 DistroWatch Weekly |
| DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 864, 4 May 2020 |
Welcome to this year's 18th issue of DistroWatch Weekly!
Last week we covered the release of Canonical's Ubuntu distribution and its many official community editions. This week we spend time exploring this new release which offers long-term support and will form the basis for dozens of other distributions and community spins. We begin with a look at Canonical's flagship offering, Ubuntu 20.04 running the GNOME desktop. Then we also share a first impressions look at Xubuntu, a community spin running the Xfce desktop. Read on to learn how these two distributions left their reviewers with quite different perspectives. Have you tried the new Ubuntu 20.04 release? We would like to hear your thoughts on it, positive or negative, in our Opinion Poll. In our News section we discuss Debian successfully building most packages with an alternative compiler and the eFoundation partnering with Fairphone to bring /e/ OS to a new device. We also share some details on the upcoming release of Linux Mint 20 which is expected to arrive in June. Plus we are pleased to share the releases of the past week and list the torrents we are seeding. We wish you all a fantastic week and happy reading!
Content:
- Review: Ubuntu 20.04
- News: Linux Mint developers prepare for version 20, Debian testing package builds with Clang, eFoundation partnering with Fairphone
- Review: Xubuntu 20.04
- Released last week: Fedora 32, CentOS 7.8.2003, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2
- Torrent corner: AUSTRUMI, CentOS, Fedora, Linuxfx, Live Raizo, Parrot, Pop!_OS, Simplicity, Ufficio Zero, Voyager Live
- Upcoming releases: Tails 4.6, UBports 16.04 OTA-12, openSUSE 15.2
- Opinion poll: First impressions of Ubuntu 20.04
- New distributions: Br OS
- Reader comments
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| Feature Story (by Jesse Smith) |
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
Ubuntu, along with its many community flavours, is one of the world's mostly widely used Linux distributions. Ubuntu ships four official editions (Desktop, Server, Cloud, and a minimal Core). There are additional community editions which provide alternative desktop and configuration options. Just over a week ago, Canonical launched Ubuntu 20.04 which offers five years of support for official editions and three years of support for community editions.
The new Ubuntu release includes version 5.4 of the Linux kernel and support for WireGuard. The Desktop edition ships with GNOME 3.36 as the default desktop and includes experimental support for installing the operating system on the ZFS advanced filesystem. The release announcement mentions that, along with ZFS, Ubuntu will offer “state saving” of the filesystem using a tool called Zsys. From the context, it sounds as though “state saving” here means taking filesystem snapshots as we are also told ZFS integrates with the GRUB boot loader in order to allow users to rollback system changes. (This is a similar feature to the boot environments provided by openSUSE and FreeBSD.) This version of Ubuntu ships with Python 3.8, though Python 2.7 (while unsupported upstream) is available in the distribution's repositories.
The Desktop edition of Ubuntu is a 2.5GB download. Booting from the supplied media will, if we do not interfere, load a graphical environment where we can choose to try a live desktop environment or immediately launch Ubuntu's Ubiquity installer. At the start of the boot process we can press a key to bring up a menu where we can preemptively choose to run the live desktop or load the installer directly. (Practically this does not make a difference and just means we are making our choice to try or install the distribution from a text-based boot menu rather than a graphical welcome screen.) While the operating system is loading it performs an integrity check on the local media to make sure the operating system was not corrupted during the download. We can optionally skip the media check by pressing Ctrl-C.
Ubuntu 20.04 -- The application launcher screen
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Taking the live desktop option loads a customized GNOME desktop that has been adjusted to look like Canonical's now-discontinued Unity 7 desktop. A panel with quick launch buttons is displayed down the left side of the screen. An application menu can be opened through a button in the lower-left corner. A system tray sits in the top-right and the GNOME Activities menu sits in the upper-left. Icons on the desktop open the system installer and file manager.
Installing
Ubuntu's graphical installer is called Ubiquity and it has not changed much in the past decade. The installer asks us to choose our preferred language from a list, offers to show us the distribution's release notes, and gets us to confirm our keyboard's layout. The following screen gives us a few important options. One is to install Ubuntu Desktop with a wide range of applications (this is called the Normal option) or install just the GNOME desktop, a few utilities and a web browser. This is referred to as the Minimal option. We can also opt to download package upgrades and third-party items such as media codecs and non-free drivers while the distribution is installing.
The following screen asks if we want to manually partition our hard drive or have Ubiquity set up filesystems for us. The automated option has two sub-options: setting up Ubuntu on a LVM volume or on ZFS. The ZFS option is marked as experimental and, following promising experiments I conducted when Ubuntu 19.10 was launched last year, I decided to try the ZFS option. We then select our time zone from a map of the world and make up a username and password for ourselves. The installer sets up the operating system and then offers to reboot the computer (or, if we were running the live desktop, Ubiquity can simply close and return us to the GNOME environment).
Here I ran into my first problem with Ubuntu 20.04: I was unable to shut down the distribution from the live desktop. The system would begin the poweroff process and then list an endless stream of errors saying the system could not unmount the live media. This happened whether I was running the live desktop from a DVD or USB thumb drive. When I ran the installer directly (without launching the live desktop) the distribution shut down cleanly after finishing the install process.
Early impressions
The first thing I noticed about my freshly installed copy of Ubuntu was that it took a long time to boot. Ubuntu always took over three minutes to get from the boot loader screen to the graphical login screen, if it managed to finish booting at all. (I will come back to this problem later.) Once we get to the graphical login screen we can sign into one of two session options: Ubuntu and Ubuntu on Wayland. Both sessions open the GNOME desktop with the former running on the X.Org display server.
The first time we sign into GNOME a window opens and asks if we would like to connect to any on-line accounts. Google, Microsoft, Nextcloud, and Ubuntu accounts are supported. We are then offered a chance to enable Livepatch, a tool which patches the kernel, side-stepping the need to reboot the computer when the kernel is updated. The Livepatch service requires an Ubuntu on-line account.
