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I enjoy Cris' antics. He appears to be one of the somewhat rare people that is not only good at what he does, but also seems to have a great deal of fun doing it. I have alway appreciated the fact that overall he is very OS agnostic.

I downloaded the minimal iso and gave it a spin on my 2010 MBP. I am very impressed with how quick and fast this distro runs from a USB. I believe you could install this to a USB thumb drive and have a perfectly functional portable system. I personally find XFCE to be intimidating and knowing nothin...

Trackballs pre date computers. From what I have read, trackballs were developed by the Royal Navy for use in aiming the big guns on their battle ships. Computer trackballs are perhaps more accurately considered a reinvention. Nothing technically is known about the Royal Navy Trackballs, since the Br...

I like The Register. They along with Ars Technica have outstanding tech articles that are useful enjoyable reads. I had not heard of Asmi Linux or its predecessor Zinc before that mention. I find it amusing that Ubuntu has joined Microsoft in the realm of punching bag OSes. Perhaps since Ubuntu spaw...

I started with just a keyboard and when the mouse came along, I was just not that impressed. Mice did not work poorly, but they always seemed to get in the way. A friend pointed me to a Trackball and I switched from a mouse to a trackball. I took to it like a duck to water. I had one with a ball the...

I came across this application recently. It it serves the same function as the Raspberry Pi Imager or Etcher. It strips out the Pi specific stuff from Imager, leaving a very simple interface with no advertising. It does have the ability to download many iso installer images and install them to USB w...

Endless OS updated to version 6 today. Since userland is built on flatpaks, there will not be much difference, but the base system is moving to Debian Bookworm. I am a bit eager to give it a try. Endless OS has never installed on my old Macbook Pros, but then neither had Debian until Debian Bookworm...

I ran up Fedora 40 Silverblue edition in a VM. Since it is an immutable system using the Gnome DE and flatpaks for applications it is very very similar to Endless OS. The big difference is SilverBlue is based on Fedora while Endless is based on Debian. Endless is focused a lot on education and famil...

I installed Ubuntu 24.04 in a virtual machine. The install was straight forward and hassle free. The system ran well. I just fired it up from time to time to play and it worked just fine, doing what I expected from an OS. Then this morning I fired it up and decided to check the App Store to see if t...

Trump is an embarrassment. If we can get past this my guess is history will not treat him kindly. But getting past him is proving to be a real problem. Generally you deal with petulant children by ignoring them until they grow out of it. We have had no luck with that, his foolish antics seem to have...