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1 • Dahlia (by Nozomu on 2022-04-11 00:21:22 GMT from Japan)
Dahlia has some interesting ideias, looks like a building block.
Thanks for the review.
2 • Fedora to phase out Legacy BIOS (by Yuri on 2022-04-11 00:21:25 GMT from Hungary)
Hope it's only Fedora workstation and Fedora spins won't shoot themselves on both 👣
3 • BIOS (by Mark on 2022-04-11 00:24:54 GMT from United Kingdom)
So Fedora is kicking out the "legacy" Bios, it's a shame there are still some good machines out there Bios only.
Dahlia is something to keep a close eye.
4 • Search for all independent distributions with KDE desktop (by Guido on 2022-04-11 01:22:34 GMT from Philippines)
Better would be this search, which would also include Debian and others.
https://distrowatch.com/search.php?basedon=Independent&desktop=KDE
5 • Fedora deprecating legacy BIOS (by Dave on 2022-04-11 03:24:55 GMT from United States)
Sorry to hear that. I frankly think it’s too soon for that—it seems the first distros to drop 32-bit waited a lot longer than that.
There’s a lot of perfectly serviceable legacy BIOS hardware fully capable of running Linux with good performance.
Probably a good reason to avoid Fedora going forward.
6 • HDD's are what I use (by Trihexagonal on 2022-04-11 05:51:18 GMT from United States)
I have laptops and use mostly Hitachi Travelstar 500GB HDD @ 7200RPM. with one running a Lenovo 100GB HDD @ 7200RPM.
I still have the IBM 13.6GB HDD @ 5600RPM that came in my first PC and used it in a pfSense tower a few years ago.
7 • Drives: other - both (by Someguy on 2022-04-11 06:44:52 GMT from United Kingdom)
Main OS runs on SSD today, rotating tomorrow , both backed-up and reconciled with each other at irregular intervals depending on 'events'.
8 • Drives (by Kazlu on 2022-04-11 08:20:21 GMT from France)
My OS runs on a small SSD, but my data still resides on a HDD. Duplicated on my home server, also on HDD.
9 • Spinning disks and dahlia OS (by Magda on 2022-04-11 08:28:28 GMT from Germany)
Since I like to use older hardware for as long as possible and need to focus on long-term storage with minimal data loss due to storing RAW files, I still rely exclusively on HDD's. Still got a working Seagate HDD with just 40 GB and a crippled Windows XP on it that can be reused for additional backups, though it certainly won't see any other OS running on it anymore – and especially not dahlia OS, which I tested a year ago.
Dahlia OS already was in the exact same state back then, so it appears that the issues from the previous ISO released two years ago (!) weren't fixed at all with the latest release. Personally, I don't get why such distros get submitted to the waiting list when they have just reached their alpha states and simply remain stuck in it whilst already focusing on "branding" (one GitHub repo of the project is labeled "brand"). Nothing against potential commercialization in the future but at this stage it is rather ridiculous and I doubt that this project will ever truly kick off.
10 • Fedora legacy support (by Cyclone on 2022-04-11 09:19:57 GMT from United States)
The whole point of Fedora is innovation and looking to the future. I'm not surprised they are looking to dump legacy BIOS support over the next few years. There are plenty of more appropriate distros for those with aging hardware.
11 • Boot disks and storage disks (by AdamB on 2022-04-11 09:40:32 GMT from Australia)
I have quite a few computers. The newest desktop machines that I have built up, boot from NVME drives. Older machines that have been upgraded now boot from SSD drives.
Some of these desktop machines have mirrored large HDDs for storage; one uses Mdadm, LVM and Cryptsetup; the other uses ZFS (with an encrypted namespace).
I have a machine running Windows 8.1 booting from SSD and with two largish HDDs forming a Storage Space.
I also have a very old machine which now boots from SSD and has an additional 1TB SSD for storage - this machine runs surprisingly well - it is now my multi-boot machine, on which I experiment with Arch, Void and Q4OS Trinity.
In my experience, multi-boot is easier to set up on an MBR machine than on a UEFI machine.
I have a couple of laptops in which the original HDD has died or become unreliable, and has been replaced with an SSD.
