As my Partner Program membership will end on 2 March, this blog will become inactive and partially wiped. Some (now mostly irrelevant) posts, such as few Linux distribution reviews, and my complaints regarding Medium will remain, though the rest, including my attempt at investigative research – Scientists For Future –…

As most Medium users are aware of, Medium changed the requirements to join and be part of their Partner Program, which should have come into effect this month. Should have — I am still part of it, even if I should not be.

… and an announcement — Making it short: With changing requirements for the Medium Partner Program, my membership will end in December 2021. As Medium has repeatedly lowered the amount of followers I have by either suspending them or making repeated miscalculations, resulting in displaying two different numbers depending on how up-to-date your app is…

Created by the Indian developer Aditya Shakya, Archcraft is an Arch-based distribution mainly focusing on providing a pre-configured desktop similar to those popular on the subreddit r/unixporn. The project offers a variety of configurations for Openbox and bspwm out of the box and additionally Xfce, i3, DWM and Xmonad. …

Owned by Red Hat, Fedora is a community-driven project based on the commercial Red Hat Linux Enterprise. With the ending support for CentOS, another community project based on RHEL, Fedora remains the last one and can be considered a possible solution to those not wanting to upgrade to CentOS Stream. …

Often classified as a single Linux distribution, Puppy Linux is a distribution family targeting consumers that seek a ready-to-use, easy-to-customize, low-size, and fast operating system. Due to relying on two (or three, depending on whether the user considers Ubuntu to be part of the Debian family or a separate basis…

Calling itself a direct successor of the now discontinued and Mandrake-based Mandriva Linux, OpenMandriva Lx is a project developed by the OpenMandriva Association based in France and the Cooker group. Shortly after Mandriva S.A. …

Currently being the second most-visited page on DistroWatch, the Arch-based Manjaro Linux is a favorite within the Linux community. …

— — — On COVID-19 and the Responses of the Masses — Seven months later On the 22nd of March, I published a post titled “On COVID-19 and the Responses of the Masses”, in which I somewhat…jatardine.medium.com — — — One year ago, the World Health Organization officially declared COVID-19 a pandemic, yet this declaration does not mean that COVID-19 became a pandemic on that day. As the WHO is the last instance to receive relevant information and also lacks (like the UN itself)…