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1 • Bookmarks (by Donald Sebastian Leung on 2022-02-28 01:24:51 GMT from Hong Kong)
I chose "1KB to 50KB", but only because there's no option to choose "no bookmarks". I currently do not keep any bookmarks in any of my browsers since I do not need to visit too many different webpages and to keep my system clean.
2 • Bookmarks/Favorites (by Otis on 2022-02-28 01:28:53 GMT from United States)
I've had the same 25 bookmarks for years in my home browser. Pretty low file size. But material for my projects has collected ten times that now.. so.. still just the poll's minimum in size.
3 • Bookmarks (by DaveW on 2022-02-28 01:40:46 GMT from United States)
I have 1.5 MB of bookmarks, but thinking about it, there are probably only a couple dozen or so that I use regularly, or actually need. I could clean most of them out, but with a 1 TB disk there is no space problem, so why bother.
4 • Deleting ResierFS from the kernel (by Alarmed on 2022-02-28 01:46:02 GMT from Canada)
Was alarmed to see under the news section, that consideration is being given to removing support for ReiserFs from the kernel.
To answer the question posed - yes, I am very happy with a FS that has consistently proven to be stable and reliable for me over the years.
In comparison to ext4, I find more usable space provided on my drive.
The main area of concern is reliable recovery from power outages compared to ext4.
Perhaps the real answer is to put the PC on a UPS, but since this is not a regular thing, and has worked reliably for me, not about to change.
If I were to change, it might be to switch to an SSD and use Samsung's open source filing system for SSD's (sorry - brain freeze. Can't remember the name).
Re alternatives:
BTRFS - Recall there were issues with data corruption and at one time Redhat dropped support while Suse chugged along with it. Think it might have been a RAID issue (since resolved?).
ZFS - Now supported under Linux, but I don't know enough about hard drive space requirements etc.
Not sure I need many of the features for a single user home PC. The only thing of interest, was previous mention (I think on this site) by a user mentioning prevention of (I think it was called) "bit rot".
Seeing as filing systems are absolutely not my area of expertise, other users/readers comments/suggestions regarding their experiences would be of interest.
If this is not the correct place for the topic (it did show up in the news segment), please point me to the correct one. Thanks.
5 • no bookmarks for me either (by Matt on 2022-02-28 02:17:05 GMT from United States)
I just use duckduckgo to find web pages.
6 • Bookmarks (by Friar Tux on 2022-02-28 02:25:16 GMT from Canada)
I chose "101 kb - 250 kb". I have about 200 bookmarks - tech magazines, news sites, comics sites, music, video, science, sci fi, graphic/artwork, and much, much more. Plus, they are all backed up in HTML format so they can be transferred to other browsers if need be. I used to have a huge physical library (I read a lot), but since we moved into this small apartment (quite willingly) we have had to downsized said library to about 10% of what it was in its glory days. Now I have all that as bookmarks to the needed books/articles/stories/etc..
I can easily understand how one can accumulate a large bookmark HTML file, though maybe not 32 GB worth.
7 • Pop! (by Alan on 2022-02-28 02:37:55 GMT from United States)
If Pop! OS ever become the future of Linux, rest assured I will be long gone and using freeBSD.
Never use a Linux distro with OS in its name!
8 • bookmarks (by Debian-MX-Manjaro User on 2022-02-28 03:14:08 GMT from United States)
I did not vote (Opinion Pool)
bookmarks = none
9 • Bookmarks (by Pumpino on 2022-02-28 03:24:47 GMT from Australia)
32GB of bookmarks? I find that very hard to believe. I thought I have a lot and it's only 80KB. I back them up in HTML format but also use the Eversync plugin to sync bookmarks across computers and to my phone (using the Eversync app).
10 • Bookmarks (by Bobbie Sellers on 2022-02-28 04:45:29 GMT from United States)
Well I have been collection my bookmarks for over 30 years having started on the Amiga and transferred that collection to Linux. A lot of them are obsolete and when i hit one that is I tend to delete it.
bliss
11 • Bookmarks (by Andy Prough on 2022-02-28 05:07:40 GMT from United States)
I like to save the icons with my bookmarks, so the size is closer to 100kb. Not quite up to 32GB yet - that's quite an impressive accomplishment.
