Posts tagged distributions

I've noticed that the default kernel selection for Ubuntu 22.04, for example, is Linux 5.15.0. Ubuntu 22.04 is a LTS release, which is supposed to have standard support until April 2027, and Linux ...

0 answers  ·  posted 7mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭

Ever since systemd was adopted by mainstream distros, there's been many reactive projects aiming to provide a distro without systemd. I've often had the impression that a lot of these were motivat...

2 answers  ·  posted 7mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 7mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

I saw another post recommend using Fedora if you want cutting edge features. Is Fedora really a "cutting edge" distro? I am not very familiar with Fedora, I know it's a community counterpart to R...

1 answer  ·  posted 9mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 8mo ago by Michael‭

Motivating example: my Mint 20.3 distribution offers long-term support until April 2025, which matches the "standard support" offered for the upstream Ubuntu (20.04 "Jammy Jellyfish"). However, the...

2 answers  ·  posted 10mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭  ·  last activity 10mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

From what I can tell, both NixOS and Guix are built around a package manager which, instead of installing package into the "common environment" as is traditional, isolates them to mitigate issues a...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by r~~‭