The first-run window then asks if we would like to send system information to Canonical and then offers to enable location services. The final screen asks if we would like to open the software centre. I will talk about the software centre later.
Something I noticed early on while using the GNOME desktop is window buttons are still kept on the right side of windows. I thought this was interesting as Canonical spent several years encouraging people to use window buttons on the left when they were developing Unity. The GNOME layout is set up to look a lot like Unity, but buttons have been kept to the right.
Pressing the application menu button opens a full screen of launchers. We can browse through applications one page at a time with the icons arranged in alphabetical order. There aren't any category filters, but we can type searches to locate items by name
Shortly after signing into the desktop a window appeared and told me there were two software updates available. These updates were 94kB in size and were downloaded quickly. The update manager was straight forward, showed a simplified list of what updates were available, and worked well for me.
Hardware
I began my Ubuntu trial by running the distribution in a VirtualBox environment. I found the GNOME environment integrated and resized properly in the virtual machine. However, the GNOME desktop was far too slow to respond and draw itself to be practical. Opening a new menu could take over five seconds and opening new applications tended to take longer than usual.
Ubuntu 20.04 -- The GNOME settings panel
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When running Ubuntu on a physical workstation the desktop worked more quickly. GNOME was still a little slower than the average open source desktop to respond, but it was usable. Audio worked out of the box and my display was set to its maximum resolution. I ran into a problem with networking. When connected to a wireless network my connection would drop around once every minute or two. This would be accompanied by a warning message on the desktop saying the network had been disconnected. However, a few seconds later, the network would reconnect. When switching to another distribution on the same hardware, this regular disconnection did not happen. This made it impractical to try to use wireless networking while running Ubuntu.
When running on ZFS, Ubuntu used about 1.4GB of RAM when signed into the GNOME desktop. ZFS seemed to be taking up a few hundred megabytes of memory, suggesting the rest of Ubuntu and GNOME were consuming about 1GB of RAM, about twice the amount most other mainstream distributions I have tested recently use. The distribution consumed about 2.5GB of disk space for a fresh install and set up a small swap partition alongside my ZFS volume when I used Ubiquity's guided partitioning option.
Early I mentioned having trouble getting Ubuntu to boot. The first time I installed Ubuntu and booted, the distribution started up and I was able to login, install updates, and explore the system a bit. Then I rebooted and the system locked up, unable to get to a login screen. I was unable to get the distribution to start via usual means and so I decided to reinstall. The first time I booted Ubuntu from my fresh install, I signed into my account, and then immediately restarted the computer without making any system changes. The system once again failed to boot. And failed to boot again, and again. I finally found I could get Ubuntu to boot by launching recovery mode from the GRUB menu and immediately picking Resume to continue the boot process. This was the only way I could get the distribution to load, after the initial boot.
Included software
Ubuntu's Normal install ships with a fairly standard collection of open source applications. We are treated to Firefox, Thunderbird, LibreOffice, the Rhythmbox audio player, the GNOME Files file manager, a document viewer and appointment calendar. The Transmission bittorrent software is included along with the Totem video player. When we install Ubuntu with third-party packages enabled Totem can play video and audio files.
Ubuntu 20.04 -- Reading the GNOME Help documentation and running Firefox
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The GNOME Help documentation is provided and has a useful spot on the desktop panel. In the background Ubuntu 20.04 uses the systemd init software and runs on version 5.4 of the Linux kernel.
Software manager
When we want to get additional applications most users will probably turn to the software centre. Ubuntu's software centre has three tabs, one of finding new applications, one for showing installed programs, and one for checking for updates. The first tab begins by simply showing us a list of "editor's picks" or favourite programs. There are no software categories we can browse. We can perform searches for software, locating items by name. Most of my searches were unsuccessful and I found the reason was the software centre only displayed Snap packages (portable packages in Canonical's repository) and not the tens of thousands of Deb packages in Ubuntu's repositories. To locate Deb packages I had to either install an alternative software centre or use the APT command line tool. This seems like a strange move for Canonical to make, especially given how few Snap packages there are and the very mixed reception Ubuntu users have had to Snap in general.
Ubuntu 20.04 -- The software centre
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The software centre did not detect system updates, these needed to be installed through the separate update manager I mentioned above.
While Snap support is installed and enabled by default, the alternative portable package format, Flatpak, is not. Flatpak can be installed from the Ubuntu Deb repositories from the command line.
Ubuntu 20.04 -- Installing a Snap package
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ZFS and boot environments
Two of the key features I was hoping to test during this trial were ZFS and booting into snapshots. The installer set up ZFS successfully, as it did last year during my trial with Xubuntu 19.10. The documentation reports that a tool called Zsys will help manage ZFS snapshots. I looked up the Zsys daemon (zsysd) and its manual page says that it automates the creation of filesystem snapshots, though it does not give any details. I could not find any information on whether snapshots are triggered by specific events or done periodically. I did notice that almost as soon as I logged into Ubuntu the first time, a ZFS snapshot was created. Though future actions did not seem to cause new snapshots to be made. Earlier in the year Arstechnica reported Zsys takes snapshots prior to package management actions, though with some restrictions.
Something that further frustrated me was the release announcement for Ubuntu 20.04 reports that users can select a snapshot to load at boot time. However, I did not find a way to do this. Older snapshots were not listed in the boot menu or under the Advanced section of the GRUB menu.
While the new Ubuntu ZFS tools do not seem to work, or not in ways I would expect, we can use the standard ZFS command line tools, zfs and zpool, to manage ZFS volumes and filesystems.
Troubleshooting
I ran into several issues with Ubuntu 20.04, especially in key areas such as booting, desktop performance and network stability. As a result I did more double-checking and troubleshooting than usual this week. For example, I double-checked my install media checksum, tried installing from different removable media (in case of corruption), and made sure the live media always passed its self-check before installing.