12 • Bookmarks (by Simon on 2022-02-28 06:00:05 GMT from New Zealand)
32GB of bookmarks is hilarious and very obviously an error...but how in the name of all that's holy do 27 (18%) of the poll respondents have MORE THAN 5MB worth?!?!
I'm looking at my bookmarks and in addition to dozens of permanent ones organised into folders, I've got dozens more temporary ones just piled up in the "other bookmarks" folder, clearly in need of a tidy up. After decades of collecting them I've really got too many for them to be useful (most of this stuff I'd find just as quickly by typing the unbookmarked site names and/or keywords directly into the search bar)... and yet, like Jesse, I'm still in the 1-50k category: how on earth can so many people have OVER 100 TIMES MORE?!?!
Aside from browsers with really shockingly inefficient ways of storing bookmarks, the only thing I can think of is that some people collect things like journal articles as bookmarks, using their browsers instead of reference management software to grab hundreds and hundreds of links organised into research categories or whatever. Otherwise, I just don't see how anyone could consider OVER 100 TIMES MORE than the huge collection of bookmarks I'm looking at here to be a manageable, reasonable amount...let alone 18% of the poll respondents. Maybe Firefox is nice and efficient at storing them, and other browsers suck at it?
13 • Bookmarks (by Tony on 2022-02-28 06:16:34 GMT from Bulgaria)
I gather bookmarks for 11 years already and the complete size of the HTML file is 4.5 MB, including the website icons. Also in browsers like Palemoon searching using keywords/tags is possible.
14 • Bookmarks and review (by nsp0323 on 2022-02-28 07:15:56 GMT from Sweden)
No bookmarks here.
Why reviewing something that was released in December 2021? For the first time in years, jumped over the whole section. Didn't bother to read it.
15 • Bookmarks (by Marc on 2022-02-28 08:09:26 GMT from Belgium)
I use ZOTERO.
https://www.zotero.org/support/adding_items_to_zotero
*****
Saving Webpages
With Zotero, you can create an item from any webpage by clicking the save button in the browser toolbar. If the page isn't recognized by a translator, you'll see the gray webpage icon. If the page does have a recognized translator, you can force Zotero to save a Web Page item instead by right-clicking (click-and-hold in Safari) on the Zotero save button and choosing “Save to Zotero (Web Page with/without Snapshot)”
If “Automatically take snapshots when creating items from web pages” is enabled in the General tab of the Zotero preferences, a copy (or snapshot) of the webpage will be saved to your computer and added as a child item. You can also save a snapshot with this setting disabled by right-clicking (click-and-hold in Safari) on the Zotero save button and choosing the relvant option. To view the saved copy, double-click the item or the snapshot in Zotero.
Double-clicking a Web Page item without a snapshot in your library will take you to the original webpage. Double-clicking a Web Page item with a snapshot will display the snapshot instead. You can also visit the original webpage by clicking the ”URL:” label to the left of the URL field in Zotero's right-hand pane.
*****
16 • ReiserFS (by A on 2022-02-28 08:57:55 GMT from United Kingdom)
Didn't Hans Reiser kill his wife? If he hadn't named the file system after himself, it might still be active today - but who wants to participate in the development of a file system named after a murderer? Get it out of the kernel and into the history books. There are vastly superior and less morally questionable file systems out there.
17 • Bookmarks (by Someguy on 2022-02-28 10:39:21 GMT from United Kingdom)
Changing my entry to 251k - 500k from unknown. Took a while to find the relevant file - not under Firefox, nor Mozilla but ffbookmarks - all very confusing! Thousands accrued over ~10yrs. Some priceless, some irrelevant - too tedious to edit on a 1Tb drive!
18 • Pop OS (by Hank on 2022-02-28 10:58:46 GMT from Finland)
POP OS
I popped in to take a look popped off again very quickly.
All flash no go,
sluggish and even worse at memory hogging than ubuntu with pure gnome.
19 • ReiserFS (by Alexandru on 2022-02-28 10:59:33 GMT from Romania)
Totally agree with @4. I am happy with ReiserFS.
- Compared with BTRFS (both based on beta-trees), ReiserFS is much more reliable when a recovery is necessary.
