I’ll give credit where it is due. I had previously criticized Manjaro for holding back all package updates as this ignored security issues. But it appears that Manjaro has a new security policy, which means that packages that are rated Continue reading
I feel like having a rant today… so nothing particularly unusual there. But after reading yet another post saying: I used Arch for two years and it was perfectly fine until one day when I updated and it broke my Continue reading
More follow-up from the afore mentioned Frostcast featuring Manjaro developer Philip Müller. Just past the 16 minute mark. We learn and everyone makes mistakes. And the new server change every package is new synced from Arch Linux so there is Continue reading
Lets list some links! Linux From Scratch 7.4 is released Fedora was announced ten years ago Looking at binary differences between ScientificLinux and CentOS The is a project trying to get fully reproducible builds in Fedora FreeBSD moved away from Continue reading
I was listening to Frostcast in the background today when I heard my name. That always makes me pay some attention. Then I heard wrong information. I don’t know why I care, but I do… so here goes the clarification. Continue reading
I will clarify this just because I have had several people ask me already. No, we did not remove the SyncFirst option in pacman to deliberately cause issues for Manjaro Linux. In fact, it was first discussed in Feburary 2012 Continue reading
Final collection of links for the year… Software related: More posts on secure boot i386 support was dropped from the Linux kernel, which immediately sparked a discussion about dropping it from GCC (glibc has not for a long time) After Continue reading
According to Distrowatch, there are eleven “distributions” “based” on Arch Linux. I use “distributions” in quotes, because some are far less of a distribution than others and “based” gets quotes because some are so based that they are really Arch Continue reading