npub1232s...cqam 3 months ago

DistroWatch Weekly talks about KDE Linux and GNOME OS, mobile Linux options, Murena introducing phones with kill switches, Redox OS running on a smartphone, Artix dropping GNOME:

DistroWatch.com: Put the fun back into computing. Use Linux, BSD.

News and feature lists of Linux and BSD distributions.

npub1232s...cqam 3 months ago

YouTube broke popular download clients. yt-dpl is planning a fix:

GitHub

[Announcement] Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads · Issue #14404 · yt-dlp/yt-dlp

Beginning very soon, you'll need to have Deno (or another supported JavaScript runtime) installed to keep YouTube downloads working as normal. Why?...

npub1232s...cqam 4 months ago

Also on the topic of security and network traffic, a new Security Onion is available:

Distribution Release: Security Onion 2.4.180 (DistroWatch.com News)

News and feature lists of Linux and BSD distributions.

npub1232s...cqam 4 months ago

Day 2 with NetBSD is proving challenging, but now that the basic pieces are in place, I've been able to get the core applications I need and added some functionality. I've got office software, e-mail, text editing, a music player (and volume control!), and I can restart/shutdown from within Xfce. It's been a busy day of getting things sorted, but I feel like it'll be easier from this point.

npub1232s...cqam 4 months ago

I can already tell NetBSD is going to be challenging. I have used it before, but it has been a while since I made a solid go at it. There are several things not working out of the box that I will be tinkering with before I can get to work.

npub1232s...cqam 5 months ago

I maintain a (long) e-mail filter which contains a lists of accounts that send spam or repeatedly send us false information about distributions. It's getting long enough it takes Thunderbird several seconds to save it.