Linux User Space

Deep dives into the history of Linux distributions and current FOSS, Linux, and BSD events

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How did your favorite Linux distribution get its start? Join us and find out! Linux User Space is hosted by Leo and Dan, and every two weeks we deep dive into the history of Linux distributions and the things that matter to us. Episodes drop every other Monday.
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Episode 6:02: The Lizard and The Wyzyrd
Monday, 6 October, 2025

Coming up in this episode * Summaries will change the world * It's the Last version of YaST * F-Droid is Doomed 0:00 Cold Open 1:32 Summaries Will Change the World (Wide Web) 22:54 The Last Version of YaST! 41:54 F-Droid Is Doomed! 1:01:32 Feedback: Ant 1:05:09 Feedback: @Tacoghost 1:08:12 Feedback: @RafaelFarreiraPimenta 1:11:09 Feedback: @Fractal_32 1:16:54 Next Time on Linux User Space... 1:20:25 Stinger The Video Version (https://youtu.be/0uNoVIyFVmA) https://youtu.be/0uNoVIyFVmA 🔥Warm Up🔥 AI search summaries aren't always great. MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing (https://fortune.com/2025/08/18/mit-report-95-percent-generative-ai-pilots-at-companies-failing-cfo/) 📣Announcements📣 This program was made possible by: * 📺️Youtube (https://youtube.com/linuxuserspace) * 📽️TILvids (https://tilvids.com/a/linuxuserspace) * And by contributions to your L-U-S station by Patrons (https://patreon.com/linuxuserspace) like you 😍 Myrlyn will cast the spells now Myrlyn (https://news.opensuse.org/category/myrlyn) Myrlyn repo (https://github.com/shundhammer/myrlyn) Gone for Leap, still around for TW (https://forums.opensuse.org/t/remove-yast-from-tw-recommendation/185748) Agama is slated to be the new installer (https://github.com/agama-project/agama). Cockpit is proposed be the gui configuration tool (https://en.opensuse.org/Main:Cockpit). 📣More Announcements📣 Want to have a topic covered or have some feedback? - send us an email, contact@linuxuserspace.show OR jump on over to the open forum on Lemmy (https://lemmy.linuxuserspace.show/c/forum) F-Droid is doomed AOSP is hanging on by a thread (https://www.androidauthority.com/google-not-killing-aosp-3566882/) F-Droid is dying (https://f-droid.org/en/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration-decree.html) The Android Developers Decree (https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/08/elevating-android-security.html) 🧹Housekeeping🧹 Catch these and other great topics as they unfold on our Subreddit or our News channel on Discord. * 🗞️ Linux User Space Lemmy (https://lemmy.linuxuserspace.show) * 📰 Linux User Space subreddit (https://linuxuserspace.show/reddit) * ⌨️ Linux User Space Discord Server (https://linuxuserspace.show/discord) * 📲 Linux User Space Telegram (https://linuxuserspace.show/telegram) * ✉️ Linux User Space Matrix (https://linuxuserspace.show/matrix) * 📽️ Linux User Space Twitch (https://linuxuserspace.show/twitch) * 🐘 Linux User Space Mastodon (https://linuxuserspace.show/mastodon) * 📜 Linux User Space Twitter (https://linuxuserspace.show/twitter) * 📺️ Linux User Space TILVids (https://linuxuserspace.show/tilvids) * 📱 Linux User Space Bluesky (https://linuxuserspace.show/bluesky) Feedback Ant via Fireside Ant is following along the Cosmic journey (https://system76.com/cosmic/download) @Tacoghost via Youtube Gentoo (https://www.gentoo.org) isn't that hard if you follow the directions. @Fractal_32 LFS when? (https://www.linuxfromscratch.org) @RafaelFerreirapimenta Why Systemd with Gentoo (https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Systemd)? Because we could 😉. Collectively we did use multiple options. 🔭Next Time🔭 We plan to cover your feedback, and some interesting topics. Stay Tuned, we intend to cover the history of YaST in a future episode. Watch for our livestream announcements. Stay tuned📡 for announcements of our return and interact with us on Lemmy, Twitter, Mastodon, Telegram, Matrix, Discord whatever. Give us your suggestions on our subreddit r/LinuxUserSpace Join the conversation. Talk to us, and give us more ideas. All the links in the show notes and on linuxuserspace.show. We would like to acknowledge 🤩 our top patrons. Thank you 🙏 for your support! Producer Bruno Dave John Visaggio & Co Co-Producer --verbose LqLarry MarshMan GrouchyM Rotted Mood Tim Super User A.J. Advait Amanita Backshift6090 CubicleNate Eduardo S. Hausken Jeff3ix Jefferson Jill and Steve Larry LiNuXsys666 Matt M. Musical Coder Mick Nicholas sleepyeyesvince