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1 • FB "ban" (by Brad on 2025-02-03 01:56:10 GMT from United States)
I did see DW content on FB resumed a day or so after your post last week. Another example of "AI" - "Artificial Imbecility"?
In any case, I think it's a good idea to have a social media presence on as many platforms as possible. The folks sticking their fingers in the dike will soon lose the ability to plug all the holes.
2 • Lean as Lomiri (by Tuxinos on 2025-02-03 02:04:12 GMT from France)
I'm using Lomiri on my phone (UB Touch), it's very fast and once we've get used to screen-edge gestures, it pretty convenient to use. Maybe some minor rough things on daily basis (most can be fixed using UT Tweak tool) but the UI is very lean and no basic functionality are buried into deep levels of sub-menus or settings. Also Ambot allows a lot of customization though Lomiri Plus.
3 • Orbitiny and facebook (by Pogi Americano on 2025-02-03 02:05:15 GMT from United States)
I just finished reading about Orbitiny, it sounds good and I intend to try it when they get it working a little better...I'm a KDE user now. I wonder how much memory it will use, especially when you have more than one desktop in use. ... I also had a few FB posts dealing with opensourse stuff and Linux deleted. I moved on to Mastodon and Bluesky a few months ago. Thanks for putting a DW account on Mastodon. And HEY! the best thing about Mastodon is NO COMMERCIALS!
4 • Question about Siduction (by Max on 2025-02-03 02:26:19 GMT from United States)
Thank you for reviewing Siduction. I’ve been curious about that distro for a while. Aside from the Calamares installer, can you say a bit more about the advantages of Siduction over just installing Debian on BTRFS and enabling the unstable channel and snapshots, and also the about any advantages of using Debian Sid itself over Siduction?
5 • Orbitiny (by Christian on 2025-02-03 02:32:36 GMT from Germany)
- Installation easy, I just ignored any error
- Finally Orbitiny merged as overlay on my KDE Desktop
- Look and Feel has Windows7 Vibes
- I still prefer my Plasma 5, as long as my Distro has no upgrade to 6
- Orbitiny is no competition to Plasma, at least for now.
- The portability is a outstanding feature!
6 • Debian vs siduction (by Jesse on 2025-02-03 02:38:18 GMT from Canada)
@4: " Aside from the Calamares installer, can you say a bit more about the advantages of Siduction over just installing Debian on BTRFS and enabling the unstable channel and snapshots"
That's pretty much the advantage, right there. Debian doesn't have install media for Sid, just for Stable and Testing. To get started with Debian Sid you need to install Testing, then switch repositories manually, then update and hope for the best. siduction does all that work for you.
"and also the about any advantages of using Debian Sid itself over Siduction?"
Probably none. siduction is Debian Sid, just with all the work of setting up configuring, and upgrading done for you.
7 • Debian Sid (by Dojnow on 2025-02-03 03:45:06 GMT from Bulgaria)
Debian Sid can be installed with mini.iso.
8 • Down to the second! (by Because; reasons on 2025-02-03 03:46:44 GMT from New Zealand)
Does my system *feel* faster?
Absolutely. It was quite noticeable when it happened. The 6.6 lts series kernel is significantly faster than the previous lts series, at least for a script I use a lot, and, on the same hardware.
It is a script that typically took over an hour to run its course. As part of its running, it outputs an estimate of the script runtime at the initialization of the script. This is to let me know when to check the output, so I can just let it run and come back to it later. Runtime estimate has dropped from 1hr 10m to 47 minutes.
Actual runtime improvement(?) has been confirmed by prefixing the script with *time* and comparing between the current and previous series lts kernels, from 1hr 5m to 43m.
9 • Orbitiny (by penguinx86 on 2025-02-03 03:55:34 GMT from United States)
Orbitiny looks good in a screenshot, but I haven't tried it yet. I appreciate that it "uses a classic layout. I already like it better than Gnome.
