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1 • CachyOS (by Frank on 2025-07-14 00:46:50 GMT from United States)
Congratulations to the CachyOS team !! A well deserved 1st position on distrowatch !!!
2 • keylime...? (by Arve Eriksson on 2025-07-14 00:47:39 GMT from Sweden)
Um... I have to ask: If I don't understand why I'd need keylime, do I have a use-case for it?
3 • aliases (by kleenix on 2025-07-14 04:19:11 GMT from New Zealand)
ren used to be a useful rename that had features. Some PFY dev got hold of it and Gnomedevved it to a drooling shadow of the command. Fortunately perl-rename still exists to preserve renaming for power users. So that got aliased for a while.
4 • CachyOS (by tomas on 2025-07-14 05:55:52 GMT from Czechia)
@1
I am not a distrohopper anymore, nevertheless from time to time I try some distro that seems promissing.
CachyOS was one of those "taste and try".
My impressions were mixed, but after the last update that did not succeed because of nvidia, that I do not have on my system, I erased it.
The 1st position is a page hit, not the distro's rating and I wonder why it is there (before it was EndeavourOS having a page hit that was in my opinion not deserved).
5 • Wayland (by Guido on 2025-07-14 06:55:38 GMT from Philippines)
"X11 is still the most optimal choice, performance wise, to say nothing of the compositing off option, which blows the rest out of the water. Plasma's Wayland implementation is better than GNOME's, it seems..."
That is one reason I will stay as long as possible with the good old X-Server, even if that code is not so clean or light.
6 • Wayland (by bitworriednow on 2025-07-14 07:28:50 GMT from Poland)
Wayland is not a well-thought and developed solution. It's a hastily made attempt to solidify corporate grip by hands of Red Hat and GNOME on FOSS and so far that works for them pretty well. They're following Google's mo - dominate by shady tactics and becoming those who dictate what standards are giving no place for alternatives.
7 • It's aeon, not Areon. (by Darek on 2025-07-14 08:53:02 GMT from Sweden)
I don't know what you tried to install, but aeon has a graphical installer, and while it shares heritage with microos it is quite a different beast.
8 • aliases (by Jake on 2025-07-14 09:33:55 GMT from United States)
Zero aliases as I use GUI's not the command line.
9 • No Wifi on RefreshOS (by joncr on 2025-07-14 10:25:35 GMT from United States)
I have a two-year old Dell XPS with Intel wifi that Debian 12 doesn't know is there. Pretty sure that's why you had no wifi in RefreshOS.
I constantly see Debian recommended with no mention of the fact that if someone's hardware was made after Debian's release date, there's a decent chance something won't work.
10 • TeaLinux (by Dave Postles on 2025-07-14 10:25:48 GMT from United Kingdom)
Looks very interesting, but no evident checksum, it seems.
11 • Poll aliases (by Always_curious_about_FOSS on 2025-07-14 07:39:18 GMT from Germany)
The vast majority of distros have at least one predefined alias:
alias ls='ls --color=auto'
Are there some Distros without any predefined aliases?
Are these many participants in the poll who voted for zero aliases in their shell using a Distro without any predefined aliases or was their train of thought:
„I don‘t konw it, I don‘t have any“.
12 • Kalpa, Aeon review, refresh WiFi (by El Guapo on 2025-07-14 11:29:14 GMT from United States)
I've been running a Kalpa VM (QEMU) for a few months. it installed and ran without issues. Added some software from repos and some flatpaks. No problems. However, I only run ti once in a while, and It had been off for at least two or three months. Booted it after reading the review and did a manual update (transactional-update dup). As noted in the review, the desktop will not load in the latest snapshot. Rolled back and it's all fine again. Don't see a problem with documentation.
As for Aeon (Not Areon), I have no idea where Jesse got an ISO, since all I find is a compressed raw image (.raw.xz). Kind of a pain to install on a VM. Aeon and Kalpa are on different tracks. Aeon is a release candidate and Kalpa is still alpha. Guess they are in no hurry with either of them.
I also have Bluefin on a VM to compare. I like these immutable distros, but will not install as my main systems until wither they play better with others or I no longer want to multi-boot.
On RefreshOS: I still have the iwlwifi firmware on a flash drive, just in case I decide to install Debian. Otherwise, Intel WiFi does not work. I suspect the RefreshOS devs forgot to add it.
13 • Review ISO (by Jesse on 2025-07-14 11:33:43 GMT from Canada)
@12: " I have no idea where Jesse got an ISO, since all I find is a compressed raw image (.raw.xz)."
I linked directly to the download page in my review.