I also tried running other distributions on the computer this week to make sure they did not encounter performance or networking issues. Ubuntu was the only one which had problems working with my hardware.
At one point I was concerned ZFS might be introducing problems as it is an experimental feature. However, when I tried installing Ubuntu again, this time on an ext4 partition, the operating system failed to boot at all. Even the first time trying to start the system Ubuntu was unable to get to a login screen, even when going through recovery mode.
Conclusions
Going into this trial I was intrigued by some of the features Ubuntu was offering. Apart from ZFS storage for the main filesystem and bootable snapshots, there was also mention of performance improvements to GNOME, Wayland has been polished lately, and I was curious to see how Snaps were being integrated into the distribution.
The practical experience however was a disaster on almost every front. The Ubuntu installer was easy to navigate, but after that, things quickly went downhill. The distribution could only boot once when running on ZFS and failed to run at all when installed on an ext4 partition. The distribution's desktop performance was a little sluggish on physical hardware (with open source drivers) and painfully slow in the virtual machine.
The promised ZFS snapshots did happen (sometimes) though less consistently than the way openSUSE handles Btrfs snapshots and I could not find a way to boot into existing snapshots. The documentation feels light on this front.
Perhaps the oddest decision Canonical has made with this release is to make the software centre work only with Snap packages. Snap packages are large, have trouble integrating with the rest of the desktop, and there are far fewer of them than traditional Deb packages. This makes Snap a poor alternative to traditional packages in most scenarios, yet Ubuntu treats them as the primary package option and seems to require command line work to access traditional packages.
These issues, along with the slow boot times and spotty wireless network access, gave me a very poor impression of Ubuntu 20.04. This was especially disappointing since just six months ago I had a positive experience with Xubuntu 19.10, which was also running on ZFS. My experience this week was frustrating - slow, buggy, and multiple components felt incomplete. This is, in my subjective opinion, a poor showing and a surprisingly unpolished one considering Canonical plans to support this release for the next five years.
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Hardware used in this review
My physical test equipment for this review was a desktop HP Pavilon p6 Series with the following specifications:
- Processor: Dual-core 2.8GHz AMD A4-3420 APU
- Storage: 500GB Hitachi hard drive
- Memory: 6GB of RAM
- Networking: Realtek RTL8111 wired network card, Ralink RT5390R PCIe Wireless card
- Display: AMD Radeon HD 6410D video card
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| Miscellaneous News (by Jesse Smith) |
Linux Mint developers prepare for version 20, Debian testing package builds with Clang, eFoundation partnering with Fairphone
The Linux Mint project is working toward a new release, Linux Mint 20, which will be available in three desktop editions: Cinnamon, MATE, and Xfce. The new version will introduce changes and improvements previously seen in the distribution's Debian Edition. The distribution will also be showing off a new tool for sharing files over the local network called Warpinator. "Warpinator now encrypts communication on the network and includes all the features we planned for it this release cycle. It received a new icon and the only thing missing now are translations. If you want to give it a try, there are packages for Mint 19.3 and LMDE 4." Further details on upcoming features can be found in the project's newsletter.
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The Debian project strives to provide a universal operating system, one that can run on multiple hardware architectures, with multiple kernels, and possibly even being built with multiple compilers. Work has been going into building Debian packages with Clang, which offers some alternative ways to check for coding errors and regressions. "Even if most of the software are still using GCC as compiler, we can see that Clang has a positive effect on code quality. With many different kinds of errors and warnings found clang over the years, we noticed a steady decline of the number of errors. For example, the number of incorrect C/C++ main declarations has been decreasing.". A blog post highlights the work and improvements going into Debian packages to make them build with alternative compilers like Clang and a web page has been set up which tracks the status of packages which fail to build with compilers other than the GNU Compiler Collection.
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Earlier this year we shared a first look at /e/ OS, a mobile, open source operating system which removes Google services from Android and replaces them with open source alternatives. The eFoundation has announced a new partnership with Fairphone, an organization which sells upgradable and ethically sourced smart phones. It is now possible to install /e/ OS on the Fairphone 3 and European customers can purchase the Fairphone with /e/ OS pre-installed. Details on the Fairphone 3 and install instructions can be found in the eFoundation's documentation.
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These and other news stories can be found on our Headlines page.
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| Review (by Jeff Siegel) |
Xubuntu 20.04
Xubuntu has always been the quiet middle child in the Ubuntu family, the one that was always overlooked in favour of its older siblings, the glitzy Kubuntu and the rock star Ubuntu - and even for the younger ones, like the oh so retro Ubuntu MATE. All Xubuntu has ever done is offer a solid, dependable, mostly error-free, long-term release every two years. Given a world of Linux distro hoppers, Plasma desktop, and extras like the GNOME and MX Linux tweak tools, and the Zorin browser chooser, who needs something like Xubuntu?
A lot of us. We value the distro's dependability and continuity, its lack of controversy, and that it just works, almost and always, straight out of the box. In this, Xubuntu 20.04, Focal Fossa, continues the distro's tradition. The flashiest things about it are a new theme, Greybird-dark, and its purple desktop wallpaper, featuring a constellation of a fossa's head. Otherwise, don't expect many obvious changes.
But who cares? It's still snappy and quick, it's easy to use, easy to tweak (even without one of those new-falutin' tools), and the Xfce desktop remains as robust as ever. Yes, some of the annoyances remain in 20.04, like the fake weather in the panel's weather applet, and that Synaptic still doesn't come pre-installed. But so what if the quiet middle child is quiet? There are worse things.
Xubuntu 20.04 -- Running the Ubiquity system installer
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The basics
Xubuntu 20.04, Focal Fossa, is a long-term support (LTS) release, supported for three years until April 2023. It features the Linux kernel 5.4 and Xfce desktop 4.14. Minimum system requirements are 512MB of memory and 7.5GB of disk space; recommended specifications are 1GB and 20GB. The higher memory is almost certainly necessary these days, given modern resource-intensive web browsers, while 7.5GB will handle only the most rudimentary of installations; my basic testing installation took up almost 9GB of disk space. The 64-bit download ISO is 1.7GB. I tested Focal Fossa in VirtualBox and on my Asus UX-31A laptop, with a 128GB SSD and 4GB of memory.