10 • siduction (by blabberjabber on 2025-02-03 07:56:49 GMT from United Kingdom)
Back in the day, used kanotix (the grandafther of siduction). Then it changed to sidux. It was always a solid distro, with a friendly, and extremely small, community. Its nice after all these years they still have a solid distro. Im glad to see siduction with btrfs and snapper, all worked great for me on a test rig for a few days. But why to use it today? Sid is not the greatest base, it likes to break. More-so than arch. The dev team is tiny, and the user base perhaps even smaller. The project is quite stale. Strange review choice.
11 • siduction KDE (by Tony Brezovski on 2025-02-03 07:59:46 GMT from United States)
Coincidence. I have been using siduction KDE Plasma with ext4 for a few days (never used BTRFS).
Aside from an eight hour+ download since my broadband is in the slow lane, my experience was really good. In fact, it's hard to believe it's Debian Sid: these siduction guys exhibited some amazing attention to detail, no problems installing to my drive; no speed bumps in the operation since the install. apt works well (actually--for me--the recommendation to use apt instead of Discover was one of the draws).
The software selection is way different from what I'm used to (as a long-time MX Xfce user). I immediately replaced the music player with Audacious and I probably won't be using SMPlayer for much, but some of the unfamiliar applications such as Dragon Player and Night Light are delightful. Kate and Konsole and the other KDE goodies are there; even Krusader is loaded.
I'm not leaving MX but I am keeping siduction on my newest machine.
12 • Siduction (by Hank on 2025-02-03 09:35:34 GMT from Germany)
See no point, and siduction init is for me a no go
actual system, antiX using runit as init, updated to sid, more than a year ago already
very few problems, my favorite WM, ICE which is very customizable and blazing fast plus
low memory usage. Very good on older hardware like my 12 year old PC. Runs fine on an eepc clamshell edition too.
13 • Orbitiny (by Kazlu on 2025-02-03 09:52:47 GMT from France)
Features sound, to me, like power users oriented features only. And for the most part, features I have no interest in. The mouse gestures on the desktop, for example: they require you go back to the desktop first. I never have desktop displayed myself, most of my windows are maximized. Besides, a one man project in the middle of a transition between X11 and Wayland? Sounds risky, when the end goal mentioned is to build an entire DE. Would not it be easier to keep it simple and just have it be a shell of KDE or LWQt? Even that seems, to my unadmittedly not very qualified eye, like a very big task for one person.
I certainly would not say it should not be around. Someone felt the need to develop the features and I'm happy they would share them for the community to enjoy them too. But this is certainly not for me, as the features do not appeal to me and I an concerned about stability. I prefer keeping things simpler and more stable. Thanks, Xfce.
14 • Siduction (by DaveT on 2025-02-03 10:25:06 GMT from United Kingdom)
As a long-time user of Debian Sid on the desktop I can't see the point of Siduction. Install a minimal command line only version of debian stable, point the sources to sid, update, upgrade. And then install whatever you want.
Obviously systemd means I use Devuan now, but apart from that - just use Sid and have done with it.
15 • Script_typo (by Allan Vázquez on 2025-02-03 10:43:01 GMT from Mexico)
I think there is a typo in the first time script:
span=$(($end - $start)
16 • Siduction (by working_crass on 2025-02-03 13:20:22 GMT from Poland)
Seem to remember having a argument with some of the Siduction team, about i think problems with installing - although its so long ago cannot give details, but the upshot is that i have not since used Siduction - anyone remember aptosid? that was good.
17 • orbitiny (by grindstone on 2025-02-03 13:33:41 GMT from United States)
Sounds like some good ideas, but it's not for me (Qt deps alone). Glad people are dedicated and working on new ideas & personal development, deeply saddened by yet more duplication of efforts in the ecosystem. Cheering for (and grateful to-) everyone, anyway!
