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@itsfoss MidnightBSD was one of the first to introduce age delcaration code. And Ageless is just Debian with the name changed. Might be a bit out of line to say they are doing anything against age verification.

Meanwhile System76 has actively pushed back against age verification laws and may have an exemption lined up in Colorado and is nowhere in this image.

@fesshole It took me a while to get comfortable with C pointers when I first started coding. Oddly enough, what made the concept click into place was working in Assembly code. Seems backwards, but it worked.

Guix System has a Hurd branch and it now has a 64-bit kernel: https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=showheadline&story=20144

KaOS is experimenting with a new desktop environment: https://distrowatch.com/12731

@mcc That's probably often the case. I'm still a big fan of the Trine games, the first two were 2.5D and gorgeous.

@fesshole For anyone wondering the mortar is the dish and the pestle is the crushing thing you hold in your hand. It might help if you think of the "pestle" as a "piston", moving around inside the dish.

I think it is telling that we are about three years into the AI craze and, still, every single time someone says to me "I asked ChatGPT ___ " or "The chatbot told me ____" I know they are about to say something completed stupid and devoid of facts. Every single time.

Redox OS is getting an updated graphics stack with modesetting: https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=showheadline&story=20105

FreeBSD 15.0 has been published: https://distrowatch.com/12655

This might be the saddest and most happy a comic has made me: https://xkcd.com/3172

@gamingonlinux Agreed. Red Hat has always played fast and loose with how they describe Fedora.

@gamingonlinux I agree, something can't be a testing ground and reliable.

Fedora is a testing ground, therefore it cannot be reliable.

How they describe or advertise their distro doesn't really have anything to do with reality then, does it? Almost every Linux distro describes itself as "reliable, secure, fast, efficient, etc". That doesn't make it true.

@gamingonlinux While I ympathize over the frustration, Fedora is a testing ground for new technologies. It's intentionally bleeding edge. If you're running Fedora you're signing up to beta test and should expect bugs.

It would be different if a person were running an LTS release or even a stable short-term release, then stuff like this shouldn't get pushed through. But with Fedora it's in its nature.

Xuubntu posts a summary about the attack on its website: https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=showheadline&story=20098

One of my least favourite things documentation can do (apart from not giving examples) is to have dozens of command line flags and say one flag does the same as another, forcing the reader to find _that_ flag.

For example, the GNU "cp" manual page says "-a" is the same as "-dR --preserve-all". If you look up "-d" it says it is the same as "--no-dereference --preserve=links". So to find out what the first parameter (-a) does, we need to go at least three levels deeper. It's recursive man pages!

I had been running Brave browser for a while (due to its speed, stability, and blocking options), but the upgrade to 1.83 made the browser completely unusable. Tabs kept changing without input, maps and pages kept scrolling without input, text could not be selected, etc.

Today I swapped it out for Vivaldi and the experience has all the things I liked about Brave without any of the problems and it's a little bit faster. Quite impressed so far with the Vivaldi experience.

Linux Kamarada is migrating its base from openSUSE to Manjaro: https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=showheadline&story=20074

Solus enters a new epoch, one with a merged /usr and no Python 2: https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=showheadline&story=20073

Okay, I think that's all the Ubuntu news I'll be posting for a while. Back to our usual routine for the next six months.

Fedora's server infrastructure is experiencing a denial of service attack. It may be difficult to perform updates or visit the project's website for a time: https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=showheadline&story=20039