Episode 481 · Linux & Open Source Back-to-Basics

Larry Bushey Larry Bushey

In this new format episode, Larry and Bill discuss rising Linux desktop market share, community-maintained LightDM, and rewriting terminal tools in Rust. They recommend user-friendly starter distributions like Linux Mint, Zorin, TUXEDO, Pop!_OS, and Nobara, and showcase how to use the TLDR utility for simplified command-line help.

The following resources are mentioned in this episode:
  1. Open Source News Highlights: Open Source News Highlights
  2. Desktop Market Share Growth: https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide/
  3. LightDM 1.33 LightDM GitHub Repository: https://github.com/canonical/lightdm
  4. The uutils Rust-Coreutils Project: https://uutils.org/coreutils/
  5. Coreutils GitHub Repository: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils
  6. Ubuntu Discourse Engineering Updates.: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/an-update-on-rust-coreutils/80773
  7. Open Music Jamendo Music. : https://www.jamendo.com/
  8. Recommended Starter Distros: Recommended Stater Distros
  9. Linux Mint: https://linuxmint.com
  10. Zorin OS: https://zorin.com/os/
  11. TUXEDO OS: https://tuxedocomputers.com
  12. Pop!_OS: https://pop.system76.com
  13. Nobara Linux: https://nobaraproject.org
  14. Our theme music is made with Suno AI: https://suno.com
Episode Time Stamps
00:00 Going Linux #481 · Linux & Open Source Back-to-Basics 
02:04 Open Source News 
05:34 LightDM 1.33 Release 
07:42 Rust-Coreutils Progress 
10:10 Open Culture Spotlight - Jamendo 
13:06 Starter-friendly Linux distributions 
16:45 Zorin OS 
20:57 Tuxedo OS 
25:18 POP!_OS 
29:54 Nobara Linux 
35:05 Command line shenanigans 
35:42 Navigating the man pages 
36:11 The tldr command 
39:16 goinglinux.com, goinglniux@gmail.com, +1-904-4687-889, @goinglinux, feedback, listen, subscribe  
40:28 End