it is today (Dr. Zhu Wen Tao, Jesse Smith, Robert Storey, Caitlyn Martin and Susan Linton).
Keep up the good work!
45 • physical access (by Keyser Soze on 2021-06-02 00:54:13 GMT from Brazil)
The on-off button of my desktop case broke, so I changed its wire with those of reset button. Now I press reset in order to turn on the computer, and on-off button does nothing. Hopefully I avoid 50% of curious people who may try to turn on my computer while I'm away.
46 • Thank you DW! (by linuxuser on 2021-06-02 08:08:29 GMT from Greece)
I wish you all the best!!
47 • GUI Installer on EndeavourOS (by R Hoagland on 2021-06-02 15:34:47 GMT from United States)
The EndeavourOS team decided not to include Pamac due to previously buggy versions of the software and potential breakage like it has with the upgrade to Pacman 6.0.
48 • Snakes guarding the computer (by Andy Prough on 2021-06-02 16:30:14 GMT from United States)
I've heard of a guy who made a tank for his snakes and put his desktop box in the tank. Snakes like it because it is a source of warmth, and it's a definite physical deterrent against hackers.
49 • Snakes (by Ken on 2021-06-02 22:26:35 GMT from United States)
@48
Modern problems require modern solutions.
50 • @49 Ken: (by dragonmouth on 2021-06-03 13:00:32 GMT from United States)
Whatever works. :-)
51 • snake problem (by Cobra on 2021-06-03 13:11:39 GMT from United States)
@48 How does that same guy get access to his computer inside a tank full of snakes.
52 • A Great 20 Years! (by Landor on 2021-06-04 00:44:05 GMT from Canada)
I forget what article or interview I was reading recently and somehow it was mentioned it was 2001 that it all started. I instantly thought, wow, 20 years, then as all things go, it slipped my mind until I read it this week. I don't comment here much anymore, life has a way of getting in the way at times, but I still look around periodically for everything new that I have no interest in using, but find interesting anyway. :) I have been considering being a bit more active though. I do miss the insight of many of the people who delve into FLOSS as well.
Congratulations to you Ladislav, and everyone who has played any part of a role in keeping this amazing living history of GNU/Linux and other systems alive. Your efforts have always been appreciated from my end of things.
Take Care and Be Well,
Landor
53 • Debian Ubuntu Distros falling from grace with users (by Grey on 2021-06-04 15:59:36 GMT from Canada)
In an attempt to be more like a Windows OS ,the Ubuntu based Distros are becoming more and more vulnerable to attacks. Drop the flatpaks, snaps, systemds and return to the stability and security that was once your forte. Stop trying to be Microsoft clones. As demonstrated in Distrowatch, the Debian Ubuntu releases are not just falling, but plummeting in popularity, with those users that once trusted them.
54 • Root Access (by Randy Handsomeware on 2021-06-04 17:17:59 GMT from Germany)
I am no coder, just a humble long time Linux user and wannabe hacker, does fixing some bugs in my installs count? How about a three part end-to-end encryption key for businesses, something like (main key hash)-(corporation ID hash)-(user ID hash)? I mean, we're already tracked by the web giants, why not a have a traceable database for businesses? If two businesses have the same encryption app installed, they can check each other for any communication, request, transaction, etc. This could also prevent the installation of ransomware, spyware, etc, without a valid, traceable key, you are poop out of luck. It may not solve all the problems, but there would be a trail of breadcrumbs. Key spoofing is to be expected, anybody giving out their key would be questioned. I am just tossing around some ideas here, you gals/guys are the IT pros, you figure out the minutia, and if you make some rubles from this idea, have a shot of wodka on me. I mean, what the fruzz are people still running, Windows 98 on old Compaqs?! How on earth are hackers able to gain top level admin access to encrypt whole systems? My neck is so tired and sore from shaking my head, I need a neck brace to hold it up!
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| • 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 |
| • Issue 992 (2022-10-31): Lubuntu 22.10, setting permissions on home directories, Linux may drop i486, Fedora delays next version for OpenSSL bug |
| • Issue 991 (2022-10-24): XeroLinux 2022.09, learning who ran sudo, exploring firewall tools, Rolling Rhino Remix gets a fresh start, Fedora plans to revamp live media |
| • Issue 990 (2022-10-17): ravynOS 0.4.0, Lion Linux 3.0, accessing low numbered network ports, Pop!_OS makes progress on COSMIC, Murena launches new phone |
| • Issue 989 (2022-10-10): Ubuntu Unity, kernel bug causes issues with Intel cards, Canonical offers free Ubuntu Pro subscriptions, customizing the command line prompt |
| • Issue 988 (2022-10-03): SpiralLinux 11.220628, finding distros for older equipment and other purposes, SUSE begins releasing ALP prototypes, Debian votes on non-free firmware in installer |
| • Issue 987 (2022-09-26): openSUSE's MicroOS, converting people to using Linux, pfSense updates base system and PHP, Python 2 dropped from Arch |
| • Issue 986 (2022-09-19): Porteus 5.0, remotely wiping a hard drive, a new software centre for Ubuntu, Proxmox offers offline updates |
| • Issue 985 (2022-09-12): Garuda Linux, using root versus sudo, UBports on the Fairphone 4, Slackware reverses change to grep |
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