Focal Fossa installed easily and worked as expected in VirtualBox, save for two things. First, I couldn't resize the guest's screen, no matter how big I made the VirtualBox screen. Second, the software center went missing. It wasn't listed in the Whisker menu and I couldn't activate it using the command line.
Xubuntu 20.04 -- Adjusting the Whisker menu
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Unfortunately, the laptop installation didn't go as smoothly as it should have. The Ubiquity installer was as quick as always, just eight minutes, and I was able to tweak the desktop and test several apps without any hanging or delays. It was a treat to be able to install updates and the extra non-free software without the installer crashing, something that has been known to occur off and on over the years. I'm not quite sure why the Ubuntu logo, and not the rat, was on the installer icon, but that's nitpicking.
What's not is what happened when Ubiquity finished and I removed the installation media and hit Enter as instructed on the bottom of the screen (apparently, something added after 18.04). The machine booted into a GRUB command line. I had to reboot (using Ctrl-Alt-Del) to start the distribution. Yes, trying to figure out what to do with the thumb drive when rebooting after installation is always a bit metaphysical - yank it out and hope for the best, hit F2 and change the boot order, or turn the machine off and turn it on again without the thumb drive - but this approach is worse than all three of those. And it's decidedly un-Xubuntu - introducing confusion into something straightforward.
On the desktop
But that was about the last of the aggravations. Xubuntu 20.04, if not quite up to the standards of the epic 16.04, Xenial Xerus, looks to be a solid improvement over 18.04 and its litany of on-release bugs.
Xubuntu 20.04 -- Customizing notifications
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The software, as always, is tried and true - the current versions of the Firefox browser and Thunderbird e-mail client, the LibreOffice office suite, GIMP, the underrated and unappreciated Parole media player, and the Atril PDF and Ristretto image viewers. Network Manager remains seamless, and connects as soon as it detects the network once it's set up - no dropping signal, no slowing or flagging. Especially impressive was the Whisker menu upgrade to 2.4.3, which now offers three options for displaying the menu - as icons, as a list, and in a tree menu.
Xubuntu 20.04 -- Browsing the filesystem
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In addition, Gigolo, the distro's remote file system app, has been upgraded to 0.5.1, and the difference is immediate. Save for connecting to Windows shares (which is apparently a Samba issue), it's no more complicated than determining the IP address of the machine you want to access, and clicking through the connect screen. I used Gigolo to access a video on my desktop, dropped it into Parole on the laptop, and it played without a hitch. In fact, Parole worked so well that I may forgo VLC when I upgrade my desktop to 20.04 and stick with Parole.
Is this an exciting collection of bleeding edge, "it's what they would run on Arch Linux" software? No, but you could use Focal Fossa with this assortment, not change a thing, and be productive from the minute the distro was up and running.
Xubuntu 20.04 -- The Ristretto image viewer
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Two other apps are worth noting - the new Document Scanner, which is the legendary Simple Scan under a new name, and the Software Center. The former retains Simple Scan's ease of use with a redesigned interface that's more intuitive. And it recognized my Canon PIXMA flatbed without any trouble. The latter? Well, there's a reason I grab Synaptic first thing on a new Xubuntu installation, because as much improved as Software Center seems to be. Software Centre can still be slow, unwieldy, and cumbersome, and especially if you're doing lots of installing and uninstalling at the same time.
So what's the catch?
There really isn't one, as long as you know what to expect. Again, one of Xubuntu's strengths is that its flaws aren't fatal:
- 20.04 is snappy and quick, but it uses system resources to do it: Run a YouTube video on Firefox, and I'm using 25% of the CPU and 27% percent of memory. Surf and search on Firefox, and those numbers are 32% and 25%, respectively. Even when the machine was idling, it was 2% and 16%. That's hardly as light as Puppy Linux, and ways from Xubuntu's history as a distro for older hardware.
- There's still no Livepatch, the Canonical kernel upgrade service. It's not crucial, obviously, but it would make Xubuntu users feel like we were part of the Canonical family.
Xubuntu 20.04 -- Trying to enable live kernel patching
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- Power consumption could be better. Yes, my laptop is almost eight years old, but it would be nice to get more than a couple of hours of battery life when I'm all I'm doing is writing a story, handling e-mail, and the like.
- The Xfce panel's applets can be confusing - trying to parse the notification area plugin, the indicator plugin, and the notification plugin to decide what needs to be handled. And I know the weather applet is an Xfce issue, but it has been going on for more than two LTS releases.
So what about tweaking?
The Settings Manager offers the basics, but it's hardly cutting edge. If you want more, you need to do it by hand. You can add a bottom panel to use as a dock or install Plank from in the repository. The Kupfer launcher, also in the repositories, fits the various Xubuntu themes and doesn't slow things down. Adding wallpapers, themes, and icons that aren't pre-installed (and only a handful are) requires a little command-line-fu, but nothing too serious. The Papirus icon set works surprisingly well.
Xubuntu 20.04 -- The settings panel
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Finally, for those of us who like a little nostalgia, the Eyes panel applet is still available, ready to stare at you as move the mouse across the screen.
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Hardware used for this review
My physical test equipment for this review was am Asus UX31A laptop with the following specifications:
- Processor: Intel Core i5-3317U, 1.7GHz
- Storage: 128GB SSD
- Memory: 4GB of RAM
- Networking: Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6235 802.11 a/b/g/n wireless
- Display: Integrated Intel HD Graphics 4000
When he is not testing out new versions of Linux distributions, Jeff Siegel can be found writing about all things related to wine at Wine Curmudgeon.
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CentOS 7.8.2003
Johnny Hughes has announced the release of CentOS 7.8.2003, the latest update to the legacy series of the project's community distribution recompiled from the source code of Red Hat Enterprise Linux: "We are pleased to announce the general availability of CentOS Linux 7 (2003) for the x86_64 architecture. Effective immediately, this is the current release for CentOS Linux 7 and is tagged as 2003, derived from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.8 source code. As always, read through the release notes - these notes contain important information about the release and details about some of the content inside the release from the CentOS QA team. These notes are updated constantly to include issues and incorporate feedback from the users. Updates released since the upstream release are all posted, across all architectures. We strongly recommend every user apply all updates, including the content released today, on your existing CentOS Linux 7 machine by just running 'yum update'." See the release announcement, release notes and upstream release notes for further information.
Fedora 32
Matthew Miller has announced the release of Fedora 32. The projects latest release upgrades development tools and compilers, removes most of the legacy Python 2 packages, and ships with the GNOME 3.36 desktop. The distribution now includes the EarlyOOM memory monitor which can remove processes which are consuming too much RAM. "No matter what variant of Fedora you use, you're getting the latest the open source world has to offer. Following our “First” foundation, we've updated key programming language and system library packages, including GCC 10, Ruby 2.7, and Python 3.8. Of course, with Python 2 past end-of-life, we've removed most Python 2 packages from Fedora. A legacy python27 package is provided for developers and users who still need it. In Fedora Workstation, we've enabled the EarlyOOM service by default to improve the user experience in low-memory situations." Further details can be found in the distribution's release announcement.
Fedora 32 -- Running the GNOME Shell desktop
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2
Red Hat has announced the release of the second update to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8.x series, an enterprise-class Linux distribution with comprehensive support options. This version provides, besides many other improvements, an in-place upgrade tool for the users of RHEL 7.x series: "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 now generally available. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 is the latest version delivered according to the twice yearly release cadence. Highlights: enhanced user experience; streamlines subscription registration by making it a step in the installation process; simplifies monitoring with Red Hat Insights by enabling activation during installation; improved lifecycle management; simplifies upgrades from RHEL 7.8 to RHEL 8.2 with in-place upgrade tooling; reduces the time and risk of inplace upgrades with identification and remediation guidance to resolve potential problems; enhanced monitoring and performance; improves isolation and resource governance for container runtime processes with cgroup v2...." Read the release announcement and the detailed release notes for further information.
Voyager Live 20.04
Voyager Live is an Xubuntu-based distribution and live DVD showcasing the Xfce desktop environment. The project's latest release is Voyager Live 20.04 which includes version 4.14 of the Xfce desktop, Linux 5.4, and offers three years of security updates. "Good morning all. I introduce you Voyager 20.04 LTS with long-term support for 3 years, until April 2023 . A variant based on (X)Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal Fossa) with the Xfce desktop in version 4.14 and version 5.4 of the Linux kernel. The advantage of Xfce is to offer a light, fast, modern, fluid and efficient system. With integrated for the first time, PC Tablet options and a minimum version for Xfce out of the box Voyager. Voyager comes in two desktop versions, with Xfce by default and GNOME Shell for a version called GE . Also, you can choose according to your wishes and machine capacities. The general idea of Voyager, is to introduce scripts grouped in a box and various panel profiles which optimize the system, with a choice of necessary software. The whole redesigned in a variety of color themes and wallpaper for better ergonomics." The release announcement offers additional details.
Parrot 4.9
Lorenzo Faletra has announced the release of Parrot 4.9, the latest stable version of the project's distribution set based on Debian's "Testing" branch. It comes in "Home" and "Security" editions both of which are available with either KDE Plasma or MATE desktops. "Parrot 4.9 is now available for download and it ships some important updates we are particularly proud of. Some new features introduced in Parrot 4.8 has also introduced some weird bugs that required some extra time to be spotted and fixed. We originally wanted to release Parrot 4.8.1 to address them, but then a huge amount of updates from Debian, like the removal of many Python 2 libraries and tools and the introduction of a new Linux kernel version made the 4.9 release a more appealing idea. We have also introduced a new, more friendly installer and a new look and feel to the login screen to make the system more appealing to newcomers and more comfortable for those users already aboard." Read the rest of the release notes for further details.
Pop!_OS 20.04
Pop!_OS is an Ubuntu-based, desktop distribution developed by System76. The company has published a new version, 20.04, of Pop!_OS which introduces improved keyboard navigation, enables Flatpak support with the Flathub repository enabled, and the ability to assign applications to run on a specific graphics card. "Previously on Pop!_OS: Laptops with Intel and NVIDIA graphics have the power to Jekyll and Hyde between integrated graphics and the dGPU. Now on Pop!_OS, In addition to switching between Intel and NVIDIA graphics, you can choose Hybrid Graphics from the system menu. In Hybrid Graphics mode, your laptop runs on the battery-saving Intel GPU and only uses the NVIDIA GPU for applications you designate. To do this, simply right-click on the app icon and select 'Launch using Dedicated Graphics Card'. Application developers and maintainers can configure their applications to use the dedicated GPU by default by setting the following flag in their .desktop file: X-KDE-RunOnDiscreteGpu=true" Further information can be found in the company's release announcement.
Pop!_OS 20.04 -- Running the GNOME desktop
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GhostBSD 20.04
The GhostBSD project creates a desktop-oriented, FreeBSD-based operating system. The project has published a new version, GhostBSD 20.04, which fixes a number of installation and ZFS-related issues at setup time. "I am happy to announce the availability of GhostBSD 20.04, but first thanks to all people that gave feedback and reported issues. We fixed a couple of problems that were found in 20.03. This release comes with kernel and OS updates and numerous software applications updates and many improvements like replacing gnome-mount and hald with FreeBSD devd and Vermaden automount which make auto mounting and unmounting of external device way more stable and supports more filesystems. What has changed and got fixed since 20.03: Fixed ZFS forced 4k option on ZFS full disk installation. Added 4k to default when creating ZFS partition with the installer partition editor. Fixed pool cleanup when deleting ZFS partition with the installer partition editor. Replaced gnome-mount and hald with FreeBSD devd and Vermaden automount. Fixed update manager weird loop. Fixed duplicate software repository config." Additional details can be found in the project's release announcement.