18 • LXQT 2.0 and networks (by Lurker on 2025-02-03 14:19:05 GMT from Switzerland)
I had given the LXQt Desktop Environment a try in the past, before 2.0. It was almost perfect for what it is meant for. That is, a low-footprint, user and beginner friendly DE. Unfortunately, the non-intuitive nature of network setting was the deal-breaker. I am saddened this has not been addressed in LXQt 2.1.0. It is a DE I want to like but can't.
19 • Orbitiny (by Marcello on 2025-02-03 14:54:11 GMT from Italy)
Orbitiny? No, thanks.
We have too many desktops available. Better to focus on improving the existing ones.
20 • Orbitiny vs ... (by Otis on 2025-02-03 15:47:43 GMT from United States)
..any of the others, I'd like to see detailed comparisons written by users of Plasma, Gnome, XFCE etc as to ease of configuration, stress on the system etc.
As it is, things have evolved rather nicely for KDE and of course XFCE (though complained about by some) and a host of others so I find no impetus to try a new DE.
Comparing a new one to Gnome might be the most frustrating, as Gnome seems to keep going back and forth on its overall mission or philosophy, although if you mess with it enough you can coax it into the style and functionality you want as long as you're willing to spend time acquiring extensions.
21 • Debian unstable (by Head_on_a_Stick on 2025-02-03 17:44:41 GMT from United Kingdom)
My favorite thing about sid is the way they just throw stuff at the wall and see what sticks. Epic stuff. Much more exciting than using an actual rolling release that at least tries to be consistently functional.
Not sure why Jesse thinks Debian sid is rolling release though, it clearly isn't. Debian describe tesing/unstable as development branches, which is more accurate.
22 • Debian Sid (by Jesse on 2025-02-03 18:09:43 GMT from Canada)
@21: "Not sure why Jesse thinks Debian sid is rolling release though, it clearly isn't."
Based on what? Sid has always been a rolling release branch. It's the ongoing, rolling testing grounds for packages before they go into Testing.
Don't take my word for it though, here is how the siduction developers describe their sid-based project: "Siduction is a rolling release due to its coupling with Debian sid. Specifically, this means that the release of a new version does not require reinstalling the system to get updated packages. "
23 • (by Head_on_a_Stick on 2025-02-03 18:30:33 GMT from United Kingdom)
@Jesse: ah, I see the siduction devs are equally confused :-)
There is a significant difference between a genuine rolling release distribution (such as Arch) and a development branch like sid. Apart from anything else the trixie freeze will start soon and sid will only roll very occasionally until Debian 13 is out of the doors...
24 • Debian branches (by Jesse on 2025-02-03 19:30:29 GMT from Canada)
@23: "There is a significant difference between a genuine rolling release distribution (such as Arch) and a development branch like sid. Apart from anything else the trixie freeze will start soon and sid will only roll very occasionally until Debian 13 is out of the doors..."
This seems like splitting hairs. Most Linux distributions which identify as rolling releases go through ebb and flow periods. For example, Manjaro holds back some updates from Arch in its Testing branch, but it's still considered a rolling release. PCLinuxOS takes a conservative update policy, staying back a few versions from cutting edge, it's still considered rolling. Rhino Linux is based on Ubuntu's development branch and will speed up or slow a bit from time to time, everyone still considers it a rolling release.
I wonder if you're actually trying to paint Sid as not being rolling (which it is) or if you're mixing it up with Debian Testing, which does get more "slushy" before it turns into Debian's next Stable release.
Because "never slows down" has never been a criteria for rolling release distributions. Rolling release means it doesn't have a fixed point where it reaches a feature freeze, like a fixed-release distro has - ie a rolling release doesn't fork new stable versions. Sid doesn't fork new fixed/stable versions.
25 • Sid (by Tim on 2025-02-03 21:09:23 GMT from United States)
Jesse I agree with you, but I think it's only fair to @23 to point out that on the DebianSid wiki the Debian developers disavow the idea that sid is a rolling release. Their point seems to be that there's no quality assurance of the system done to periodically create snapshots that can be installed. They don't warrant that sid is usable at any given time.
Now of course, this doesn't make sid very different than other rolling releases. I've happily used it as such, so I think you calling it such is valid.
