Distrohoppers’ Digest Episode 46

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Synopsis

Distrohoppers' Digest Episode

Introductions

Hosts: Moss Bliss, Dale Miracle, Eric Adams

Monthly Foibles

Updates: blend OS, Bodhi 7, OpenMandriva ROME 5, Regolith, Pardus, LMDE 6

Beautiful Failures: Rhino Linux, PCLinuxOS

Reviews: Linux Lite 4.4, Rhino Linux 1, Lubuntu 22.04.3 LTS

New Releases

Feedback

Announcements

MONTHLY FOIBLES ...wherein we discuss what we did this month…

Moss: My wife finally unburied her new Lenovo T590 ThinkPad, and I updated and upgraded it to Linux Mint 21.2. I even managed to get its power cord plugged in so she can start using it instead of the aging System76 Kudu3. Except that, so far, she continues to use the Kudu. We also spent a weekend at my friend Larry Kirby’s house in South Carolina singing my lungs out with 3 other performers and a room of listeners and lots of food. We also had some car trouble coming back from there, which cost a lot of money to fix. And I’m back to teaching. ...More

Distrohoppers’ Digest Episode 45

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Synopsis

Introductions

Hosts: Moss Bliss, Dale Miracle, Eric Adams

Monthly Foibles

Updates: Linux Mint 21.2 “Victoria”,

Beautiful Failures:

Reviews: peppermintOS, blend OS v 3, Pop!_OS 22.04

New Releases

Feedback

Announcements

MONTHLY FOIBLES ...wherein we discuss what we did this month…

Moss:

I’ve been fiddling with a new scooter, something they are always out of when you go to Voldemart so I bought my own. I also got a new “smart guitar”, an Enya Music NEXG, and am getting to know it. I bought a powered digital TV antenna, and so far only have 3 stations I can get - one Christian station, a Christian station in Spanish, and Lifetime. I had a lot of paperwork to get turned in for various programs, and managed to get it all done, although I didn’t get one of them done soon enough and am still waiting to hear back. More........

Distrohoppers’ Digest Episode 44

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Synopsis

Distrohoppers' Digest Episode

Introductions

Hosts: Moss Bliss, Dale Miracle, Eric Adams

Monthly Foibles

Updates: Bodhi 7, Mint 21.2, BlendOS 3, Debian 12

Beautiful Failures: Debian 12 LXQt, Polydock, NotesNook

Reviews: Debian 12 Cinnamon, Debian 12 Mate, Linux Mint 21.1 Cinnamon

New Releases

Feedback

Announcements

MONTHLY FOIBLES  ...wherein we discuss what we did this month…

Moss:

It has been an off month for me. After working 7 days in May, my work year got over. I’ve been just trying to stay alive, had a few minor health issues. All the Linuxing I’ve done, other than my podcasts, will have to wait until the Updates section. Anyone wanting to check out the result of my last concert can check my Bandcamp Page; the songs are collected under the album, “Third Time’s the Charm”, referring to it being my 3rd time at this particular online festival. ........More

 

Distrohoppers’ Digest Episode 043

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 Synopsis

Distrohoppers' Digest Episode

Introductions

Hosts: Moss Bliss, Dale Miracle, Eric Adams

Monthly Foibles

Updates: blend OS, Bodhi, Solus, Void, Debian, Xero,

Pardus,

Beautiful Failures: blend OS, Jelly Comb trackball, Void

Reviews: ArchCraft, Feren OS, Kubuntu 23.04

New Releases

Feedback

MONTHLY FOIBLES  ...wherein we discuss what we did this month…

Moss: I managed to get all kinds of days of work this past month, my best month this school year. Of course, that is to be followed by 2 months of nothing, as the school term is over. I’ve been keeping quite busy between that and all my podcasts. I also tried using EasyOS. It was easy… but getting applications which were not already provided turned out to be quite difficult. I also mailed two computers and a dock to Dale. Also, Bill Houser took pity on me over my troubles with the EBXYA sound box and bought me a Focusrite Scarlett Solo, which I’m using now.