14 • X11 (by Tim on 2025-07-14 13:21:56 GMT from United States)
I continue to run Arch Linux with the Awesome window manager under X11. I will hang on to this as long as it is available. When it is no longer supported, I will be flailing for an alternative.
15 • Aliases (by Friar Tux on 2025-07-14 13:22:17 GMT from Canada)
@11 (Always Curious) How about, I, personally, don't use aliases whether my distro comes with any, or not. I don't use the terminal so I really don't know what is in there. At 73, I have "fat finger syndrome" so I make typing errors. A friend of mine, who loves his terminal, also has fat finger syndrome and has literally killed his OS many times. I tend to learn from other people's mistakes (wisdom that comes with age, I think).
16 • Aliases (by Robert on 2025-07-14 13:48:23 GMT from United States)
I put aliases in my shell for cp and mv to cp/mv -i to ask before overwriting. And most of the time I still just type in the switches manually.
AFAIK Arch doesn't come with any aliases preconfigured.
17 • Aliases (by Trinidad Cruz on 2025-07-14 14:19:35 GMT from United States)
I use SSH constantly for many connections, often to start graphical servers like x11vnc and wayvnc on headless or dp emulated boxes. This allows me to run detailed system specific scripts from an SSH terminal with simple aliases and not have to remember or save them on my main box.
TC
18 • @13, Jesse • Review ISO (by El Guapo on 2025-07-14 14:31:05 GMT from United States)
Jesse, the link you provided goes to this page: https://aeondesktop.github.io/
Clicking on "Download" starts downloading a raw image. There are no choices. Clicking on "Install Guide" you get these instructions: "After downloading the image you need to write it to a USB Stick that is at least 16GB in size. If possible, we recommend Larger USB 3.0 Sticks to benefit from our Installers ability to backup/restore user accounts from existing installations" No ISOs are available. I had installed from the extracted image to KVM some months ago, but deleted it and kept Kalpa. MicroOS, Kalpa and Aeon have diverged. MicroOS ISO is now only the base system and container runtime environment. AEON is going I don't know exactly where, and Kalpa is doing pretty much what Kinoite does.
For anyone using Kalpa and having this problem of not booting to the desktop, it was caused by a developer's mistake. He offers a fix. I tried it and it works: `sudo systemctl disable display-manager-legacy.service` `sudo systemctl enable --now sddm.service`
https://fosstodon.org/@kalpa/114683443617487630
19 • Wayland Takeover (by Eugene V Debs on 2025-07-14 14:31:29 GMT from United States)
I didn't like Red Hat from the beginning, and I like them even less since IBM bought them. I remember how everyone fell in love with IBM during the SCO troubles, but I knew how that was going to turn out.
I'm not opposed to corporate contributions to Linux (although maybe I should be). I am opposed to this "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" approach companies are taking to slowly turn FOSS proprietary. Red Hat now has their greasy tentacles throughout Linux, and have recently violated the GPL.
If Arch wasn't such a hassle, I'd run Artix. Maybe Devuan can become the Artix of the Debian world.
20 • Aeon ISO (by Jesse on 2025-07-14 14:39:14 GMT from Canada)
@18: "Jesse, the link you provided goes to this page: https://aeondesktop.github.io/
Clicking on "Download" starts downloading a raw image. There are no choices. Clicking on "Install Guide" you get these instructions: "After downloading the image you need to write it to a USB Stick that is at least 16GB in size. If possible, we recommend Larger USB 3.0 Sticks to benefit from our Installers ability to backup/restore user accounts from existing installations" No ISOs are available."
If you explore the website beyond the top half of the first page, you will find the Aeon repository includes several download options, including iSO files: https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/appliances/iso/
21 • CatchyOS PHR (by Slappy McGee on 2025-07-14 15:24:49 GMT from United States)
@1 Well Frank.. lol... Over the years it dawned on me at some point that this fine DW website's Page Hit Ranking is VERY useful to know what visitors here are clicking on that list.
And that's it. It's not about downloads or usage or even liking a distro; it's just about what they clicked, and of course until the AI tech gets to the Mind Reading point, we'll have little idea as to exactly WHY visitors here click this or that distro on the list.
22 • @20, Jesse • Aeon ISO (by El Guapo on 2025-07-14 15:26:35 GMT from United States)
Well, color me blind then, because I cannot see any links to downloads other than the one I mentioned either at top, middle or bottom of the aeondesktop.github page. The link you now provide to "tumbleweed/appliances" I had come across before in a Reddit forum. I have tried some of the offerings like the agama installer ISOs, but I have not seen any ISOs offering an Aeon installer. Time to rest my old eyes.
