LWN.net VS Launchpad.net

I can't resist pointing out that LWN (https://lwn.net/) has been dedicated, for many years, to the production of operating-system information that is not terrible. Have a look, and perhaps consider joining us :). - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

Honestly, you're probably best off just reading LWN: https://lwn.net/. They publish articles on bleeding-edge features of the kernel, often before they're even merged. The editors are highly technical, and excellent writers, who are able to explain technical concepts in a way that's often clearer than what you'll read in a textbook anyways. They also frequently get guest writers who are kernel contributors and/or... Source: about 1 year ago

I'm a fan of LWN.net's[0] business model. (Enough that it's the only news source I actually subscribe to). Links to external news articles are free for anyone to read, and for all account owners (paid or not) to comment on. Featured articles by LWN's paid contributors are available for paid subscribers to read and comment on immediately, and for everyone else to read and for unpaid account owners to comment on... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

A subscription to LWN.net is most definitely worth it if you want to stay up to date with whatever is happening in the Linux world. Source: about 1 year ago

LWN : Weekly news coverage of opensource technologies, programming, etc. ( Originally Linux Weekly News). - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago

I agree, but I think that model of GPG is not how it's used any more. I think nowadays people upload a one-shot CI key, which is used to sign builds. So you're basically saying "The usual machine built this". Which is good information, don't get me wrong, but it's much less secure than "John was logged into his laptop and entered the password for the key that signed this" So, you're right, that GPG verifies... - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

You can use https://launchpad.net/~mozillateam/+archive/ubuntu/ppa/, but that's no official Mozilla repository. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

As a user of the PPA packages (https://launchpad.net/~mozillateam/+archive/ubuntu/ppa), now I'm confused. Are these the same packages? Should I switch? I'd have appreciated at least a mention in the article. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

There's also a PPA: https://launchpad.net/~mozillateam/+archive/ubuntu/ppa Though you'll have to convince Ubuntu to prefer that instead of the snap. It's not hard, certainly easier than installing Debian which is probably still what I should have done. I think I used this guide: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/04/how-to-install-firefox-deb-apt-ubuntu-22-04 Though what that doesn't tell you is that the snap... - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

Https://launchpad.net/~mozillateam/+archive/ubuntu/ppa A quick google will find plenty of sites telling you how to adjust the package versioning priorities to keep the MozillaTeam version of FF preferred over the crappy snap one. I still use Ubuntu desktop as my daily driver and server OS, and we have zero snaps installed on any of our systems. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago