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1 • terminal (by Bob on 2021-08-30 00:27:32 GMT from United States)
Termite terminal is a favorite of mine.
2 • Terminal use. (by vmclark on 2021-08-30 01:09:19 GMT from United States)
Don't see a lot of differences between xfce, gnome, kde, etc as far as using a terminal. I use bash, and all my aliases work the same. I do know about the split screen and all the other features. I normally don't use those features.
3 • Terminal (by Guido on 2021-08-30 01:37:37 GMT from Philippines)
At the moment I use Tilix, which has many options for different profiles, tabs, bookmarks etc. But the others are also good.
4 • Linus (by Charlie on 2021-08-30 02:11:06 GMT from Hong Kong)
For someone who are new to Linux, Linus himself seldom writes codes nowadays. His main job is reading mailing lists and doing code review.
Development job of the kernel has been shifted to different dvelopers for a long time.
5 • Where's URxvt (by aaro on 2021-08-30 02:27:58 GMT from Venezuela)
How's that URxvt is not in that list? Got QTerminal? Got Terminology? but not URxvt? Come on!!!...
6 • Micromanagement details are going, thank goodness. (by Greg Zeng on 2021-08-30 03:02:00 GMT from Australia)
With each new technology, Linux included, the pioneers are micro focused. When these details are settled (which terminal, which personnel, etc), automatic details (systems, legal structures, management succession, etc) are automated enough to remove micro uncertainties.
Linux did this well. Will Apple or Microsoft "buy" Linux, the way that IBM bought Redhat? Hopefully, these macro-management details will not kill the philosophical dreams that avoid short term materialism.
Loyalists to Distrowatch now are concerned about the important role that this publication plays in the Linux world. What will happen next, in developments & future management? Are there similar protections?
7 • Which Linux Terminal (by Jules on 2021-08-30 03:16:11 GMT from Australia)
I use Xfce terminal as I like Xfce Desktop Environment as a whole.
When I install a linux distro in a VM with or without Xfce DE,
I always install a Xfce Terminal to see if it runs. If I have issues,
then I throw the towel in.
I am always willing to tryout new terminals where possible.
Gnome terminal is 2nd best favourite.
Cheers
Long Live Linux..
8 • Yakuake & such (by M.Z. on 2021-08-30 03:36:25 GMT from United States)
My main terminal is Yakuake, so I decided to vote for Konsole, which is what it is based on from what I can tell. Maybe not enough for that to not be counted as 'other' in the pole, but I think that could go either way.
@6 "...Will Apple or Microsoft "buy" Linux, the way that IBM bought Redhat?"
Doesn't the entire question miss the point of the GPL software license? What on earth would be the point if it could just be forked by the kernel devs from other parts of the project, given the hundreds of devs mentioned in the QA section? Such a fork would be legally required to maintain a GPL license & organizations like the Free Software Foundation would certainly sue if corporate players tried to keep what was developed in part by the free software community out of the hands of the community.
If contract laws & previous legal precedents involving the GPL mean anything, then GPL software like Linux is distributed under a license that protects the rights of its users to own the code as much as anyone could. So long as there are devs in the kernel team who care about the rights of users to ensure that they can still access Linux, or organizations like FSF who care, or courts protecting licenses like the GPL, users will have access to Linux. If those all magically disappear, you may be too busy with a time machine or space ship or some such thing to worry about that for the moment, or you're in a post apocalyptic wasteland & no longer care anyway.
9 • Guake + Fish Combo (by Jimbo in NZ on 2021-08-30 03:43:34 GMT from New Zealand)
Guake + Fish combo - is the standard for me
Guake is old school HUD style prompt (like Quake).
Fish auto senses better than Bash.
10 • Terminal (by kekePower on 2021-08-30 04:51:27 GMT from Norway)
At the moment I use Kitty. It works just as I like it, has tabs, no annoying bugs, is in active development and is quick enough.