23 • Aliases (by vmclark on 2025-07-14 15:41:35 GMT from United States)
As stated in the '.bashrc:
# Alias definitions.
# You may want to put all your additions into a separate file like
# ~/.bash_aliases, instead of adding them here directly.
# See /usr/share/doc/bash-doc/examples in the bash-doc package.
All my aliases are in a file name ~.bash_aliases.
24 • OpenSuse agama installer (by mircea on 2025-07-14 16:38:21 GMT from Moldova)
I do think that suse folks are dispersing their forces,
they have livecd classic installer which installs:
- leap
- aeon leap
- kalpa leap
- microos leap
(every options installs just fine)
they have livecd tumbleweed classic installer which installs:
- rolling editing
- aeon rolling edition
- kalpa rolling edition
- microos rolling edition
(every options installs just fine)
AND they have new agama installing (with limited disk partitioning) which installs:
- leap/rolling
- aeon leap/rolling
- kalpa leap/rolling
- microos leap/rolling
(every options installs just fine)
AND they have limited standalone microos/aeon/kalpa cds which simply suck
I had the same experience like Jesse with all of them :), they never work after I install them....
It is very complicated with suse....
25 • about suse philosophy (by mircea on 2025-07-14 16:50:27 GMT from Moldova)
suse has a universal installer bundled into OpenSuse Leap/OpenSuse tumbleweed
by default it installs the desktop edition, but if you click on show packages button
it will show you another options,
then if you will deselect the desktop(gnome, kde, whatever)
and select aeon or microos or kalpa
it then will install the specified version of opensuse
IT IS cofusing, that's why I think they are doing their new agama installer, which gives you choices from beginning
https://agama-project.github.io/
26 • Wayland (by Scooter on 2025-07-14 17:19:59 GMT from United States)
I had major issues with Wayland on the latest Fedora. Waking to black screen, you know the drill. Mine's an AMD 7700x using integrated graphics. Doing something stupid like surfing YouTube with the MS Edge Flatpak often shatters my Wayland session into a thousand goofy triangles of crap.
So far the Wayland experience on KaOS and Garuda with Plasma is very good. X11 is my choice when using most anything else.
Sure, Wayland has cool animations and slick doo-dads, but Gnome stumbles a bit compared to Plasma here. I'm hoping to see good stuff from the XLibre folks, and better efficiency from Wayland soon.
27 • New distros to the list (by dkmillares on 2025-07-14 18:48:46 GMT from Brazil)
Nice to see Vipnix and Macaroni added to the distro list!
28 • Artix and SystemD free distros (by Mykel Wayne on 2025-07-14 19:39:27 GMT from United States)
I don't understand why people have problems with Artix or Arch based distributions. The setup on Artix is graphical and they offer a variety of desktop versions. Perhaps the problem is with the community editions. I have had a few issues with them. I use the latest desktop oriented install images and Artix has functioned quite well.
There is some learning curve with Artix, but I have used it regularly on my PC and laptop for many years. Surprisingly (or not) it is one of the few distros that installs on both of my machines. I try to avoid systemd versions as much as possible because of security issues, excessive memory usage and all the changes it makes to the OS. That's just me, but there is a decently sized user base with Artix. antiX, Devuan and a few others provide a Linux distro that is more Unix oriented. Artix even has a test image using the XLibre fork which hopefully will help users like myself that prefer an X windows system.
29 • Also... (by Mykel Wayne on 2025-07-14 21:04:23 GMT from United States)
I forgot to mention that one of the first steps I take is the configuration of PacMan. I set it up so that I get all of the useful software. Skipping this step could cause problems with updates and new apps. The other step I take is the installation YaY. I find it easier to use especially when searching for some app that you read about or heard from a friend or coworker. It is however a terminal based program, but I like it.
30 • Wayland (by Mario on 2025-07-14 21:27:02 GMT from Italy)
Benchmarks are not so important. Wayland is the protocol of the near future. X11 has many limitations, and few intend to continue developing it. Legacy X11 support should be maintained, however, to allow all desktop environments to adapt to the new reality.
31 • Wayland @33 (by Keith S on 2025-07-14 22:29:33 GMT from United States)
"Benchmarks are not so important. Wayland is the protocol of the near future. X11 has many limitations, and few intend to continue developing it. Legacy X11 support should be maintained, however, to allow all desktop environments to adapt to the new reality."
I ask this question a lot but never get any answer beyond "X runs as root so it's a security issue!" When I ask where the reports of systems being hacked through the X server . . . crickets.
So what are the limitations of X11? What doesn't it do that it should do? Personally, all I need it to do is translate from the system to the screen. It has been doing that pretty successfully for 30 years. What further development does it need beyond updates to new binary blobs from Nvidia and AMD?
