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Re: Why does Pop! OS exist?
Unpopular? Manjaro is currently the most popular Linux distro and KDE neon is basically Ubuntu with all of the latest KDE goodies included.
I also find it amusing that you said that when nobody has even heard of "Pop OS".
Distrowatch only tells you about what people who use disrowatch as a metric are looking uo on distrowatch, not actual installs. Ubuntu is still king of the consumer market and RHEL is still king of the corporate market. Freenode is far more accurate as to how many users there are.
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Re: Why does Pop! OS exist?
Unpopular? Manjaro is currently the most popular Linux distro and KDE neon is basically Ubuntu with all of the latest KDE goodies included.
I also find it amusing that you said that when nobody has even heard of "Pop OS".
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Re:wtf is pop os?
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Haven't you dropped Systemd yet?
Distrowatch says there are 113 alternative distros you can use without systemd
If you like Debian, you use Devuan.
If you like Arch, you use Artix.
Slackware was never tainted, etc...What are you waiting for? The main idiot is not even Poettering, its the Distro leaders that choose to force you to use it. Of course Fedora is doomed being a Red Hat project...
Is it a coincidence that everything made by Poettering behaves more or less the same buggy and bloated way? You think pulseaudio is an example of excellence? What about avahi and the other crud he made? Just say no to his mindset and rid your system of anything made by him.
http://without-systemd.org/ Take a stand against systemd!
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Re:Thats what you get for running systemd
Too bad there is no Easy way to find distros that don't use systemd.
The #2 (MX Linux), #11 (ReactOS), and #15 (antiX Linux) distros don't use systemd.
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download LibreOffice running under Linux instead
I don't know why this deserves a whole slashdot article and you didn't even provide links to the alternatives!
LibreOffice is a powerful office suite
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Re:Great Move before IBM messes things up
Can RHEL be forked?
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Re:Well at least we'll still have Cent
If IBM kills CentOS a new one will pop up in a week, that's the beauty of the GPL.
There is already Scientific Linux as a CentOS alternative.
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Every Linux distro is available in the MS Store?
"Nearly every Linux distro is already available in the Microsoft Store"
None of which will run as full stand-alone distros. SuSE Linux, Kali & Debian does not count as nearly every Linux distro. Here's a real link to every Linix Distro -
They are largely following the OS vendors
Reading through to the original blog post, they are making pretty much the same announcement that many other ISVs make -- when the underlying OS is no longer maintained by the OS vendor, or is in the process of being depricated, they don't make new software on it. To quote the blog:
Microsoft discontinued mainstream support for Windows 8.1 in January 2018. Mainstream support for Windows 7 support ended in 2015. For more information on Windows support, visit the Windows lifecycle fact sheet. Apple has announced macOS 10.14 (Mojave) for the fall of 2018 — and we will continue our policy of supporting the three most recent versions of MacOS.
From my career working at an ISV, these choices are perfectly reasonable, as attempting to support the old OS becomes something of a boat anchor on your ability to develop new features that rely on new features (or security constraints) in the more modern operating system. There's also the matter of dependencies -- if you are dependent upon other software, drivers, etc to make your product, if one of those vendors drops support for the OS, then all the features that depend on that in your product have to gracefully degrade, and have the code added to make it do so, which requires not only the writing of the code, but also documenting, testing and then explaining to customers. Any bug found and filed with the vendor is also very likely to be closed or fixed only in the currently supported operating systems, if it exists there at all. Only very rarely and after a lot of effort will an OS vendor fix something for an OS in the "extended support" (or whatever they call it) phase.
This isn't just an Adobe thing, or a Mac OSX thing or a Windows thing. It happens in Open Source all the time. Projects take advantage of new features that require a certain version of a library or other dependency and then "support is removed" for older versions of Linux. Do people complain about projects not supporting RHEL 5, which ended regular support in early 2017? Or RHEL 4, which ended entirely around the same time? Look at DistroWatch and see how various distros claim support for only certain versions of packages.
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Re:We don't have a usable desktop operating system
We no longer have a usable desktop operating system! The Windows OS is spyware. Linux as a desktop operating system has gotten worse every year, not better. Why? Those who develop Linux desktop systems insist on doing their own thing. They don't cooperate.
AMAZING QUOTE from this story of 2 years ago: The number of Linux distributions is declining. "In 2011, the Distrowatch database of active Linux distributions peaked at 323. Currently, however, it lists only 285."
Meanwhile, out here in the real world, macOS chugs along, privacy-focused, nary a subscription plan in sight...
285 different ways to do one thing!!! "Only" 285? Quote from a Slashdot comment: "You know Linux Desktop is a junk OS from the fact an app may require version 2.5 of a library and another one might require no more than 2.4, and Desktop Linux offers no way around the problem."
Linux has VERY poor documentation. A friend of mine said this perhaps 20 years ago: "It's free but you will spend at least a week getting it to work." So, Linux is NOT free.
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We don't have a usable desktop operating system.
We no longer have a usable desktop operating system! The Windows OS is spyware. Linux as a desktop operating system has gotten worse every year, not better. Why? Those who develop Linux desktop systems insist on doing their own thing. They don't cooperate.
AMAZING QUOTE from this story of 2 years ago: The number of Linux distributions is declining. "In 2011, the Distrowatch database of active Linux distributions peaked at 323. Currently, however, it lists only 285."
285 different ways to do one thing!!! "Only" 285? Quote from a Slashdot comment: "You know Linux Desktop is a junk OS from the fact an app may require version 2.5 of a library and another one might require no more than 2.4, and Desktop Linux offers no way around the problem."
Linux has VERY poor documentation. A friend of mine said this perhaps 20 years ago: "It's free but you will spend at least a week getting it to work." So, Linux is NOT free. -
Try FluXuan (Devuan) or Void
FluXuan Is very light on resources. Boot to desktop and its using 68M only.
Based on Devuan Ascii, you'll be at home if you are used to how Debian used to be, without the bloat.Of course you could also just use Devuan with your favorite wm.
If you don't mind being on the leading edge, there is also Void, which not being based on any other distro, doesn't have to share a sudden termination of 32 bit support.
There are still many alternatives suitable for old hardware, perhaps take a look at Distrowatch.
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Re:Is Slackware usable?I'm no expert but this quote from Distrowatch has always stuck with me:
There is a saying in the Linux community that if you learn Red Hat, you'll know Red Hat, but if you learn Slackware, you'll know Linux. This is particularly true today when many other Linux distributions keep developing heavily customised products to meet the needs of less technical Linux users.
https://distrowatch.com/dwres....
It seems to me that if you want to get into using Linux, use Ubuntu or Mint or something. If you want to get into Linux the hard way and really get your hands dirty then Slackware is up to the challenge. -
Re:transparency
After what they did to us with systemd, there would probably be riots in the gnome user community.
No there wouldn't. Because after all the fantastical "we'll switch to BSD" angry nonsense the result was that instead of doing that or even forking the upstream and getting out from under RedHat's domination of the majority of the Linux community the result was to just STFU and accept systemd. Proof that RedHat OWNS the desktop Linux community (the vast majority of it anyway, inbefore the 'oh i use slackware' or 'oh i use gentoo').
Red Hat OWNS the Linux desktop? I don't think so. Currently it ranks 50 on distrowatch. Even Fedora is in 8th place, behind Debian, Ubuntu, and others.
And speaking of Debian and Ubuntu, they also adopted systemd, after Fedora was the first to do so. Whatever you think of systemd, you can't just blame Red Hat for it.
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Raspberry Pi
The latest Raspberry Pi model 3's come with Wi-Fi and four USB ports. The OS is on an SD card. You can make up several SD cards for different purposes using any of the many interesting distros available. Raspian is a decent basic Linux OS. As far as using old hardware goes, just retain the mice, keyboards and montors. Give each kid their own Pi and a few distros depending on their interests.
Distrowatch will let you look at distributions based on hardware type: Distro Watch Raspberry Pi -
Re:Which BSD?
The second most popular distro on distrowatch.com is Manjaro, which is based on Arch. A challenger appears!
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Re:It's in your pocket
--I saw a comment farther down by an AC that tripped a memory... Tails Live CD may be a cheap(er) solution than another SOC:
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Re:just run the 2nd OS in a VM and call it a day
--Came to post this and found your recommendation.
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Re:Let me put in a good word for Devuan
And Devuan just released Devuan GNU+Linux 2.0.0 Beta!
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Re:Fuchsia
Also, I notice that gLinux isn't listed at Distrowatch http://www.distrowatch.com/ . It may be based on Debian testing, but it doesn't seem to be publicly available. This causes me to wonder what the differences are. They're within their rights, of course. but
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Re:Ubuntu vs. Mint, Cinnamon vs. Mate
Any opinions why one should prefer Mint over Ubuntu or Cinnamon over Mate?
