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Distrohoppers' Digest
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“We are a couple guys 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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This episode was recorded on the 20th of December, 2025. For this show, we will be reviewing Ultramarine Linux Plasma Edition and Ghost BSD.
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The pod is being rebooted. We discuss our activities during the past year. Our experiences with Fedora, LMDE6, Debian 13, and more.
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This month 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.
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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
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)
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00:00:00 – Intro
00:02:11 – Monthly Foibles
00:15:15 – Updates
00:29:59 – Beautiful Failures
00:34:53 – Reviews
01:17:01 – Feedback and Errata
01:23:29 – Announcements
01:24:35 – Acknowledgements
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.
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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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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.
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Distrohoppers’ Digest Episode48
Introductions
Hosts: Moss Bliss, Dale Miracle, Eric Adams
Monthly Foibles
Updates: Slackel 7.7, Budgie Desktop
Beautiful Failures:
Reviews: Linux Mint Debian Edition 6 “Faye”
New Releases
Feedback
Announcements
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Moss, Dale and Eric are Back.
The Reviews this Month are: Bodhi 7.0.0, Garuda Sway, Manjaro 23 “Uranos” Cinnamon Edition
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Moss, Dale and Eric are Back. This time they discuss blend OS, Bodhi 7, OpenMandriva ROME 5, Regolith, Pardus, LMDE 6
Beautiful Failures: Rhino Linux, PCLinuxOS
The Reviews this Month are: Linux Lite 4.4, Rhino Linux 1, Lubuntu 22.04.3 LTS
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Moss, Dale and Eric are Back. This time they discuss Linux Mint 21.2 “Victoria”
Beautiful Failures: Surprisingly none this month
The Reviews this Month are: peppermintOS, blend OS v 3, Pop!_OS 22.04 Cinnamon
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Moss, Dale and Eric are Back. This time they discuss Bodhi 7, Mint 21.2, BlendOS 3, Debian 12.
Beautiful Failures: Debian 12 LXQt, Polydock, NotesNook
The Reviews this Month are: Debian 12 Cinnamon, Debian 12 Mate, Linux Mint 21.1 Cinnamon
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Moss, Dale and Eric are Back. This time they discuss Blend OS, Bodhi, Solus, Void, Debian and Xero Linux.
Beautiful Failures: blend OS, Jelly Comb trackball, Void
The Reviews this Month are: ArchCraft, Feren OS and Kubuntu 23.04
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This Month Moss and Dale are Joined by Eric our new host and discuss BigLinux, OpenMandriva, ROME, Slackel, FreeBSD, Void, Voyger, Ubuntu Budgie and Xubuntu in updates. Reviews are Elementary OS7, Zinc 22.04.2 and Fedora 37
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We review Endless OS 5.0, PCLinuxOS. Updates on Ubuntu 22.04.2, Bodhi 7 alpha5, Mint, Trisquel, Garuda, Bluestar, openSUSE, Redcore, Xero, StormOS, Debian, Solus. Beautiful Failures on, BlendOS
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We review, CachyOS, BigLinux. Updates on OM “ROME”, Void, Bluestar, Debian, OpenSuse, Netrunner, XeroLinux, Storm-OS, Voyager, Ubuntu Budgie, Pardus. Beautiful Failures on. BigLinux, Armbian. New Releases and Feedback.
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Welcome to Distrohopper’s Digest, Episode 039, recorded on January 3, 2023. For this episode, we will be reviewing wattOS R12, Q4OS, and Garuda. By the end of 2022, Distrohoppers’ Digest had been downloaded (and, we hope, listened to) almost 31,000 times, according to statistics kept at Archive dot org. We hope you had a good holiday season, and on we go with what makes us happy: Distrohopping!
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Contact Info:
Moss: For chatting with us further, you may choose to join our Telegram group or our Discord channel.
Josh: I’m @joshontech on most social networks or email me at joshontech@pm.me, Also you can find me on the CrowbarKernelPanic podcast.
Dale: I’m @Dale_CDL on Telegram and Discord. My email is Dale_CDL@pm.me
Moss: And you can hear me every week on Full Circle Weekly News and mintCast. My email is bardmoss@pm.me, and I’m on Mastodon as @zaivala@hostux.social, plus you can find me, Dale, and Dylan, at Its MOSS dot com.
Moss and Dale are back reviewing StormD OS and Titan Linux
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Contact Info:
Moss: For chatting with us further, you may choose to join our Telegram group or our Discord channel.
You can find Josh on @joshontech on most social networks or email him at joshontech@pm.me, Also you can find him on the CrowbarKernelPanic podcast.
Dale: I’m @Dale_CDL on Telegram and Discord. My email is Dale_CDL@pm.me
Moss: And you can hear me every week on Full Circle Weekly News and mintCast. My email is bardmoss@pm.me, and I’m on Mastodon as @zaivala@hostux.social, plus you can find me, Dale and Dylan, at It’s MOSS dot com.
Moss, Dale and Josh are back talking about their Linux journey over the last few weeks.
This time they review Pardus 21.3, KDE Neon user Edition and TrueNAS SCALE
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Contact Info:
Moss: For chatting with us further, you may choose to join our Telegram group or our Discord channel.
Josh: I’m @joshontech on most social networks or email me at joshontech@pm.me, Also you can find me on the CrowbarKernelPanic podcast.
Dale: I’m @Dale_CDL on Telegram and Discord. My email is Dale_CDL@pm.me
Moss: And you can hear me every week on Full Circle Weekly News and mintCast. My email is bardmoss@pm.me, and I’m on Mastodon as @zaivala@hostux.social, plus you can find me, Dale and Dylan, at Its MOSS dot com.
Moss, Dale and Josh are back talking about their Linux journey over the last few weeks.
This time they review Regolith, Peppermint and Drauger Linux Distributions
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Contact Info:
Moss: For chatting with us further, you may choose to join our Telegram group or our Discord channel.
Josh: I’m @joshontech on most social networks or email me at joshontech@pm.me, Also you can find me on the CrowbarKernelPanic podcast.
Dale: I’m @Dale_CDL on Telegram and Discord. My email is Dale_CDL@pm.me
Moss: And you can contact Tony at distrohoppersdigest@gmail.com, http://hackerpublicradio.org/correspondents.php?hostid=338, Twitter @TonyH1212
Moss: And you can hear me every week on Full Circle Weekly News and mintCast. My email is bardmoss@pm.me, and I’m on Mastodon as @zaivala@hostux.social, plus you can find me, Dale and Dylan, at Its MOSS dot com.




