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Distributions and Operating Systems: GNU/Linux, BSD, and Old Systems
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Fernando Borretti ☛ Linux on the Fujitsu Lifebook U729
This post describes my experience using Linux on the Fujitsu Lifebook U729. The tl;dr is that it’s a delightful laptop, and Linux runs flawlessly, and all the hardware things I’ve needed run OOTB. The only difficulty I had was in disabling Secure Boot, but I figured out how to do it, which I explain below.
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Stefano Marinelli ☛ This Isn't a Battle
This isn't a battle. We aren't in a ruthless commercial arena where different solutions copy each other to get ahead, hoping to attract "users" (better: paying customers) from the other side. And unfortunately, this is something that has been happening in many "mainstream" Open Source communities for a while now. It's a loss of the Open Source philosophy - of doing something for the pleasure of it, to have something different, and to be open to contributions from others, as well as the idea of making what you create public and free. Whether it's with licenses like the GPL or like BSD, MIT, etc., the spirit is to say: “Here it is. If it’s useful to you, take it. If you want, contribute. Otherwise, you can move on; you have no constraints or obligations.”
I often see curious Linux users arriving in BSD communities, and that’s fantastic. The spirit is almost always positive, exploratory: “What can the BSDs do for me?” And sometimes, that turns into, “What can I do for the BSDs?”
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BSD
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Undeadly ☛ Transition to support for 52 partitions
In -current, Theo de Raadt (deraadt@) has started the transition to support for 52 disk partitions (on a subset of hardware architectures): [...]
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Debian Family
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Distro Watch ☛ Distribution Release: MX Linux 25
The MX Linux team has announced that version 25 of its distribution is now available. MX Linux 25 is based on Debian 13. The release announcement shares the key new features: [...]
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