11 • Terminal (by yetanothergeek on 2021-08-30 04:52:22 GMT from United States)
@5: Agreed.
Depending on resources and availability, either rxvt-unicode or mrxvt for me.
12 • Terminal (by Black_Codec on 2021-08-30 05:00:36 GMT from Italy)
I like terminator, tab and multi window on same tab (like tmux with split screen option).
13 • Terminal (by nsp0323 on 2021-08-30 05:02:10 GMT from Sweden)
Voted xterm but, that's not the whole truth, as I use alacritty as well.
14 • Terminal (by adi on 2021-08-30 05:18:31 GMT from Indonesia)
I don't mind what Terminal is as long as it has clean interface and a "paste" on right click.
15 • Terminal (by Romane on 2021-08-30 06:01:03 GMT from Australia)
Xfce terminal. but simply because that comes default with Xfce. Have tried Termit as that came defaulted with one of the distro's have trialed. Have used the standard terminal in KDE/Plasma, and other terminals (just from curiosity) at various times. Only really one thing that can say - for _my use-case_, a terminal is a terminal is a terminal
16 • Zorin (by Valsu on 2021-08-30 06:01:54 GMT from Germany)
As good a distribution as Zorin may be, I really wish they would rework their branding. The default theme is bland and uninspired and their logo - frankly speaking - looks quite amateurish (imo).
17 • Terminal (by Kazlu on 2021-08-30 08:00:19 GMT from France)
I voted Xfce terminal, but a more accurate answer would have been "whatever is my distribution's default". Considering my basic usage of the terminal, I don't really care which virtual terminal I use as long as the job is done. I don't look for alternatives. I manage my wife's computer (Linux Mint MATE) with the default terminal installed there, which is not the same. Absolutely fine.
18 • Debian - Wayland - Gnome (by tomas on 2021-08-30 09:24:43 GMT from Czechia)
I must come back to last weeks' review on Debian.
Some of us here would prefer that the review took some other desktop than Gnome.
Having tested my prefered ones I found out that Gnome seems to be the only one running on Wayland. Those that I have tried run on X.
So I can understand the choice for the review.
On the other hand I'd like to know if there are any distributions running other desktops on Wayland.
There was also some discussion on the role of the installer program.
I was rather surprized to find out that, depending on the media used, giving the same input (whenever asked) I got three quite different results.
19 • Terminal (by James on 2021-08-30 10:01:33 GMT from United States)
I use the default terminal for whatever OS I am using, which right now is the MATE Terminal, default terminal for Ubuntu Mate.
20 • XFCE terminal (by Simon on 2021-08-30 10:01:38 GMT from New Zealand)
I'm interested to see that this is now such a widely used terminal...which (as a guess and also judging from the posts) simply suggests that XFCE is now a very widely used desktop. When I first switched to it, it was a fairly obscure light desktop for people who liked GTK but found GNOME (2 in those days, I think) too heavy. I guess I was still expecting to see GNOME terminal or Konsole as the main terminals because my perception was the GNOME and KDE were still the main desktop environments for Linux...but maybe that's no longer the case? I have noticed XFCE being used more and more as a distro default. Anyway it's been my DE, and its terminal my terminal, for many years now, and across many years on different distros: as others have commented, I like its terminal but am not sure that I'd have chosen it if it weren't part of XFCE. Maybe...it does, like other components of XFCE, feel about right to me in terms of the balance between simplicity and useful features...so maybe if I were cobbling together a GTK desktop from various (not integrated as a DE) bits and pieces, I'd still opt for xfce4-terminal.
21 • zoring (by fonz on 2021-08-30 10:40:41 GMT from Indonesia)
zorin is pretty underrated IMHO, its a much better starting point than most mainstreamers. along with the usual 3 Ms (mint MX, and manjaro) i often also suggest zorin. truth be told i havent used zorin for ages, but i did remember having a better experience than when upgrading ubuntu to 16. oh and look endeavor sharply rose on the PHR, grats to them, i was never lucky when trying out antergos, but hopefully endeavorll actually install (calamares FTW). wonder if haikus ready for noobs too....
back then i used to love terminator because of all the bells and whistles, now im just using boring old st, but with tmux. yeah its like vim, lots of 'unique' defaults, but it does make transitioning (like using another PC) without my configs much easier that way.
22 • Terminal (by Tim on 2021-08-30 12:14:08 GMT from United States)
I have been using zutty for the past couple of months. Prior to it, I had used rxvt-unicode for many years.
23 • terminal (by wally on 2021-08-30 12:53:16 GMT from United States)
I run Mate, so Mate-terminal
24 • Terminal (by Dan on 2021-08-30 13:19:22 GMT from United States)
The different terminals all seem the same to me, but since I use Bodhi Linux, it's Terminology all the way.
25 • Terminal (by Aladár on 2021-08-30 14:37:53 GMT from Hungary)
Other: Tilda drop-down terminal
26 • terminal (by Gavin on 2021-08-30 14:44:20 GMT from Chile)
@5 Quite right. Urxvt on i3 for those of us who live in the shell!
27 • Terminal (by Nathan on 2021-08-30 15:28:25 GMT from United States)
I've been enjoying alacritty on i3 for a while. Never been a fan of built-in tabs and such in a terminal emulator; that's what the desktop's for! My only beef with alacritty is actually with most distros' /etc/profile, which typically have a hardcoded list of acceptable $TERM strings in order to enable certain shell features such as color. Since alacritty is too new to the scene to be part of that elite list, I just export TERM=xterm and call it a day.
28 • Terminal Choice (by sananab on 2021-08-30 15:35:23 GMT from Canada)
I use XFCE terminal even when I'm not using XFCE because it starts up quickly and has a few features involving fonts and colours that I like. There was another one I used to use, but it was written in Java and took a few seconds to start. Things may be different now, though, since it's been a few years since I've tried anything else.
29 • Terminal (by Robert on 2021-08-30 15:46:40 GMT from United States)
I use the guake dropdown terminal. Voted 'other' but I don't know if it runs gnome terminal under the hood or does it's own thing. Similarly I use yakuake when on KDE.
They all run bash (or zsh or whatever) so one terminal emulator is much the same as another as far as I'm concerned. As long as I can get a drop down I'm happy.
30 • Terminal? What terminal? (by Friar Tux on 2021-08-30 16:31:35 GMT from Canada)
And now a word from the other side of the coin. I DON'T use a terminal. Caution:- personal opinion ahead... I think terminals are like jungle drums - old and primitive. I can do more quicker and easier with an app/program than constantly typing commands and hitting Enter (and having one wee typing error screw it all up). In my book, if it can't be done with a GUI, it doesn't need doing. After all, we are in the twenty-first century. There's an app/program for everything. Point and click, the only way to go. /end of rant.
31 • Terminal (by DaveT on 2021-08-30 16:52:44 GMT from United Kingdom)
xterm for routine stuff but I always install the Mate Terminal too for working in multiple terminals controlling multiple servers. You can easily switch between different profiles. I have tried lots of other terminals over the years, Mate wins!
32 • Zorin (by ED on 2021-08-30 17:12:13 GMT from United States)
I tried the latest Zorin. Not bad but Mint is much better and more configurable to mimic Windows, which ultimately is what they are striving for in getting Win users to migrate. Coming along quite nicely though,
33 • Zorin (by Mike Simms on 2021-08-30 17:41:00 GMT from United Kingdom)
I installed Zorin on my Parents PC a couple of years ago and haven't had any major complaints about it from them or complications to deal with. The previous core version which is what they have featured highly integrated emulation for Windows software that meant a program installer would work by simply double-clicking on the EXE and I'm surprised the latest build doesn't.
Regarding Zorin Connect, if you use standard GNOME on any distribution there is an equivalent called GSConnect, it's not quite as polished as Zorin Connect but it works fine. Both interface very nicely with KDE Connect on Android.
