Distrowatch. When I first started using and writing about Linux in the late 1990s, there were just a few distributions to choose from, and even those were a bit hard to discover (unless you knew ...

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS . Neal P. Murphy has announced the release of Smoothwall Express 3.1 SP6, an updated build of the project's specialist Linux ...

We have been forgetting who the good guys are lately. Facebook’s bizarre censorship of Linux groups and the wholesome DistroWatch magazine was a mistake, the social notworking outfit has admitted.

According to DistroWatch, there have been reports that if you post about Linux on Facebook or share a link to DistroWatch after January 19, 2025, the post will be deleted.

In other words, it could be called the BitTorrent equivalent of distrowatch, the website that keeps an eye on new Linux distro releases. 2. Internet Archive Software.

Facebook is reportedly removing posts which share links to DistroWatch Other mentions of Linux and open-source OSs also ...

As reported by Tom’s HardwareSome posts mentioning the Linux family of operating systems or related communities (sites) are immediately deleted, while users or pages that published them are restricted ...

In the meantime, regular Distrowatch readers were recommended to follow its RSS feeds. (We note that the Thunderbird email client supports RSS, in addition to Usenet newsgroups and Matrix chat, if you ...

Facebook is reportedly removing posts which share links to DistroWatch Other mentions of Linux and open-source OSs also affected Meta says this was an "error" and that it's been fixed Some posts ...

On Mastodon, DistroWatch says: "I've been told, but have been unable to confirm, that Facebook has lifted the ban on posting links to DistroWatch.(Which is great.) My personal FB account is still ...