Episode 53

About this episode

In this episode, Eric and Dale review Bluefin Project and Archman while discussing their experiences with various system setups and challenges.

This month Eric reviews Bluefin Project and Dale reviews Archman. In Monthly Foibles, Dale had a productive month setting up Nextcloud, Pi-Hole, Ubuntu Server, and various other systems, while Eric discusses his experience setting up a drawing tablet for his wife using a Dell Active Pen and Windows 11. In Updates, we cover Debian’s adoption of Tmpfs for its /tmp folder and upcoming changes to APT. Beautiful Failures covers challenges encountered by Dale during while attempting to move a hard drive to a new system. Reviews focuses on Archman and Bluefin Project distributions, but specific information is not included in the excerpt. We also cover some New Releases and get some Feedback. Full Show Notes Here 00:02:09 – Monthly Foibles 00:48:07 – Updates 00:51:54 – Beautiful Failures 00:54:36 – Reviews 01:50:24 – Feedback and Errata 01:56:10 – New Releases 02:01:17 – Announcements 02:02:03 – Acknowledgements

People in this episode

Hosts: Dale, Eric

Topics covered

• technology
• system setup
• software reviews
• product experiences
• Linux distributions
• feedback

Keywords

• Bluefin Project
• Archman
• Nextcloud
• Pi-Hole
• Ubuntu Server
• Dell Active Pen
• Windows 11
• Debian
• system setup
• software reviews

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Debian

Products: Bluefin Project, Archman, Nextcloud, Pi-Hole, Ubuntu Server, Dell Active Pen

Places: Windows 11

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