Posts by distrowatch@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #AqXx7ymwI0167Gkx1c by distrowatch@mastodon.social
2025-01-22T12:18:52Z
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This is our first post, following the Facebook ban on us talking about Linux.
(DIR) Post #ArHgPjXJwlO0T0wbK4 by distrowatch@mastodon.social
2025-02-19T17:50:44Z
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@mcc Yesterday I wrote all of my Python code with semi-colons at the end of each line because I'd just finished working on a C project. The Python interpreter took it as an insult and refuses to speak with me today.
(DIR) Post #AtMQu2k3VZUCVubqJU by distrowatch@mastodon.social
2025-04-22T18:48:15Z
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Discovered today that GrapheneOS (and its native apps) will not update when a VPN is in place on the phone. Aurora Store and F-Droid will update, but Graphene system updates and default app store don't work over the VPN.Had been wondering why I hadn't received updates in recent weeks to the core OS, but most apps were updating successfully. Disabled the VPN temporarily and GrapheneOS updated itself, then re-enabled the VPN.
(DIR) Post #Av1VN4ITjbAlbdF2OG by distrowatch@mastodon.social
2025-06-11T14:18:14Z
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About of a third of the projects in our database do not run systemd. It's unfortunate to see GNOME turn its back on so many members of the open source community: https://blogs.gnome.org/adrianvovk/2025/06/10/gnome-systemd-dependencies/
(DIR) Post #AvBlVrwWZruEkBn44G by distrowatch@mastodon.social
2025-06-16T13:06:35Z
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@futurebird Here I am, looking at your post with my original, open hardware PinePhone running Ubuntu Touch by UBports. The post is being viewed in the Morph web browser.
(DIR) Post #AyGwMNUA03gnKAHeIi by distrowatch@mastodon.social
2025-09-16T13:15:40Z
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Storage access is faster now on Haiku: https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=showheadline&story=20060
(DIR) Post #AyXj1XXNdVTWSfgibQ by distrowatch@mastodon.social
2025-09-24T11:56:45Z
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GNOME's increased dependency on systemd is causing projects (such as Artix) to drop the desktop: https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=showheadline&story=20064
(DIR) Post #AyZjuK3dqLmMtkouoK by distrowatch@mastodon.social
2025-09-25T10:12:53Z
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YouTube broke popular download clients. yt-dpl is planning a fix: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/14404
(DIR) Post #Az2ttZDIduRCjtSD1U by distrowatch@mastodon.social
2025-10-09T21:53:56Z
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Okay, I think that's all the Ubuntu news I'll be posting for a while. Back to our usual routine for the next six months.
(DIR) Post #B0BeS9LRSq3OTucJdI by distrowatch@mastodon.social
2025-11-13T01:06:07Z
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@debian Another point release already? Debian, you spoil us.
(DIR) Post #B0JSiA8mPhy15FXcn2 by distrowatch@mastodon.social
2025-11-16T19:33:32Z
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One of my least favourite things documentation can do (apart from not giving examples) is to have dozens of command line flags and say one flag does the same as another, forcing the reader to find _that_ flag.For example, the GNU "cp" manual page says "-a" is the same as "-dR --preserve-all". If you look up "-d" it says it is the same as "--no-dereference --preserve=links". So to find out what the first parameter (-a) does, we need to go at least three levels deeper. It's recursive man pages!
(DIR) Post #B0RDbWz3mXLD5CuiDA by distrowatch@mastodon.social
2025-11-20T13:22:32Z
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@futurebird I have never owned a car or purchased a TV and do not currently own an oven. I kind of missed the oven for a bit, but it usually is not hard to work around it as I didn't do much baking anyway. I haven't had a stereo in about 20 years. I find computers and phones replaced a bunch of stuff. Lots of people don't have a dedicated alarm clock anymore.
(DIR) Post #B0qEUAp61RqPK5BWFc by distrowatch@mastodon.social
2025-12-02T01:04:33Z
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FreeBSD 15.0 has been published: https://distrowatch.com/12655
(DIR) Post #B1Xs0c5Cj0uNc0D6Ho by distrowatch@mastodon.social
2025-12-22T01:14:59Z
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DistroWatch Weekly talks about the best distros of 2025, whether software is ever truly finished, Mageia's plans for version 10, Asahi making installing safer, and Firefox's upcoming AI features: https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20251222