americanwaste 11mo ago • 100%
We used to run firewalls running Fedora at work, works fine. Issue is you're only getting 6 months of updates, best to look at Rocky Linux for something that doesn't change much if you do anything beyond a single program.
americanwaste 11mo ago • 88%
Previous blogs have mentioned K-9 is just being rebranded as Thunderbird for Android once the Android app is closer in features to the desktop release. The iOS release will be new entirely as I don't know of an existing iOS email app they can rebrand.
Democratic Socialists of America have launched [DSA Feed](https://feed.dsausa.org) which is a new website to aggregate updates from DSA and YDSA chapters, publications, and national level committees in a single place. DSA's National Tech Committee wrote about this tool's launch here: https://tech.dsausa.org/introducing-dsa-feed-an-aggregator-for-dsa-publications-from-the-ntc/ > This is also a small step in reducing our collective dependence on capitalist social media. We’re seeing the downfall of many of these social media sites in real time, which has a deep implication for DSA as our reach for our message and our work will be impacted. But we can mitigate this by all of us as an organization, whether it be local chapters all the way up to national bodies, continuing to flex our publishing muscles and creating more work to update to our websites.
Oil Shell, now OSH, intends to be a [drop-in replacement bash for bash](https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2023/03/faq.html), aiming for 100% comparability while modernizing the code base.
americanwaste 1y ago • 100%
You aren't the primary customer for RHEL, or user here they're trying to get money from. Businesses run this primarily on servers and have used CentOS historically (now Rocky/Alma) to help expand beyond the RHEL they pay for, if they pay for it. They think businesses will pay up for RHEL now, rather than just move to Amazon Linux or another distro entirely like Debian.
Not sure how many desktop customers RHEL has to he honest. Don't know of any businesses of scale that they would buy RHEL that use Linux on the desktop
americanwaste 1y ago • 100%
Have to also add to the voices recommending Debian stable. I've used it now for ten straight years after I stopped distro-hopping for my servers and desktop, and I cannot imagine using another distro. It's incredibly stable, but the best part of Debian is the absolutely expansive repositories that even the Arch User Repository can't beat. Very rarely do I ever need to use Flatpak (ugh) for packages, or look to add in new external repositories.
americanwaste 1y ago • 100%
Samsung Galaxy S10+, use LineageOS on it and have replaced the battery earlier this year after it finally started to last less than a day. Hoping to get another few years out of this phone before I lose support from Lineage.
americanwaste 3y ago • 100%
It's listed as "medium difficulty" due to newer hardware in the laptop not being fully compatible with the kernel shipped in that old version of Ubuntu. I believe 22.04 is compatible out of the box.
I had to use a Debian sid nightly installer to set up Debian on my laptop, no big deal for me but for someone new to Linux I can see why that might be off-putting.
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