Destination Linux EP01 - The First Episode

Описание: Destination Linux Episode 1 – 12-17-16

This is the 1st episode of a weekly podcast/vidcast with Hosts Rob and Rocco discussing everyday Linux things.

Distro Challenge Discussion

Rob has ran KDE Neon for the last week while Rocco has run Antergos Gnome. The Distro challenge was cut short due to time during the Holidays

News

4.9 Kernel
http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/ke...
There are over 16k + Commits with another 1100 merge commits of technical changes with this release. Without getting too technical its suffice to say….its better. Linus has stated that this is the biggest release ever!

4.10 It’s a very technical release but with many good changes
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page...

Cub Linux was made popular by mimicking the chromeOS but unfortunately has ceased development
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?dist...

The Brisk menu will be ported over to become a Mate applet which may end up being the default menu in new releases of Ubuntu Mate
https://solus-project.com/2016/12/11/...

App Pick of the Week

No App this week

Distro Update

http://distrowatch.com/

Gecko Linux
The Yast2 installer was replaced by the Calamares installer
Cinnamon version 3.0.7
Xfce version 4.12
Gnome version 3.20
Plasma version 5.8.2 LTS
Mate version 1.16
Budgie will be on hiatus until next release
LXQt version 0.11
They also have a barebones version that comes with LightDM, Openbox, Firefox, a terminal, YaST, and not much else

Korora 25 recently released which brings the desktop up to version 25.
https://kororaproject.org/
MX16
http://antix.mepis.org/index.php?titl...
Everybody loves it. Sudo Reboot loves it. English Bob said that it may not be the best choice for newer hardware because of the debian jessie base but says its a great OS for new users.
Sudo Reboot’s Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E26d-...
English Bob’s Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgbHk...
Don’t Call Me Lenny https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LFD2...

Distro Discussion

Linux Mint 18.1
http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=3181
https://www.linuxmint.com/rel_serena_...
https://www.linuxmint.com/rel_serena_...

Youtube Comments

Going back to the Distro challenge for a moment Brave Hippo Commented that I should check out ApricityOS. So we want your comments on which direction Rocco should go in and what specific distro you recommend for his next install. Matt also teased about having a great Distro challenge

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOFou...