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We are three Blokes who love Linux and trying out new stuff, we thought it would be interesting to share our experience of trying new Linux and BSD distributions and how we found it trying to live with them as our daily driver for up to a month at a time, by recording a podcast about how we got on.
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Episode 53
This month we Eric reviews Bluefin Project and Dale reviews Archman. In Monthly Foibles, Dale had a productive month setting up Nextcloud, Pi-Hole, Ubuntu Server, and various other systems, while Eric discusses his experience setting up a drawing tablet for his wife using a Dell Active Pen and Windows 11. In Updates, we cover Debian's adoption of Tmpfs for its /tmp folder and upcoming changes to APT. Beautiful Failures covers challenges encountered by Dale during while attempting to move a hard drive to a new system. Reviews focuses on Archman and Bluefin Project distributions, but specific information is not included in the excerpt. We also cover some New Releases and get some Feedback.
Full Show Notes Here
00:02:09 – Monthly Foibles
00:48:07 – Updates
00:51:54 – Beautiful Failures
00:54:36 – Reviews
01:50:24 – Feedback and Errata
01:56:10 – New Releases
02:01:17 – Announcements
02:02:03 – Acknowledgements -
Episode 52
Welcome to Distrohppers’ Digest Episode 52. In Monthly Foibles, Dale recounts a month of balancing rest and productivity, from exploring Linux Mint’s Backup Tool to diving into Sway customization. Eric shares his quest for the perfect headphones for podcast editing. Updates cover Solus’ vibrant community growth and Ubuntu’s latest LTS release, while our ‘Beautiful Failures’ segment explores Dale’s dual-booting mishap and Eric’s journey through various distros, landing back at Ubuntu 24.04. Eric reviews Ubuntu 24.04 LTD “Noble Numbat” and Dale covers Tuxedo OS. (edited)
Full Show Notes Here
00:00:00 – Intro00:02:11 – Monthly Foibles00:15:15 – Updates00:29:59 – Beautiful Failures00:34:53 – Reviews01:17:01 – Feedback and Errata01:23:29 – Announcements01:24:35 – Acknowledgements -
Distrohoppers' Digest Episode 51
On this episode we talk server upgrades, WiFi woes, Xebian and Fedora fails, and review BunsenLabs Linux Boron and KDE neon User Edition featuring the recently released KDE Plasma 6.
Full Show Notes Here
Intro - 00:00:00
Monthly Foibles - 00:02:21
Updates - 00:21:58
Beautiful Failures - 00:25:11
Reviews - 00:33:21
Feedback and Errata - 01:32:34
Announcements - 01:34:10
Acknowledgements - 01:35:37 -
Distrohoppers' Digest Episode 50
Moss and Dale are back for another episode.
This month we are reviewing Sparky Linux 7.2 OpenBox/E25, and Zorin OS 17 PRO.
Updates Solus, Redcore, Slackel, DeBodhi 32- and 64-bit, Ubuntu
Beautiful failures OpenMandriva 5 ROCK
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https://distrohoppersdigest.org/show-notes/episode-50/
https://archive.org/details/distrohoppers-digest-episode-50/Distrohoppers-Digest-Episode-50.mp3 -
Distrohoppers' Digest Episode 49
Moss, Dale, and Eric are back for another episode!
We took a break from our reviews to do a year in review. We reflect on our favorite distros, activities, and what we look forward to in 2024.
Show notes for this episode can be found here:
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Distrohoppers' Digest Episode 48
Moss, Dale, and Eric are Back!
This month we are doing a collaborative review of Linux Mint Debian Edition 6 “Faye”.
Show notes for this episode can be found here:
https://distrohoppersdigest.blogspot.com/p/show-notes-distrohoppers-digest-episode_3.html