Posts by teejeetech

Dash to Panel maintainer quits after donations drive becomes dash to disaster

This is the right way to do it but not very effective since it will rarely be seen.

Donations buttons remind people that they are not supporting a project, which makes them feel guilty every time they look at it.

I've created FOSS apps in the past and for every app there would be a request from users to remove the donation button because it "takes up too much space" or "looks ugly" or something similar. And that was for a tiny button at the end of the toolbar.

Putting the donation button in the About window is acceptable to everyone since it is out-of-sight and will never be seen.

Funding software development is a solved problem. Just charge for it.

Funding FOSS development on the other hand is a never-ending problem. You are trying to charge people for something that is already available for free. Any attempt to monetize or solicit donations will not be received well.

People who get into FOSS development are smart people but they are also hobbyists who are scratching an itch. They often don't anticipate that their work will become popular in the future and that people will be willing to pay for it.

Fedora 41 beta arrives, neck-and-neck with Ubuntu – but with a different focus

Re: "A Few Small Repairs" are needed.......

GNOME has deeper issues than just the UI and usability. On Ubuntu 22.04 the desktop would freeze whenever I transferred more than 50 GB data to my Samsung T7 SSD drive. After troubleshooting for weeks and thinking that the drive had problems, I narrowed the problem down to the GNOME desktop itself. It is extremely perplexing to discover a desktop causing file transfer issues. I installed XFCE on the same system and never looked back at GNOME.

Re: This btrfs malarkey

Compression saves disk space and improves the disk throughput.

The Btrfs compression used by Fedora (zstd:1) is almost as fast as dealing with uncompressed data. In fact it is faster than reading uncompressed data since less data needs to read and written to disk. On a hard disk the performance improvement will be even more noticeable.

With Asmi 24.04, Ubuntu's never looked so snappy (without the Snaps)

Re: 24.04.1 sources not available?

> Also extremely concerning: the 24.04.1 update is available only for supporters and I can not see any place where he publishes the sources. The github account https://github.com/teejee2008 does not seem to contain any relevant material.

Sources of what? There are no modifications to Ubuntu packages. I do change the default configuration for software, etc. Feel free to go through the configuration files in the /etc folder.

> Besides that this may be a GPL violation, the security concerns mentioned before still apply.

What GPL violation? You don't seem to have a clue how software licenses work.

> Seriously, you need to check you security practices and teach people to better understand why the situation with such a "distro" is problematic, especially if the author does not provide sources.

One point that I agree with is that people should not be using random distributions from the internet. Most of them are hobby projects and tend to have a lot of bugs which are not present in the original distributions that they are based on. The major distributions like Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, etc undergo a lot of QA and testing and are the safest to use.

Re: Missing expected thoughts about security

> Or did I misunderstand that and there are additional repositories?

There are no additional repositories.

> If there are no additional or modified packages: wouldn´t it be a better idea to just provide a script that could be executed post installation of standard Xubuntu minimal iso to apply the customizations?

My wish. I chose to create an ISO so that is easier to install for me.

> Because now we have a full ISO from a new, untrusted source generated by one person, what of course rises extreme security concerns.

That's true for most pieces of software. You would be surprised how many projects are maintained by a single developer. If you don't trust something maybe you shouldn't be installing it.

There are more than 300 active Linux distributions out there, most of them created by single developers.

Re: It looks great, but is this a one person distro?

Nothing happens. You will continue to get updates from Ubuntu repositories.

Windows borders are 4px thick instead of 1px. That's wide enough to grab with a mouse, but not thick enough to make it look ugly.

Any Xfwm4 theme can be modified to increase the border thickness (or you can use a theme that already has thicker borders).

Raspberry Pi 4 bugs throw wrench in the works for Fedora 41

Ubuntu 24.04.1 on the other hand works perfectly on both Pi 4 and Pi 5. I wonder why Fedora is having so much trouble with the Pi.

Fresh programmer's editor on Linux lies Zed ahead

Re: Oh, Hell, NO

This is safer than running a binary installation program like on windows. At least you can read the installer script to check the commands it is running.

FOSS replacement for Partition Magic, Gparted 1.6 is here to save your data

PartedMagic

There was also a Linux distribution named PartedMagic which was quite popular back in the day. It featured Gparted along with other data rescue tools. The distribution is still around though it now requires a payment to download. The Gparted Live ISO kind of made it obsolete.