- Compared with Ext4, ReiserFS has better optimization of space usage and object search time in case of deep folder hierarchy or large number of files.
- Compared with ZFS, ReiserFS is much more flexible. Foe example, a ReiserFS filesystem can be shrunk to make room for one more partition, multiple ReiserFS partitions can co-exist on the same storage without difficult administration. There are more examples.
20 • Bookamarks (by James on 2022-02-28 12:55:02 GMT from United States)
28.3 K, but that is for 4 browsers on three different laptops.
21 • ReiserFS (by Samuel on 2022-02-28 13:36:34 GMT from Switzerland)
@16 Why do you care about Reisers private life and not about his FS? If, tomorrow, Linus kills his secretary, will you trow the entire kernel in the bin?
22 • bookmarkOS (by Trihexagonal on 2022-02-28 14:02:25 GMT from United States)
I have a different array of bookmarks on each machine. Among them only a few that I visit on a regular basis.
This being among a small number of sites I bookmark and can visit on any machine I use,
@7 "Never use a Linux distro with OS in its name!"
You mean like TrueOS? BTWOS, whatever happened to thatOS?
It vanished into the VoifOS and LessOS ghosted himself.
DanceDanceDanceOS! Do the limbo in limbo, jimbo, and I'll do the Eagle Rock,
23 • Pop! (by Corny on 2022-02-28 14:51:07 GMT from Philippines)
Pop_OS! is, as noted in the review, a cutified name for Ubuntu with a bunch of Gnome extensions added, one of those distros that base themselves on Ubuntu and/or Gnome and then go on to complain about Ubuntu and/or Gnome. The adjustable dock is just the dash to dock extension, which I use on my Ubuntu and EndeavourOS installs. To give them their due, the Pop Shell extension seems to be an in-house creation. Of course, that is also available for any distro running Gnome. Material Shell is another shell extension available for those who need or use tiling. The 21.10 release (reviewed) will lose support along with Ubuntu 21.10 in July of this year. I'll wait and see how they do after moving on to free themselves from Gnome and GTK as they've claimed to be working on.
24 • PopOS (by Any on 2022-02-28 15:46:11 GMT from Spain)
I had it on my new laptop with Kubuntu and Windows. But when upgrading from Pop 21.04 to 21.10 it deleted my GRUB and installed its boot loader without any message. And only booted to Pop, no Kubuntu, no Windows. No, thanks. My computer is my computer and I decide what and how to install it. No Pop, no OS, Debian please!
25 • ReiserFS (by Otis on 2022-02-28 15:51:38 GMT from United States)
@21 I, like many others, avoid that system for the reason of his behavior. As to your question: "Why do you care about Reisers (sic) private life and not about his FS? If, tomorrow, Linus kills his secretary, will you trow the entire kernel in the bin?" we'll cross that bridge if and when we come to it. No diversion needed, it's about boycotting a known bad person.
26 • Pop! (by falcon52 on 2022-02-28 16:06:36 GMT from United States)
Pop!. Tried it a couple of times. Sluggish and gimmicky! I won't be trying it again. On the other hand, I've been playing with MassOS and found it very interesting. My first flatpak experience. I'm using it right now. Almost simplistic installation and pretty darn fast.
27 • Cringy parsing of HTML (by Sitwon on 2022-02-28 16:42:47 GMT from United States)
I can kind of get why you took the approach you did to parsing the HTML bookmarks file, but it's a very cringy approach.
HTML is a context-free grammar, and you're using tools intended for processing regular grammars.
Any valid-yet-unanticipated occurrences of ", , or a newline character will break the parsing causing the result to be either corrupted or incomplete.
It would have been better to use tools intended for dealing with the context-free grammar, rather than ham-fisted line-oriented sub-string matching.
An example would be XMLStarlet (assuming it was valid XHTML, if not there are tools to convert HTML to XHTML, or to parse HTML directly), or export the Bookmarks as JSON instead and use JQ.
For instance, Chrome stores bookmarks as JSON and the following will extract them as pairs of titles and URLs without worry about unexpected characters appearing in either field.
$ jq '.roots | ..children | . | {name: .name, url: .url}' <.config/google-chrome/Default/Bookmarks
Using regular-grammar tools to parse context-free grammars is a leading cause of bugs, including security vulnerabilities.