Simplicity Linux 20.4
David Purse has announced the release of Simplicity Linux 20.4, a new stable version of the project's Devuan-based distribution set with a choice of Cinnamon or LXDE desktop environments: "We are pleased to announce the release of Simplicity Linux 20.4. This time there are four editions, all based on the excellent Buster Dog. First we have 'Mini', which uses LXDE and Openbox and runs the 5.6.4 XanMod kernel. As usual with Mini, there isn’t a lot of software pre-installed; instead it uses web-based apps which run as a Chrome instance. We have preinstalled Google Docs, Taiga.io Project Management software, Spotify, Mega, Gmail and Facebook Messenger. For those looking for something with locally based applications, we have 'Desktop' which also uses the 5.6.4 XanMod kernel. Unlike Mini, it uses Cinnamon as its desktop. It comes preinstalled with Pidgin, LibreOffice, GIMP, Chrome, Thunderbird, Audacity, Spotify and MPV. The 'Gaming' edition uses the Debian Backports 5.4.0 kernel for stability, and it comes with Brave Browser, OBS, Discord, Blacknut Cloud Gaming, Vortex Cloud Gaming, Wine, Steam and Spotify as full local applications." Here is the complete release announcement.
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elementary OS 5.1.4
Cassidy James Blaede has announced the release of elementary OS 5.1.4, the latest update from the project that develops a beginner-friendly Linux distribution with a custom desktop called Pantheon, based on Ubuntu. This version updates (and renames) the parental control application and revamps the application menu: "Informed by our work last year at the Metered Data and Parental Controls hackfest, we've started overhauling Parental Controls. While we're focusing on the digital wellbeing aspects, we decided to rename it to the more straightforward 'Screen Time & Limits'. But it's more than just a rename; Screen Time & Limits is now available for your own account in addition to other non-administrator accounts on the device—so you can set your own rules around screen time, Internet access and app usage. As a result of reworking the feature, Screen Time & Limits is also much more reliable than before. If you previously had issues with Parental Controls, give Screen Time & Limits a try from System Settings and let us know what you think." See the detailed release announcement for more information and screenshots.
Endless OS 3.8.0
Andre Magalhaes has announced the release of Endless OS 3.8.0, a major new update of the project's Debian-based, family-oriented distribution that integrates more than 100 apps for working, studying or playing games. This release updates the GNOME desktop to version 3.36: "Endless OS 3.8.0. In this release the desktop and most of its components were updated to the versions from GNOME 3.36, bringing new features, performance improvements and bug fixes. On new installations, parental controls can now be enabled when you first start the computer, at the same time as creating the main user account. Once configured, there is now a dedicated Parental Controls application to make it easier to find and adjust the parental controls settings. We are now producing ready-to-go images that can be imported directly into any virtual machine software that supports OVF files (for example, VirtualBox or VMWare Player) and 64-bit virtual machines." Read the rest of the release announcement for more information and screenshots.
KaOS 2020.05
KaOS is an independent, rolling release distribution which focuses on providing one desktop environment (KDE Plasma) for one architecture (x86_64). The project's latest snapshot is KaOS 2020.05 which includes a number of toolchain updates. "KaOS is very proud to announce the availability of the May release of a new stable ISO. This release is unlike the February version, not about many new features, but rather about updates and rebuilds. Most of the base of this distribution has been rebuild on a new GCC 9.3.0, Glibc 2.31 & Binutils 2.34 based Toolchain. Other rebuilds were needed for ICU 66.1, Boost 1.72.0, Krb5 1.18, Glib2 2.64.2 based stack, Guile 2.2.6, Mesa 20.0.6, NetworkManager 1.22.10, Perl 5.30.2, Linux 5.6.8 and Qt 5.14.2. The new features from the last, major, release were numerous, so repeated here one more time. It starts with the installer, there it is now possible to select whether or not to install an office suite (current choice is limited to LibreOffice, future might see the addition of Calligra as option). You can also opt to do a minimal install." Further details can be found in the distribution's release announcement.
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Weekly Torrents
The table below provides a list of torrents DistroWatch is currently seeding. If you do not have a bittorrent client capable of handling the linked files, we suggest installing either the Transmission or KTorrent bittorrent clients.
Archives of our previously seeded torrents may be found in our Torrent Archive. We also maintain a Torrents RSS feed for people who wish to have open source torrents delivered to them. To share your own open source torrents of Linux and BSD projects, please visit our Upload Torrents page.
Torrent Corner statistics:
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- Total data uploaded: 31.6TB
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First impressions of Ubuntu 20.04
This week we shared two different reviews on Ubuntu and one of its community editions, Xubuntu. The authors had quite different experiences with these distributions despite the two editions using the same kernel, most of the same userland packages, and some of the same desktop applications. We would like to hear what your experiences have been with Ubuntu 20.04 and its many editions. Let us know what you think of 20.04 in the comments.
You can see the results of our previous poll on running computer with 32-bit CPUs in last week's edition. All previous poll results can be found in our poll archives.
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First impressions of Ubuntu 20.04
| I like it: | 321 (22%) |
| I dislike it: | 357 (25%) |
| I am using it and am neutral: | 129 (9%) |
| I have not used it yet: | 646 (44%) |
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Distributions added to waiting list
- Br OS. Br OS is a Kubuntu-based distribution for Brazilian users.