Development on both MATE and Cinnamon is mainly done by developers on the Linux Mint project. The basic purpose of Linux Mint is "Ubuntu with a better desktop".
The Mint project was not particularly famous until Ubuntu switched from the GNOME desktop to Unity. At that point, Mint became the top distribution on DistroWatch. (I just checked and it still is.)
The modern GNOME desktop has its fans, but it's completely different than anything else. If you want to use Linux with "classic" desktop, Mint is your best choice.
As to MATE vs. Cinnamon: MATE is based on the original GNOME 2 desktop, and includes a level of UI polish that I personally appreciate. Cinnamon is a set of customizations to the modern GNOME desktop to make it act in a more classic way. Arguably Cinnamon is the future, but every time I try it out, I get annoyed with something or other, so I'm still running Mint with MATE.
As an example of what I mean by a "classic" desktop: Mint provides windows that have minimize, maximize, and close buttons; and a "window list", a panel widget that has one button in it for each window you have open. Modern GNOME, in contrast, provides only a close button, and provides no window list at all; instead it provides a totally unique way to group a few windows together, which is called a "workspace".
When GNOME 3.x first shipped with the GNOME Shell, it offered a new way of working and at the same time it was very difficult to customize it to work more like GNOME 2.x used to work. That's why Mint became such a big deal. I think these days it's easier to make a GNOME 3.x desktop work the way you like, but it's still more convenient go grab Mint Cinnamon if what you want is a "classic" desktop running on GNOME 3.x.
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285 Linux distributions!!!
Those who arrange Linux have apparently never heard of cooperation. (What did you say? Co-what??? Is that an English word?)
This story about Linux makes me laugh: The number of Linux distributions is declining. AMAZING QUOTE from that story of 2 years ago: "In 2011, the Distrowatch database of active Linux distributions peaked at 323. Currently, however, it lists only 285."
285 different ways to do one thing!!! "Only" 285? Quote from the parent comment: "You know Linux Desktop is a junk OS from the fact an app may require version 2.5 of a library and another one might require no more than 2.4, and Desktop Linux offers no way around the problem."
Linux has VERY poor documentation. A friend of mine said this perhaps 20 years ago: "It's free but you will spend at least a week getting it to work." So, Linux is NOT free. It is VERY expensive!!! VERY! If you are a teenager and like tinkering, and have nothing else to do besides play video games, the cost may be acceptable. Or maybe you are installing Linux on 50 computers. Otherwise probably not.
Windows is "spyware" and the documentation is often poor. But at least there is only 1 current version. Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made. It's an OS that shows you ads while you are trying to work. But, at least at present, you can stop the advertising: 7 ways Windows 10 pushes ads at you, and how to stop them.
Could you go to prison for recommending Windows, a "spyware" OS? Oh well, there's that. You need a signed contract that the customer understands that Microsoft has control at all times. Or, you can deliver the "Enterprise" version, which Microsoft doesn't allow most customers to have; maybe that isn't spyware. Or, maybe it is: For real Windows 10 privacy, you need the China Government Edition.
But at least, with Windows, you won't be involved with the ENORMOUS complexity of Linux. One example: The Debian Family Tree. That's just one of the "family trees"! If you have a son, tell him not to make 200 women pregnant.
Mark Shuttleworth of Ubuntu Linux said: "many members of the free software community are just deeply anti-social types".
That comment by Shuttleworth on Google Plus is an example of Google being insufficiently managed. It apparently isn't possible to link directly to Mark Shuttleworth's comment. It's necessary to click on "View 173 previous comments" and search for "muppets". (Wow! Google Plus is an example of people liking to use a huge amount of Javascript. Why so much Javascript? Are they teaching themselves about Javascript?)
A long time ago, at a convention, I got into a long discussion with Mark Shuttleworth. I gave him a manual I had written about dealing with the social issues of technology. The only result? Shuttleworth criticized me for giving him a paper copy. He was flying home after the convention; I -
Re:a fork for forks sake
>"The guy built mandrake. You have to keep this in mind when making your judgements
:)"I am not sure what you mean by that, since Mandrake was wildly popular and, at the time, one of the best overall Linux distros. From Mandrake came Mandriva, and from that, Mageia... which is, itself, very impressive (in fact, I am using it right now).
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Can it run Linux?