28 • Bookmarks and ReiserFS (by Robert on 2022-02-28 16:50:59 GMT from United States)
On bookmarks, I have 2. 1 for a Google docs spreadsheet and one I don't even remember and so probably don't need. Might even be one of those preset bookmarks.
On ReiserFS, I don't particularly care if it stays or goes (for now), but I think other points brought up for its removal include it being an old version (I guess there's a Reiser4 and Reiser5 that were never mainlined), and it not being Year 2038 compliant.
29 • Bookmarks (by HiThere on 2022-02-28 18:02:42 GMT from Spain)
If I export my bookmarks from Firefox the file weights 5.9 MB. If I import that file to Chromium and export again the bookmarks from this browser, the files weights 1.2 MB.
Will I have to vote twice?
30 • bookmarks (by Titus_Groan on 2022-02-28 18:13:34 GMT from New Zealand)
total bookmarks =7
1 was created by distro at install.
5 created by Mozilla/fFirefox itself.
1 actual bookmark
obviously, not a big user of bookmarks.
31 • Why reconstruct a database (by RoestVrijStaal on 2022-02-28 19:27:35 GMT from Netherlands)
The Q&A section of this issue made me chuckle.
Pale Moon, Basilisk & Firefox already use a database: places.sqlite in the profile folder.
Granted, you do not want to mutate it when the browser is up and running and it contains a lot more data than just the urls with their name (I'm dying to know the use case of the rev_host-column in moz_places-table) but you do not need to export stuff to HTML and pipe the arbitrary contents through some commands.
Using Chomium-based browsers instead? Look for the JSON-formatted file named Bookmarks in the "profile" -directory of that browser in ~/.config/
Unfortunately LibreOffice does not have JSON-importing yet: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=113974 Converting JSON to CSV and import that CSV would work.
32 • Reiser Filesystem (by John on 2022-02-28 20:36:44 GMT from United States)
It works well.... Recovers well....
Don't fix things that work.
John
33 • ReiserFS (by Simon Plaistowe on 2022-02-28 20:37:59 GMT from New Zealand)
ReiserFS is obsolete by today's standards. Yes I say, remove it from the kernel if it's causing maintenance headaches.
34 • Bookmarks (by Fabio on 2022-02-28 21:33:30 GMT from Italy)
Exported from Firefox 21,1 MB, imported them to Chromium and re-exported 3,8 MB
35 • My bookmarks (by Alex B on 2022-02-28 23:15:24 GMT from Finland)
About 48 megabytes:
File path: ~/Documents/Firefox_bookmarks_2022-03-01.html
Created: 2022-03-01 00:39:37
Modified: 2022-03-01 00:39:40
Characters (without line endings): 50481210
Words: 545003
Lines: 4121
File size: 50487760 bytes
This includes about two hundred folder names (just guessing, I didn't count). Started gathering them at about the same time when the first Firefox version was released.
When backed up in the native json format the file size is only a bit over one megabyte.
36 • Bookmarks (by StephenC on 2022-03-01 00:02:29 GMT from United States)
How large is your bookmark collection when it's exported into HTML format?
Well, if exported to HTML it is about 18.5 MB. My places.sqlite is 5 MB. Using "wc -l" it is just under 6,500 lines. Most of these bookmarks are in folders named after little bits of research in various subjects. Ever few years I delete most of them.
37 • Bookmarks (by Tom on 2022-03-01 08:32:52 GMT from United States)
Since I use a few different browsers, I merged all of my bookmarks into a KeePass database a few years ago. Works really well. The database with somewhere around 1,000 entries is 154kb.
38 • How large is your bookmark collection? (by Roger on 2022-03-01 11:30:06 GMT from Belgium)
How large is your bookmark collection?
I really don´t know and don´t care either, it´s just something I use across all my devices.
I use Firefox and Vivaldi sync for that reason.
Is it really necessary to know that ?
I know aproxelly how big my data is and that because I use a cloud for some five years and by managing that I could reduce the volume and now I am paying only half of previous years.
39 • Why bother? (by Roger on 2022-03-01 11:37:49 GMT from Belgium)
@3 DaveW
My sentiment as well, why bother.
