Linux

Linux is a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution.

I am weighting the pros and cons of Fedora vs. Mint — with the lxqt desktop environment

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As lately I’m changing everything, I thinking of switching to a new Linux distro and desktop environment come April. After 20 years of using Ubuntu and XFCE, I am thinking it’s time for a change, as I don’t like SNAPs or this Ubuntu Pro crap. My hard drive needs a good cleaning, as Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish is getting really long in the tooth.

I’m old enough to remember when neither of them existed. 25 years ago, back in the day when he choices were RedHat, Debian, and Ubuntu was the new kid on the block. Debian’s (and Ubuntu’s) apt-get package manager was nifty a quarter century ago, at least before yum and DNF. Ubuntu LTS only updates every two years, so I end up getting stuck with out of date GIS libraries, which I have to update, which sometimes causes symbolic error and other weird problems.

The History of X11

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Maybe I like this video so much because I have lived much of the history of X11, at least the second half of it as I was one of those people using KDE 1.0 and GNOME 1.0 back in the late 1990 when I was in High School.