26 • Debian Testing (by Jan on 2025-02-03 23:15:14 GMT from The Netherlands)
Recently I tried Debian Testing in a few DE's. I thought it was a rolling release, with more up-to-date app's than debian-Stable.
I found them surprisely good, KDE and XFCE behaved good on my old hardware, better than some official distro's.
However I then found some comments on internet, which named the Debian-Testing-OS's "Frankenstein"-OS. Because, for instance, a Debian-KDE5 OS received app-updates which were supposed for KDE6, which can result in unexpected behaviour.
Is this a real problem?
27 • Debian Testing/Unstable (by Vinfall on 2025-02-04 01:47:42 GMT from Hong Kong)
Others have said much about it, and I have only one thing to add: Ubuntu LTS is based Debian testing and regular Ubuntu Debian unstable. So whether it is "officially"a rolling release does not really matter as it's much much more stable than literally any other truly rolling ones, especially when you consider its package coverage and scale of changes.
@26: this can and would happen, usually during the gap between soft/hard freeze period and next stable release, if you are using testing. And technically testing is just the next stable, unreleased. If you wish to avoid FrankenDebian, just use stable+backport or unstable/experimental+security updates. It's also possible to avoid it with apt-pin but that could be a bit advanced for beginners.
28 • @24 - Sid rolling release (by Andy Prough on 2025-02-04 08:06:34 GMT from Switzerland)
Jesse - you never want to get into an argument about obscure and irrelevant details with Head_on_a_Stick, who has memorized the entirety of the Debian wiki just in order to win debate points by regurgitating Debian's minutia. But yes, whoever it was who edited the Debian unstable wiki page on August 19, 2024 (possibly HOAS themselves?) was the first to add in the statement, "It is not a 'rolling release', as no release-like quality assurance and integration testing is done on it."
29 • Sid vs rolling distrubutions (by DaveT on 2025-02-04 09:47:47 GMT from United Kingdom)
Rolling distributions don't break.
Sid can break and does break. Not very often, but sometimes something breaks for a few days until the Devs fix it.
The change from Grub1 to Grub2 some years ago was particularly amusing! I had lots of fun keeping my laptop working!
Laptop and wanting to use Debian? Use Sid.
Testing can be a bit of an odd distribution with things not updated when you expect them to be. I never used it.
Stable is just that, use it on your servers.
I believe Head_on_a_Stick is now more of a Devuan user? As am I these days.
30 • Rolling releases (by Jesse on 2025-02-04 10:30:29 GMT from Canada)
@29: "Rolling distributions don't break."
I am guessing this is meant as a joke or sarcasm. Rolling releases break all the time. Just flip through some of our user submitted reviews or the support forums for major rolling releases. They are filled with people reporting broken rolling releases from updates.
This tends to happen a lot around any major update, such as with the kernel, boot loader, init transition, or significant desktop upgrade.
31 • Have you tried Orbitiny? (by U1F595 Jesse on 2025-02-04 10:48:19 GMT from Japan)
Where's the "No - I *might* try it later" option?
It's good to see that at least someone is still making a DE untainted by Rust!
32 • @30 Rolling Releases (by DaveT on 2025-02-04 14:22:20 GMT from United Kingdom)
Jesse, I actually didn't realise rolling releases were that bad for breaking things!
I gave up distro-hopping in 2005 or so having decided on debian.
DaveT
33 • @30 "Rolling releases break all the time." (by picamanic on 2025-02-04 15:08:44 GMT from United Kingdom)
@29 "Rolling distributions don't break."
@30 "Rolling releases break all the time."
Jesse, I use Void Linux which has a responsible approach to Rolling Releases: the user decides when and how often to update the packages. If a user updates once a week or month, "breakages" are very rare, often triggered by changes in the underlying package repositories themselves [eg package names changing from lower to upper case]. If an update fails, the system is left in a perfectly usable state. Repair is often a single command away.
