Distro Monday 51: Heads or TAILS?

DM 51.1 – Feeling Paranoid? This TAILS is for You.

Ever heard of TAILS? If you’ve been around the channel for a while, you know that I cover it whenever there is anything new to say about it. TAILS is meant to be run from a flash drive or any similar external storage solution, not installed on internal storage. That is the “Live” part of The Amnesiac Incognito LIVE System. Amnesiac refers to the fact that it does not save (by default) anything from one session to the next. Incognito means that it uses things like always-on TOR and VPNs to access the internet, so you are as private as you can be within reason. Ok, so for the newbies and slow ones in the back, TAILS is meant for people like dissident journalists, political agitators, or anyone who feels the need to compute as privately as possible, while still accessing the internet. What’s new in this release, though?
· ZRAM to extend periods of functionality between reboots
· Latest LTS kernel
· GNOME screencasting is enabled now by default
· Revamped screen locker
· Latest versions of the Tor browser and Thunderbird
· Other core apps
https://9to5linux.com/tails-5-11-amnesic-incognito-live-system-switches-to-zram-and-linux-kernel-6-1-lts
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DM 51.2 – First Look at CarbonOS

What’s CarbonOS? It is an independent distro built with an eye toward stability, similar to VanillaOS that I covered last week. This one, though, is even heavier on the immutability that Vanilla offers, though it is not ready for primetime yet. It is really still in early alpha testing, but is intriguing nonetheless. Why is it interesting? Not due to a vanilla GNOME experience, but due to it being built from the ground up (on its own, not based on any of the big 3 Linux families) with atomized system updating, a flatpak-first approach for apps, then an emphasis on containers for everything else. I am installing it on a VM as I write this, so I will give you a few thoughts as I get that done. Well, first try to install failed. I’ll have to look at it more as it matures, though the live environment seemed to work, and was very much stock GNOME.
https://news.itsfoss.com/carbonos/
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DM 51.3 – Trisquel: A Distro for the Libre-Inclined

By Libre-inclined, I mean die-hard FOSS, GNU/Libre fanboys. This Linux distro is purely Free & Open Source, so if you need anything that isn’t FOSS to make your system comfortable to use, this may not be an ideal option for you. However, if you are down for that adventure and are committed to the Libre way, this is a great distro for you. It is based on Ubuntu Jammy Jellyfish, but only ships with Libre components and 0 snaps. What is new in v 11 LTS?

· Defaults to
o 5.15 LTS kernel
o Mate 1.26
· Adds new architecture support
o ARM64 & PowerPC 64 Little Endian
· Debian text-mode installer for the netinstall image
· support for some AMD Radeon GPUs
· More Deb Libre packages
· Updated ABroswer (Firefox) and IceDove (Thunderbird) forks
· Updates for KDE
o Plasma 5.24.7
o Frameworks 5.92.0
o Gear 21.12.3
o Qt 5.15.3 LTS

https://9to5linux.com/trisquel-gnu-linux-11-0-lts-released-with-gnu-linux-libre-5-15-kernel-mate-1-26

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