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1 • Ubuntu Unity (by Redy Basuki on 2025-11-03 01:35:04 GMT from Indonesia)
I have never once use Unity, what does it like? :D
2 • Ubuntu unity (by A hobbit on 2025-11-03 02:58:28 GMT from Chile)
@1 Unity is not too different from GNOME, but I think it's better conceptualized. The menu when using the super key is different and not all touchpad like, it incorporated menus from programs into the hub, and a few other QoL/workflow improvements. It feels different enough that I like using unity and dislike gnome.
The problem with unity is that is old tech that was abandoned for a long time and it really hasn't been updated in a long while. They shouldn't have made it a new official flavor since the devs didn't really had the time nor manpower to maintain a distro or iron out unity. The fact they did as much as they did is impressive enough.
3 • Sculpt OS is really weird (by InvisibleInk on 2025-11-03 03:28:26 GMT from United States)
I can't even begin to wrap my head around Sculpt OS. I'd like to see a review of that, just to explain it to us.
4 • Managing a server (by fenglengshun on 2025-11-03 03:44:37 GMT from Indonesia)
I have used an old laptop that I slapped Ubuntu Server LTS on it for the past two years. I find it to be a hassle to access sometimes, due to me moving around from one shared housing to another, and I'd like a backup to my main device just in case, so I ended up installing KDE on it anyways.
I don't like the end result of all that - so I am switching NixOS instead this week. I'd like the ability to just reinstall it whenever I want and still have the same configuration as I want. Additionally, the ability to cleanly go from headless server and desktop environment cleanly thanks to the Nix config system makes it quite appealing to me.
So I suppose I belong "Management tools" category once that's done.
5 • Original Ubuntu Unity (by Forgetful Nostalgic on 2025-11-03 08:13:11 GMT from United Kingdom)
The Ubuntu Unity seeking a maintainer is a revival of an old system. In 2008 I passed up on what will probably be my only opportunity to buy a Linux computer on the British high street. The Acer Aspire One came out with Linpus Linux Lite, in part because Windows XP had reached end of life. By the time I was in the market for a new laptop Microsoft regretted giving this opportunity to Linux and re-released Windows XP as a laptop only version of Windows. So I was choosing between a Linux and a Windows version. I chose Windows because I did not like the look of Linpus and worried that that version of Linux might be hard coded into the computer. I tired of the security risks of Windows XP and switched to an early version of Ubuntu Unity and even signed up to their online services for downloading music etc. I used Ubuntu Unity because it was the only version of Linux I could get to install on the Acer Aspire One.
6 • Unity -> Lomiri (by Dave on 2025-11-03 08:19:50 GMT from Australia)
#5 That's Interesting. I used to run Meego on an Asus EeePC and it was great for the form factor
Maybe Unity should switch properly to Lomiri, and only Lomiri. It's a shame Lomiri development for desktop has been very slow, I kind of don't mind it.
7 • favourite server management tools (by eb on 2025-11-03 09:54:35 GMT from France)
I answered "Other" ; I use command-line without SSH :
my server and my main computer are on the same desk (2 mac-mini)
both are linked to the same screen, VGA for server (without X), DVI for main
Every morning :
I retrieve from server error_log & access_log on a USB-stick
I analyse them on main, I update iptables-blacklist that I record on stick, & my site too
I update iptables with new blacklist, and site with new pages.
Thanks for this poll : I hope I will learn and improve my practice !
8 • Ubuntu Unity (by Jake on 2025-11-03 10:46:51 GMT from United States)
Convergence on the desktop has been a total failure.
Convergence in computing refers to the integration of different technologies and services into a unified system, allowing for more efficient operations and enhanced functionalities. This often involves the merging of telecommunications, computing, and broadcasting into a single digital platform, exemplified by devices like smartphones that combine multiple functions.
9 • AI (by Keith S on 2025-11-03 03:37:46 GMT from United States)
It is evident from the corporate doublespeak issued by Fedora and OpenSuse that AI has matured to the point where the C suites have delegated the proclamation of their product's suitability for use by other large organizations to the marketing people. Its unquestioned adoption by middle management has been fully normalized. Any suggestion that it might be dangerous in any way can now be safely ignored and the complainant marginalized.
