2. And yet, billions of people are denied access to #DLS.
We find that 50% of #nations do not have access to enough #energy to ensure #DLS, given existing national #distributions. & for 20 of these countries, their #consumption is actually *declining*. This is an extremely bad situation.
Article from @lwn
"The first honest-to-goodness distribution with a proper installer was MCC Interim Linux, created by Owen Le Blanc, released publicly in early 1992. I recently reached out to Le Blanc to learn more about his work on the distribution, what he has been doing since, and his thoughts on Linux in 2025."
@Lu
Thank you for the pointer!
Looking at the evolution i feel that users act more and more on their dissatisfaction with #CinnamonDesktop.
I note that:
* the number of downloads of #MATEDesktop increased 50% in a year;
* the number of downloads of #EDGEDesktop decreased 50% in a year.
It there's one thing I know, it's that #linux #distributions that are community driven turn out to be the most reliable. My current go to for regular users is #Fedora, because it is a solid distribution that's cutting edge and it's designed by the community.
I can't say the same for #NixOS. The amount of internal fragmentation and in fighting is too damned high, and there is possible conflict of interest that sits like an elephant in the room.
So I'm thinking... I might make a switch soon.
hi,
I have a little question: I have a #MiniPC #B_MAX #B1Pro and not all #Linux #Distributions can even display the #GUI, thus far, I successfully tested #SnowflakeOS , #EndeavourOS and #LinuxMint , however, the regular #NixOS and #SyphaxOS did not work
it goes without saying that winlol works, 10 and 11
what could be the cause?
"You should just use #Ubuntu because it's the easiest one" - this is propaganda for #Shuttleworth and tells me you haven't tried any other distro - or that you use #Arch.
#LinuxMint is fantastic still, #Fedora is my go to recommendation, but with #uBlue and #Bazzite we see a new era of usability focused #distributions.
Add to that the fact that #snaps are a centralizes repository with no third party vendors, and you've got a #vendorlockin.
Ubuntu is the #anticonsumer distribution as a result.
@thelinuxexperiment_channel Linux Experiment had asked you, what's your favorite Distros?
You've also voted for TUXEDO OS. 
DGLFI épisode 55 : le bilan de la "quatrième saison".
https://peertube.pcservice46.fr/videos/watch/99c657b8-f3a2-4cd8-9f9e-d32eccee8bdc
Accuracy! To counter regression dilution, a method is to add a constraint on the statistical modeling.
Regression Redress restrains bias by segregating the residual values.
My article: http://data.yt/kit/regression-redress.html
The best @linux #distros for beginners are as easy to use as #MacOS or #Windows -- really.
The best #Linux #distributions for beginners in 2025: Expert tested and reviewed
https://www.zdnet.com/article/best-linux-desktops-for-beginners/
How to assess a statistical model?
How to choose between variables?
Pearson's #correlation is irrelevant if you suspect that the relationship is not a straight line.
If monotonic relationship:
"#Spearman’s rho is particularly useful for small samples where weak correlations are expected, as it can detect subtle monotonic trends." It is "widespread across disciplines where the measurement precision is not guaranteed".
"#Kendall’s Tau-b is less affected [than Spearman’s rho] by outliers in the data, making it a robust option for datasets with extreme values."
Ref: https://statisticseasily.com/kendall-tau-b-vs-spearman/
@clive
This suggests that one could detect #AI written material by comparing the word distribution to that of human writing, assuming a large enough sample. It may also be true that the word distributions from various #LLM models are different from each, in which case you now have an AI fingerprint. Comparing multiple #distributions is relatively straightforward with #statistics.
#statstab #227 Parameterization of Response Distributions in {brms}
Thoughts: If you use #brms and can read mathematical notation (who can't, right?), this page will be useful.
#r #bayes #models #distributions #likelihood #stats
https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/brms/vignettes/brms_families.html
Curious about the growth and use of #openSUSE #Linux flavors & #distributions? Explore the #stats & versioning details of #Leap & more at https://metrics.opensuse.org! 
In 2016, the American Statistical Association #ASA made a formal statement that "a p-value, or statistical significance, does not measure the size of an effect or the importance of a result".
It also stated that "p-values do not measure the probability that the studied hypothesis is true, or the probability that the data were produced by random chance alone".
Short summary of the #regreSSHion vulnerability (CVE-2024-6387)
It's an unauthenticated remote code execution that works without user interaction. Therefore a rather high security risk for systems running #openssh.
Affected versions (AFAIK):
Any version older than 4.4p1 and 8.5p1 until 9.8. The first upstream version, containing a fix is 9.8p1. But since distributions often backport security fixes to older versions, a deeper look is necessary.
Short summary for bigger distributions:
Debian: Stable, testing and sid are affected. A patch for stable has been released. (https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-6387)
Ubuntu: 22.04, 23.10 and 23.04 are affected. A patch for them has been released. (https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6859-1)
Red Hat: RHEL version 6-8 are not affected. RHEL9 is and by now, there isn't a patch available https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-6387)
#linux #openssh #CVE-2024-6387 #RCE #security #distributions
Native Binaries with PHP
https://icinga.com/blog/2024/06/12/native-binaries-with-php/ #self-executing #Distributions #Development #standalone #How-tos #PHP
@bagder The constant push and pull of users and developers to always have the latest, and sysadmins and distributions who prefer ironing out everything instead of seeing flavor-of-the-month bugs pop up left and right... It's a tale as old as time.
Linux User Space posts in-depth videos about the history of Linux distributions and Linux tools. You can follow them at:
If the videos haven't federated to your server yet, you can browse them all at https://tilvids.com/a/linuxuserspace/videos
@thomasfuchs I agree with you 100%. That is one of the main reasons I use @Waterfox and @librewolf (sometimes @Vivaldi) over Mozilla.
Most Linux distros have Firefox browser set as default. In my case, I deleted Firefox from my Linux Mint.
Oh, and as well as everyone else says - they should not just get rid of Google as search engine, but as well they should get rid of Google from about:config page.
If you search through about:config , you will find indeed lots of Google connections...wish they removed them all.
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