32 • Running X11 (by Jesse on 2025-07-14 22:50:30 GMT from Canada)
@31: "I ask this question a lot but never get any answer beyond "X runs as root so it's a security issue!" When I ask where the reports of systems being hacked through the X server . . . crickets."
X.Org doesn't need to be run as root. Anyone who claims that's a serious argument against running X.Org isn't familiar with the technology: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Non_root_Xorg
It is true that X.Org can be vulnerable to some attacks. I've personally seen it happen. But only on really old versions of X.Org and only when it was running as root. A guy I went to college with used to do a demo of taking over other people's X11 sessions remotely to show how it could be done.
33 • Wayland / X11 (by Keith S on 2025-07-14 23:15:47 GMT from United States)
Thank you for the reply, Jesse. So, (anyone), is there any real deficiency in X11 that Wayland fixes, or is it just a new way of doing the same thing being pushed by certain people for whatever reason? I mean, I haven't even heard an argument that Wayland makes things easier or better or faster in some ways, such as was and is made for systemd.
34 • Wayland (by Jesse on 2025-07-14 23:18:48 GMT from Canada)
@33: "? I mean, I haven't even heard an argument that Wayland makes things easier or better or faster in some ways"
There are a few things, though they tend to be in quite specific situations. For example, setting different refresh rates on multiple monitors. Or High Dynamic Range (HDR) being implemented in Blender (https://www.osnews.com/story/142777/blender-5-0-to-introduce-hdr-support-for-wayland-on-linux-but-not-for-windows/)
For most users in most situations, you probably won't notice any difference between using one and the other.
35 • RefreshOS 2.5 (by KleinerFerkel on 2025-07-15 05:47:47 GMT from Australia)
RefreshOS 2.5 spin
now with calamares installer, icons and wallpaper. the end.
amazing.
truly this is the pinnacle of FOSS innovation.
36 • Totally agree about openSUSE MicroOS (by AlexZ on 2025-07-14 23:49:11 GMT from United States)
I ran MicroOS in a VM for several months. At some point the automatic update broke. There was some conflict that the updater wasn't able to resolve, and because the autoupdate happens without any user interaction or notification, the system sat without updates for a while. Luckily I noticed that and fixed it manually. Bun then after a while, after another update the system wouldn't boot anymore. I could have reverted to a previous snapshot, but I decided it wasn't worth it. I run Tumbleweed on another machine and it didn't have any of those problems.
There is no point of having MicroOS/Aeon, since Tumbleweed on btrfs already has snapshots, it's very reliable and it's used by way more people. I don't think anybody actually uses MicroOS/Aeon. Moreover they've been in beta/RC state forever.
37 • Wayland + @34 (by grindstone on 2025-07-15 02:17:10 GMT from United States)
It's just...the same arguments about software for at least the last 40 years. "It's gonna be great!" but it's fatter & slower and the miracles of bug-reductions expected from reuse / languages / blah remain vacuous promises. Yes, the world moves, but now staggering regressions are acceptable norms. I'm with Dedo--just don't kill what does function. People are indeed actively maintaining Xorg (for which I am sincerely grateful), but deprecating it unilaterally torpedoes more users than ever respond to the lists. The behavior of the leaders of the two potential alternative projects leaves enough room for improvement that the future of the projects might be questionable.
38 • CachyOS (by RetiredIT on 2025-07-15 12:51:02 GMT from United States)
I saw the same thing happen with EndeavourOS in the past where it came out of nowhere and climbed to the #1 spot in record time. It now sits at #4. Personally I do not care for Cachy's KDE/Plasma desktop. It has so many options that it's overkill. I have used and will continue to use reliable GNOME2 / MATE which I have used since 2006.
The position on DW tells nothing about the reliability of the distro itself, only how many people click on it. Linux Mint has stood the test of time since 2006. Will Cachy still be around in 2041? Think about it!
39 • OpenSUSE then and now (by Microlinux on 2025-07-15 13:21:23 GMT from France)
OpenSUSE has been a fine distribution for quite a few decades. These last few years it looks like it has been improved to death by a toxic team of tone-deaf hardcore geeks who successfully replaced tried and tested components by half-baked technology previews. I've been running Leap for quite some time, but decided to jump ship and move to a mix of Rocky Linux and AlmaLinux.
40 bull; RefreshOS 2.5 (by bert on 2025-07-15 16:47:09 GMT from Brazil)
With respect to internet connection, I had better luck than Jesse and the system could detect my wireless card and make ethernet and wifi connections.
One thing that I truly disliked about this operating system though, was the application menu with its imitation of the Windoze model and the complete lack of software categories; this last thing really put me off.