10 • RE: Unity -> Lomiri (by Maik on 2025-11-03 14:46:45 GMT from Belgium)
@#6: Dave,
Maik from the Ubuntu Unity team here. We might switch to Lomiri in the future once it has matured and provides more or less the same features as Unity 7.7 does now. What's missing are:
- global menu
- the HUD (the ability to search through the menu bar using a shortcut)
- wallpaper based launcher color (the launcher changing color based on the wallpaper)
- display settings (resolution, refresh rate, scaling, multi-monitor arrangement etc)
- frosted glass theming (lomiri’s theming is rather flat in comparison)
- lenses (the ability to not only search for applications but also files and filter for file types)
Lomiri has come far but is not suited to replace Unity7 as a desktop environment as of yet.
Since the upcoming 26.04 is a LTS release we can't switch to another DE just like that.
Currently we are working on getting more people involved to help with the development and fixing bugs, we're also working on a complete new infrastructure so we can show the people who are interested to help the right way. This takes some time though.
Asured is to have a great Ubuntu Unity 26.04 LTS release.
11 • Ansible (by Will on 2025-11-03 15:35:36 GMT from United States)
I used to script my installs and they were straightforward to run and understand. The messages were helpful in analyzing anything that wen wrong and easy to fix. I transitioned to ansible because it was "more capable" and "more standard" - ouch, messages were a pain to figure out, scripts were a pain to change. Bottom line, aching to get back to my bash scripts and sanity. So many lost hours of what happened, why?!
12 • AI (by InvisibleInk on 2025-11-03 16:40:56 GMT from United States)
@9 Let's not kid ourselves, Red Hat/IBM, SUSE S.A., Canonical, Oracle, and the like, are for-profit corporations caught up in the latest trendy bubble, and they will try to shape their communities priorities to match their objectives with slick propaganda. In the event they fail to shape their community's beliefs in line with their objectives to their satisfaction, they will simply forge ahead and ignore their developer's wishes and community's consensus of opinion.
As an enthusiast/home user, it's best to avoid these distributions altogether. There's plenty of good ones to choose from.
13 • SOHO server with GUI (by Joe on 2025-11-03 17:03:57 GMT from United States)
For a low-effort SOHO (or possibly even larger) server with a GUI that is supported by a large upstream project, I've had good results with vanilla Debian or Ubuntu, plus Webmin. I'm sure something from the Redhat / Fedora lineage could also be easily managed with Webmin, and to a lesser degree even FreeBSD is supported. I don't like my servers to depend on a small project that modifies aspects of a larger distro. In my case I wanted to run a Raspberry Pi NAS with ZFS support without having to compile the module every time the kernel gets updated, so I went with plain Ubuntu and then installed Webmin on top of it to configure all of the services I need. Webmin has improved greatly over the decades into something that is now fairly attractive and easy to use. Or for something even more slick and modern you could try Cockpit for certain usage scenarios, although it's nowhere near as broad and complete as Webmin.
14 • Devuan (by Dino on 2025-11-03 17:32:40 GMT from Denmark)
Unfortunately, the release announcement of Devuan 6 Excalibur didn't make it into this Weekly, but it looks like yet another nice iteration by the Devuan team. I installed it yesterday, right from the oven. I went with Xfce, and installed all the usual apps I normally use (Firefox, Signal, Writer, Zim, Steam, Filezilla, Audacious, Scribus, etc.). It is very stable (in a non-Debian way), and looks just fine. Of course, after the beatification of Xfce. :)
No more those dreaded systemd/journalctl waiting minutes before the shutdown.
15 • @12 AI (by Keith S on 2025-11-03 22:24:39 GMT from United States)
I admit that I have become a nattering nabob of negativism on many of these subjects, and so I want to say that I have not lost hope and I believe I will be able to enjoy good free software for many years hence. Still, I plan to continue to avoid these distros. (I was actually tempted by OpenSuse a short while back, but they have wrecked it again so it's no longer tempting.)
