Welcome to Episode 73 of Destination Linux
Reader Email
Hi Rocco,
Cheers to y’all for Destination Linux, BDLL and all your individual channels
In the latest DL episode, someone made a joke about running Linux on a C64. Here’s a picture that proves it can be done. And with Mint no less.. though after achieving this, as a result of severe sleep deprivation from not only the install – but the transfer from ISO to floppies as well – apologies, but I was too tired to neatly stack the 100,000+ 5.25 inch floppy disks I used for the install so I that could provide that photographic evidence as well 🙂
I hope at best it gives you a laugh (or four)..
Otherwise I guess a chuckle, chortle or possibly even a mild smirk may suffice… 🙂
Distro News
Canonical Has Released Date for 18.04.1 LTS – popey
Ubuntu 18.10 Release Date, New Features & More – popey
Download Ubuntu 18.10 Daily Builds for Testing
Gnome gets [in my best doctor evil voice] a one million dollar donation
Check out @gnome’s Tweet or check out their Initiatives
Budgie To Remerge Into Solus Project
Linux Kernel 4.18 Gets Multi-Touch Device Support
KDE Outlines New Goals On Reddit AMA
Software
HydraPaper App To Set Different Wallpapers
Hardware
Officially Supported Ubuntu Monitor/PC By LG
Phoronix Starts 14th Birthday Bash With Linux 12 Way GPU Benchmarks
horonix 14th birthday coming up in May. Michael Larabel does an incredible job with the site and he was interviewed back on Episode 40 if you would like to learn more about him and his work in the Linux community.
Professional Cinema Company Red Goes Linux
Gaming
What I’ve been playing: Ballistic Overkill
This isn’t a new game. This is an old favorite. Amazing competitive FPS. I’ve gearing up to take on Wimpey for the ultimate battle. The manual won’t help you win this one Martin.
You can install TMF
snap install tmnationsforever –edge
snap connect tmnationsforever:joystick
SEGA Showing Linux Some ‘More’ Love
Atari VCS Preorders Launched May 30
Admin
Where Can You Find Us This Week
- Rocco can be found at www.bigdaddylinux.com
- Ryan can be found on youtube at www.youtube.com/dasgeek
- Zeb can be found on youtube at www.youtube.com/zebedeeboss
- Michael can be found at www.tuxdigital.com
- All of us can be found on Big Daddy Linux Live! streamed every Saturday night
@bigdaddylinux @dasgeekchannel @TuxDigitalcom @zebedeeboss
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2 Responses
Thank you for your show, long time listener, first time commenter. I am a regular openSUSE user and contributor to the project and it seems like the review of the distro was greatly glossed over and viewed from a very “Ubuntu” lens. For starters, YaST, a tool that an Ubuntu user wouldn’t be familiar with, once you use it, it is a fantastic collection of system configuration tools. It is a central “shop” to get things configured very nicely. In contrast, to make configurations in Ubuntu, I have to search through a menu of items that may or may not be system or root level settings. If you are used to hunting around for system configurations, it’s not a big deal but for me, I could never consider many distributions because of the lack of a tool LIKE YaST. Also, if you want to live in the terminal, the ncures interface is just as useful. From a sysadmin perspective, this capability makes managing remote systems even easier through the terminal where I do not have to remember all the commands.
The package manager, Zypper, was also glossed over. Zypper’s ability to manage multiple repositories and so very cleanly perform updates or even downgrades is the best I have ever used. Very stable, reliable and on the rolling model gives you spectacular control over your upgrades.
Another feature of openSUSE that seems to be glossed over is the ability to test out multiple Desktop Environments on the same install. I can have KDE Plasma, Gnome, MATE and Budgie installed concurrently and switch between them without any consequences.
As far as your challenges go with installing openSUSE, I can’t speak for that. I haven’t had issues but I am not one to dual boot. I will give other distros a spin in virtual machine. I use BTRFS on root but I do have a sizable partition in order to allow for the snapshots to be made upon each round of package installs.
I know you guys have a good relationship with a lot of the Ubuntu crowd but it would have been nice to have had someone from the openSUSE crowd to be able to discuss the features with you, like Richard Brown. Just a thought
Thanks for your show, I do enjoy it.
Thank you Nate for the constructive feedback. I appreciate you listing out all of the features of openSUSE and I did recently install Tumbleweed without any issues.
We did cover this in the email section of our upcoming episode releasing on Friday.
Thanks again for the feedback