Distrohoppers' Digest

Jim from mintCast joins us to review Puppy Linux TrixiePup 64 Wayland. Along with Jim’s grub issue and Dale’s adventure with QEMU/KVM. Link To Full Show Notes Link To Show Transcript

Majid reviews CachyOS, Bill from mintCast, and Linux OTC joins us to talk about Arch Linux. Link To Full Show Notes Link To Full Show Transcript

In this episode Dale uses his iPad as a laptop and Majid fights with Windows 11 and bought a new to him Lenovo Chromebook. We review Ubuntu Budgie 25.10 and Pop!_OS 24.04 with the new Cosmic Desktop. Link To Full Show Notes Link To Show Transcript

This episode was recorded on the 20th of December, 2025. For this show, we will be reviewing Ultramarine Linux Plasma Edition and Ghost BSD. Link To Full Show Notes Link To Full Transcript

The pod is being rebooted. We discuss our activities during the past year. Our experiences with Fedora, LMDE6, Debian 13, and more. Link To Full Show Transcript

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

Welcome to Distrohppers’ Digest Episode 52. In Monthly Foibles, Dale recounts a month of balancing rest and productivity, from exploring Linux Mint’s Backup Tool to diving into Sway customization. Eric shares his quest for the perfect headphones for podcast editing. Updates cover Solus’ vibrant community growth and Ubuntu’s latest LTS release, while our ‘Beautiful Failures’ segment explores Dale’s dual-booting mishap and Eric’s journey through various distros, landing back at Ubuntu 24.04. Eric reviews Ubuntu 24.04 LTD “Noble Numbat” and Dale covers Tuxedo OS. (edited) Full Show Notes Here 00:00:00 – Intro 00:02:11 – Monthly Foibles 00:15:15 – Updates 00:29:59 – Beautiful Failures 00:34:53 – Reviews 01:17:01 – Feedback and Errata 01:23:29 – Announcements 01:24:35 – Acknowledgements

On this episode we talk server upgrades, WiFi woes, Xebian and Fedora fails, and review BunsenLabs Linux Boron and KDE neon User Edition featuring the recently released KDE Plasma 6. Full Show Notes Here

Moss and Dale are back for another episode. This month we are reviewing Sparky Linux 7.2 OpenBox/E25, and Zorin OS 17 PRO. Updates Solus, Redcore, Slackel, DeBodhi 32- and 64-bit, Ubuntu  Beautiful failures OpenMandriva 5 ROCK Full Show Notes Here

We took a break from our reviews to do a year in review. We reflect on our favorite distros, activities, and what we look forward to in 2024. Full Show Notes Here

Synopsis Distrohoppers’ Digest Episode48 Introductions Hosts: Moss Bliss, Dale Miracle, Eric Adams Monthly Foibles Updates: Slackel 7.7, Budgie Desktop Beautiful Failures: Reviews: Linux Mint Debian Edition 6 “Faye” New Releases Feedback Announcements Full Show Notes Here

Moss, Dale and Eric are Back. The Reviews this Month are: Bodhi 7.0.0, Garuda Sway, Manjaro 23 “Uranos” Cinnamon Edition Full Show Notes Here

Moss, Dale and Eric are Back. This time they discuss blend OS, Bodhi 7, OpenMandriva ROME 5, Regolith, Pardus, LMDE 6 Beautiful Failures: Rhino Linux, PCLinuxOS The Reviews this Month are: Linux Lite 4.4, Rhino Linux 1, Lubuntu 22.04.3 LTS Full Show Notes Here

Moss, Dale and Eric are Back. This time they discuss Linux Mint 21.2 “Victoria” Beautiful Failures: Surprisingly none this month The Reviews this Month are: peppermintOS, blend OS v 3, Pop!_OS 22.04 Cinnamon Full Show Notes Here