The problem is that so many of the best distros are really small operations and are dependent on the larger ones. When the big distros make big decisions, the little guys scramble to opt out but often it only lasts so long until they're squeezed.
Look at MX Linux now having to offer systemd first because Debian has eliminated a key component that made it possible to continue using systemd-shim on SysV systems. And Debian has just announced that they're planning to include Rust components in their toolchain within six months, so if you would prefer to stay with C / C++ tools, you will again have to scramble. The Wayland folks are coming hard for Xfce, and I suspect it won't be long until they remove the option to use X.
There are still alternatives. I'm very thankful for the OpenBSD team since I know as long as they continue, it will be possible to compute without most of this noise. Inconvenient to do certain things, yes, but I can learn to make do.
I understand that the big distros are in it for the money, but they at least used to make noises about software freedom, etc.
16 • End of 10 (by Keith S on 2025-11-03 22:32:28 GMT from United States)
I have a 10-year-old HP laptop that I just updated with the very last Windows 10 update. I have overwritten the hard drive on this box several times over the years, but recently reinstalled Windows 10 for a couple of programs that I couldn't make work on Linux. Once I get it updated, I plan to backup the entire install with those programs and make an ISO so I can use it again in the future if needed. I actually ran XP for five years past its EOL for the same reason (not mission critical stuff, obviously, just nice to have.)
So, since about 2007 I have almost completely weaned myself from Windows lol. Once I replace a couple of pieces of hardware that depend on updates only available from Windows programs, the need will be entirely gone.
17 • Devuan6: /usr NOT merged (by picamanic on 2025-11-04 09:07:33 GMT from United Kingdom)
I installed Devuan 6 from the netinstall, expecting /usr be "merged". My preference would have been /bin, /sbin, /usr/sbin to all be empty, pointing to /usr/bin, but no. There was no option during the installation to achieve this either. What am I missing? I am forced to edit ~/.bashrc to add these paths to PATH.
18 • @15 (by Cheker on 2025-11-04 14:16:15 GMT from Portugal)
@15 There will always be a non-insignificant number of technically inclined users that does not tolerate the mental Rustardation we're seeing across the board. It doesn't matter what sort of tricks the technofascists throw at us, every project is just a hard fork away from being saved.
19 • @12: Redhat, SUSE,Canonical,Debian disruption: Way Out (by picamanic on 2025-11-04 14:41:31 GMT from United Kingdom)
@12: Redhat, SUSE,Canonical,Debian disruption: Way Out.
Clinging to these disruptive Linux distributions is a waste of time. Before jumping into the BSD world, you should consider looking at Void and Devuan Linux: I have used both, daily, for many years. Both have large enough package repositories, and are managed by very different, yet responsible teams.
20 • Pipes (by Matthew on 2025-11-04 15:45:13 GMT from Sweden)
The memory used by a pipe itself is almost always rather small on Linux: 64 KiB by default on most common hardware. It can be increased up to 1 MiB by a non-privileged process by default, cf. https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/pipe.7.html.
21 • @19 Void and Devuan (by Keith S on 2025-11-05 03:38:31 GMT from United States)
I have used both of these in the past. I last tried Void maybe five or six years ago, but it didn't recognize some of my hardware. Maybe I'll try it again soon, since Debian is planning unwanted changes that will affect all of the downstream distros and Void is independent.
I tried Devuan again recently and really liked it, and I want to like it. The problem I have is that they don't seem to work to find a way around packages that have a systemd dependency, but rather just delete it from their repository. When I was considering making it my daily driver, there were several packages I usually use that are available on MX Linux running SysV init but are not available on Devuan.
What I like about the MX and antiX people is that they make a real effort to find a way to make things work without any systemd bits. I do think that is going to become much more difficult soon. It reminds me of the moves Google is taking to lock down Android so apps can't be side loaded. It's maybe more about control than money.
