Tag archives for Linux
Clem is undoubtedly certifiable
Instead of focusing on speeding up the release of the Ubuntu 26.04-based Linux Mint 23, which currently has an ETA for Christmas and will certainly be a pack of bugs,…
Anylinux AppImages—or why Windows is superior to Linux
Someone commented on an old post of mine, AppImages: the worst choice in “portability” (with examples), which made me aware of this project: Anylinux AppImages. Some relevant links: Anylinux-AppImages on…
A question of time in XFCE
There was absolutely no time synchronization issue in my Debian XFCE installed from xebian-trixie-amd64.hybrid.iso, but I was made aware that in Xebian, trying to use the “Time and Date Settings”…
Will Debian succumb to the idiocy of its people?
While I was fighting an unexpected cold (smart people catch colds in summer), I was disappointed by two stupidities regarding the Debian Project. One was some developers’ reaction to the…
ComicStripBrowser 3 is here!
ComicStripBrowser 3.0.0 is out on GitHub, with packages and binaries on SourceForge, too! The changelog for v3.0.0 from GitHub: Major release with substantial changes under the hood. Despite being a…
8 reads on AI and Linux on the Small and Mainstream Web
While I was busy procrastinating and not finishing other tasks, I still had time to pick a few links from the past few days: 4 from Kagi’s Small Web and…
Random new and old Linux news
Not my usual self, but consistent with it, I hereby offer a collection of news and comments related to Linux. Anchors work by using a section's number (e.g., #3). 1…
Odyssey Linux—not quite for me
Odyssey Linux is a Void-based distro that seems to be the result of some heavy work by a single person. It just worked in my quick test, so why did…
Maybe I wasn’t wrong to hate PackageKit, after all
I hated PackageKit in 2008, then I got used to it as it became omnipresent, so I just ignored it. Most people have nothing against it (it’s for your security!)…
KDE Bug 342056: Thunar is still a great file manager
Phoronix, yesterday: KDE Developer Fixing Long-Standing Bug Over Very Long Small-File Copy Times: Since 2014 there has been a KDE bug report titled Ridiculously slow file copy (multiple small files).…
AI and Linux: a bit of ranting
From the hundreds of URLs visited per week, here are a bunch of comments based on a very short selection of news from the last 3 weeks. I am unhappy…
The CCPA and the GDPR will eventually kill Linux
I don't expect people to read carefully the details that accompany the release of Debian 13.6. It's just a bunch of updates, right? Even I couldn't be bothered, but as…
Is Ubuntu LTS a bad choice?
A couple of recent news seem to show a new trend against basing a distro on Ubuntu LTS. Is this bad news, or rather a positive development? First, TUXEDO OS…
Stop drinking Kool-Aid regarding battery life in Linux
There is an open secret that a laptop’s battery life in Linux is worse than in Windows. At least, this was true for Win7-Win10, because Win11, I'm told, is worse,…
I’m so tired of all these “tech” news reports!
It’s been weeks since I last wrote something remotely related to technology, and there are several reasons for that. One of them is that I’ve been rather busy; another one…
Erik Dubois is still on steroids
Does anyone remember ArcoLinux, a distro now discontinued? I do. It was quite famous, much more than EndeavourOS is today, because it offered a bunch of different ISOs, each with…
GNOME’s Tracker makes Linux as shitty as Windows
While the new Lenovo placidly runs Debian 13 XFCE installed via Xebian Trixie (not Unstable), there’s still an Acer that has not received any Windows yet and runs MX XFCE.…
Did Gemini Pro really get that worse? 4 threads to test it!
I just had 3 conversations with Gemini Pro Extended Thinking. It all started from my refusal to watch two videos about Claude skills, but the first thread evolved into covering…
Fedora Linux just rejected the idea of an LTS kernel!
I had my suspicions that Fedora Linux is maintained by a bunch of morons who misinterpret or interpret too strictly Red Hat’s requirements, but now I have the proof that…
Small polish touches to Debian 13 installed via Xebian
Since the home page of Xebian insists that this Debian blend (not derivative!), “with only a thin layer for artwork and configuration that differs from Debian,” is “based on Debian Unstable/sid,” I…