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

 

Distrohoppers' Digest Episode 39

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Synopsis

Distrohoppers' Digest Episode 039

Introductions

Hosts: Moss Bliss, Dale Miracle, Joshua Hawk

Monthly Foibles

Updates: Q4OS 4.11, 3.16, Slackel 7.5 Openbox, Bluestar, XeroLinux, StormOS

Beautiful Failures: wattOS

Reviews: wattOS R12, Q4OS, Garuda Linux

New Releases

Feedback

Announcements

Welcome to Distrohopper’s Digest, Episode 039, recorded on January 3, 2023. For this episode, we will be reviewing wattOS R12, Q4OS, and Garuda. By the end of 2022, Distrohoppers’ Digest had been downloaded (and, we hope, listened to) almost 31,000 times, according to statistics kept at Archive dot org. We hope you had a good holiday season, and on we go with what makes us happy: Distrohopping!

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

Moss: I went to a convention in Illinois where I got to sing a lot and sold more than a few CDs. I also had a birthday. And then I had my T540p decide that sda was sdb and vice versa. After coming up with ideas, it seemed I might have to reinstall everything....More

Distrohoppers' Digest Episode 38

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Synopsis

Distrohoppers' Digest Episode

Introductions

Hosts: Moss Bliss, Dale Miracle

Monthly Foibles

Updates: Bodhi, OpenMandriva

Beautiful Failures: Ventoy

Reviews: StormD OS, Titan Linux

New Releases

Feedback

Announcements

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

Moss: I’ve been spending a few days teaching, had a lot of work to do on my other podcasts, and have otherwise been quite wiped out trying to keep up with daily living. Don’t let anyone kid you, 70 years and a few broken pieces keeps you tuckered out. I have almost completely reworked my test laptop, with OpenMandriva 4.3 and Ubuntu Unity 22.10 in addition to what I’m reviewing this episode as well as Bodhi 6 and Mint – but now the Mint I’m using is Cinnamon instead of Mate, and I’m just waiting for Bodhi 7 to reach Beta so I can check it out. ....More

 

 

 

Distrohoppers' Digest Episode 37

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Synopsis

Introductions 

Hosts: Moss Bliss, Dale Miracle, Joshua Hawk

Monthly Foibles 

Updates: Ubuntu 22.10, Debian, Solus, Redcore, Xero, StormD OS, Gecko

Beautiful Failures: Linux Mint

Reviews:  Pardus 21.3, KDE neon User Edition, TrueNAS SCALE

New Releases 

Feedback

Announcements

 

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

Moss: I spent a lot of time trying different distros to see what I could review this month. I got some good ideas which should wait until next month. I’ve had 2 days of subbing in the past month. And we’re planning our trip to Chambanacon after Thanksgiving.  I have also had some interesting travails concerning Firefox on Mint 21, but I’ll talk about those a bit later in the show. ......more

Distrohoppers' Digest Episode 36

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Synopsis

Distrohoppers' Digest Episode 036

Introductions

Hosts: Moss Bliss, Tony Hughes, Dale Miracle, Joshua Hawk

Monthly Foibles

Updates: Ubuntu Unity, OpenMandriva, Fedora, Chimera OS

Beautiful Failures:

Reviews: Regolith, Peppermint, Drauger OS

New Releases

Feedback

Announcements

MONTHLY FOIBLES

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

Moss: I completely reworked the distros on my T540p due to some really strange things going on with Mint 21. The only distro I did not reinstall was Bodhi, which keeps plugging right along. I have gone back into the classroom as a substitute teacher, but only time will tell if I have the stamina to keep it up....more.....

Distrohoppers' Digest Episode 35

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Synopsis

Introductions 

Hosts: Moss Bliss, Tony Hughes, Dale Miracle

Monthly Foibles 

Updates: Mint, Debian, Ubuntu Budgie 22.04.1, GhostBSD

Beautiful Failures: Mint 21 upgrade (Tony)

Reviews: Spiral Linux and Makulu Shift

New Releases 

Feedback

Announcements 

Closing

Errata: at 36:15, Moss said Makulu was based on 22.04 Ubuntu; it is 20.04.

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

Moss: I had a short bout with covid-19 but seem to be over it. I am still having some stomach trouble, but I think that’s related more to problems with blood pressure meds, although I could be wrong about that. 

I got two new UPSes and a new keyboard. The UPS story is too long to go into here. The old keyboard, a Fellowes Microban which has served me for years, has a sticking key. I would have to take it completely apart to fix it and I didn’t want to be without a keyboard. FYI, my new Perixx Periboard looks exactly like the Fellowes Microban Natural keyboard, but it just isn’t. ....More

 

Distrohoppers' Digest Episode 34

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Synopsis

Distrohoppers' Digest Episode 034

Introductions

Hosts: Moss Bliss, Tony Hughes, Dale Miracle, Joshua Hawk

Monthly Foibles

Updates: Mint 21 Beta

Beautiful Failures: Nothing!

Reviews: Xubuntu 22.04, OpenMandriva Rolling LXQt, Ubuntu 22.04 (Gnome)

New Releases

 

MONTHLY FOIBLES

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

Moss - I got all signed up to try my hand as a substitute teacher for another term. I have no idea whether I have the energy to deal with kids all day 2 or 3 days a week and still have the energy and other tools to continue my three podcasts, but we are simply spending money too fast and need to increase our income and thereby our savings. We have also changed our plans as to where we might move, which means nothing until........ More.....