41 • Aliases (by Simon on 2025-07-16 09:57:19 GMT from New Zealand)
Only 4 aliases... but I've replaced a few more standard commands (like df) in /usr/local/bin, when the changes are too complex for a tidy alias (e.g. my df colour codes by drive type and so on). I guess if I were a slow typist I'd have created a few more as well.
I'm amazed that so many people have zero aliases. At the very least, ls is arguably the most common command, used many times in every session, and is horrible without the --color option... I would have thought everyone would have at least alias ls='ls --color', if nothing else.
42 • @41 Simon: (by dragonmouth on 2025-07-16 10:49:57 GMT from United States)
My distro, PCLinuxOS, has aliases but I use CLI so rarely that I never bothered to learn them. It is easier for me to use the command directly than to try to remember the alias. If I have to look up a particular alias, I might as well look up the command itself. I am sure that there many other Linux users that feel like me.
43 • Wayland (by JeffC on 2025-07-16 15:40:51 GMT from United States)
Wayland is the perpetual coming thing.
It was the reason for bugs in X11 being closed as WONTFIX for most of the last twenty years, even before the first release.
All that hype and it is still outperformed by quote obsolete unquote technology.
Distros that drop X11 before Wayland and the supporting systems are completely ready deserve to lose their users.
44 • Shell Aliases (by ~hellfire103 on 2025-07-16 16:12:06 GMT from United Kingdom)
Here's what's at the end of my .yashrc:
alias xit=exit
alias eit=exit
alias ext=exit
alias exi=exit
alias eix=exit
alias texit=exit
alias exti=exit
alias eixt=exit
alias eexit=exit
alias exot=exit
alias please=sudo
45 • new distros added (by oldmanseph on 2025-07-16 17:36:32 GMT from United States)
Try to spin up the MacaroniOS iso yesterday, but it wouldn't fully boot from Ventoy. Will have to try in a VM.
46 • @33 Wayland / X11 (by Keith S. ...) (by R. Cain on 2025-07-16 23:31:04 GMT from United States)
The questions / observations in that post---
"...[1] is there any real deficiency in X11 that Wayland fixes, or [2] is it just a new way of doing the same thing being pushed by certain people for whatever reason? ...[3] I haven't even heard an argument that Wayland makes things easier or better or faster in some ways,"
[1] No; none whatever. Wayland's developers have had 17 years to address X11's deficiencies. Check with them.
[2] Yes. 'New' is the keyword here, which is its only reason for existence. It's part of the "If it ain't new, it ain't no good" mindset which is crippling all of Linux.
[3] You won't. Quite to the contrary, it is suggested that you read the following 'Dedoimedo' articles wherein he takes a good, hard, objective, look--- __WITH DATA__--- at X11 vs. Wayland...
"Wayland Fedora Gnome vs KDE neon Plasma, plus X11 data!"
Updated: July 9, 2025
https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/wayland-fedora-gnome-kde-neon-amd-graphics-benchmark.html
"Wayland vs X11 on an Nvidia hybrid graphics laptop"
Updated: July 7, 2025
https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/wayland-vs-x11-performance-nvidia-graphics.html
"Long live Xorg, I mean Xlibre!"
Updated: June 13, 2025
https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/xlibre.html
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Just a few quotations pulled at random from these articles----
“...Dedo, why do you hate Wayland?
Let's answer this question, as it ought to come up. After all, in the Linux space, ad hominem is often a more powerful way of deflecting resistance than debating technological merits of software. And the answer is simple:
I do not hate Wayland. I have no personal beef with it. I don't really care. I'm not a developer. I am not bothered by software. It's a means to an end.
What I don't like is ANY, I repeat __ANY__ SOFTWARE SOLUTION THAT CHAMPIONS MEDIOCRITY...”
“...On a functional level, this is a classic Microsoft Windows 11 TPM move. Just think about it. The only way to get distros to use Wayland seems to be by deliberately killing off old components. Forcing users to run beta-quality nonsense that still can't do tons of vital stuff that the old thing can. After 15 years!..."
"...The only way for Wayland to come first in a race is to disqualify all the other opponents? Mediocrity in its supreme form...”
"...Wayland is simply the wrong solution. If somehow, magically, it fixes all its problems tomorrow, then great, fantastic, thumbs up, I'm all for it. Only it won't, and it can't. And thus, as a threat to legitimate end user needs and important desktop functionality, it shouldn't be promoted or adopted. Not until it at least reaches functional parity with X11 (which it can't). BUT EVEN THEN, IT OUGHT TO SURPASS IT [ed: highlighting added], otherwise, what's the point of the last fifteen years?...”
47 • OpenUSELESS (by MattE on 2025-07-17 04:39:26 GMT from United States)
Every time I try an OpenSUSE distro, I get the impression that their idea of security is more important than usability.