12 • Spinning hard drive (by Bob on 2022-04-11 10:30:48 GMT from United States)
Anyone here still running PATA?
I still have one desktop running a 500GB PATA hard drive.
13 • SSD (by penguinx86 on 2022-04-11 10:38:08 GMT from United States)
I've been using 2.5 inch SATA SSDs for over 10 years. All of my computers, except for an iMac desktop, have been upgraded to 240gb or larger SSDs. Installing an OS is SO MUCH FASTER using an SSD instead of a spinning disk. But lots of low end computers claim that eMMC flash storage soldered to the motherboard is an SSD? Give me a break! eMMC storage is slow like a spinning disk. eMMC flash memory has no where near the 500mb/sec transfer rate of a REAL SSD.
14 • Fedora No more legacy BIOS installs (by Hank on 2022-04-11 11:12:18 GMT from Luxembourg)
After some thought,
Fedora will be deprecated and replaced rather than a lot of, reliable in daily use, hardware which still performs well enough, and should still do so for years.
Criteria for retirement, hardware really is defective and beyond economical repair.
Most found defects are either PSU or board capacitors defective, cheap and easy to fix.
Drives are routine replaced with SSD.
I get told older Hardware uses more electricity, true but replacing prematurely costs a whole lot more when
environmental factors are included in the calculation.
15 • Drives (by fps4ever on 2022-04-11 13:58:45 GMT from United States)
My work in IT has much improved as in time saving now that SSDs are mainstream in desktops and servers (at least the OS drives). Every time I work on equipment with spinny disks I'm remined just howe painfully slow they were to work with.
16 • To spin or not to spin...that is the question... (by tom joad on 2022-04-11 15:25:58 GMT from Romania)
Nope. I do SSD's for OS's on my computers. I have some spinners I use for back ups in removable drive bays. Those spinners are in and out and back in the book case.
SSD's seem to be faster, quieter, lighter, cooler while using less energy. And they appear to be just a durable or more so. At least so far I haven't had any issues with them from a technical point of view. I can not say that for the spinners.
I will be taking a look at dahlia too. Maybe it is a better 'mousetrap.' Maybe.
17 • Fedora Can Stick It!! (by falcon52 on 2022-04-11 15:33:06 GMT from United States)
Sorry, Fedora just keeps on giving me reasons to never use that distro again. They lost me at Fedora 5.0. Except for a Vortexbox running on Fedora 23, none of my 35 computers come near Fedora. DNF and Yum are yawningly slow when updating machines. Nope, don't need those guys at all.
18 • Fedora and bios (by Andy Prough on 2022-04-11 17:13:06 GMT from United States)
I'm not real worried about Fedora deprecating legacy bios for the simple reason that I don't think hardly anyone but worker drones who administer RedHat servers are using it these days. Last time I tried it, it was slow and annoying to configure compared to more user-friendly desktop distros. There was no part of it that wasn't faster and more user friendly on Arch-based and Debian-based systems.
If Fedora ever did become popular again, IBM would probably just kill it in an attempt to drive revenue toward RedHat like they did with CentOS.
19 • Spinning... (by Friar Tux on 2022-04-11 17:26:53 GMT from Canada)
Just my experience... when I got this recent laptop, I went for SSD. Not sorry I did. As @16 said - "faster, quieter, lighter, cooler while using less energy". Used to be, with the HDD, the fan would start a few seconds after bootup and power up or power down during the session - which is usually 14 hours long. Now - nothing, unless I'm watching a couple of videos on Facebook Watch (not sure why and don't really care).
And Fedora getting rid of legacy BIOS... I'm with @17 on this. I haven't used fedora in years and have even stopped testing out any new Fedoras that come along. Just not worth my time anymore.
DahliaOS, though, sounds interesting...
20 • deprecating legacy BIOS (by fed on 2022-04-11 20:05:47 GMT from Portugal)
Fedora
Let them do what they like but last time I let them own an entire disk at install time it was a total no sense. Good service to reed people away from Linux in the desktop :(
21 • Spinning disc or SSD (by Otis on 2022-04-11 20:39:15 GMT from United States)
One knows when one has become old, decrepit, behind the times, irrelevant, haggard, out of the loop, etc, when one opines to oneself that SSD is state of the art and used by only oneself and a few forward thinking others, and then one sees in a poll said SSD technology is in over 70% of the machines of those responding.