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| • Issue 1091 (2024-10-07): Redox OS 0.9.0, Unified package management vs universal package formats, Redox begins RISC-V port, Mint polishes interface, Qubes certifies new laptop |
| • Issue 1090 (2024-09-30): Rhino Linux 2024.2, commercial distros with alternative desktops, Valve seeks to improve Wayland performance, HardenedBSD parterns with Protectli, Tails merges with Tor Project, Quantum Leap partners with the FreeBSD Foundation |
| • Issue 1089 (2024-09-23): Expirion 6.0, openKylin 2.0, managing configuration files, the future of Linux development, fixing bugs in Haiku, Slackware packages dracut |
| • Issue 1088 (2024-09-16): PorteuX 1.6, migrating from Windows 10 to which Linux distro, making NetBSD immutable, AlmaLinux offers hardware certification, Mint updates old APT tools |
| • Issue 1087 (2024-09-09): COSMIC desktop, running cron jobs at variable times, UBports highlights new apps, HardenedBSD offers work around for FreeBSD change, Debian considers how to cull old packages, systemd ported to musl |
| • Issue 1086 (2024-09-02): Vanilla OS 2, command line tips for simple tasks, FreeBSD receives investment from STF, openSUSE Tumbleweed update can break network connections, Debian refreshes media |
| • Issue 1085 (2024-08-26): Nobara 40, OpenMandriva 24.07 "ROME", distros which include source code, FreeBSD publishes quarterly report, Microsoft updates breaks Linux in dual-boot environments |
| • Issue 1084 (2024-08-19): Liya 2.0, dual boot with encryption, Haiku introduces performance improvements, Gentoo dropping IA-64, Redcore merges major upgrade |
| • Issue 1083 (2024-08-12): TrueNAS 24.04.2 "SCALE", Linux distros for smartphones, Redox OS introduces web server, PipeWire exposes battery drain on Linux, Canonical updates kernel version policy |
| • Issue 1082 (2024-08-05): Linux Mint 22, taking snapshots of UFS on FreeBSD, openSUSE updates Tumbleweed and Aeon, Debian creates Tiny QA Tasks, Manjaro testing immutable images |
| • Issue 1081 (2024-07-29): SysLinuxOS 12.4, OpenBSD gain hardware acceleration, Slackware changes kernel naming, Mint publishes upgrade instructions |
| • Issue 1080 (2024-07-22): Running GNU/Linux on Android with Andronix, protecting network services, Solus dropping AppArmor and Snap, openSUSE Aeon Desktop gaining full disk encryption, SUSE asks openSUSE to change its branding |
| • Issue 1079 (2024-07-15): Ubuntu Core 24, hiding files on Linux, Fedora dropping X11 packages on Workstation, Red Hat phasing out GRUB, new OpenSSH vulnerability, FreeBSD speeds up release cycle, UBports testing new first-run wizard |
| • Issue 1078 (2024-07-08): Changing init software, server machines running desktop environments, OpenSSH vulnerability patched, Peppermint launches new edition, HardenedBSD updates ports |
| • Issue 1077 (2024-07-01): The Unity and Lomiri interfaces, different distros for different tasks, Ubuntu plans to run Wayland on NVIDIA cards, openSUSE updates Leap Micro, Debian releases refreshed media, UBports gaining contact synchronisation, FreeDOS celebrates its 30th anniversary |
| • Issue 1076 (2024-06-24): openSUSE 15.6, what makes Linux unique, SUSE Liberty Linux to support CentOS Linux 7, SLE receives 19 years of support, openSUSE testing Leap Micro edition |
| • Issue 1075 (2024-06-17): Redox OS, X11 and Wayland on the BSDs, AlmaLinux releases Pi build, Canonical announces RISC-V laptop with Ubuntu, key changes in systemd |
| • Issue 1074 (2024-06-10): Endless OS 6.0.0, distros with init diversity, Mint to filter unverified Flatpaks, Debian adds systemd-boot options, Redox adopts COSMIC desktop, OpenSSH gains new security features |
| • Issue 1073 (2024-06-03): LXQt 2.0.0, an overview of Linux desktop environments, Canonical partners with Milk-V, openSUSE introduces new features in Aeon Desktop, Fedora mirrors see rise in traffic, Wayland adds OpenBSD support |
| • Issue 1072 (2024-05-27): Manjaro 24.0, comparing init software, OpenBSD ports Plasma 6, Arch community debates mirror requirements, ThinOS to upgrade its FreeBSD core |
| • Issue 1071 (2024-05-20): Archcraft 2024.04.06, common command line mistakes, ReactOS imports WINE improvements, Haiku makes adjusting themes easier, NetBSD takes a stand against code generated by chatbots |
| • Issue 1070 (2024-05-13): Damn Small Linux 2024, hiding kernel messages during boot, Red Hat offers AI edition, new web browser for UBports, Fedora Asahi Remix 40 released, Qubes extends support for version 4.1 |
| • Issue 1069 (2024-05-06): Ubuntu 24.04, installing packages in alternative locations, systemd creates sudo alternative, Mint encourages XApps collaboration, FreeBSD publishes quarterly update |
| • Issue 1068 (2024-04-29): Fedora 40, transforming one distro into another, Debian elects new Project Leader, Red Hat extends support cycle, Emmabuntus adds accessibility features, Canonical's new security features |
| • Issue 1067 (2024-04-22): LocalSend for transferring files, detecting supported CPU architecure levels, new visual design for APT, Fedora and openSUSE working on reproducible builds, LXQt released, AlmaLinux re-adds hardware support |
| • Issue 1066 (2024-04-15): Fun projects to do with the Raspberry Pi and PinePhone, installing new software on fixed-release distributions, improving GNOME Terminal performance, Mint testing new repository mirrors, Gentoo becomes a Software In the Public Interest project |
| • Issue 1065 (2024-04-08): Dr.Parted Live 24.03, answering questions about the xz exploit, Linux Mint to ship HWE kernel, AlmaLinux patches flaw ahead of upstream Red Hat, Calculate changes release model |
