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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."

lwn.net/Articles/1017846/

LWN.netOwen Le Blanc: creator of the first Linux distributionAsk a Linux enthusiast who created the Linux kernel, and odds are they will have no trouble nam [...]

#30DayChartChallenge Día 12: Gov Data Day! 🏛️ Explorando la distribución del spread 10Y-2Y del Tesoro USA (datos de FRED desde 1976).

Este histograma/densidad va más allá del valor diario: muestra la *probabilidad* histórica de cada nivel del spread. ¡Clave para entender expectativas económicas!

Puntos clave:
* Modo principal > 0 (curva normal es lo más común).
* ¡La inversión (<0, línea discontinua) tiene una probabilidad no trivial! ⚠️ Es la famosa señal pre-recesión. La distribución nos dice cuán "normal" es esa señal en perspectiva histórica.
* La forma general revela info sobre la dinámica de tipos.

Una visualización sobre la estructura probabilística de un indicador líder fundamental.

🛠️ #rstats #ggplot2 #quantmod #grid
📂 Código/Repo: t.ly/0RDmK

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@themaxpearce@mastodon.social I use both, to be honest.

I always use Debian at work or for personal projects that support it.

However, I also have Arch on my personal PC.

The reason for that is I feel Arch is the perfect home desktop OS. It’s easy to control, simple, has the AUR, and always provides the latest package versions. Many people assume Arch would be unstable because it uses the latest software, but in reality, it works well 99% of the time. That remaining 1% usually involves minor issues that are easy to fix. And even if something is difficult to troubleshoot, it’s a great learning experience—so next time, it won’t be as hard.

Meanwhile, Debian is extremely stable and will remain so as long as nothing is severely broken or misconfigured.
#debian #arch #linux #distributions

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.

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"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.