Moss, Dale and Eric are Back. This time they discuss Bodhi 7, Mint 21.2, BlendOS 3, Debian 12. Beautiful Failures: Debian 12 LXQt, Polydock, NotesNook The Reviews this Month are: Debian 12 Cinnamon, Debian 12 Mate, Linux Mint 21.1 Cinnamon Full Show Notes Here

Moss, Dale and Eric are Back. This time they discuss Blend OS, Bodhi, Solus, Void, Debian and Xero Linux. Beautiful Failures: blend OS, Jelly Comb trackball, Void The Reviews this Month are: ArchCraft, Feren OS and Kubuntu 23.04 Full Show Notes Here

This Month Moss and Dale are Joined by Eric our new host and discuss BigLinux, OpenMandriva, ROME, Slackel, FreeBSD, Void, Voyger, Ubuntu Budgie and Xubuntu in updates. Reviews are Elementary OS7, Zinc 22.04.2 and Fedora 37 Full Show Notes Here

We review Endless OS 5.0, PCLinuxOS. Updates on Ubuntu 22.04.2, Bodhi 7 alpha5, Mint, Trisquel, Garuda, Bluestar, openSUSE, Redcore, Xero, StormOS, Debian, Solus. Beautiful Failures on, BlendOS Full Show Notes Here

We review, CachyOS, BigLinux. Updates on OM “ROME”, Void, Bluestar, Debian, OpenSuse, Netrunner, XeroLinux, Storm-OS, Voyager, Ubuntu Budgie, Pardus. Beautiful Failures on. BigLinux, Armbian. New Releases and Feedback. Full Show Notes Here

Welcome to Distrohopper’s Digest, Episode 039, recorded on January 3, 2023. For this episode, we will be reviewing wattOS R12, Q4OS, and Garuda. By the end of 2022, Distrohoppers’ Digest had been downloaded (and, we hope, listened to) almost 31,000 times, according to statistics kept at Archive dot org. We hope you had a good holiday season, and on we go with what makes us happy: Distrohopping! Full Show Notes Here Contact Info: Moss: For chatting with us further, you may choose to join our Telegram group or our Discord channel. Josh: I’m @joshontech on most social networks or email me at [email protected], Also you can find me on the CrowbarKernelPanic podcast. Dale: I’m @Dale_CDL on Telegram and Discord. My email is [email protected] Moss: And you can hear me every week on Full Circle Weekly News and mintCast. My email is [email protected], and I’m on Mastodon as @[email protected], plus you can find me, Dale, and Dylan, at Its MOSS dot com.

Moss and Dale are back reviewing StormD OS and Titan Linux Full Show Notes Here Contact Info: Moss: For chatting with us further, you may choose to join our Telegram group or our Discord channel. You can find Josh on @joshontech on most social networks or email him at [email protected], Also you can find him on the CrowbarKernelPanic podcast. Dale: I’m @Dale_CDL on Telegram and Discord. My email is [email protected] Moss: And you can hear me every week on Full Circle Weekly News and mintCast. My email is [email protected], and I’m on Mastodon as @[email protected], plus you can find me, Dale and Dylan, at It’s MOSS dot com.

Moss, Dale and Josh are back talking about their Linux journey over the last few weeks. This time they review Pardus 21.3, KDE Neon user Edition and TrueNAS SCALE Full Show Notes Here Contact Info: Moss: For chatting with us further, you may choose to join our Telegram group or our Discord channel. Josh: I’m @joshontech on most social networks or email me at [email protected], Also you can find me on the CrowbarKernelPanic podcast. Dale: I’m @Dale_CDL on Telegram and Discord. My email is [email protected] Moss: And you can hear me every week on Full Circle Weekly News and mintCast. My email is [email protected], and I’m on Mastodon as @[email protected], plus you can find me, Dale and Dylan, at Its MOSS dot com. 