Arch Linux, also rolling, gets mixed user reviews on this matter; I don't know why.
The complicated way that some distros mix Fixed and Rolling releases [eg apt-based ones like Debian] is well-meaning, but not user friendly. I understand that they want to separate Security and Features.
34 • Rolling releases break all the time (by Devlin7 on 2025-02-04 21:33:22 GMT from New Zealand)
I like to bounce around and test distros. I have had very few issues with Arch linux other than the key needing an update. I am always amazed by the number of distros that I install for testing where the installation goes well, I boot for the first time, run updates and the system never boots again.
35 • Clava is the best (by DanielDouch on 2025-02-04 23:02:51 GMT from Poland)
Fine news for all us
36 • openSUSE 16! (by Doc Morrow on 2025-02-05 02:39:49 GMT from United States)
Anyone else try the openSUSE 16 for ARM (Apple Silicon)? While openSUSE is my favorite distro, it hasn't always been older PC friendly. I did load a server 15 ARM version, then loaded KDE on top and it works fine, but had to tinker to get some functions to work. 16 loaded up in Parallels with no problems, much cleaner, and fast, so I think i will try it bare metal...anyone liking or hating it?
Doc
37 • PostmarketOS (by Mike on 2025-02-05 06:49:27 GMT from The Netherlands)
Funny how these solutions keep getting made, but can hardly have an installed base, as the number of supported phones are very low.
The supported Samsung phones is very low and the supported devices are very old.
It sounds more like a fun project than an attempt to create a real alternative for Android. I would like to see it run on the Galaxy S21/S22/S23.
38 • sid (by Hank on 2025-02-05 10:19:27 GMT from Germany)
sid can not be a rolling release, it is a staging area used to test packages for serious bugs or breakeage before they are moved to testing. i.e. a constantly changing stream of packages.
Used on a daily basis by experienced users, sid may prove more stable than some well known distros, sometimes, there are periods of disruption rarely destruction.
I tried ubuntu some time ago, it was much less stable then running raw sid, to which I often had to change, in the end I deleted buntu,
39 • Sid and Siduction (by Barnabyh on 2025-02-05 22:42:41 GMT from United Kingdom)
Perhaps posters should stop arguing what Debian Sid is or is not. It is besides the point. The review is about Siduction, not Sid, and its developers have clearly conceptualized it as and are meaning it to be a rolling distribution.
It may be built on Debian Sid but has been refined as the intro states by additional scripts, the Calamares installer and probably other tools (I haven't tried it in a while, can't remember) exactly to try and take the edge of raw Sid. So it's really its own animal and should be treated as such.
So yes, Sid may not be a rolling distribution but a branch, Siduction though most definitely is.
40 • @37 (by Kruger on 2025-02-07 06:51:25 GMT from Australia)
PostmarketOS is limited to certain phones because manufactures lock their bootloader. Only a few of the new phones being released are able to have their bootloader unlocked and a new OS flashed onto it like Calyxos, Lineage etc
Google Pixels phones are popular because they permit their bootloader to be unlocked and hence flashed.
New Samsung phones are all locked down sadly
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| • 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 |
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Lineox Enterprise Linux was based on source RPM packages from which Red Hat Enterprise Linux was compiled. Lineox Enterprise Linux contains all programs included in various Red Hat Enterprise Linux variations (Advanced Server (AS), Entry/Mid Server (ES), and Workstation (WS)). It also contains programs included in separately sold Red Hat Cluster Suite and Red Hat Developer Suite. Lineox has removed and replaced all files of Red Hat Enterprise Linux which have restrictive copyright by Red Hat, Inc. Lineox has also tried to remove all user-visible references to Red Hat in Lineox Enterprise Linux. The most notable difference between Lineox Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Linux was the support options provided by Red Hat, Inc. Lineox, Inc. does not provide any support for Lineox Enterprise Linux with the base product. Lineox, Inc. however plans to provide binary package updates for Lineox Enterprise Linux as long as Red Hat, Inc. provides updates for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in source package format.
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