34 • terminal (by dave on 2021-08-30 17:43:54 GMT from United States)
used to use xterm or urxvt but when I'm using Xfce (like nowadays) I tend to just use its default terminal.
35 • Terminal (by buckyogi on 2021-08-30 18:52:00 GMT from United States)
Terminator since very soon after I adopted Linux, but a few have been mentioned here I haven't heard of, and I will check them out.
36 • terminal (by Postertom on 2021-08-30 19:22:59 GMT from United States)
MATE terminal is simple but capable. The defaults are just right - setting don't have to be tweaked. System Monitor says that it uses 41 MiB. Is 41 MiB a lot for a terminal?
37 • Terminal (by Tad Strange on 2021-08-30 19:37:04 GMT from Canada)
most popular subject line ever?
I use whatever comes default, which is usually Konsole. I just use it for simple maintenance tasks.
I prefer the old green on black look, personally
38 • The XFCE desktop. (by luvr on 2021-08-30 19:37:41 GMT from Belgium)
@20 I assist four families to maintain their laptops, and after trying out a few distributions, I settled on Xubuntu. Initially, I went for Ubuntu with GNOME2, later on I tried Debian with GNOME2, Debian with XFCE, Mint with Cinnamon, Ubuntu with Unity. I quickly dropped Ubuntu with Unity, since that got the least favourable reaction of them all.
One of the issues that mainly elderly people seemed to have, was understanding the directory hierarchy (or "folder" hierarchy, if you will). They kept getting confused about the idea of having folders containing folders containing more folders, etc. They kept asking me where again their "Documents" or "Videos" or their "Holiday Videos" were to be found, and I really couldn't keep coming up with inspiration to explain the hierarchy to them in yet another way, in the hope that they would finally understand.
Then I decided to try XFCE for a change, to see how they would react to that. I placed the "Directory Menu" item on the panel, and casually mentioned it to them when I introduced this new desktop environment to them, ... and lo and behold: the directory hierarchy suddenly caught on!
Personally, I had never thought much of that "Directory Item" until then and I found it superfluous, but out of curiosity, I began to use it too, and frankly: it's a great idea once you get used to it!
Lastly, about the choice between Debian with XFCE and Xubuntu: they found Debian quite nice, but when I introduced them to Xubuntu, it really wowed them.
39 • Terminal (by Alessandro di Roma on 2021-08-30 20:33:36 GMT from Italy)
I use Xubuntu with all the Xfce tools, included Xfce Terminal, with one exception only: as a file manager I like Nemo more than Thunar because its integrated search capability.
40 • Terminal (by Daniel Martinez on 2021-08-30 21:17:37 GMT from United States)
I chose Konsole in the poll because I mainly use KDE. But I'm not partial to any particular terminal emulator, just what ever works.
41 • Default terminal (by Frenchie on 2021-08-30 22:11:53 GMT from France)
I mostly use Linux (Ubuntu) as an enduser environment at home. So i rarely need to open a terminal. I mostly do so just for fun, to do stuff i can and most usually do with the default graphical tools.
Consequently the default terminal app (GNOME Terminal) is just enough for me. And probably for any user. After all, what you need most to run a shell is the shell and command manual pages. Any kind of Unix/Linux shell will probably run with the default terminal app of any desktop environment.
You probably only *really* need to use another app :
- if you are a shell power user (then you may find specific splitiing-screen terminal apps more convenient than running several windows or tabs of the default terminal app)
- or if you need to connect to some very exotic systems like old-technology mainframes (they often require specific page mode terminal emulators, but i donot know if there are open source tools of this kind on Linux because my colleagues who work on mainframes use commercial Windows terminal emulators).