Moss, Dale and Josh are back talking about their Linux journey over the last few weeks. This time they review Regolith, Peppermint and Drauger Linux Distributions Full Show Notes Here Contact Info: Moss: For chatting with us further, you may choose to join our Telegram group or our Discord channel. Josh: I’m @joshontech on most social networks or email me at [email protected], Also you can find me on the CrowbarKernelPanic podcast. Dale: I’m @Dale_CDL on Telegram and Discord. My email is [email protected] Moss: And you can contact Tony at [email protected], http://hackerpublicradio.org/correspondents.php?hostid=338, Twitter @TonyH1212 Moss: And you can hear me every week on Full Circle Weekly News and mintCast. My email is [email protected], and I’m on Mastodon as @[email protected], plus you can find me, Dale and Dylan, at Its MOSS dot com.

Moss, Dale and Tony are back. In updates we talk of Mint, Debian, Ubuntu 22.04.1 and Ghost BSD. Reviews are Spiral Linux and Makulu Shift. Full Show Notes Here Contact Info: Thanks to Londoner for letting us know there was a problem with the RSS Feed. This was down to Feedburner changing to HTTPS: but not letting us know of the change, this has now been fixed. Moss: For chatting with us further, you may choose to join our Telegram group or our Discord channel. Josh can be found at @joshontech on most social networks or email him at [email protected], Also you can find him on the CrowbarKernelPanic podcast. Dale: I’m @Dale_CDL on Telegram and Discord. My email is [email protected] Tony: You can contact me at [email protected], http://hackerpublicradio.org/correspondents.php?hostid=338, Twitter @TonyH1212 Moss: And you can hear me every week on Full Circle Weekly News and mintCast. My email is [email protected], and my social media info can be found in the show notes, [Moss Bliss on Telegram, @MossHippoLinux #3616 on Discord, @bardictriad on Twitter, @[email protected] on Mastodon,] or you can find it, as well as me, Dale and Dylan, at ItsMOSS dot com. 

Moss, Dale and Josh are Back. For this show, we reviewed Xubuntu 22.04, OpenMandriva Rolling LXQt, and Ubuntu 22.04 (Gnome). Full Show Notes Here

Moss, Dale and Josh are back with reviews of some of the Ubuntu 22.04 flavors. Unity, Cinnamon and Studio. Full Show Notes Here Contact Info: Josh: I’m @joshontech on most social networks or email me at [email protected], Also you can find me on the CrowbarKernelPanic podcast. Dale: I’m @Dale_CDL on Telegram and Discord. My email is [email protected] Tony: You can contact Tony at [email protected], http://hackerpublicradio.org/correspondents.php?hostid=338, Twitter @TonyH1212 Moss: And you can hear me every week on Full Circle Weekly News and mintCast. My email is [email protected], and my Telegram, Discord, Twitter and Mastodon contact info can be found in the show notes, [Moss Bliss on Telegram, @MossHippoLinux #3616 on Discord, @bardictriad on Twitter, @[email protected] on Mastodon,] and you can find me, Dale and Dylan, at ItsMOSS dot com.

Moss, Dale, Josh and Tony are back discussing Linux Distro’s. This month it’s Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE 5) and Smart OS. We also have our usual Monthly Foibles and Beautiful Failures and Updates on Distro’s we have reviewed before. Full Show Notes Here

Moss, Tony et al are back discussing all our favorite Linux stuff from the last month. Reviews of Slackware 15, Zorin OS 16 Professional and Chimera OS Full Show Notes Here

Moss, Tony, Dale, and Josh are back this month to talk about what we have been up to and reviews of: Gecko 999 Gnome Rolling, Gecko 153 Budgie Static, and Deepin OS Full Show Notes Here Contact Info: Josh: @joshontech on most social networks or email me at [email protected], Also you can find me on mine and Bo’s Linux gaming podcast CrowbarKernelPanic. Dale: I’m @Dale_CDL on Telegram and Discord. My email is [email protected] Tony: You can contact me at [email protected], http://hackerpublicradio.org/correspondents.php?hostid=338, Twitter @TonyH1212 Moss: And you can hear me every week on Full Circle Weekly News and mintCast. My email is [email protected], and my Telegram, Discord, Twitter and Mastodon contact info can be found in the show notes, [Moss Bliss on Telegram, @MossHippoLinux #3616 on Discord, @bardictriad on Twitter, @[email protected] on Mastodon,] and you can find me, Dale and Dylan, at ItsMOSS dot com. 