Twice a year I move the folders to my needs up or down in the bookmarks.
Mostly I use Speed dial, those are the ones I use daily.
40 • Bookmark Alternative (by Dennis on 2022-03-01 12:51:46 GMT from Japan)
It's good to see someone mentions Zotero, which is a traditional alternative for browser bookmarks. For those who feel more comfortable with command-line, I would suggest buku (https://github.com/jarun/buku), which can be used cli-only (along with seamless GUI integration).
41 • Bookmarks: (by dragonmouth on 2022-03-01 12:54:09 GMT from United States)
I am an inveterate collector, you might even say a "hoarder". My Bookmarks file is about 18.5 MB so I must have a few thousands of them. The vast majority of my bookmarks are for articles that I will probably never read. LOL I read an article and think "Oh, this might be useful in the future" so I bookmark it. I have some bookmarks (articles) from the mid-2000s. I am in the process of culling them. Any article that is older than 4-5 years, I delete.
Someone mentioned downloading articles directly instead of bookmarking them. My Documents folder, where I store some of my articles, is 4.5 GB and 2,500 files in size. If I downloaded all my bookmarked articles, it is conceivable that my Documents folder could hit 1TB. I will take 18+ MB Bookmarks file over a 1TB Documents folder any day.
Out of the thousands of bookmarks I have accumulated, I use no more than 10 on a regular basis.
42 • Reiser (by Friar Tux on 2022-03-01 12:56:06 GMT from Canada)
@16 (A), et al. I think you'll find, if you do a search of all our present day conveniences and inventions, that the inventors, and builders of those things all had a dark side. Some darker than others. It's human nature. Most of us strive to keep our dark side in check, but not all of us succeed. Thomas Edison, and Henry Ford were two very evil characters. (Google it.) They both destroyed people to gain their wealth. Some of the social programs we have today were first used in Nazi Germany by A.H.. Just because the inventor of something wasn't a decent human being doesn't mean that the invention should be shunned. (And, no, I don't use ReiserFS. My preference is ext4.)
43 • @16 & 26 (by Simon on 2022-03-01 12:57:42 GMT from New Zealand)
A "morally questionable file system"?! Do you think your filesystem might sneak out of your computer and murder someone?!
I don't know Hans personally nor anything about his circumstances or convictions so frankly don't feel any need to judge him...but even if I did and agreed that he was a morally reprehensible person, how on earth would my continuing to benefit from the technologies he invented somehow constitute an endorsement of terrible but unrelated crimes? Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face, if you imagine choosing an inferior technical solution and suffering the consequences of that will somehow stick it to Hans! If anything, continuing to benefit from his labours while he enjoys no rewards from them seems more vengeful. Anyway, it's GPL'd so the name's irrelevant: if anyone wanted to use the technology she or he could simply fork it and call it MorallyDecentFS or whatever s/he felt the need to call it.
It's different if you're e.g. supporting Microsoft by paying for Microsoft products while disapproving of Microsoft morally...but nobody pays for ReiserFS, so what do you imagine as the moral harm from using it? If ReiserFS were a better FS for my purposes then of course I'd use it. I prefer other filesystems for technical reasons, that's all.
44 • Getting a Reise (by Tad Strange on 2022-03-01 13:27:15 GMT from Canada)
I didn't know that ReiserFS was still a thing. It's not been in the news in ages and I figured that technology had marched on.
I stick with my distributions default, since I imagine that the maintainers know more about such things than I do.
45 • bookmarks (by Jeff on 2022-03-01 16:25:41 GMT from United States)
4.7mb is my current collection (probably should weed/prune it).
That so many say they keep no bookmarks and use a search engine to search for the site each time they want to visit it is somewhat baffling to me, I thought the idea behind using computers was to automate tedious tasks so we humans did not need to waste our time.
46 • FS "morals" (by Otis on 2022-03-01 16:36:09 GMT from United States)
@43 c'mon.. my goodness we're talking about boycotting a spectacularly abusive person's work. That's it.
