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What you need to know when using my custom AlmaLinux 9.4 KDE ISO
In the post about my Custom AlmaLinux KDE Live ISO, I mentioned the differences compared to the official KDE Live ISO. Still, I feel that I need to underscore at…
A random discovery about zypper, thanks to rpm and a deb package
It happens to me to discover some quirks and facts by accident. Today, something that made me question the design of zypper, a crucial openSUSE tool! Here's the full story,…
Microsoft + CloudStrike = Death
The culprit for the current global Windows outage that affected banks, airlines, hospitals, and many other services and industries since the early morning of Friday, July 19, CrowdStrike's Falcon Sensor,…
Is openSUSE at crossroads?
Just when I thought that openSUSE was free from stupid corporate decisions, their main sponsor, SUSE , came with a strange request: openSUSE should “stop using the SUSE brand”! WTF…
One more reason I was happier with MS-DOS and Windows 3.1
Not because I was younger. Not because of the simplicity of both DOS and 16-bit Windows. Not because I loved a lot Borland's IDEs, with their ncurses-like Turbo Vision UI,…
The dead and the reborn BSDs — now updated!
The BSDs, especially FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFly BSD, are far from being dead. The problem is that they never targeted the desktop users, especially not the laptop users. Here's what…
I’d kill the entire Linux kernel team!
While being busy testing all the distros on the mini-PC and on the newer laptop, I forgot to properly test them on the old one. It's from 2016, with a…
SJVN made my day!
Please excuse the thumbnail for this post. I just couldn't use anything else, in the light of having read SJVN's latest article in The Reg. I also cannot quote from…
The shortest distro bashing and appraisal in a long while—now with added Dedoimedo!
Not long ago, I tentatively said that “I will keep using AlmaLinux with KDE on the mini-PC and on the newest laptop, at least for some time” and “For the…
Is systemd cancer? A reignited debate
I thought it's going to be a slow, uneventful Monday. As it turned out, I had a lot to read. It all started from the first comment of today's DWW.…
KDE5, KDE6, tiling and other rants
To some extent, this is a sort of follow-up to the previous extra-long feature Epic disappointments with Linux (not for the mentally retarded), which proved to be too complex a…
SPECIAL: Epic disappointments with Linux (not for the mentally retarded)
In the last year and half, I thought I could stop the distro-hopping, but very recently it turned out it wasn't the case. Since there are criteria and thoughts about…
Michiel Schrijver & Mark Beck: Painting styles
After Philippe Charles Jacquet: The Better Maestro of Solitude and Il gattopardo azzurro: How I discovered Evgeni Gordiets, I'll show you samples from two contemporary painters that are completely different…
Custom AlmaLinux 9.4 KDE Live ISO
Six months ago, I was Introducing an installable custom KDE Live ISO based on AlmaLinux with kernel from ELRepo. Today, I have to announce the version, which brings an important…
On the European subordination to the American liquefied natural gas
Based on an idea of Margaret Thatcher, the European Commission started to implement a strong policy of liberalization of the European energy markets, including the separation of supply and production…
Norm Finkelstein, the reasonable Jew
Reasonable, as in “the voice of reason”; because very few of the prominent Jewish voices are honest enough intellectually as to criticize the actions of the state of Israel in…
Yanis and the “Zionism Über Alles” Germany
Yes, I know it's not kosher to compare Israel to Nazi Germany. But I also know that Israel is guilty of ethnic cleansing since 1948 (Nakba), and of apartheid at…
Open-source software: the road to hell?
I'm hyperbolizing, but still. Open source was supposed to be the best possible software development model. Even those not into the GPL vs BSD war, or more generally, the copyleft…
Et tu, KDE? Vulnerable by design?
I never thought I'd discover such a stupid design decision in KDE. I didn't even learn about it on Planet KDE, but on KDE's Facebook public group, which I joined…
Answering to anti-establishment people on Ukraine
I know that most people in Europe are fed up with the war in Ukraine; that many of them believe that the high energy prices and the inflation are exclusively…