Moss, Tony, Dale and special Guest Josh discuss updates to Mint 20.3, Bodhi 6.1, Solus, XeroLinux, Redcore and Debian and review Voyager 21.10, Archo Linux and Fedora 35 Full Show Notes Here

Moss, Tony, Dale and special Guest Josh discuss what has been the highlights of their Linux year in 2021 Full Show Notes Here

Moss, Dale and Tony discuss what has been going on and review Storm OS and Feren OS 2021.10 Full Show Notes Here Contact Info: For chatting with us further, you may choose to join our 23 users in Telegram, our 51 members on MeWe, or the 11 users in our growing channel in Discord. Dale: I’m @Dale_CDL on Telegram, Matrix, and Discord #9433. My email is [email protected] Tony: You can hear me nearly every week on mintCast, and contact me at [email protected], http://hackerpublicradio.org/correspondents.php?hostid=338, Twitter @TonyH1212, [email protected] Moss: And you can hear me every week on Full Circle Weekly News, email at [email protected], my Telegram, Discord, Twitter and Mastodon contact info is in the show notes, [I’m Moss Bliss on Telegram, @MossHippoLinux #3616 on Discord, @bardictriad on Twitter, @[email protected] on Mastodon,] and you can find me, Dale and Dylan, at ItsMOSS dot com. 

Moss Bliss, Tony Hughes and Dale Miracle are back Talking about Zorin 16, Sparky Linux 6 LXQt, KaOS/Elementary dual-booting, Reviews: Xero Linux, Sparky Linux 6 Mate Full Show Notes Here Contact Info: For chatting with us further, you may choose to join our 23 users in Telegram, our 51 members on MeWe, or the 7 users on our channel in Discord. You can find us @ Dale: I’m @Dale_CDL on Telegram, Matrix and Discord #9433. My email is [email protected] Tony: You can hear me nearly every week on mintCast, and contact me at [email protected], http://hackerpublicradio.org/correspondents.php?hostid=338, Twitter @TonyH1212, [email protected] Moss: And you can hear me every week on Full Circle Weekly News, reach me as @bardictriad on Twitter, email at [email protected] (yes, I finally have a paid Protonmail account), and find me, along with Dale and Dylan, at ItsMOSS dot com.

This time it is just Moss and Dale talking about:Netrunner 21.01 – XOXO and Bodhi 6 (64-bit) Full Show Notes Here

Tony, Moss and Dale are back. This month we discuss: Monthly Foibles Updates: Pop!_OS 21.04, Linux Mint 20.2Beautiful Failures: printer on Mint 20.2Reviews: Redcore Linux Orion, BlissOS 11.13 Full Show Notes Here

Tony, Moss and Dale are back. This month we discuss: Monthly Foibles Updates: Bodhi, openMandriva Rolling, Bluestar, Garuda, SolusBeautiful Failures: Document scanning in Linux, SolydK, Bliss OS, Manjaro flavorsReviews: FreeBSD 13-Release, Manjaro XFCE Full Show Notes Here