Pass the Geritol, please. With a chaser of Pepto Bismol. Thank you.
22 • drives (by dave on 2022-04-11 20:41:14 GMT from United States)
I'm still using HDDs in both computers. I bought my first SSD a while back, but never got around to installing it. Just a small SATA drive I was going to use for a mini-ITX project that never came to fruition. Next time one of these computers gets a fresh install, I'll be using it for that and going forward, I will continue to use SSDs for the OS drive, but I will likely continue using HDDs for storage.
I have never cared what Fedora does, so I won't lose sleep over their decisions, no matter how stupid they are-- so long as they keep 10 paces away from whatever distro I happen to be using.
23 • Gebtoo Live in Virtualbox (by TexasJoe on 2022-04-11 21:00:48 GMT from United States)
First try was unsuccessful. Going through the options at boot, I was able to choose the no-fb option. The default option is called gentoo. The other being the -nofb variant; ...Then I was able to take a look. I would not dare to try an install.
24 • Topics (by Cheker on 2022-04-11 21:40:38 GMT from Portugal)
Fedora lives on the bleeding edge, so it's not really surprising that they're occasionally the first to deprecate legacy technology. I wouldn't worry about it, it's unlikely to "spread" to other distros.
I saw an interesting take on slashdot about these same Fedora news. The BIOS has been around for decades. Why is maintaining it a burden? If changes being introduced now to other components break it indirectly, isn't that a testament of a dev's incompetence? Move fast, break everything, habla dabla.
As it stands, for me anyway, SSDs are for operating systems and HDDs are for storing stationary data. With HDDs you not only get more space for X bucks VS SSDs, they also (at least as of recently?) have more longevity. You do have to be more cautious with them, as they're susceptible to impacts, which SSDS aren't (as much?).
25 • Drives (by Alex on 2022-04-11 21:57:24 GMT from Canada)
SSDs all the way for myself, finally got around to getting a M.2 NVME drive on my new build, and debating if I should get a second one, or just a regular 2.5" SATA SSD as my secondary drive. I think traditional HDDs still have their usage (like for archiving) for but day to day usage I can't see why you'd use them anymore, unless you're on a really tight budget, or old hardware that doesn't support SATA/3?
26 • Observing Fedora devs in their ivory tower (by RoestVrijStaal on 2022-04-11 23:38:58 GMT from Netherlands)
It seems Fedora devs love to kill our earth by turning still-working machines into e-waste.
They also think new hardware grows on trees for free at every place on the planet.
27 • SSD or HDD (by Simon Plaistowe on 2022-04-12 02:18:35 GMT from New Zealand)
Well, SSD and HDD in my main laptop. I pulled the DVD drive (which I never use) and mounted the laptop's original HDD in a caddy in the DVD drive bay. Now my primary drive (new SSD) contains Linux Mint and data partitions, while my secondary drive (old HDD) contains the original Windoze 10 (unused except for reference/trial purposes) and a 1.8TB ext4 partition for temporary workspace, TimeShift & BackInTime backups (I also use UrBackup for offsite backups).
28 • Fedora (by penguinx86 on 2022-04-12 03:11:59 GMT from United States)
The only reason I used Fedora was studying for certification exams. After passing the exams, I might not ever use Fedora again. But I have to give Fedora credit. They ditched Gnome 3 and made Gnome 40 the default desktop environment many months before Ubuntu finally got around to it.
29 • SSDs (by tommy on 2022-04-12 03:17:08 GMT from United States)
SSDs are amazing. Linux developers have made SSDs easy to use. However, I do have a wish list... Wish that manufacturers would make it clear when DRAM is onboard, that there was a GUI box that could be checked somewhere to determine daily or weekly TRIM, and that TRIM support was easy over USB.
30 • Drives & Fedora (by Justme on 2022-04-12 04:47:36 GMT from United States)
I started using SSDs as soon as they became affordable (to me). Don't keep much in storage. A couple of HDDs sitting around do just that, just sit around. Would only go back kicking and screaming.
