Show Anouncement:- New Website

Since Distrohoppers' Digest started at the end of April 2019 the shows website has been running on Google Blogger. The team have made the decision for a number of reasons to move to a dedicated website to host the show notes and archive of past episodes.

The new website can be found at:

https://distrohoppersdigest.org/

The RSS Feed has been changed to our new audio host RedCircle and can be used to access the Mp3 in your pod-catcher.

https://feeds.redcircle.com/231a2905-0222-4327-b268-818d280f4d79

Audio content is also available on Archive.org, a link for this is available on the new website.

This Blog will now remain dormant and all new content as of Episode 49 is available on the new site. This Blog will remain as an archive for as Long as Google allow that, and links to the audio should remain active as they link to the audio stored by our friends at archive.org.

Distrohoppers' Digest Episode 48

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Synopsis

Distrohoppers' Digest Episode48

Introductions

Hosts: Moss Bliss, Dale Miracle, Eric Adams

Monthly Foibles

Updates: Slackel 7.7, Budgie Desktop

Beautiful Failures:

Reviews: Linux Mint Debian Edition 6 “Faye”

New Releases

Feedback

Announcements

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

Moss: I spent several hours one morning reorganizing my external drives on my Studio machine. When I was done, all my ISOs and my Timeshift directory were all on sdc and everything else - documents, music, pictures, etc. - was on sdb. I refer to these drives as SLOPOKRMRZ and SPDYGNZLZ. More........

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Distrohoppers’ Digest Episode 047

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Synopsis

Distrohoppers' Digest Episode 047

Introductions

Hosts: Moss Bliss, Dale Miracle, Eric Adams

Monthly Foibles

Updates:

Beautiful Failures:

Reviews: Bodhi 7.0.0, Garuda Sway, Manjaro 23 "Uranos" Cinnamon Edition

New Releases

Feedback

Announcements

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

Moss:

I’ve had issues getting work, or having to take time off. My glasses broke and I had to get a new exam and ordered new glasses. I got my flu shot and my new covid shot. The covid shot made me pretty sick with lots of lower abdominal pain for a few days, but I got better. I’ve been pulling back from doing a lot of things I’d like to do, including missing a couple of mintCast episodes. I hope I’m back in better shape now. More........

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

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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

Announcements 

 

 

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

 

Distrohoppers' Digest Episode 39

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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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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.....