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Re:Even with what remains, profitability a challen
According to http://distrowatch.com/ Mint is already way more popular than ubuntu on the desktop. They are struggling hard to try to find some way to monetize and make proprietary an already free eco system. In my experience, an Ubuntu user is synonymous with someone not understanding anything about Linux but they "heard it was good/easy." What they really need is a backroom deal with some OEM to start pushing their specific repackaging onto machines first-sale. Ubuntu as a server is a joke, and Red Hat already dominates that space. Even though Red Hat's product is mirrored with a free-as-in-beer alternative (CentOS), folks still pay out the ass for support (meaning instead of hiring in-house folks to work on the already open-source software to make it work correctly or troubleshoot your system, you pay Red Hat to care about your problems. ) And they do a pretty good job at that. But for the desktop? Without some shitty not-free (in spirit or otherwise) backroom deal they got nada.
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Important info:
The distro uses Systemd and it's
.deb based so it's passing on all the Ubuntu/Debian packages that require Systemd as well. Not a troll, just info for people who don't want Systemd. -
Should consumers install more than one antivirus
"Should Average Consumers Install More Than One Antivirus Program On Their System?"
No, they should move to a Linux Distro and quite frankly I'm amazed you have to ask such a question on slashdot. -
Re:Yay!
Yes sir
.... I believe you just listed all the Linux Distros. Good job! ...because 'Shabdix' Linux is so popular and widely supported by other tools?Look at your average puppet module or salt formula. They usually work for Debian-based and RedHat-based distros. But frequently the authors of a module/formula will be running $distro at home, so they only write the module for $distro with a note 'file a patch if it doesn't work on $other_distro".
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Re:Yay!
Yes sir
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DistroWatch gives a different result
http://distrowatch.com/awstats...
Ubuntu is only 2.3% of the 14,445,000 hits running Linux this month. The rest of the name brand distros hoover around 0%.
The most popular distro is Unknown:
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Re:He's right!
Most things on the iPhone had already been tried or were being used. Phone + PDA (general purpose computing device), iconographic display, touchscreen controls, touchscreen-only interface (no physical keyboard) were already in use before the iPhone.
The standout feature on the iPhone IMHO was the App Store. We computer geeks either don't mind or love fiddling with software to get it installed. Regular people (i.e. 98% of the market) hates it. On my Palm Pilot, I had to download a program file to my PC, plug my Palm into my PC, transfer the file over, then run the installer on the Palm. The App Store made it so you pick the program you want out of a list, click it, and it was installed. Simple. This was a repeat of what iTunes did to the MP3 market. (Getting MP3s and especially playlists over to your MP3 player was a laborious process prior to iTunes and the iPod. That's why the iPod had no wireless, less space than a Nomad, and was lame, yet went on to unparalleled success.)
In that respect, and especially given the precedent set by iTunes, Amazon very well could have been the ones to introduce this development into the smartphone market. They were obsessed with one-click shopping, already had a virtual shopping store, and were already well established (and arguably the market leader) in cloud computing and software distribution over the Internet. They just failed to see the opportunity in allowing people to install software on their phones with one click.
I think Steve Jobs was an egocentric jerk who used talented people like Wozniak for his own selfish purposes. But I do not deny that he knew exactly what the 98% wanted - something easy to use. None of this "if you cannot figure out how to install it, that's not my problem - you are merely unworthy to use it" BS we techies love to judge the 98% non-techies by. -
Re:Simple question
Debian is the leader
Oh, so you think ubuntu is, hrhr
Like most people like you that have no clue, without debian, ubuntu wouldn't exist, ubuntu is based on debian.
It's astonishing how many people don't know that
Now, go play with your antiviri, malware, spybot, rootkit, updaters and reboot a few dozen times in between updates and in the mean time, I will get some work done on my debian sid system.
http://distrowatch.com/index.p... 7 days or 6 months debian is #1
Windows people, can't live with them
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Re:Learning the same lesson over and over
DistroWatch isn't a perfect metric, but it's one of the few we've got. According to DistroWatch, Mint is on top, with almost twice as many hits per day as Ubuntu. That same list used to be topped by Ubuntu until Unity happened.
I can throw in a little anecdote as well. As a PhD student, I'm surrounded by a lot of techies, and a lot of them have at least one Linux machine (many e.g. dual-boot Windows for games and Linux for programming). I myself have been a Linux user since junior high school, ~13 years now. I remember that when I started university, Ubuntu was known as the distro to go for if you wanted something that "just worked". Most of the Linux-people I knew migrated to Ubuntu during a couple of years because of its low maintenance, and we even got a few Windows users to setup a dual-boot, and most of them kept using it. But then Unity happened. After that, all the techies I know left Ubuntu immediately, and the less-techie Linux users switched after a year or so as well. Fast-forward to today, and all of the Linux users I know are either on Mint, Manjaro, or Arch. Including me, that runs Manjaro on one computer and Mint on the other.
