It all started this month last year In March 2022, the alpha release for Asahi was made available and I immediately installed it on a Mac Mini with an 8-core Apple Silicon (ARM64) M1 processor. Asahi is a Linux distribution … Read more
February 26, 2023 — BarryK I started work on the Kirkstone-series early in December 2022. There have been two Release Candidates, discussed in this forum thread: https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=8072 I also receive feedback via direct email. Finally looking OK, so version 5.0 … Read more
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Thanks to Asahi Linux developers’ work, Linux 6.2 is now ready to run on M1-powered Macs. Asahi Linux Linux 6.2 was released yesterday, and Linus Torvalds described the latest Linux kernel release as, “Maybe it’s not a sexy LTS release … Read more
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The Linux Vendor Firmware Service is a secure portal which allows hardware vendors to upload firmware updates. This site is used by all major Linux distributions to provide metadata for clients such as fwupdmgr and GNOME Software. There is no … Read more
The Linux Upskill Challenge is something I’ve been following on Reddit for a while and have been wanting to do. At this point, I’m pretty OK with computers, but I’d like to (re)learn some fundamentals of Linux and Unix systems. … Read more
A rant about “year of Linux on the desktop” from a tired old man. I’ve been part of the Linux community since before Linux was called Linux. Over the years there’s been many people telling me directly that Linux is … Read more
by William Shotts Fifth Internet Edition Available Now! Designed for the new command line user, this 555-page volume covers the same material as LinuxCommand.org but in much greater detail. In addition to the basics of command line use and shell … Read more
Posted on December 20, 2022 • 1 minutes • 185 words Thanks to the 2022 StackOverflow developer survey we can finally say 2022 was the year of Linux on the Desktop! Linux as a primary operating system had been steadily climbing for … Read more