| • Issue 1064 (2024-04-01): NixOS 23.11, the status of Hurd, liblzma compromised upstream, FreeBSD Foundation focuses on improving wireless networking, Ubuntu Pro offers 12 years of support |
| • Issue 1063 (2024-03-25): Redcore Linux 2401, how slowly can a rolling release update, Debian starts new Project Leader election, Red Hat creating new NVIDIA driver, Snap store hit with more malware |
| • Issue 1062 (2024-03-18): KDE neon 20240304, changing file permissions, Canonical turns 20, Pop!_OS creates new software centre, openSUSE packages Plasma 6 |
| • Issue 1061 (2024-03-11): Using a PinePhone as a workstation, restarting background services on a schedule, NixBSD ports Nix to FreeBSD, Fedora packaging COSMIC, postmarketOS to adopt systemd, Linux Mint replacing HexChat |
| • Issue 1060 (2024-03-04): AV Linux MX-23.1, bootstrapping a network connection, key OpenBSD features, Qubes certifies new hardware, LXQt and Plasma migrate to Qt 6 |
| • Issue 1059 (2024-02-26): Warp Terminal, navigating manual pages, malware found in the Snap store, Red Hat considering CPU requirement update, UBports organizes ongoing work |
| • Issue 1058 (2024-02-19): Drauger OS 7.6, how much disk space to allocate, System76 prepares to launch COSMIC desktop, UBports changes its version scheme, TrueNAS to offer faster deduplication |
| • Issue 1057 (2024-02-12): Adelie Linux 1.0 Beta, rolling release vs fixed for a smoother experience, Debian working on 2038 bug, elementary OS to split applications from base system updates, Fedora announces Atomic Desktops |
| • Issue 1056 (2024-02-05): wattOS R13, the various write speeds of ISO writing tools, DSL returns, Mint faces Wayland challenges, HardenedBSD blocks foreign USB devices, Gentoo publishes new repository, Linux distros patch glibc flaw |
| • Issue 1055 (2024-01-29): CNIX OS 231204, distributions patching packages the most, Gentoo team presents ongoing work, UBports introduces connectivity and battery improvements, interview with Haiku developer |
| • Issue 1054 (2024-01-22): Solus 4.5, comparing dd and cp when writing ISO files, openSUSE plans new major Leap version, XeroLinux shutting down, HardenedBSD changes its build schedule |
| • Issue 1053 (2024-01-15): Linux AI voice assistants, some distributions running hotter than others, UBports talks about coming changes, Qubes certifies StarBook laptops, Asahi Linux improves energy savings |
| • Issue 1052 (2024-01-08): OpenMandriva Lx 5.0, keeping shell commands running when theterminal closes, Mint upgrades Edge kernel, Vanilla OS plans big changes, Canonical working to make Snap more cross-platform |
| • Issue 1051 (2024-01-01): Favourite distros of 2023, reloading shell settings, Asahi Linux releases Fedora remix, Gentoo offers binary packages, openSUSE provides full disk encryption |
| • Issue 1050 (2023-12-18): rlxos 2023.11, renaming files and opening terminal windows in specific directories, TrueNAS publishes ZFS fixes, Debian publishes delayed install media, Haiku polishes desktop experience |
| • Issue 1049 (2023-12-11): Lernstick 12, alternatives to WINE, openSUSE updates its branding, Mint unveils new features, Lubuntu team plans for 24.04 |
| • Issue 1048 (2023-12-04): openSUSE MicroOS, the transition from X11 to Wayland, Red Hat phasing out X11 packages, UBports making mobile development easier |
| • Issue 1047 (2023-11-27): GhostBSD 23.10.1, Why Linux uses swap when memory is free, Ubuntu Budgie may benefit from Wayland work in Xfce, early issues with FreeBSD 14.0 |
| • Issue 1046 (2023-11-20): Slackel 7.7 "Openbox", restricting CPU usage, Haiku improves font handling and software centre performance, Canonical launches MicroCloud |
| • Issue 1045 (2023-11-13): Fedora 39, how to trust software packages, ReactOS booting with UEFI, elementary OS plans to default to Wayland, Mir gaining ability to split work across video cards |
| • Issue 1044 (2023-11-06): Porteus 5.01, disabling IPv6, applications unique to a Linux distro, Linux merges bcachefs, OpenELA makes source packages available |
| • Issue 1043 (2023-10-30): Murena Two with privacy switches, where old files go when packages are updated, UBports on Volla phones, Mint testing Cinnamon on Wayland, Peppermint releases ARM build |
| • Issue 1042 (2023-10-23): Ubuntu Cinnamon compared with Linux Mint, extending battery life on Linux, Debian resumes /usr merge, Canonical publishes fixed install media |
| • Issue 1041 (2023-10-16): FydeOS 17.0, Dr.Parted 23.09, changing UIDs, Fedora partners with Slimbook, GNOME phasing out X11 sessions, Ubuntu revokes 23.10 install media |
| • Issue 1040 (2023-10-09): CROWZ 5.0, changing the location of default directories, Linux Mint updates its Edge edition, Murena crowdfunding new privacy phone, Debian publishes new install media |
| • Issue 1039 (2023-10-02): Zenwalk Current, finding the duration of media files, Peppermint OS tries out new edition, COSMIC gains new features, Canonical reports on security incident in Snap store |
| • Issue 1038 (2023-09-25): Mageia 9, trouble-shooting launchers, running desktop Linux in the cloud, New documentation for Nix, Linux phasing out ReiserFS, GNU celebrates 40 years |
| • Issue 1037 (2023-09-18): Bodhi Linux 7.0.0, finding specific distros and unified package managemnt, Zevenet replaced by two new forks, openSUSE introduces Slowroll branch, Fedora considering dropping Plasma X11 session |
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Red Office Linux
RedOffice was a Chinese office software based on OpenOffice. The developers have released a Linux version bundled with a complete operating system - RedOffice Linux 0.98.
Status: Discontinued
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