42 • XFCE (by Mike Simms on 2021-08-30 22:38:32 GMT from United Kingdom)
@38 check out Zorin Lite. It may be a handy alternative to have in your collection for introducing new users to linux and assisting them going forwards. It's based on the same K.I.S.S. principles as Zorin Core but uses a highly polished XFCE desktop environment (it actually makes XFCE look modern)
43 • AlpsOS (by namish on 2021-08-30 23:45:31 GMT from Canada)
AlpsOS - nice Debian-based distro by a techish company. Though its only included "security" features seem to be Firefox ESR & a couple of encryption apps.
44 • Terminal (by Beastie on 2021-08-30 23:56:16 GMT from Switzerland)
I don't use the Xfce desktop anymore (switched to LXQt) but I kept using xfce4-terminal in drop-down mode as my default terminal. I just works and it's really convenient.
45 • Terminal (by Al Per on 2021-08-31 01:58:03 GMT from United States)
I think that the terminal subject is related to the Destop Environment preferred which in my case is Xfce. I have a multi-boot setup which also includes OS's with Mate or KDE (I definitely can't stand Gnome; it's too rigid to my taste) and in each of them I add both the Xfce4-terminal and Thunar without deleting the original terminals (mate terminal or Konsole).
I like KDE, but my complaint with it is that Dolphin can't run as root whereas Thunar can.
I like the Mate Desktop too, but as I keep my personal files in an external disk, I've found that Thunar presents this disk in a handier position (more easily accessible) than Caja does.
46 • openSUSE has Dolphin running as root, it's SYSTEM > File Manager Super User Mode (by SlantFan on 2021-08-31 04:53:15 GMT from United States)
The KDE version of openSUSE has Dolphin running both as the regular user as well as the root user. You go to the System menu and it's called File Manager Super User Mode. It's very handy and I use it frequently.
47 • Another vote for mate-terminal (by AdamB on 2021-08-31 05:36:06 GMT from Australia)
Most of my machines with a Desktop Environment are running MATE, and I am very happy with mate-terminal. One of the choices on my multi-boot machine is Q4OS-Trinity, and I use Konsole on that, though I have to do some configuring to make it work in a familiar way.
There are circumstances where I regularly use a "real text console", directly or indirectly:
- accessing any machine via SSH;
- accessing virtual machines which are running a GUI-less server distribution;
- temporarily connecting a keyboard amd monitor to one of my Raspberry Pis which are running Raspbian Lite.
48 • Happy 30th Birthday Linux! (by penguinx86 on 2021-08-31 10:13:49 GMT from United States)
I use Xfce terminal with Linux Mint Xfce. I like Linux Mint because it's the only distro that works with the Wifi adapter in my laptop. I would consider using other distros, if they provided better laptop hardware compatibility.
49 • Which terminal do you use? (by R. Cain on 2021-08-31 10:58:15 GMT from United States)
guake.
50 • Re: Poll (by Dave on 2021-08-31 13:33:18 GMT from United States)
In Linux I used Gnome Terminal, because my desktop is Gnome. Terminal is okay, but I so wish it were more like iterm2 that I use on my MacBook.
51 • Why emulate when you could use hardware? (by Kyle on 2021-08-31 14:06:21 GMT from United States)
This week's poll reminded me of a YouTube video, "Using a 1930 Teletype as a Linux Terminal" by CuriousMarc. He built an interface device to convert between low-voltage RS232 and high-voltage Baudot, started a terminal session on the serial port, and had a working mechanical terminal. It was horribly limited by the character set, but it worked!
As for me, I usually stick with whichever software terminal emulator integrates best with my desktop environment. Lately, that has been KDE Plasma and Konsole. I did recently give Alacritty a try, and while I admire its simplicity, it didn't offer as pleasant of an interaction with the GUI as I have come to expect from windowed terminal emulators.
52 • Terminal (by far2fish on 2021-08-31 14:28:38 GMT from Denmark)
Terminator or Gnome Terminal.
53 • Terminal (by Tony Agudo on 2021-08-31 17:17:46 GMT from United States)
As I like to use MATE as a preferred desktop environment, I use MATE Terminal with a green on black theme, so I voted "other". It would be nice though to have a login session option rather than a keystroke to bring up the text console for those times I wanna work with zero graphical distractions.