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Distrohoppers Digest Episode 42

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Synopsis

Distrohoppers' Digest Episode

Introductions

Hosts: Moss Bliss, Dale Miracle Eric Adams

Monthly Foibles

Updates: BigLinux, OpenMandriva ROME, Slackel, Solus, FreeBSD

Void, Debian, Void, Voyager, Ubuntu Budgie, Xubuntu,

PCLOS, XeroLinux, KaOS, BlendOS

Beautiful Failures: VanillaOS

Reviews: Elementary OS 7, Zinc 22.04.2, Fedora 37

New Releases

Feedback

Announcements 

 

Welcome to Distrohopper’s Digest, Episode 042, recorded on the 25th of April, 2023. For this episode, I will be reviewing Elementary OS 7, Dale has Zinc 22.04.2 and Eric will review Fedora 37. We have a new team member, Eric Adams. Say hello, Eric, and tell us a bit about yourself.

Eric: [I’ll talk a little bit about my work history and history with using Linux, both server for work projects and desktop for mostly home use. I discussed this with Moss already. I’ll also briefly mention my experience on other podcasts and my YouTube channel.]

MONTHLY FOIBLES ...wherein we discuss what we did this month…

Moss: I’ve had lots of fun with hardware lately. I got a keyboard cleaning brush and restored my Fellowes Microban keyboard. I have found my M700 Tiny i3 machine used for my TV streaming has a loose interior connection on the DisplayPort, and ordered a new i5 M700 Tiny as a temporary fix. I’m sending the old i3 machine to Joe of mintCast for repair, as neither my eyesight nor my hands are up to soldering. The support was laughably not professional, but they did replace my box and I’m using the new one now. There is a minor short in the headphone jack, but nothing important.....More

Distrohoppers Digest Episode 41

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Synopsis

Introductions 

Hosts: Moss Bliss, Dale Miracle

Monthly Foibles 

Updates: Ubuntu 22.04.2, Bodhi 7 alpha5, Mint, Trisquel, 

Garuda, Bluestar, openSUSE, Redcore, Xero, 

StormOS, Debian, Solus

Beautiful Failures: BlendOS

Reviews: Endless OS 5.0, PCLinuxOS

New Releases 

Feedback

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MONTHLY FOIBLES

...wherein we discuss what we did this month…

Moss: As mentioned last month, my wife and I got new Moto G Stylus 5G (2022) phones. It was interesting getting them set up, as our Pixel 3a XL phones were running CalyxOS and not in the Google ecosystem, so we could not simply move our files. We did, however, manage to get them working with all our apps, photos, etc. saved and transferred. They were quite glitchy the first week or two, although they seem to have settled down a lot since. I am still using my Pixel for viewing and listening, as the sound quality is considerably better. ....More

 

 

Distrohoppers Digest Episode 40

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Synopsis

Distrohoppers' Digest Episode

Introductions

Hosts: Moss Bliss, Dale Miracle

Monthly Foibles

Updates: OM “ROME”, Void, Bluestar, Debian, OpenSuse, Netrunner,

XeroLinux, Storm-OS, Voyager, Ubuntu Budgie, Pardus

Beautiful Failures: BigLinux, Armbian

Reviews: CachyOS, BigLinux

New Releases

Feedback

Announcements

Closing

Welcome to Distrohopper’s Digest, Episode 040, recorded on February 9th, 2023. For this episode, we will be reviewing CachyOS and BigLinux. Josh will not be with us this episode.

MONTHLY FOIBLES    ...wherein we discuss what we did this month…

Moss: More issues with my T540p, I had to completely reinstall Linux Mint and Bodhi. Mint would not update the kernel, it was missing files and I could not replace them, with lots of help from Dale. When I installed Mint, it used UEFI, so I had to reinstall Bodhi to get Grub back. I really needed to use Rescuezilla to have a complete version of Bodhi as I use it, but no, it took me 4 hours to get things back to the way I like them. It was a Good Experience. For the foreseeable future, I will only have my current testing distro on that machine..........More