@26, "Fedora devs love to kill our earth." Hyper-worry and hyperbole can lead to hypertension. With maybe 1.5 million Fedora users, and considering that they will not all rush out and throw that older hardware in the ecologically unsound dump, I doubt the Fedora devs are giving the Earth as much as a slight fever.
UEFI was introduced around 2005, so it's been a while. Consider that Windows 11 requires Intel 8th or AMD Ryzen second generation, (2014) and considering that there are many more millions and maybe soon billions on Windows 11, that seems to me to be a more worthy cause to hyperventilate about. But I still don't see Greta Thunberg parking in front of Nadella's house.
I look at Fedora once in a while, run it live and delete it. Just curious to see what if anything is new. But Linux distros can be somewhat like fashion trends. Tight skinny jeans seemed very uncomfortable, but no one forced me to wear them.
31 • fedora (by ag on 2022-04-12 07:50:17 GMT from Australia)
I like Fedora a lot and use it as my daily driver. But it's not a distro I'd choose to use on legacy hardware and I doubt there's many Fedora users who would
32 • Disks (by Romane on 2022-04-12 08:52:22 GMT from Australia)
All my disks are spinning disks.
I have an NVME drive, but I use it now only for my Operating Systems. I found with my style of working, SSDs (have had a couple), and NVME were unable to deal with my style/manner of working - because our power supply is a little shakey and goes out reasonably often, I found that I need to save my work about every minute so as not to lose too much when the power does go out. Nether SSD nor NVME (basically the same technology, kinda sorta) continually lost drive space, and no amount of trimming would get it back - only means to get it back, it seemed, was to format the drive.
So I returned to the spinning disks, which do not suffer this problem.
Romane
33 • Dahlia (by penguinx86 on 2022-04-12 12:05:12 GMT from United States)
Dahlia sounded interesting, until I read about the lack of Wifi support. Linux without Wifi networking out of the box is a dealbreaker. But Daalia isn't alone. Ubuntu, Debian and many other distros have Wifi incompatibility issues. But Linux Mint has no problem detecting my wifi adapter out of the box and connecting to my Wifi network with no hassels. That's why I've made over 20 donations to Linux Mint, but none of those other distros were worthy of my donation dollars.
34 • NVME vs SSD (by Otis on 2022-04-12 12:12:47 GMT from United States)
@32 Yes SSD and NVME are pretty close to the same physical technology, being as how NVME is more a protocol than a different piece of hardware (notwithstanding the connector differences). The enormous speed differences is what attracts most of us (NVME being more than 20 times faster data transfer than SSD). That data loss spoken of and having to stay with spinning discs seems odd and I'm curious to know more about the power supply issues and what's going on that causes a user to have to save work every minute!
35 • @24 Checker: (by dragonmouth on 2022-04-12 12:35:44 GMT from United States)
" I wouldn't worry about it, it's unlikely to "spread" to other distros. "
Just like systemd wasn't going to spread to other distros? It is "Monkey see, monkey do" among distro developers.
36 • Shifting sands (by Tad Strange on 2022-04-12 13:35:27 GMT from Canada)
Eh. Fedora has always been a technology demo. There's got to be a reason why next to no one derives desktop distributions from it, as they do with Debian and Arch.
I wouldn't use it seriously for anything, let alone on a legacy system with scant resources.
Spinning disks... I have so many of them laying around that I've bought a few toasters and just use the drives for long term archival backups, the way I used to with DVD-R
I've just had too many of them fail to want to bother with them on anything that runs 24/7.
I've had exactly 1 SSD exhibit signs of failure in the past several years. Crashed computer, bad blocks, etc... I've stuck it on the raspberry pi to see how much longer it will last.
37 • For now, both types are used (by mikef90000 on 2022-04-12 22:07:06 GMT from United States)
I've used SSDs as multi-boot drives for many years. Since they are still over twice the price per GB my personal data still goes on HDD ....
