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1 • Night, night (by brad on 2025-05-26 00:39:10 GMT from United States)
I use hibernate most of the time, because it works on MX LInux without issue (I had problems using hibernate in Manjaro - when that was my daily driver, sleep was preferred, because it seemed to work without a problem).
I guess (as usual) "it depends". I'm hoping other folks can say that hibernate worked without issue, no matter what distro is used.
2 • Sleep, hibernate, power off, or keep running (by SM on 2025-05-26 01:09:22 GMT from United States)
I put desktop PC in sleep mode when not using. However, if storms are on the way I will use poweroff in case of power failure. On laptop I will use sleep if I will be back on it in an hour or less, otherwise I use poweroff.
3 • Sleep, Power Off or Hibernate (by penguinx86 on 2025-05-26 01:13:24 GMT from United States)
I only use sleep mode when I close the lid on my laptop for a short time. For longer times, I shutdown my laptop to save the battery. I never use hibernate, because it takes too long to come back up.
Also, I like the idea of a Silverblue based distro like Aurora or Bluefin, but I'd rather have the Xfce desktop instead of Kde or Gnome. Lack of Xfce is why I don't use Silverblue.
I also like FreeBSD's "efforts in this area include expanding wireless card support". There are lots of distros I can't use because they are incompatible with my laptops Wifi adapter.
4 • To sleep or not to sleep... (by Friar Tux on 2025-05-26 02:28:03 GMT from Canada)
I voted "Power Off". I never use sleep or hibernate. If I leave my laptop during the day, I leave it on - no timing out, no screensaver. Generally, I turn my laptop on at 6:30 am, and turn it off at 10:30 pm. I'm retired and do just about everything on my laptop, from communicating with family, reading books, paying bills, shopping, and much, much more. Then, at 10:30 pm, I let the poor baby rest.
5 • Poweroff or Hibernate (by JKL on 2025-05-26 03:53:34 GMT from United States)
I poweroff on my desktop (Linux). I like fresh boots. Ironically I prefer hibernating on my laptop (windows) because I am usually in the middle of things (sleep has issue where the laptop goes into “eternal sleep” sometimes). I don’t trust sleep on my desktop either even if it’s supposedly safe (nvidia) because I had traumatic experiences with nouveau and sleep (eternal) before I had a chance to install the nvidia drivers.
I don’t want to allocate a huge swap space just to allocate on Linux which is why I don’t hibernate. Plus I don’t want to deal with that resume= stuffs (I am lazy).
One of these days, it would be nice if swap could be dynamically allocated.
6 • Dropping X11 (by JKL on 2025-05-26 04:04:25 GMT from United States)
Fedora is dropping X11, I actually heard GNOME is going to drop X11 entirely on version 50 (wayland + xwayland only). People are getting very salty about it. Honestly it works perfectly fine on my 10+ yo machine with haswell intel i5 and Nvidia 1560 super.
Honestly, it is good to reduce the workload of the developers to focus on making GNOME work well on one window system instead of two. The bandage had to be ripped at some point, and for the missing features will be added over time.
Those who need X11 still can use Cinnamon like I do for apps like Zoom.
7 • Using shutdown. (by Bobbie Sellers on 2025-05-26 04:17:59 GMT from United States)
Mostly I use Shutdown because I find that starting up from Hibernation is just as
keystroke intensive. My Dell 7730 Precision is usual run from the plugged in power
supply but I have set it up to power off at low batter levels. Formerly I ran other
computers continuously but lately have been shutting it on and off during the day.
bliss-Dell Precision 7730-PCLOS 2025.05-Linux 6.6.92-pclos1-KDE Plasma 5.27.11
8 • leave running and seldom ture off (by Don on 2025-05-26 04:40:51 GMT from Canada)
if you do not have a solid state drive . is their less wear on the drive if you leave the computer and drive running . is that not true ? dose not most of the wear happen as the drive is started up at boot or waking up from sleep
9 • Shutdoown (by blu3b3rry on 2025-05-26 05:18:31 GMT from United Kingdom)
Desktop or laptop I tend to shutdown everything at the end of the day, although after an hour or so most of my computers are set to sleep unless I know they have issues on resume.
Not sure I'm completely convinced about the 100% move to Wayland by GNOME - surely better off waiting that things all work correctly before dropping X11 for good. Screen sharing for example isn't 100% yet.....
