Distrowatch Weekly Podcast

DistroWatch.com, the popular Linux distribution news and information site, publishes a weekly news and commentary section. A Guest Host reads DistroWatch content, and adds a little of their own.

DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 751 19 February 2018

Review of Dietpi, Nitrux packages AppImage, OpenIndiana upgrades GCC, Canonical collects hardware data, Solus experiments with Wayland, KDE Plasma Mobile, Zevenet 5.0, Getting software not in a distros repository.

02-18
35:23

DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 750 12 February 2018

Review of Solus 3 and the Budgie desktop, NetBSD and security work, elementary OS and AppCentre changes, Ubuntu 18.04 to include Snap packages, run-time linux kernel protection for Linux, Peppermint OS, Kali Linux, Quirky 8.4, mining cryptocurrency vs advertisements, UBPorts, Scion Linux, Pixel OS.

02-18
45:53

DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 748 29 January 2018

Review of siduction 2018.1.0, openSUSE 42.2 reaches EOL, SolydXK releases 32bit editions, building ubuntu robot, ubuntu 18.04 to use Xorg by default, Mint improves testing process, Desktop-friendly Debian and systemd boot times, ubuntu 18.04 Alpha2, Linux Lite 3.8.

01-29
40:57

DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 747 22 January 2018

Review of Ubuntu MATE 17.10, KDE focus on Wayland features, DragonFly BSD dropping insecure remote tools, virtualbox support added to the linux kernel, recovering open files, starting a new linux distro, Tails 3.5, opinion poll HiDPI screens, Enso OS.

01-24
32:03

DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 746 15 January 2018

Review of deepin 15.5, openSUSE unveils YaST changes, Ubuntu kernel update causes boot problems, new ubuntu 17.10 media, Devil Linux shutting down, questions and answers Spectre and Meltdown, Wayland vs Xorg, DistroWatch.com changes to Subscribing to specific projects.

01-15
42:21

DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 745 08 January 2018

Review of GhostBSD 11.1, Linspire and Freespire return, Parsix shuts down, wide-spread CPU bugs, Ubuntu 17.04 reaching end of life, adding AppImage to application menu, Robolinux 8.10, improved package search, Archman GNU/Linux, VeltOS.

01-09
41:38

DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 744 01 January 2018

Review of MX Linux 17, openSUSE experiments with kernel powered splash screen, Ubuntu pulls downloads over BIOS bug, PureOS FSF approved, FreeBSD considers Wayland as default, UBports to run andriod apps, Manjaro to continue support 32-bit, Managing multimedia files.

01-01
46:56

DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 740 27 November 2017

Review of Artix Linux, Korora work towards version 27, upgrade option for Ubuntu's unity users, gaining longer battery life, google search results, Guntu, Gobuntu, Unity7sl.

11-27
40:10

DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 739 20 November 2017

Review of Fedora 27 workstation, Ubuntu on Samsung phones, Red Hat unveils RHEL for ARM, Parabola continue 32bit support, cross-distro software ports, ARM desktops and laptops, Daphile, Ready Linux, Flint OS, anemOS.

11-27
01:54:57

DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 738 13 November 2017

Review of SparkyLinux 5.1, Slax devs explore init options, Arch Linux drops 32 bit packages, Overview of Lineage OS, worried about spyware, Redcore Linux 1710, Parrot Security OS 3.9, SharkLinux, number of supported editions, HardenedBSD, postmarketOS, Regata OS, HasCoding-OS.

11-27
01:42:06

DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 733 09 October 2017

Review of KaOS 2017.09, Fedora delays server beta, Qubes security features, IPFire updates Apache, 32-bit deprecated prematurely, Emmabuntus 9-1.00, NixOS 17.09, FreeBSD 10.4, opinion 32 bit being dropped by distros.

10-02
01:38:19

DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 732 02 October 2017

Review of ClonOS 12, Reducing Snap size, Ubuntu drops 32bit media, FreeBSDs Quarterly Status report, Partitioning disks with ZFS, SparkyLinux 5.1, KNOPPIX 8.1, Tails 3.2, web browsers and non-free DRM, mobile app for getting distro news, BeeFree OS, eXtern, Advanced Persistent Security.

10-02
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DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 731 25 September 2017

Review of Backslash Linux Olaf, Mint reporting bugs, Canonical adds wayland support to mir, Debian experimenting with appArmor, W3C encrypted media and software freedom, Kali Linux 2017.2, Endian Firewall 3.2.4, Korora 26, Ubuntu 17.10 Beta 2, GNU/Linux mobile devices, Periodic Table of Linux Distros, EGOS.

09-26
01:35:29

DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 728 04 September 2017

Review of Nitrux 1.0.2, SUSE created new software repo, remote desktop tools coming to GNOME on Wayland, Bodhi updates media, Mint rewrites backup tool, Manjaro dropping 32 bit support, Void Packages, Redcore Linux 1708, Package management, BackSlash Linux, Namib GNU/Linux.

09-04
01:52:17

DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 727 28 August 2017

Review of Cucumber Linux 1.0, DragonFly BSD prepares Hammer2, Ubuntu's transition to GNOME, free hardware phone running debian, SUSE commits to Btrfs, GNOME settings panel, Nimbusoft sells Ubuntu Budgie computers, Flatpak vs Snap, Black Lab Linux 11.0.3, Slideshow 9.0, Happy Hacking Linux.

08-29
30:13

DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 726 21 August 2017

Review of openSUSE Leap 42.3, Debian disables old TLS versions, Debian considers Flatpak for backported packages, changes for Ubuntu 17.10, Gaming on linux, Released last week Tails 3.1, GParted 0.29.0-1, OSGeo-live 11.0.

08-23
01:30:04

DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 725 14 August 2017

Review of openSUSE Leap 42.3, Debian disables old TLS versions, Debian considers Flatpak for backported packages, changes for Ubuntu 17.10, Gaming on linux, Released last week Tails 3.1, GParted 0.29.0-1, OSGeo-live 11.0.

08-14
01:21:39

DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 722 14 July 2017

Calculate Linux 17.6 KDE, Remix OS discontinues desktop, Starlabs launch linux laptops, Debian project releases update for 9, interview Debian Project Leader, Interview with Jonathan Simpson, sudo usage, checking system logs, Pardus page update, OBRevenge renamed to Revenge OS.

07-25
01:33:18

DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 721 17 July 2017

Fedora 26, installing DragonFly BSD with Orca, yunit packages backported to Ubuntu 16.04, source based Linux distributions, Extix, Parrot Security 3.7, SolydXK 9, Mageia 6.

07-18
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DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 720 10 July 2017

Peppermint OS 8, Dan Washko interview, New features OpenSUSE, Tails fixes network bug, Ubuntu 16.10 reaches EOL, FSF certifies new hardware, OSQuery, Fedora 26, ArchStrike, Redcore Linux, UBOS, ArchBox.

07-13
01:54:08

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