Month: August 2024

Get Ready for Ubuntu MATE Experience on Debian Linux! – It’s FOSS News

Get Ready for Ubuntu MATE Experience on Debian Linux! – It’s FOSS News

Martin Wimpress, one of the founders and maintainers of Ubuntu MATE, has mentioned something rather interesting in the beta release notes for Ubuntu MATE 22.10.He aims to bring the Ubuntu MATE experience to Debian 🧐Wait, can't you already install MATE on Debian? Yes, but what about an akin user experience to Ubuntu MATE with all the modern tools on Debian?Bringing Ubuntu MATE Experience to Debian's SpinHere's what Martin mentions:Ubuntu MATE 22.10 is a modest update by recent standards and focused on “quality of life improvements”. And there is good reason why this release of Ubuntu MATE doesn’t feature the usual…
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Archinstall 2.8.2 To Speed Up Arch Linux Installations, Other Fixes – Phoronix

Archinstall 2.8.2 To Speed Up Arch Linux Installations, Other Fixes – Phoronix

Archinstall is the wonderful command-line driven installer that was introduced to the Arch Linux ISOs three years ago for making it quicker and easier to get a customized Arch Linux installation. Out today is Archinstall 2.8.2 to further refine that experience. Archinstall 2.8.2 has changed how its mirror listing is handled in order to optimize it for faster mirror loading and downloads during installation. Archinstall 2.8.2 also has more curses menu work, fixing the mount order, updating the Limine boot loader handling, and other updates. Those interested in this text-based Arch Linux OS installer can find all the Archinstall 2.8.2…
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AlmaLinux Picking Up glibc Patch Ahead Of RHEL To Rescue VFX Houdini Users – Phoronix

AlmaLinux Picking Up glibc Patch Ahead Of RHEL To Rescue VFX Houdini Users – Phoronix

While Red Hat Enterprise Linux is very popular with the VFX crowd, those relying on the SideFX Houdini 3D animation software are running into a bit of a pickle if trying to use RHEL 9.4. There's a glibc bug causing random crashes for Houdini that Red Hat has been slow to pickup but is now going to be shipped by AlmaLinux early to satisfy VFX users. There's been a known upstream bug going back to May that the glibc update in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 is making SideFX Houdini practically unusable. There are crashes when performing random operations with…
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Manjaro Linux gets an Immutable version available for testing – GamingOnLinux

Manjaro Linux gets an Immutable version available for testing – GamingOnLinux

The Manjaro Linux team have announced the first round of testing for their new Manjaro Immutable version of the popular Linux distribution. It's built using Arkdep which is a "Toolkit for building, deploying and maintaining an immutable, atomic, btrfs-based system". Along with also using Arkane Linux a "opinionated, immutable, atomic Arch-based distibution". The goal of this release is to gather community feedback on the technology powering Manjaro Immutable. Note that this is only an experimental release and not representative of the final version, there is also no support guarantee, so hold off on installing it as your primary operating system,…
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