10 • Sleep, hibernate or shutdown (by Kostas on 2025-05-26 05:35:31 GMT from Greece)
I always use sleep on my laptop by just closing the lid. When I return, I just use the fingerprint and everything is back instantly. Pretty simple!
I use MX-Linux (KDE) for the last few years with no problems at all.
Dell Vostro 15 5510 with Intel Iris Xe Graphics (the open source driver is included in the Linux Kernel, and that's why it has no issues). I still remember the hard time I had with the nvidia card when trying to hibernate my previous laptop (Toshiba Qosmio F60), because of the faulty nvidia driver...
11 • Hibernation (by Guido on 2025-05-26 07:28:56 GMT from Philippines)
It's worth noting that for hibernation, you also need to create a swap partition on your hard drive the size of your RAM to store all of your system's contents. So, if you have 4 GB of RAM, you also need 4 GB of swap on your hard drive. And so on.
12 • FreeBSD's + laptop sleep (by Chris on 2025-05-26 08:00:35 GMT from United Kingdom)
well it was time from FreeBSD devs to give an f for suspend/resume support, but still lags light yrs away from Linux, it is still a mess and good luck if you have a system that can be wake up (from hyeprnation) without ... reboot! Not to mention you only can do that using PS/2 keybaord or using the power button (as USB is dodo when suspend on FreeBSD) , year of FreeBSD on .. laptop , ok LOLz not even next deecade
13 • Sleeptime (by Chris on 2025-05-26 09:40:23 GMT from South Africa)
I have Home Assistant running on an old laptop and I don't recall ever having the thing go to sleep/shutdown so HA possibly sets that correctly?
14 • Linux Mint forks libAtwaita... (by Marky Mark on 2025-05-26 10:05:07 GMT from The Netherlands)
Quote: "The Linux Mint project is working to make applications written with the GTK development libraries look more natural on desktop environments other than GNOME."
That's the best news I've read in a long time! FINALLY someone does something about that, Some applications have those big, chunky parts and doesn't look refined at all. It's like playing with Fisher Price software instead of a serious application. And it's not very forgiving under small screens. You only see too big buttons.
LibreOffice looks dreadful under a GTK-theme nowadays. And eye candy gets more important under Linux distros because of it's rising userbase.
And it must have been said: once again it's the Linux Mint team that forks a major piece of software to make it better. Maté, the X-apps, and soon libAdwaita.... all Linux distros without GNOME will benefit for it later. I hope especially Xfce (my favourite desktop). Some apps under Xfce look really ugly en too chunky for such a refined desktop as Xfce was/is. So thank you once more, Linux Mint team, for being extremely valuable for the Linux world.
15 • Sleep and hibernate (by David on 2025-05-26 11:01:52 GMT from United Kingdom)
These made sense with mechanical drives, especially the slower ones on laptops, but modern systems boot so quickly that sleep and hibernate no longer offer any real advantage — and hibernate needs a large swap partition.
16 • Crux (by pat on 2025-05-26 11:07:17 GMT from United States)
I think a distro like this is the digital equivalent of living as an off-the-grid subsistance farmer. Happy adventures.
17 • Linux (by Scooter Rallen on 2025-05-26 11:47:09 GMT from United States)
One problem with LINUX .... is the blistering amount of frequent releases of the NEWEST BEST Ground Breaking technologies. Its hard .... Darn near impossible to filter out the junk from the others. Mostly I only INSTALL - Distros with a minimum of five years. Anything new - happens in a VM first. Right now - I think Universal Blue.... Project Blue (Silver Blue) is about the best there is. But that's just my opinion.
18 • poweroff (by wally on 2025-05-26 11:56:26 GMT from United States)
Poweroff for two laptops & one desktop.
Leave running for my main desktop which has jobs to run at various times.
19 • libAdapta (and I always shutdown my laptop since it's as fast as hibernating) (by Tuxidos on 2025-05-26 12:14:01 GMT from France)
@14 libAdapta, is a "soft" fork meaning it'll be kept as closed as possible to libAdwaita (if not, it would become yet another framework) to allow devs to re-build their software with just few lines of code (and all classes keep the libAdwaita's "Adw" prefix), but with predefined themes for apps to look more like other Mint apps (ex. https://github.com/xapp-project/libadapta-examples?tab=readme-ov-file#python-app), with Mint colors, font, etc.
So if tomorrow Gnome launches new widgets in libAdwaita (and they often do it), it won't be difficult to integrate in libAdapta, but it will fundamentally look the same on Gnome-based distros and Mint, since theses apps have certainly been developed and tested using libAdwaita, just it won't no more seem totally alien in Mint.
20 • Lightweight distros (by Hank on 2025-05-26 12:53:08 GMT from Germany)
Quote: other, similarly minimal distributions (such as Alpine, Arch Linux, and Void) which can run in lightweight environments, such which also provide binary packages, easier configuration, and lots of documentation. They can be installed and loaded with the software we need in a matter of minutes while CRUX would still be compiling its kernel.
As usual here one of the best lightweight distros was not mentioned, reading below it ticks all the boxes, is available in base core and full versions all with no systemd.
Debian based, choice of Window managers and init, sysV or Runit, two kernels included, one is for older hardware. On top a 32 bit version is still available, very important for poorer countrys.
21 • Sleep and hibernate (by CopEnHagen on 2025-05-26 14:00:01 GMT from The Netherlands)
@15 • Sleep and hibernate (by David)
"These made sense with mechanical drives, especially the slower ones on laptops, but
modern systems boot so quickly that sleep and hibernate no longer offer any real
advantage — and hibernate needs a large swap partition."
This is double wrong.
The focus of hibernate was never so much about quicker boot time, but about letting all
of your programs open, shut down the computer, turn it on again, and everything is again
at the point as it was before shutdown.
The point of sleep was similar. You have dozen applications open, you walk away and
come back in an hour or two, and everything is still exactly as when you left off.
Sleep and hibernate were never ment to be shutdown replacements.
22 • Power management and source based distros. (by Tuxedoar on 2025-05-26 14:19:27 GMT from Argentina)
As of power management, I don't setup neither hibernate nor suspend on desktop computers. However, I do take care of suspend on laptops. AFAIK, hardware on laptops have improved quite a bit in terms of the amount of power they consume (with a downward trend over the years) when using some power-saving mode. Plus, batteries capacity have also improved significantly in recent years. Thus, I don't think using hibernation in laptops is worth it. Even less when you take into account that hibernation requires that you have the equivalent of swap space, that the total amount of RAM your hardware has.
Regarding source based distros, such as Crux, I think one should think of them as educational projects. I mean, if you want to learn in detail how each component of a GNU/Linux system is setup and integrated with other components of the system, that's where the most value lies on. In this regard, it seems to me, that effort required to install and setup Crux, isn't that much far from projects like "Linux From Scratch". To have an in-depth learning experiece, I rather prefer the latter.
Have a nice week.
Cheers.
23 • power poll (by Chris on 2025-05-26 14:31:51 GMT from United States)
I never had much use for Hibernate. I find the time advantage over simply powering off/on is minimal, and the additional "wasted" disk space required makes it just not worth it. I used to love Sleep/Standby, but Microsoft/Intel ruined that by replacing S3 with the half-baked S0ix. When I bought my current ThinkPad a year ago, I quickly found out that under Win11, the machine uses up more battery and gets warmer while "asleep" than while awake & surfing the 'net (even after disabling network connectivity while in Standby).
24 • @20 - antiX? (by Uncle Slacky on 2025-05-26 15:20:01 GMT from France)
I assume that Hank is talking about antiX (as it has base/core/full versions) - maybe he just forgot to actually mention the unmentioned distro?
25 • Crux Linux (by Always_curious_about_FOSS on 2025-05-26 15:33:34 GMT from Germany)
I had thought about trying Crux Linux. Jesse's review has now demotivated me. Well. Actually for a moment. If I dared to do it, it would certainly take me much longer than half an hour. It could be more like 3 weeks.....
26 • Crux sounds cool (by Andy Prough on 2025-05-26 18:10:06 GMT from United States)
Crux sounds very cool, like Linux From Scratch but with some basic package management functions through prt-get. I may have to try it. The lack of any package management is the thing that keeps me from using LFS for very long after I build a copy.
27 • @20, yes antiX, (by Hank on 2025-05-26 19:30:09 GMT from Germany)
Seems the distro name fell in to a black hole, it is still in the draft post.
Anyways after using and supporting for many years antiX gets my prize for best of the best
Debian based distros. It runs well even on some 25 year old hardware.
