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OpenMediaVault 7.0 Released For Debian 12 Powered NAS Platform
OpenMediaVault 7.0 Released For Debian 12 Powered NAS Platform

OpenMediaVault 7.0 was released today as a major update to this open-source Network Attached Storage (NAS) solution built around Debian Linux. This plug-based NAS platform with web UI allows supporting a variety of services/protocols is now even more capable with the OpenMediaVault 7.0 availability.

3 March 2024 - OpenMediaVault 7.0 - 4 Comments
Distrobox 1.7 Improves NVIDIA GPU Support, Better Wolfi Containers
Distrobox 1.7 Improves NVIDIA GPU Support, Better Wolfi Containers

Distrobox is the open-source software making it easy to run any Linux distribution inside your terminal by leveraging Podman, Docker, or Lilipod for containerizing the Linux distribution of your choice. Distrobox works well with a range of Linux distros and has developed quite a following. Out now is Distrobox 1.7 with yet more improvements to this innovative software.

29 February 2024 - Distrobox 1.7 - 8 Comments
CachyOS Moves To Glibc 2.39 & Other Package Upgrades For February
CachyOS Moves To Glibc 2.39 & Other Package Upgrades For February

CachyOS 240224 was released today for this Arch Linux derived desktop distribution that focuses on being a "blazingly fast and customizable Linux distribution" with a variety of desktop options, employing LTO and other optimizations for packages, optional x86-64-v3 binaries, and other tuning to make for a speedy out-of-the-box Linux experience.

24 February 2024 - CachyOS 240224 - 21 Comments
Gentoo Linux Begins Offering x86-64-v3 Binary Packages
Gentoo Linux Begins Offering x86-64-v3 Binary Packages

Gentoo ended out last year by beginning to optionally provide binary packages for direct installation. This lowers the barrier for using Gentoo Linux and also works out well for low-end/embedded systems rather than always compiling source packages locally. They've now taken their binary position a step further by also offering up x86-64-v3 packages.

4 February 2024 - Gentoo x86-64-v3 Binaries - 18 Comments
ReactOS Making Progress On Its GUI-Based Installer
ReactOS Making Progress On Its GUI-Based Installer

You may recall from a few months back that the "open-source Windows" project ReactOS was going to be working on improving its GUI setup/installation. Progress is indeed being made there as shared in the latest ReactOS blog entry around further enhancing its GUI installer as an alternative to the text-mode setup.

31 January 2024 - GUI-Mode Setup - 19 Comments
CachyOS Experimenting With x86-64-v4 Repository For AVX-512 Optimized Packages
CachyOS Experimenting With x86-64-v4 Repository For AVX-512 Optimized Packages

While a number of Linux distributions are experimenting with x86-64-v2 baselines or offering x86-64-v3 optimized packages for assuming AVX/AVX2 support by default for their packages, the CachyOS Linux distribution has been experimenting with offering x86-64-v4 packages for those running on Intel or AMD systems with AVX-512 support.

29 January 2024 - CachyOS + x86-64-v4 - 31 Comments
Linux Mint 21.3 EDGE ISOs Now Available For Running On Linux 6.5
Linux Mint 21.3 EDGE ISOs Now Available For Running On Linux 6.5

Released earlier this month was Linux Mint 21.3 and out-of-the-box it continues to run on the Linux 5.15 LTS kernel... Quite old at this point and was the Ubuntu 22.04 default for which Linunx Mint 21 is based. For those unable to boot Linux Mint 21.3 due to running on newer AMD/Intel hardware or other platform compatibility issues, the Linux Mint 21.3 EDGE ISOs are now published that utilize Linux 6.5 by default.

22 January 2024 - Linux Mint 21.3 + Linux 6.5 - 9 Comments
Linux Mint 21.3 EDGE Moving To Linux 6.5 Due To Hardware Issues
Linux Mint 21.3 EDGE Moving To Linux 6.5 Due To Hardware Issues

Given the pace of hardware support and improvements these days, it's rather sad Linux Mint 21.3 continues to default to the Linux 5.15 LTS kernel that is the non-HWE default of Ubuntu 22.04 LTS for which the operating system is based. But at least Linux Mint 21.3 EDGE ISOs are being rolled out to make Linux 6.2 easily available for those with newer hardware support requirements.

3 January 2024 - Linux 6.2 - 45 Comments
Ikey Doherty's Serpent OS Continues Building Up Its Rust Infrastructure
Ikey Doherty's Serpent OS Continues Building Up Its Rust Infrastructure

Ikey Doherty who is known for his work starting Solus Linus as well as the Budgie desktop while also formerly working on Intel's Clear Linux and other open-source software contributions has most recently been working on his newest endeavour: Serpent OS. A end-of-year development summary has now been posted that outlines the latest work on this Linux distribution.