54 • terminal emulator (by Trihexagonal on 2021-08-31 17:26:36 GMT from United States)
I use urxvt as a terminal emulator and have an instance open with the desktop that stays open as long as it's up.
When I compile ports I exit Fluxbox to the login terminal and work from there.
55 • Konsole (by Mike Simms on 2021-09-01 18:56:38 GMT from United Kingdom)
I use Konsole very occasionally which is standard for KDE Plasma. I tried Yakuake in the past as an autostart item but didn't really need drop down access to a terminal running all the time on my machine so ditched it.
I don't mind switching tty and using terminal itself but it is more comfortable for me to use Konsole now for the reason below.
The font used in any terminal or emulator window is more important to me these days as I've lost sight in one eye. I have settled on the Airbus cockpit derived B612 Mono font. It has very clear and easily distinguishable glyphs and decent spacing which means I'm not straining to read it with the sight I have left in the other eye.
56 • no love for CRT? (by Laubster on 2021-09-02 00:16:18 GMT from United States)
I love running "cool retro term" for my terminal app. Its appearance closely resembles hardware I used decades ago.
57 • CRT (by Mike Simms on 2021-09-02 00:44:58 GMT from United Kingdom)
If I could, I would use something like that. However, I still have the real thing in the attic and drag it out occasionally to make sure it's not rotting up there and to have a bit of fun with it. An AMSTRAD CPC6128, that consumed some of my misspent childhood and taught me programming via the instruction manual games and also some magazines written specifically for it. CPC World and AMSTRAD Action...
58 • CRT (by Tad Strange on 2021-09-02 14:21:19 GMT from Canada)
Ah, a great reminder of why I junked that old gear and never looked back. They were bad enough back then, never mind now when I'm into progressive lenses.
Must admit that I never gave Zorin a look. I tend to take a hard pass on these "commercial" distributions.
I spun up a VM of Core and of Lite and through the lens of a new user, they both seem to get one going.
I had previously been playing with Mint XFCE and Theme Twister on a 2011 Acer Celeron laptop that I just threw an SSD and memory at to make it usable. The fake Windows look/feel works well enough, and is good for a giggle, but that's a crutch compared to something that has been well thought out to provide a smooth platform transition.
Well done.
59 • Mint and themes... (by Friar Tux on 2021-09-02 17:00:19 GMT from Canada)
@58 (Tad) "I had previously been playing with Mint XFCE and Theme Twister..." Twister must only work with XFCE as I'm on Mint/Cinnamon and can't seem to open it. HOWEVER, I do use the Oomox Theme Builder on Cinnamon and love the results. I absolution despise those ugly dark grey themes trending these days. Quite hideous looking. I prefer a bit of colour. Oomox does a great job and I wouldn't be without it. (Though, if you want more prominent borders, you'll manually have to edit the .css, .scss, and .xml theme files.)
60 • @59 (by Tad Strange on 2021-09-03 13:26:45 GMT from Canada)
Yes - Twister is an XFCE only thing. I had been trying it on the Raspberry Pi and figured I'd give it a go on x86. It's really a gimmick, unless you like Windows and Mac desktops throughout the past 25 years. I tend to prefer Plasma desktop anyway these days.
I'm on the fence with dark themes. Whatever it is, it has to be easy on the eyes, so far as eyestrain goes. Too dark is just as bad as too light.
The neutral, more corporate grey, type (generic 1990's desktops) might have been dull and industrial looking, but they certainly were kind to the retinas.