22 • managing the pulseaudio sound server (by MInuxLintEbianDedition on 2025-11-05 09:21:07 GMT from United Kingdom)
I use paprefs and the sound icon right click to manage my 3x asus eee pc rpt multicast receiver setup
23 • Server Management (by Alter Furz on 2025-11-05 09:35:45 GMT from Germany)
Seeing the poll results I guess the Distrowatch-crowd is more about home devices or individual servers for hobby or SME use. That meshes well with my previous impressions and the, sometimes bordering on the irrational, hate of systemd.
I voted "Management tools", not necessarily Ansible (although that too), by which I mean stuff like Saltstack, cfengine, or even Terraform. Sometimes they have web interfaces ;) Today servers are a commodity. Disposable units of compute or storage behind load balancers. You do not change them, you provision a new one, shift workloads, and deprovision the old one. Management systems make this virtually hassle-free. Anything else is tending to snowflakes.
Which is fine! Don't let anybody tell you that you shouldn't SSH into a box and do config on a case-by-case basis, if you are only tending to a handful of machines. You can take care of a few snowflakes this way. But remember that the machine is not important, its workload is. So consider setting up docker or a full-fledged hypervisor so that you can move the workload with less hassle when (not if) your machine fails.
24 • Unity/Convergence (by Slappy McGee on 2025-11-05 14:42:36 GMT from United States)
@8 Thank you for that succinct description/definition of what Unity was trying to be (I only say "was" because I keep reading that the developers have apparently either abandoned the concept or are in some kind of flux as to what to do next with Unity... I must make it clear that I do not know, even after reading around the Unity website).
I love the notion, and the analogy of smartphones embodying the multi-functionality that the Unity devs may have seemed to want, and it seems more than worthy of continuation. Your saying "Convergence on the desktop has been a total failure" is disappointing to see. I envision a desktop with all that... but I'm a dreamer, not a developer by any means at all.
I do see on the Unity website that Gentoo is supported. For some reason that lends more legitimacy to the whole thing in my mind.
25 • Server management (by Robert on 2025-11-05 17:01:32 GMT from United States)
As of now I only have a single basic home server that doesn't do much besides store files. Any management I do is done via ssh.
I was going to setup Cockpit when I originally installed OpenSuse Leap but at the time it wasn't available. I think the same was true of webmin. I do plan on switching to a different distro whenever I make time, so I can give a web interface a try then.
Remote desktop has not been a good experience for me. Slow and laggy, sometimes low quality blurry visuals, and certain keyboard shortcuts getting intercepted by the main system rather than remote. This goes for both VNC on linux and RDP on windows.
I am interested in learning something like Ansible, but I don't think it's really applicable to my situation. As far as I understand, these tools are more for managing fleets of servers, not just one.
26 • Watching upcoming distros, and OSs (by ostro on 2025-11-05 20:17:10 GMT from Poland)
If Distrowatch tracks upcoming distros, meaning operating systems bundled with additional apps, why hasn't anyone noticed a new OS built with its own kernel and chips? Not referring to macOS, which is quite dated, but HarmonyOS.
The latest version would have its own kernel, completely independent of Android. It's not just for phones and tablets that can double as laptops; they've also developed actual laptops featuring their chip and the OS. Interestingly, they seem to be aiming for 33% of the global market share.
Linux has struggled to gain significant market share, and the same goes for FreeBSD and other BSDs. If HarmonyOS manages to achieve at least 10% in its first year, it would be considered a success. They reportedly have sold over a billion products. Additionally, there’s another upcoming OS with its own kernel and unique chip.
27 • @26 Watching upcoming.. (by picamanic on 2025-11-05 20:56:11 GMT from United Kingdom)
@26 Watching upcoming.. Is it open or closed source? How many of the 1bn users are in China?
28 • Pipe Sponge (by Carl on 2025-11-06 00:42:22 GMT from United States)
The 'sponge' tool from 'moreutils' enforces sequencing. It enables modifying a file in place via piped processes.
https://joeyh.name/code/moreutils/
29 • @26, Watching upcoming distros, and OSs (by Tasio on 2025-11-06 02:40:24 GMT from Philippines)
@26, "HarmonyOS" The new HarmonyOS (HarmonyOS Next) is no more open source than macOS. There are different HarmonyOS variants. I have a Huawei watch with HarmonyOS, but it is based on LiteOS, which is itself part of the OpenHarmony project, and used in small gadgets and IOT. I can buy a Huawei phone with HarmonyOS, which is Android with Huawei's own UI, and will come with no Google services installed. Huawei laptops run Windows. As for HarmonyOS Next, it is a microkernel design developed by Huawei and also based on OpenHarmony, and is proprietary. As of now, it is only available in China and only on Huawei devices.