CatchyOS: Isn't the ranking system more of a curiosity rating more than anything? I wonder if this has caused CatchyOS downloads to spike in the last few weeks? There needs to be a "DistroHoppers.com" alias to DistroWatch.com. I believe it's available. Maybe even "DistroHopaholics.com". Nonetheless DistroWatch is my favorite website that I visit every day and I am glad the look and feel of DistroWatch.com hasn't changed to follow hipster web design guidelines. I enjoy the focus on content over interface fluff and input from lots of interesting users.
48 • Fedora, wayland and more (by Dave on 2025-07-17 06:08:08 GMT from Australia)
I see a lot of people go on about Redhat, and therefore decisions by Fedora. Things like disabling x11, considering dropping 32 bit etc.
My understanding has always been, Fedora is where they try and do everything the "modern" way and they adopt things (or try hard to) very quickly. They also have a 6 month upgrade cycle and pretty recent packages. And I like that they do this because forcing these choices pushes development along.
This is what you're signing up for by running Fedora. If that's not your thing, that's fine, run Debian or something else. I don't get why Fedora users complain that Fedora behaves in Fedora ways.
It's like Arch users complaining that the packages are too bleeding edge, or Parabola users complaining about the lack of non-free software. or Gentoo users about needing to compile software. Hello, that's why they exist.
49 • @14 X11 (by Chris on 2025-07-18 09:23:51 GMT from Austria)
Xorg will not disappear so fast, and even then you might want to look at Artix, which already provides packages for the XLibre fork, so "legacy" WMs and DEs are safe.
50 • Catchy or should it be called flashy (by Hank on 2025-07-18 09:30:07 GMT from Germany)
New toy of the influencers, flashy, memory cpu and gpu hog.
Fashionable but not very usable, for performance you need very potent hardware,
aka. it is very inefficient and expensive to run. My power consumption check proved that fast.
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| • Issue 1153 (2025-12-22): Best projects of 2025, is software ever truly finished?, Firefox to adopt AI components, Asahi works on improving the install experience, Mageia presents plans for version 10 |
| • Issue 1152 (2025-12-15): OpenBSD 7.8, filtering websites, Jolla working on a Linux phone, Germany saves money with Linux, Ubuntu to package AMD tools, Fedora demonstrates AI troubleshooting, Haiku packages Go language |
| • Issue 1151 (2025-12-08): FreeBSD 15.0, fun command line tricks, Canonical presents plans for Ubutnu 26.04, SparkyLinux updates CDE packages, Redox OS gets modesetting driver |
| • Issue 1150 (2025-12-01): Gnoppix 25_10, exploring if distributions matter, openSUSE updates tumbleweed's boot loader, Fedora plans better handling of broken packages, Plasma to become Wayland-only, FreeBSD publishes status report |
| • Issue 1149 (2025-11-24): MX Linux 25, why are video drivers special, systemd experiments with musl, Debian Libre Live publishes new media, Xubuntu reviews website hack |
| • Issue 1148 (2025-11-17): Zorin OS 18, deleting a file with an unusual name, NetBSD experiments with sandboxing, postmarketOS unifies its documentation, OpenBSD refines upgrades, Canonical offers 15 years of support for Ubuntu |
| • Issue 1147 (2025-11-10): Fedora 43, the size and stability of the Linux kernel, Debian introducing Rust to APT, Redox ports web engine, Kubuntu website off-line, Mint creates new troubleshooting tools, FreeBSD improves reproducible builds, Flatpak development resumes |
| • Issue 1146 (2025-11-03): StartOS 0.4.0, testing piped commands, Ubuntu Unity seeks help, Canonical offers Ubuntu credentials, Red Hat partners with NVIDIA, SUSE to bundle AI agent with SLE 16 |
| • Issue 1145 (2025-10-27): Linux Mint 7 "LMDE", advice for new Linux users, AlmaLinux to offer Btrfs, KDE launches Plasma 6.5, Fedora accepts contributions written by AI, Ubuntu 25.10 fails to install automatic updates |
| • Issue 1144 (2025-10-20): Kubuntu 25.10, creating and restoring encrypted backups, Fedora team debates AI, FSF plans free software for phones, ReactOS addresses newer drivers, Xubuntu reacts to website attack |