20 December 2023 - Serpent OS - 19 Comments
AlmaLinux's ELevate Begins Handling EPEL Repositories
AlmaLinux's ELevate Begins Handling EPEL Repositories

AlmaLinux's ELevate software is a wonderful utility to help ease migration between existing major versions of RHEL derivatives. In particular, it's been very useful for moving past CentOS 7 and/or upgrading from AlmaLinux 8 to 9, along with the ability to even move to other RHEL derivatives.

6 December 2023 - ELevate + EPEL - 27 Comments
Linux Mint 21.2 Edge ISO Brings Linux 6.2 Kernel
Linux Mint 21.2 Edge ISO Brings Linux 6.2 Kernel

The Linux Mint project has released an "Edge" ISO of Linux Mint 21.2 that is intended for users of new PC hardware where it's unable to boot the current Linux Mint release due to its older kernel version.

2 October 2023 - Linux Mint 21.2 + Linux 6.2 - 9 Comments
Linux Mint Debian Edition 6 Released
Linux Mint Debian Edition 6 Released

Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) 6 has been released as the latest version of this Linux Mint derivative that is based on upstream Debian rather than Ubuntu.

27 September 2023 - LMDE 6 - 22 Comments
Linux Mint Debian Edition 6 Reaches Beta
Linux Mint Debian Edition 6 Reaches Beta

Linux Mint Debian Edition 6 "LMDE 6" is now available in beta form for this desktop Linux distribution spin from the Linux Mint crew derived directly from Debian packages rather than Ubuntu.

13 September 2023 - LMDE 6 - 26 Comments
Linux From Scratch 12.0 Published For Rolling Your Own Linux Build
Linux From Scratch 12.0 Published For Rolling Your Own Linux Build

For those with extra time over the US Labor Day holiday weekend, Linux From Scratch 12 has been published for those wishing to hand-roll their own Linux system build from source. Linux From Scratch 12.0 is accompanied by the Beyond Linux From Scratch (BLFS) 12.0 release too, including the systemd variant, for further extending LFS installations with more packages.

1 September 2023 - Linux From Scratch 12.0 - 29 Comments
CentOS ISA SIG Experimenting With New x86-64 Baseline For Better Performance
CentOS ISA SIG Experimenting With New x86-64 Baseline For Better Performance

The CentOS ISA special interest group (SIG) has been evaluating the performance of CentOS Stream in the event its x86_64 baseline were to be raised from x86-64-v2 to x86-64-v3. Currently CentOS Stream 9 targets x86-64-v2 but in upping the support requirements to x86-64-v3, it would allow the ability to engage AVX/AVX2 by default and make use of other newer instruction set features. The x86-64-v3 baseline roughly correlates to Intel / AMD CPUs from 2015 and newer.

28 August 2023 - x86-64-v2 vs. x86-64-v3 - 22 Comments
Mageia 9 Released With SQLite-Based RPM Package Database, Zstd Compressed Images
Mageia 9 Released With SQLite-Based RPM Package Database, Zstd Compressed Images

While the release cycle dragged on for several extra months, available this weekend is the release of Mageia 9 for this Linux distribution long ago derived from Mandriva that in turn was an evolution going back to the glorious Mandrake days. Mageia 9 is a nice update pulling in many package updates along with other fundamental changes like shifting to SQLite for its RPM package database.

27 August 2023 - Mageia 9 - 13 Comments
OpenMandriva ROME 23.08 Brings KDE Plasma 6 TP Option, Continues With AMD Zen Spin
OpenMandriva ROME 23.08 Brings KDE Plasma 6 TP Option, Continues With AMD Zen Spin

OpenMandriva developers today formally announced the release of their rolling-release OpenMandriva ROME 23.08 Linux OS installation images, which are also being treated as a release candidate for the OMLx 5.0 non-rolling distribution variant. Making OpenMandriva ROME 23.08 more exciting is that they are now offering separate install media as well that features the KDE Plasma 6 desktop environment in its current experimental state but is being offered by OpenMandriva as a "technical preview" around the future direction of the desktop.

24 August 2023 - OpenMandriva ROME 23.08 - 20 Comments
The Most Prolific Packager For Alpine Linux Is Stepping Away
The Most Prolific Packager For Alpine Linux Is Stepping Away

Alpine Linux remains one of the most popular lightweight Linux distributions built atop musl libc and Busybox. Alpine Linux has found significant use within containers and the embedded space while now sadly the most prolific maintainer of packages for the Linux distribution has decided to step down from her roles.

31 July 2023 - Alpine Linux Packages - 26 Comments
CentOS Project Promotes They Are "Open To All"
CentOS Project Promotes They Are "Open To All"

With all the news in recent weeks following Red Hat's decision to limit access to RHEL sources that in turn lead to changes for AlmaLinux, finding new ways to obtain sources at Rocky Linux, interesting statements from Oracle, and even SUSE forking RHEL. The public RHEL sources now will basically be the upstream CentOS Stream code for which future Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions are ultimately based. The CentOS Project issued a new statement on Friday.

15 July 2023 - CentOS Stream - 45 Comments

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