I read in a review sound does not work, that usually comes from persons clicking madly away in the graphical control center, a single click on the turn on pipewire option and the fun might start. It often needs a reboot and a couple of tries turning pipewire on and off to get back to alsa.
I am not a fan of the frontends to alsa, that is pipewire wireplumber etc.
pure alsa works on pretty much any setup, just needs apulse for some browsers but not the delivered FF ESR which is compiled to use alsa directly..
28 • System integrity: Sleep, hibernate or power off? (by dob on 2025-05-26 19:43:01 GMT from United Kingdom)
Consider implications for system security (timely patching, minimising downtime/maximising availability)
- whether there will be a trade off with respect to filesystem housekeeping / other background tasks (any impact on SSD maintenance wear-levelling,
journalled file system or database performance or secondary storage lifetime (due to write-amplification)
29 • On or Off or nothing... (by tom joad on 2025-05-27 02:31:28 GMT from United States)
First, I never, ever used anything but on and off with my machines. I have always been deeply suspicious of suspend, hibernate, ignore, leave me alone, comatose and very nearly dead.
So...
With my laptop it is on until it is not. When it is not on is after I am done using it. My tower at home is started when ever during the day and it runs all day until bed time. Then it is off. The server tower I have in a corner of my 'cave' runs the tor relay. That tower box is well over a decade old, having endured serveral resurrections, has been running continuiously for several years being a relay. The only time it is down is when it has gone foo-bar on me for some reason. Then I 'fix' and it goes right back into battle. The screen is mostly always off.
When I was a cube dweller doing tech support everything ran according to 'Policy.' Most places our machines were on during our shifts and then off. The exception was Gateway. Our computers there ran 24/7/365. When we started our shifts we rebooted them. We would shut down the screens when we went home but the boxes ran. Why? We were told 'they' in North Souix city, South Dakota were managing them through the network. And they did.
Personally, I think it is better for them to just run. Consider heat, expansion and contraction on the electronics. I think the constant 'On and Off' is much more problematic than just leaving them run. At Gateway, we had remarkably few issues with doing just that.
30 • #28.powering down and SSD / Flash optimisations (by dob on 2025-05-27 06:48:45 GMT from United Kingdom)
Use of F2FS, TRIM, & noatime
https://www.baeldung.com/linux/solid-state-drive-optimization
https://docs.kernel.org/filesystems/f2fs.html
Hardware component design
MLC, NAND vs NOR memory gateways,
Consider: risks / opportunity for Bit-flipping (loss of data or ‘state’ integrity) and over provisioning
RAID storage types…
Storage in triplicate (array storage and comparison on retrieval) as
to identify potential failure or interference
(Versus more primitive error checking for example ‘parity bit’ checks employed in some RAM module designs).
31 • Sleep/Hibernate/Poweroff (by Robert on 2025-05-27 13:59:47 GMT from United States)
For the past several years I've been powering off my PC while I'm at work and leave it on otherwise. I used to just leave it on 24/7.
I would like to have it it sleep/hibernate, but over the past 20 years I've had at best mixed results with that on Linux. Occasionally I'll find a particular combo of distro, version, and hardware that works reliably but more often than not the computer will fail to wake or wake to a black screen. Not useful.
32 • sleep modes just buggy (by Jay on 2025-05-28 00:23:52 GMT from United States)
Shutdown, cuz sleep modes just buggy. hardly works well like windows. not even considering side channel issues at all.
33 • Code Kitty Question (by Jimmy Richards on 2025-05-28 08:42:04 GMT from United States)
Jimmy Richards here, long time listener, first time caller,... My question Gods is, We just found this neat powerhouse Distro which seems to equal (if not out-due) Mike-row Loft called "Corel Linux" and, if ye Gods be so benevolent, We were sacrificing offerings seeking guidance on how to flash it to USB, or is it devil disks for discontinued Distro deluxe...Corel Linux?? Give all thanks to root....man sudo.
34 • Heck I'm Liable To Do Any Of Those Choices (by Slappy McGee on 2025-05-28 14:21:05 GMT from United States)
..sleep, power off, hybernate, suspend, expel, discharge, jettison, smash to smithereens, etc, depending on a lot of things.
35 • Crux (by rhtoras on 2025-05-28 19:28:55 GMT from Greece)
Well i happen to like the ideas of Crux and it is transparent project in the nosystemD side of things. You need to maintain things yourself and it is not consider a project for both new or noob users but for those searching for the truth. OK it won't work easily on a computer 20 years old but this is beyond it's scope. And btw arch is not lightweight. I would love to see review of Noir Linux and Dragora too. Go on Jesse...