| • Issue 1143 (2025-10-13): openSUSE 16.0 Leap, safest source for new applications, Redox introduces performance improvements, TrueNAS Connect available for testing, Flatpaks do not work on Ubuntu 25.10, Kamarada plans to switch its base, Solus enters new epoch, Frugalware discontinued |
| • Issue 1142 (2025-10-06): Linux Kamarada 15.6, managing ZIP files with SQLite, F-Droid warns of impact of Android lockdown, Alpine moves ahead with merged /usr, Cinnamon gets a redesigned application menu |
| • Issue 1141 (2025-09-29): KDE Linux and GNOME OS, finding mobile flavours of Linux, Murena to offer phones with kill switches, Redox OS running on a smartphone, Artix drops GNOME |
| • Issue 1140 (2025-09-22): NetBSD 10.1, avoiding AI services, AlmaLinux enables CRB repository, Haiku improves disk access performance, Mageia addresses service outage, GNOME 49 released, Linux introduces multikernel support |
| • Issue 1139 (2025-09-15): EasyOS 7.0, Linux and central authority, FreeBSD running Plasma 6 on Wayland, GNOME restores X11 support temporarily, openSUSE dropping BCacheFS in new kernels |
| • Issue 1138 (2025-09-08): Shebang 25.8, LibreELEC 12.2.0, Debian GNU/Hurd 2025, the importance of software updates, AerynOS introduces package sets, postmarketOS encourages patching upstream, openSUSE extends Leap support, Debian refreshes Trixie media |
| • Issue 1137 (2025-09-01): Tribblix 0m37, malware scanners flagging Linux ISO files, KDE introduces first-run setup wizard, CalyxOS plans update prior to infrastructure overhaul, FreeBSD publishes status report |
| • Issue 1136 (2025-08-25): CalyxOS 6.8.20, distros for running containers, Arch Linux website under attack,illumos Cafe launched, CachyOS creates web dashboard for repositories |
| • Issue 1135 (2025-08-18): Debian 13, Proton, WINE, Wayland, and Wayback, Debian GNU/Hurd 2025, KDE gets advanced Liquid Glass, Haiku improves authentication tools |
| • Issue 1134 (2025-08-11): Rhino Linux 2025.3, thoughts on malware in the AUR, Fedora brings hammered websites back on-line, NetBSD reveals features for version 11, Ubuntu swaps some command line tools for 25.10, AlmaLinux improves NVIDIA support |
| • Issue 1133 (2025-08-04): Expirion Linux 6.0, running Plasma on Linux Mint, finding distros which support X11, Debian addresses 22 year old bug, FreeBSD discusses potential issues with pkgbase, CDE ported to OpenBSD, Btrfs corruption bug hitting Fedora users, more malware found in Arch User Repository |
| • Issue 1132 (2025-07-28): deepin 25, wars in the open source community, proposal to have Fedora enable Flathub repository, FreeBSD plans desktop install option, Wayback gets its first release |
| • Issue 1131 (2025-07-21): HeliumOS 10.0, settling on one distro, Mint plans new releases, Arch discovers malware in AUR, Plasma Bigscreen returns, Clear Linux discontinued |
| • Issue 1130 (2025-07-14): openSUSE MicroOS and RefreshOS, sharing aliases between computers, Bazzite makes Bazaar its default Flatpak store, Alpine plans Wayback release, Wayland and X11 benchmarked, Red Hat offers additional developer licenses, openSUSE seeks feedback from ARM users, Ubuntu 24.10 reaches the end of its life |
| • Issue 1129 (2025-07-07): GLF OS Omnislash, the worst Linux distro, Alpine introduces Wayback, Fedora drops plans to stop i686 support, AlmaLinux builds EPEL repository for older CPUs, Ubuntu dropping existing RISC-V device support, Rhino partners with UBports, PCLinuxOS recovering from website outage |
| • Issue 1128 (2025-06-30): AxOS 25.06, AlmaLinux OS 10.0, transferring Flaptak bundles to off-line computers, Ubuntu to boost Intel graphics performance, Fedora considers dropping i686 packages, SDesk switches from SELinux to AppArmor |
| • Issue 1127 (2025-06-23): LastOSLinux 2025-05-25, most unique Linux distro, Haiku stabilises, KDE publishes Plasma 6.4, Arch splits Plasma packages, Slackware infrastructure migrating |
| • Issue 1126 (2025-06-16): SDesk 2025.05.06, renewed interest in Ubuntu Touch, a BASIC device running NetBSD, Ubuntu dropping X11 GNOME session, GNOME increases dependency on systemd, Google holding back Pixel source code, Nitrux changing its desktop, EFF turns 35 |
| • Issue 1125 (2025-06-09): RHEL 10, distributions likely to survive a decade, Murena partners with more hardware makers, GNOME tests its own distro on real hardware, Redox ports GTK and X11, Mint provides fingerprint authentication |