47 • Reiser FS (by jc on 2022-03-01 17:52:21 GMT from Austria)
As I understand it, the suggestion to remove Reiser FS was prompted by another programmer wanting to make changes that conflict with ReiserFS. This seems like a ploy. What beneficial changes would conflict with a working system? Besides does one throw out the baby with the bath water? If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Worst case, if it does get removed, one can use an earlier version of the kerne or perhaps some kind soul will provided the latest kernel with it compiled in..
48 • @43 (by A on 2022-03-01 18:07:50 GMT from United Kingdom)
@43 - "I don't know Hans personally nor anything about his circumstances or convictions so frankly don't feel any need to judge him..."
You don't need to judge him. The judge did that, guilty of murder.
49 • @47 jc: (by dragonmouth on 2022-03-01 18:58:42 GMT from United States)
" If it ain't broke, don't fix it. "
You are forgetting "New and Improved". If it ain't broke, we must break it in the name of "improvements". :-)
50 • Reise of evil (by moralreiser on 2022-03-01 22:40:22 GMT from France)
@16, 26, 43, 46, 47, 48
Agree with @42. Hans Reiser developed ReiserFS while he was on his better side. After his mind snapped, and he committed an evil crime, he was no longer developing it - because he was in jail. So ppl can still benefit from his work without any moral concern.
Should we, today, be boycotting Russian distros & softwares due its agression?
51 • Reising Up FuSsy (by Somewhat Reticent on 2022-03-02 03:28:48 GMT from United States)
Why should software be credited with activities of a contributor? Isn't it FreeD?
(What good does it do to eliminate the possibility of rehabilitation?)
Being feature-complete and well-written does not equal "not maintained".
Are filesystems based on fashion, that must-have "modern"?
Were new versions slandered for such silly foolishness as well?
…
Would it be intriguing to see a performance comparison between, say, Huawei's latest high-end laptop and this M1 - using only FreeD Open-Source, of course?
52 • Reiserfs (by Barnabyh on 2022-03-02 18:17:51 GMT from South Africa)
Does this pertain to Reiserfs only or Reiser 4 as well?
53 • Bookmarks (by Alan on 2022-03-03 02:08:29 GMT from United States)
Are we getting bored or what? Bookmarks?
54 • Bookmarks What: We Are Getting Informed (by marcos on 2022-03-03 08:32:44 GMT from Brazil)
Thanks Jesse & DW
With this info now I know I'm not standing "Out of the Curve" in Bookmarks quantity...
And I'm receiving precious "Q&Answers" showing solutions to my hoarding tendencies...
Thank You All Good People Here.
55 • Bookmarks (by buckyogi on 2022-03-03 16:52:22 GMT from United States)
The home page in all my browsers is a simple html file of bookmarks I created and edit myself in Neovim. It is divided into categories with a list of the categories at the top: click on a category, jump to the links. It gets backed up whenever I do system backups. The file is currently 35kb and 668 lines, but a handful of those lines are blank or markup only. I save the occasional bookmark in the browser itself, but those are of a temporary nature and are usually deleted within a few days; at the moment, there are 6. Any that I decide to keep permanently get added to the html file.
56 • GNOME and...spinoffs? (by Cheker on 2022-03-03 18:48:57 GMT from Portugal)
Quite noble that Pop's devs are trying to create what, in their minds, is "GNOME but good". I think this endeavor is doomed from the start (you're still tied to whatever stupidity comes from that camp). What does it say about GNOME when it needs several extensions to be (kind of?) usable? And then they'll just break 5 minutes from now when you update your system.
We already have two "GNOME but good" DEs - Mate and Cinnamon, and they're far enough from real GNOME that they're usable.
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| • Issue 1103 (2025-01-06): elementary OS 8.0, filtering ads with Pi-hole, Debian testing its installer, Pop!_OS faces delays, Ubuntu Studio upgrades not working, Absolute discontinued |
| • Issue 1102 (2024-12-23): Best distros of 2024, changing a process name, Fedora to expand Btrfs support and releases Asahi Remix 41, openSUSE patches out security sandbox and donations from Bottles while ending support for Leap 15.5 |
| • Issue 1101 (2024-12-16): GhostBSD 24.10.1, sending attachments from the command line, openSUSE shows off GPU assignment tool, UBports publishes security update, Murena launches its first tablet, Xfce 4.20 released |
| • 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 |
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