All Linux Things

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...

You bring up a good point, Chris. I have kept journals for decades, and it is clear reading them, that all my recorded thoughts on events are about how things affect me personally. While I think I am objective, I do acknowledge that my take aways are different than others. I am still surprised thoug...

Sometimes when talking with the boss, the boss will say; “I am planining on giving you a raise on the 1st of June.” To which you knowing the boss well, respond with; “Can I have that in writing?” And of course come June 1, the boss has no recollection of anything like that. So perhaps the AI thing w...

Fedora released version 40 out into the wild yesterday. As near as I can tell all versions are available. They can be obtained at <https://getfedora.org>. I have not tried it. From what I have read this release focuses on optimization is a solid bump in performance. Fedora Magazine <https://fedorama...

I found an old 2009 C2D non functional lap and was able to bring it back to life. Looking for an age appropriate yet modern distro I installed Bodhi Linux on it. It is a very convoluted desktop on which at this point I can not do much of anything without referring to the manual. It is a small distro...