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2022-07-21 11:26:36 RIP Ian Murdock, Debian founder

This is kind of an unusual post, but I wanted to share my experience of crossing paths with Ian. Edit: he died back in 2015. He purchased a piece of mine at an art show in Indy, where we both lived, maybe around 2003-5. I'm bad with dates. Later, he contacted me to commission a piece of art -- a rendition of a "Linux family tree" he had conceived of. I went to his place in downtown Indy to talk it over. He surprised me slightly by showing me the mockup on a Mac! It was kind of funny. I was familiar w Linux at the time and I had planned to do the piece, which he was going to get posters made of. He assured me we could sell 10K of them! That would have been great but my personal problems and the challenges of the project got in the way. It was most interesting to meet him though, and his death really gave me pause. I was left wondering whether his victimization at the hands of the SF police, and his stayed commitment to make it known, had something to do with it. Suicide was the given cause of his passing, but was that really the case? Perhaps it was, and in any case I mean no disrespect. Having met him was really cool, and I'll always wish I had tried harder to make good on the commission. He was an intense dude. RIP Ian. I'd love to hear from anyone who knew him or interacted with him online or otherwise. Any memories.

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2022-07-20 18:26:29 The LibreOffice Conference 2022 will be held in Milano (Italy) as a hybrid event (in-person and remote). The event kicks off on September 28 (community day) and will run until October 1.
https://conference.libreoffice.org/2022/

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2022-07-19 21:26:42 Nala v0.10.0 - Nala's A Legible Apt

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2022-07-17 18:26:33 What makes you use Chrome instead of Firefox

After switching to Firefox several months ago I found out that it does everything Chrome does almost as well, in some areas it's even better. The only thing that was holding me back is the saved passwords, but i changed all the important ones and started keeping them in a password manager, so it won't be a problem anymore. What holds you back from switching to Firefox? What features should Firefox add or change in order to become a better alternative for you?

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2022-07-16 18:26:47 Nest with Fedora, Fedora's annual contributor conference, will be held online from Thursday August 4th and run until Saturday August 6th. Registration and CfPs are both open, but CfPs closes soon.
https://flocktofedora.org/

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2022-07-11 09:26:41 Rest in peace CutefishOS, you were amazing...
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2022-07-10 20:26:42 Distro reviews could be more useful

I feel like most of the reviews on the Internet are useless, because all the author does is fire up a live session, try to install it in a VM (or maybe a multiboot), and discuss the default programs – which can be changed in 5 minutes. There’s a lack of long term reviews, hardware compatibility reviews, and so on. The lack of long-term testing in particular is annoying; the warts usually come out then.

Does anyone else agree?

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2022-07-09 20:26:32 Anyone Had an NSL2 Before Raspberry Pi Was a Thing?
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2022-07-09 02:26:49 2025 = Year of the Linux desktop? None of my computers supports Windows 11. How are we preparing for the 2025 Tsunami of new Linux users?
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2022-07-08 05:26:36 PipeWire 0.3.54
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/tags/0.3.54

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