A peek at a MX Linux Respin

Along with announcement of giveaway winner

Read on, winner of this week’s giveaway is revealed below.

The computer this week is a ThinkCentre M710q Tiny with 8GB memory, 120GB SSD storage and Intel i3 (seventh generation) processor.

I do a drawing every week to give away a computer. Just be a subscriber for a chance to win.

Things I found this last week:

I found a distro “Respin” this last week that I am really happy about. Haven’t had much hands on time with it yet, but it looks really good.

It is:

MX Linux - Senpai Respin MX-Cinnamon-25.2

Here’s the forum post that has a description and link to download.

Here’s why I am interested. It is very similar to Linux Mint Debian Edition, while having the option of sysvinit instead of systemd.

A possibly unique feature is that MX Linux 25.2 can switch between sysvinit and systemd with a reboot and choosing which one to boot from during the boot process.

The screenshot above is taken from a live boot of Senpai Respin MX-Cinnamon on this week’s giveaway computer.

Switching back to Cinnamon on my ThinkPad

I really like XFCE and I’ll be doing more with it. But I had some problems with it on my ThinkPad T470s laptop. Weird behavior and some off and on crashes. Instead of fighting it, I used pacman on Artix Linux to install the Cinnamon desktop while also leaving XFCE installed. No crashes on it since switching to Cinnamon.

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An alternative to the Bash shell - I’d like to try

Disclaimer: I haven’t yet tried this… but it looks really cool.

The past week or two, I’ve been doing a good amount of bash shell scripting and enjoying it. It feels good to figure out what needs to be done and then write a script that can do it over and over again.

But I’m always pushing toward the edge, toward the not-so-well-known.

The rc23 shell:

A better shell for UNIX based on Plan 9 rc - developed by Olivier Duclos

Code repository page: https://codeberg.org/rc23/rc23

rc23 is a shell for UNIX and Linux. It is a reimplementation of the Plan 9 rc shell with a few extensions and adaptations, but it tries to be backward compatible. It offers a C-like syntax massively simplified compared to the Bourne shells, which makes it easier to learn, read, and safer to use when writing scripts.

I’m interested in pushing myself to become a better programmer. I’m having small successes with shell scripts, so it’d be great to build on that with C-like syntax.

I’ll try to port some of my simple bash scripts to rc23.

Computer Giveaway Winner Announced!

moep*lz@z***.com

If that’s you, reply from that email address to claim this ThinkCentre Tiny .

I will attempt to ship the computer to where ever you are in the world… but there may be some places that I can not ship to.

Until next time

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