| • Issue 1124 (2025-06-02): Picking up a Pico, tips for protecting privacy, Rhino tests Plasma desktop, Arch installer supports snapshots, new features from UBports, Ubuntu tests monthly snapshots |
| • Issue 1123 (2025-05-26): CRUX 3.8, preventing a laptop from sleeping, FreeBSD improves laptop support, Fedora confirms GNOME X11 session being dropped, HardenedBSD introduces Rust in userland build, KDE developing a virtual machine manager |
| • Issue 1122 (2025-05-19): GoboLinux 017.01, RHEL 10.0 and Debian 12 updates, openSUSE retires YaST, running X11 apps on Wayland |
| • Issue 1121 (2025-05-12): Bluefin 41, custom file manager actions, openSUSE joins End of 10 while dropping Deepin desktop, Fedora offers tips for building atomic distros, Ubuntu considers replacing sudo with sudo-rs |
| • Issue 1120 (2025-05-05): CachyOS 250330, what it means when a distro breaks, Kali updates repository key, Trinity receives an update, UBports tests directory encryption, Gentoo faces losing key infrastructure |
| • Issue 1119 (2025-04-28): Ubuntu MATE 25.04, what is missing from Linux, CachyOS ships OCCT, Debian enters soft freeze, Fedora discusses removing X11 session from GNOME, Murena plans business services, NetBSD on a Wii |
| • Issue 1118 (2025-04-21): Fedora 42, strange characters in Vim, Nitrux introduces new package tools, Fedora extends reproducibility efforts, PINE64 updates multiple devices running Debian |
| • Issue 1117 (2025-04-14): Shebang 25.0, EndeavourOS 2025.03.19, running applications from other distros on the desktop, Debian gets APT upgrade, Mint introduces OEM options for LMDE, postmarketOS packages GNOME 48 and COSMIC, Redox testing USB support |
| • Issue 1116 (2025-04-07): The Sense HAT, Android and mobile operating systems, FreeBSD improves on laptops, openSUSE publishes many new updates, Fedora appoints new Project Leader, UBports testing VoLTE |
| • Issue 1115 (2025-03-31): GrapheneOS 2025, the rise of portable package formats, MidnightBSD and openSUSE experiment with new package management features, Plank dock reborn, key infrastructure projects lose funding, postmarketOS to focus on reliability |
| • Issue 1114 (2025-03-24): Bazzite 41, checking which processes are writing to disk, Rocky unveils new Hardened branch, GNOME 48 released, generating images for the Raspberry Pi |
| • Issue 1113 (2025-03-17): MocaccinoOS 1.8.1, how to contribute to open source, Murena extends on-line installer, Garuda tests COSMIC edition, Ubuntu to replace coreutils with Rust alternatives, Chimera Linux drops RISC-V builds |
| • Issue 1112 (2025-03-10): Solus 4.7, distros which work with Secure Boot, UBports publishes bug fix, postmarketOS considers a new name, Debian running on Android |
| • Issue 1111 (2025-03-03): Orbitiny 0.01, the effect of Ubuntu Core Desktop, Gentoo offers disk images, elementary OS invites feature ideas, FreeBSD starts PinePhone Pro port, Mint warns of upcoming Firefox issue |
| • Issue 1110 (2025-02-24): iodeOS 6.0, learning to program, Arch retiring old repositories, openSUSE makes progress on reproducible builds, Fedora is getting more serious about open hardware, Tails changes its install instructions to offer better privacy, Murena's de-Googled tablet goes on sale |
| • Issue 1109 (2025-02-17): Rhino Linux 2025.1, MX Linux 23.5 with Xfce 4.20, replacing X.Org tools with Wayland tools, GhostBSD moving its base to FreeBSD -RELEASE, Redox stabilizes its ABI, UBports testing 24.04, Asahi changing its leadership, OBS in dispute with Fedora |
| • Issue 1108 (2025-02-10): Serpent OS 0.24.6, Aurora, sharing swap between distros, Peppermint tries Void base, GTK removinglegacy technologies, Red Hat plans more AI tools for Fedora, TrueNAS merges its editions |
| • Issue 1107 (2025-02-03): siduction 2024.1.0, timing tasks, Lomiri ported to postmarketOS, Alpine joins Open Collective, a new desktop for Linux called Orbitiny |
| • Issue 1106 (2025-01-27): Adelie Linux 1.0 Beta 6, Pop!_OS 24.04 Alpha 5, detecting whether a process is inside a virtual machine, drawing graphics to NetBSD terminal, Nix ported to FreeBSD, GhostBSD hosting desktop conference |
| • Issue 1105 (2025-01-20): CentOS 10 Stream, old Flatpak bundles in software centres, Haiku ports Iceweasel, Oracle shows off debugging tools, rsync vulnerability patched |
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