Tony, Moss and Dale are back. This month we discuss:Updates: mentions of RoboLinux, all Ubuntu flavors, Pop!_OS, Slackware 15 Beta Beautiful Failures: Emmabuntus, SolydK, Mint with Nvidia card Reviews: SolydX, Makulu LinDoz, openSUSE Tumbleweed Full Show Notes Here Contact Info: For chatting with us further, you may choose to join our 23 users in Telegram, our 53 members on MeWe, or the 120 or so members of the mintCast channel in Discord. Dale: I’m on Telegram as @Dale_CDL, my email is [email protected]:  Tony, where can we find you? Tony: You can contact me at [email protected], http://hackerpublicradio.org/correspondents.php?hostid=338, Occasional Blog https://tony-hughes.blogspot.com/, Twitter @TonyH1212, [email protected] Moss: and you can hear me – and Tony – nearly every week on mintCast, and every week on Full Circle Weekly News. You can reach me as @zaivala on Telegram, email me at [email protected] and find me on Mastodon at @[email protected] plus my various blogs and music sites and, along with Dale and Dylan, at ItsMOSS dot com. We would like to thank the mintCast crew for our use of their Mumble room.  Moss – My work here and at mintCast can be supported by joining my Sponsus https://sponsus.org/u/zaivala or by direct donation through Sponsus or PayPal ([email protected])! Thanks to Supporter firecat and Helpers esskaybeenz, linuxluva114 and jon_in_glasgow. I am very grateful for all donations which have been or will be received.

Tony, Moss and Dale are back. This month we discuss:Updates: mentions of Feren OS, KDE neon, GhostBSDBeautiful Failures: Endeavour OS, Nitrux, Emmabuntus Reviews: Debian (Sid) Unstable, Mageia 8 (Plasma and XFCE) Full Show Notes Here Contact Info: For chatting with us further, you may choose to join our 24 users in Telegram, our 53 members on MeWe, or the 120 or so members of the mintCast channel in Discord. Dale: I’m on Telegram as @Dale_CDL, my email is [email protected] Tony: You can contact me at [email protected], http://hackerpublicradio.org/correspondents.php?hostid=338, Occasional Blog https://tony-hughes.blogspot.com/, Twitter @TonyH1212, [email protected] Moss: and you can reach me as @zaivala on Telegram, at [email protected] and on Mastodon at @[email protected] plus my various blogs and music sites and, along with Dale and Dylan, at It’s Moss dot com. Tony and I can also be found almost every week on mintCast.

Moss, Tony and Dale are back this time talking about Bluestar and Ubuntu DDE Remix Full Show Notes Here

Moss, Tony and Dale are back to talk more Linux. This Month with Lubuntu, Ubuntu Studio and Garuda Linux. Full Show Notes Here

Tony and Moss are back with Dale to discuss Void Linux and Enso OS Full Show Notes Here

Moss and Tony are joined by Dale Miracle to discuss our latest looks at Linux this month GhostBSD, Pop!_OS and KaOS Full Show Notes Here

Moss and Tony are Back supported with another review from Dale. In this episode we cover Linux Mint 20, SparkyLinux, Solus Plasma, Ubuntu Unity and Gecko Linux. Full Show Notes Here

This time Moss and Tony look at Bunsenlabs Linux and share what they have learned while they Distro hop. We also welcome a community review of Slackel from our friend Dale Miracle. Full Show Notes Here

Moss and Tony are back for this months show talking about Pearl OS 9, Kubuntu 20.04 and KDE Neon Full Show Notes Here

Moss and Tony are back with a special Guest, Leo from Mintcast Joins us to talk about Fedora, Moss talks about Ubuntu Mate 20.04 and Tony Talks about Q4OS 4.0r3 Full Show Notes Here

Moss and Tony are back with Episode 12 Manjaro 20.02 and LMDE4 Full Show Notes Here

Moss and Tony are back with Episode 11 od Distrohoppers Digest to Discuss ALT Linux9 and Ubuntu Budgie 19/10 Full Show Notes Here

Moss and Tony bring you Episode 10 of Distrohoppers Digest; Peppermint OS, and Feren OS Full Show Notes Here

Moss and Tony are back with Episode 9 of Disstrohoppers Digest – Our New Year Ramblings! Full Show Notes Here