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Same answer since always
The best one is the one the person uses you are going to ask for help. e.g. if you have a cow orker that uses Debian, and he is somebody that will be helping you, use Debian.
When I started I had nobody to ask and Google did not exist yet, so what I did was try out several of the large distributions at the time and the one I likes/Worked was S.u.S.E. (Now openSUSE).
So take a weekend and try out several of them. If you can not make a weekend available, you won't like changing OS and you will be a User (nothing wrong with that), not an admin on your own machine. Ask why you want to move to Linux and find a pre-installed system or let somebody else install it. As you won't tinker with your system, but just have it working, that would be the best solution.
The more important question is if you want KDE, Gnome or XFCE. And when you have decided on that, look at how to install new software and how upgrades are done.
I like YaST from openSUSE, because it is consitant for a lot of different things, not just installing software. You can also easily install XFCE, Gnome and KDE at the same time at the beginning to check them out.
I dislike Ubuntu for the main reason of how they handle root situations. Yes, I know you are able to change it, I just don't like how they treat it as default.
So try out several of them. https://distrowatch.com/?langu... will give an idea of popularity.
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If you want a one-line reply...
then try Linux Mint - it seems to be the most popular and the highest rated among new users. But if you don't mind reading a bit before making a decision, then maybe this link will help (includes screenshots): http://distrowatch.com/dwres.p... Have fun!
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Re:Update already released.
You mean here
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Re:Slackware
unless there's a large skew, I would think that vote manipulation would be jumping to conclusions.
I agree and even distrowatch states:
They correlate neither to usage nor to quality and should not be used to measure the market share of distributions.
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Re:SUSE
Strictly the rankings on DistroWatch are from hits on the DistroWatch site, not general popularity. Suse could well be 4th because everyone went to DistroWatch to find out what Suse is.
But if you look at the detailed statistics at
http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=popularity
you'll see that OpenSUSE has remained in 4th place for the last 12 months. So no, the 4th place ranking is not due to a sudden surge of temporary interest. In fact, it's just the opposite. If you look at the detailed statistics, you'll see that Manjaro Linux jumped to 2nd place within the last 30 days, due to a surge of temporary interest. And although that surge has pushed OpenSUSE down to 5th place, it is expected to bounce back up to 4th place after the interest in Manjaro subsides. Indeed, the front page of DistroWatch still lists OpenSUSE in 4th place.
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Re:SUSE
I keep forgetting SUSE still exists.
Does anybody still use it, and how does it stack up against the other distro's?
According to DistroWatch, OpenSUSE is the 4th most popular Linux distribution. (Ubuntu is the 3rd most popular.)
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Nerd watch?
Is that like DistroWatch, but where people track and rank nerds?
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Re:What is the best non-systemd distro?
According to this page, CentOS has just started w/ systemd, starting w/ 7-1611. OTOH, you could try PCLinuxOS, which despite being Mandriva derived, doesn't have it.
One thing I'm curious about - why are you looking at moving out of FreeBSD? While some of the Linux distros you listed ain't yet w/ systemd, some are just starting to come on systemd. So if you want to stay away from systemd, why go to Linux? Also, 10.3 seems a tad dated for FreeBSD. I just got a TrueOS DVD and upgraded, and it right now runs on FreeBSD 12.0 current.
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Re:Linux
"Linus share of the desktop has doubled in the last ~year to 2.2%. That's a nice jump."
Nice backhanded insult masquerading as a compliment, but entirely nonfactual.
Using a Windows centric website as a source for desktop market share is like asking a Met fan to rate the Dodgers.
One can pick any website that tracks the OS of visitors. Here's one:
http://distrowatch.com/awstats...
According to the data on that webpage WIndows has a 39% market share and Linux has 47.2%Or this site, which shows Linux at 5.6%
http://www.w3schools.com/brows...None of these take into account two factors: agent switching and multiple installs. I can set my browser to emulate IE running on Win7 (NT) even though I've been using Linux for 18 years.
Microsoft uses it sales channel to indicate total sales, which it has manipulated by including units setting in warehouses as well, in order to inflate their sales. They also used that trick when they reported total WinPhone sales, which are still in the toilet. When I download a Linux ISO from a website I can and have installed that single ISO on several computers. Those computers previously ran Windows. The tally of Windows sales does not decrease when I replace Windows with Linux, and no one knows for sure how many Linux ISOs have been downloaded and how many devices those downloaded ISO files have been installed on. So, market share is meaningless.