36 • Hibernate, run, or shutdown? (by Kitty on 2025-05-28 20:25:45 GMT from United States)
$ uptime
15:23:41 up 147 days, 14:53, 3 users, load average: 0.09, 0.26, 0.32
I just let mine run
37 • religy tech (by distroprayser on 2025-05-29 06:12:31 GMT from United States)
There's room for all in tech - religious and non-so alike.Life's too short to battle one against the other. It's best to find a good place within your group - and a good OS - and march on regardless.
38 • shut down (by peer on 2025-05-29 07:24:13 GMT from The Netherlands)
I allways shutdown my pc and laptops. It is just a habit.
39 • Power Options (by Jan on 2025-05-29 22:09:49 GMT from The Netherlands)
End 2023 I (re)started testing in live mode and installed mode to replace Windows 10 (I think a distro with a big management/support-group and a long history and seldom/no breakage is the best (Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora, MX, preferably in KDE).
One of the problems I encountered is freezing of the desktop, mostly in live mode and mostly at KDE after a some 5 minutes of use. On internet this kind of problems can be found, but no solution.
I attributed this problem to something wrong with the Power-Options (hibernation, sleep, closing notebook-lid, etc.).
So when I test a distro in live mode or in installed mode, the first thing I do is disable any Power-Option (to never, very long time, do-nothing). However I am not sure if this is the source of the freeze problem.
40 • Uptime (by CopEnHagen on 2025-05-30 09:33:47 GMT from Germany)
@36 • Hibernate, run, or shutdown? (by Kitty)
"$ uptime
15:23:41 up 147 days
I just let mine run"
This sounds like 1147 missing firmware updates, security patches, bug fixes, etc.
Just because "kitties" always run doesn't mean that PCs should do it too. ;) :) :)
41 • Lightweight distros (by After 10 on 2025-05-30 11:30:20 GMT from Germany)
Read about antiX here. It sounded interesting ,now running Full stable version, everything working as expected on a 12 year old device which ms wants me to scrap as win 11 will not run on it..
Playing with an experimental Multi Init version of current antiX running live from USB, I learned about it on antiX forum. Updating, Customisation, live remaster, iso creation all working well enough to use for some work and as proof of concept.
sysV init, s6-rc, s6-66, openrc, dinit, runit, this is work in progress but working proof there is not one init to rule them all as has been claimed all too often by an almost religeous faction.
Hard work was done by ProwlerGR with help from upstream and others too many to list.
42 • @41...Lightweight distros... (by R. Cain on 2025-05-30 14:48:40 GMT from United States)
You have just discovered one of the best-kept secrets in the Linux 'distro-sphere'...two, if you consider antiX's cooperative-venture cousin: MX-Linux.
From Distrowatch:
(antiX)
"...It should run on most computers, ranging from 256 MB old PIII systems with pre-configured swap to the latest powerful boxes. 256 MB RAM is recommended minimum for antiX...
(MX-Linux)
"...Not only did MX Linux work well with my hardware, it worked quickly, was stable, and I can't think of a single time I saw an error message during my trial...
"I'm of the opinion MX Linux is one of the most capable, friendly, reliable desktop distributions currently available. It runs on a wide range of hardware, from older computers to more modern machines."
If you'd like to read a first-hand account of one member of this collaboration by a well-respected Linux reviewer, simply go to
https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/eeepc-mx-linux.html
and
https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/eeepc-2024.html
43 • ON or OFF? (by Treen HQ on 2025-05-30 18:29:42 GMT from United Kingdom)
In the early days, Colossus, Pegasus, Algol & co., computers ran on valves (US: tubes), very hot. They were turned off each night. Getting them running again next day was a real chore for the bevy of engineers assigned. Indeed the MTBF was less than the 'ON'-time frequently - down-time could exceed operational time. This pattern of operation or lack of, continued when the first solid state (transistor) machines appeared. The cost of electricity concerned the management - plus ca change!
Eventually the penny dropped - leaving the machines running 24hrs/7dys/etc led to greater reliability, longer up-time and CHEAPER overall cost-of-operation. Thermal and electrical cycling leads to premature failure - a well-established mantra in most areas of engineering...
Over to you.
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| • 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 |
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