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| • 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 |
| • Issue 1124 (2025-06-02): Picking up a Pico, tips for protecting privacy, Rhino tests Plasma desktop, Arch installer supports snapshots, new features from UBports, Ubuntu tests monthly snapshots |
| • Issue 1123 (2025-05-26): CRUX 3.8, preventing a laptop from sleeping, FreeBSD improves laptop support, Fedora confirms GNOME X11 session being dropped, HardenedBSD introduces Rust in userland build, KDE developing a virtual machine manager |
| • Issue 1122 (2025-05-19): GoboLinux 017.01, RHEL 10.0 and Debian 12 updates, openSUSE retires YaST, running X11 apps on Wayland |
| • Issue 1121 (2025-05-12): Bluefin 41, custom file manager actions, openSUSE joins End of 10 while dropping Deepin desktop, Fedora offers tips for building atomic distros, Ubuntu considers replacing sudo with sudo-rs |
| • Issue 1120 (2025-05-05): CachyOS 250330, what it means when a distro breaks, Kali updates repository key, Trinity receives an update, UBports tests directory encryption, Gentoo faces losing key infrastructure |
| • Issue 1119 (2025-04-28): Ubuntu MATE 25.04, what is missing from Linux, CachyOS ships OCCT, Debian enters soft freeze, Fedora discusses removing X11 session from GNOME, Murena plans business services, NetBSD on a Wii |
| • Issue 1118 (2025-04-21): Fedora 42, strange characters in Vim, Nitrux introduces new package tools, Fedora extends reproducibility efforts, PINE64 updates multiple devices running Debian |
| • Issue 1117 (2025-04-14): Shebang 25.0, EndeavourOS 2025.03.19, running applications from other distros on the desktop, Debian gets APT upgrade, Mint introduces OEM options for LMDE, postmarketOS packages GNOME 48 and COSMIC, Redox testing USB support |
| • Issue 1116 (2025-04-07): The Sense HAT, Android and mobile operating systems, FreeBSD improves on laptops, openSUSE publishes many new updates, Fedora appoints new Project Leader, UBports testing VoLTE |
| • Issue 1115 (2025-03-31): GrapheneOS 2025, the rise of portable package formats, MidnightBSD and openSUSE experiment with new package management features, Plank dock reborn, key infrastructure projects lose funding, postmarketOS to focus on reliability |
| • Issue 1114 (2025-03-24): Bazzite 41, checking which processes are writing to disk, Rocky unveils new Hardened branch, GNOME 48 released, generating images for the Raspberry Pi |
| • Issue 1113 (2025-03-17): MocaccinoOS 1.8.1, how to contribute to open source, Murena extends on-line installer, Garuda tests COSMIC edition, Ubuntu to replace coreutils with Rust alternatives, Chimera Linux drops RISC-V builds |
| • Issue 1112 (2025-03-10): Solus 4.7, distros which work with Secure Boot, UBports publishes bug fix, postmarketOS considers a new name, Debian running on Android |
| • Issue 1111 (2025-03-03): Orbitiny 0.01, the effect of Ubuntu Core Desktop, Gentoo offers disk images, elementary OS invites feature ideas, FreeBSD starts PinePhone Pro port, Mint warns of upcoming Firefox issue |
| • Issue 1110 (2025-02-24): iodeOS 6.0, learning to program, Arch retiring old repositories, openSUSE makes progress on reproducible builds, Fedora is getting more serious about open hardware, Tails changes its install instructions to offer better privacy, Murena's de-Googled tablet goes on sale |
| • Issue 1109 (2025-02-17): Rhino Linux 2025.1, MX Linux 23.5 with Xfce 4.20, replacing X.Org tools with Wayland tools, GhostBSD moving its base to FreeBSD -RELEASE, Redox stabilizes its ABI, UBports testing 24.04, Asahi changing its leadership, OBS in dispute with Fedora |
| • Issue 1108 (2025-02-10): Serpent OS 0.24.6, Aurora, sharing swap between distros, Peppermint tries Void base, GTK removinglegacy technologies, Red Hat plans more AI tools for Fedora, TrueNAS merges its editions |
| • Issue 1107 (2025-02-03): siduction 2024.1.0, timing tasks, Lomiri ported to postmarketOS, Alpine joins Open Collective, a new desktop for Linux called Orbitiny |
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