30 • Antix (by silent on 2025-11-06 03:14:53 GMT from Hungary)
Great news that the new Antix version is here with four modern init systems. Other distros should follow this modernization for a better user experience.
31 • @30 AntiX (by Jan on 2025-11-06 12:32:11 GMT from The Netherlands)
Tried the beta of AniX from a Ventoy-USB-stick,
AntiX still has no setting to rotate or set the screen to a lower resolution (I am using a monitor in portrait mode).
The Ventoy stick was unusable after trying AntiX-beta, had to reinitialize the Ventoy-stick.
32 • @26 HarmonyOS and Huawei (by Keith S on 2025-11-06 02:05:26 GMT from United States)
HarmonyOS sounds interesting, but until Huawei can get itself unbanned in the U.S., it won't matter to me since their products will not be available here. It looks like they've made some tiny amount of progress toward that end, but on the other hand most of their current efforts seem to be simple name-calling propaganda. That's fine, I really don't care, but I seriously doubt they will have a chance of penetrating this market any time soon.
33 • @30 antiX (by InvisibleInk on 2025-11-06 15:21:38 GMT from United States)
antiX is really the standard bearer of init freedom. What I'm also looking to them for is a continuation of 32-bit ISOs based on Debian after Debian's ending of i386 ISO support in 13 Trixie.
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| • 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 |
| • Issue 1104 (2025-01-13): DAT Linux 2.0, Silly things to do with a minimal computer, Budgie prepares Wayland only releases, SteamOS coming to third-party devices, Murena upgrades its base |
| • Issue 1103 (2025-01-06): elementary OS 8.0, filtering ads with Pi-hole, Debian testing its installer, Pop!_OS faces delays, Ubuntu Studio upgrades not working, Absolute discontinued |
| • Issue 1102 (2024-12-23): Best distros of 2024, changing a process name, Fedora to expand Btrfs support and releases Asahi Remix 41, openSUSE patches out security sandbox and donations from Bottles while ending support for Leap 15.5 |
| • Issue 1101 (2024-12-16): GhostBSD 24.10.1, sending attachments from the command line, openSUSE shows off GPU assignment tool, UBports publishes security update, Murena launches its first tablet, Xfce 4.20 released |
| • Issue 1100 (2024-12-09): Oreon 9.3, differences in speed, IPFire's new appliance, Fedora Asahi Remix gets new video drivers, openSUSE Leap Micro updated, Redox OS running Redox OS |
| • Issue 1099 (2024-12-02): AnduinOS 1.0.1, measuring RAM usage, SUSE continues rebranding efforts, UBports prepares for next major version, Murena offering non-NFC phone |
| • Issue 1098 (2024-11-25): Linux Lite 7.2, backing up specific folders, Murena and Fairphone partner in fair trade deal, Arch installer gets new text interface, Ubuntu security tool patched |
| • Issue 1097 (2024-11-18): Chimera Linux vs Chimera OS, choosing between AlmaLinux and Debian, Fedora elevates KDE spin to an edition, Fedora previews new installer, KDE testing its own distro, Qubes-style isolation coming to FreeBSD |
| • Issue 1096 (2024-11-11): Bazzite 40, Playtron OS Alpha 1, Tucana Linux 3.1, detecting Screen sessions, Redox imports COSMIC software centre, FreeBSD booting on the PinePhone Pro, LXQt supports Wayland window managers |
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Linux Kodachi
Linux Kodachi is a Debian-based distribution which can be run from a DVD or USB thumb drive. The distribution filters all network traffic through a VPN and the Tor network, obscuring the user's network location. The distribution attempts to clean up after itself, removing traces of its use from the computer.
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