38 • Hdd or Ssd and bios (by Jet14 on 2022-04-12 22:18:09 GMT from United Kingdom)
I have 8 Acer 5732z laptops from 2009 and i have upgraded them over time, by replacing hard disks or ssd plus hdd in cdrom bay convertor on a few of the laptops so i can store my data etc and to reuse the hdd's, i upgraded the cpu on all of them and they are very solid and easy to upgrade, There spec is core duo 2 2.1Ghz, 4Gb ram, wifi n. They are good for browsing and streaming and of course they are bios and i never tried fedora, i have a couple of newer pcs which the kids have got and i help maintain them and they are uefi and they can be a problem dual booting, but i have experience now how to do it properly.
I have a couple of machines i use for testing different linux distros and experimenting without worry of destroying hardware and software.
The kids tend to use ipads and phones more than their laptops nowadays but ive been using pcs since the early 80's.
39 • Fedora (by Otis on 2022-04-13 01:29:13 GMT from United States)
@36 The problems I always had with Fedora during each hope-filled excursion was not because it was "bleeding edge" so much as clunky, for want of a better word, in nearly every aspect of the system. I'd once again walk away from it wondering what was up with that old distro... heck, I'll probably try it again next iteration and with the same hopes I've always had for it to just be a great solid linux distro that lives up to its pedigree.
40 • Fedora (by Jo on 2022-04-13 17:38:38 GMT from Germany)
10 • Fedora legacy support (by Cyclone on 2022-04-11 09:19:57 GMT from United States)
The whole point of Fedora is innovation and looking to the future
The whole point of fedora, or red hat as mother company is PROFIT.
They will no longer earn, no grab any of that from the company I work for and with.
The Board can move in to a gloomy hole somewhere in the wastelands of Norway with the gnome and hopefully poettering.
41 • New on the waiting list (by Jeff on 2022-04-13 17:48:05 GMT from United States)
EXERGOS RED, definitely not ready for a listing on Distrowatch
Downloaded the beta 2 ISO on their site, put it on USB, ran it live.
Set it at boot for American English and it was all in Italian.
42 • Fedora, Dahlia, Spinning Rust (by Andy Figueroa on 2022-04-13 19:40:14 GMT from United States)
The reasons are piling up why I continue to not use Fedora. Dahlia, on the other hand, appears to be a project without a defined niche. Wasting my time. Reviews and new distros in general seem to be wasting my time with vague reason for being and often just being some user's or small groups hobby horse. Regarding storage, I exclusively use spinning rust, lots of it, and I run them very hard. Modern, large, traditional hard drives are extraordinarily reliable, long lasting, and cheap.
43 • Spinning Disk?!! (by Will on 2022-04-13 20:36:02 GMT from United States)
Ha, this is by far the biggest bottleneck of modern systems. Memory being a distant second and CPU is almost not even a consderation. I constantly work with people who buy a budget laptop and when I see how slow they are, I usually wind up recommending replacing their 5400 (or even 7200) rpm drives with SSD. Every single person who follows my advice comes back with thank you's and OMG it's so fast now. I do warn them to back up their important files, but I've been running SSD only on my main systems for the last 7 years or so without a single failure. Contrast that with the 4 enterprise grade spinning disks that I've had to replace... in the prior 7 and I'll give it to SSD, hands down.
44 • CPU non-consideration (by Will on 2022-04-13 20:37:26 GMT from United States)
Caveat city on this point. For regular users, this is rarely the problem. For dev types or folks playing with VMs it becomes a much bigger issue.
45 • @41 Jeff: (by dragonmouth on 2022-04-13 20:43:36 GMT from United States)
"Set it at boot for American English and it was all in Italian."
It's not a bug, it's a FEATURE!
You not only get to run a new distro but you also learn Italian at the same time. :-)
46 • @36 (by Simon on 2022-04-14 00:00:48 GMT from New Zealand)
Exactly. The only reason I have any interest in what Fedora does, is that it's like an early warning system: the useless, disruptive "innovations" Fedora makes often find their way into RHEL, and so eventually trickle out into the Debian-based distributions too. Keeping an eye on Fedora is an opportunity to start preparing for the next wave of damage to the perfectly functional tech we're currently using to get stuff done.
47 • Fedora & Ubuntu ... (by NoOne on 2022-04-14 20:14:03 GMT from Switzerland)
... or Ubuntu & Fedora ... the rest of the Linux world could be deleted ano nobody woud miss it ... OK, maybe the 1%. ;)
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| • 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 |
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