The "Year of Linux" was, for me, 1998. May 1st of that year was when I replaced Win95, an OS which I had to reinstall 5 times in the previous 4 months, with RH 5.0, which came with the book "Learn Linux in 24 Hours", by BIll Brush. My new Sony VAIO, which I thought was trash, ran faultlessly without a single crash until I replaced RH in September of that year with SuSE 5.3, because it featured KDE 1.0 Beta. I am now in my 7th year of running Kubuntu.
If you count Linux running on smartphones then the Linux smartphone marketshare is 87.4% and the WInPhone share is 0.4%
http://www.idc.com/prodserv/sm...Until the SCOTUS destroyed software patents with its "Alice" ruling Microsoft made more money ($5+Billion) extorting smartphone makers who used Android, using bogus DOS patents, than they made selling their own smartphone.
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Re:It's not surprising...
And this attitude is exactly why Desktop Linux hovers at around 2% or wherever it is today.
Ah, I can see from your comment that you've been in a coma for the last ten years. You're probably parroting the Windows centric site, NetApplications, that remarkets EXE's under new names and it tracked the OS of people looking for Windows software. No surprise that only 1 or 2% were running Linux.
Here is the detail of another site that tracks the OS of its visitors:
http://distrowatch.com/awstats...
You can see that 41% of the visitors were using Windows and 47.3% were using Linux. Now, shall I claim that Linux has a greater market share than Windows? Using your logic and proof I could. Of course, you could use the Microsoft retail chain bean counters to tally how many installs there are of Windows, but Linux doesn't have such a retail chain and no one bean counts it. Someone can download a Linux install ISO and use it to install Linux on one, two, dozens or hundreds of PCs. And, most likely, those PCs were running Windows before Linux replaced it, but the count on WinX installs doesn't drop and the count on Linux installs doesn't rise.The fact is that Linux had double the market share of Window back in 2013!
http://www.tomshardware.com/ne...Goldman Sachs recently published a chart which shows the shift from Microsoft's 95 percents hare of the computing platform market in 2004, when PCs dominated the computing landscape, to just 20 percent in 2012. The forecast suggests that Microsoft will be able to grow its share back to 26 percent by 2016 and Android will shrink to 39 percent, while Apple's iOS and MacOS X will expand from 24 percent today to 29 percent in 2016
Goldman Sachs was wrong. Microsoft's Windows phone is dead, at less than 1%, and Android (based on Linux) is now at 75.6% of the market share.
The PC market is in decline, and it is affecting Windows sales the most. Windows XP, 7 and 8 users are forced by Microsoft to pay for an upgrade to the latest version, that's how bad Win10 sales have been.
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an even better anti-virus software is
its pronounced GahNew/Leenux
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Re:Can you put Linux on it?
Distrowatch putting the fun back in computing.
It has a gigantic, ultra high resolution display that accepts a pressure sensitive pen. What are you really going to run in Linux that doesn't waste those features?
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Can you put Linux on it?
Distrowatch putting the fun back in computing.
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Malware controls victim's Windows computer
"The malware contains components that not only has the ability to give attackers complete control on the victim's computer"
Msmash forgot to mention that this malware is only effective on Microsoft Windows. Go here for an alternative to the Microsoft industry standard. -
Re:WTF?
It's currently the most popular linux distro according to this site
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Betanews - groan
I might as well start submitting DistroWatch updates:
Clement Lefebvre has announced the release of Linux Mint 18 "KDE", an edition of the Mint family featuring the KDE Plasma 5.6 desktop: "The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 18 'Sarah' KDE edition. Linux Mint 18 is a long-term support release which will be supported until 2021. It comes with updated software and brings refinements and many new features to make your desktop even more comfortable to use. This edition of Linux Mint features the KDE Plasma 5.6 desktop environment. The default display manager is SDDM. The APT sources include the Kubuntu backports PPA, which provides updates to newer versions of the Plasma desktop. The update manager received many improvements, both visual and under the hood. The main screen and the preferences screen now use stack widgets and subtle animations, and better support was given to alternative themes." Here is the brief release announcement, with further details, screenshots and videos provided in the new features page as well as the release notes. Download: linuxmint-18-kde-64bit.iso (1,622MB, SHA256, signature, torrent).