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Hello Linux Users,

MOFO Linux has been upgraded to version 9.4.0 and is available worldwide for download.

Special note: KiwiSDR and Web-888 database updating depends on the Dyatlov Mapmaker update script. Due to DDOS attacks on the primary source, you should update the data manually. See the tutorial to accomplish KiwiSDR data upating.

It is the fourth release in the 9.x series. Although it retains a similar look and feel to its predecessor, there is significantly more firmament in the system:

  1. A more reliable sequence for starting the window manager, based on systemd.
    • Debian upstream appears to be tweaking the Debian Live package, upon which this live computing environment is based, and they changed something which caused some problems getting the Xserver and DWM started.
    • Using systemd service units to initiate the desktop / window manager works like a charm.
  2. Kernel 6.14, with the Xanmod efficiency and speed tweaks, runs this Linux very nicely on new and old hardware.
  3. To make things easier for any of you who want a persistent system, which remembers changes in files or settings, I have set the persistence boot parameter. To work, it requires you to have a Linux partition labeled "persistence," containing a configuration file named persistence.conf. Look online for more information about persistent Debian Live setups.
  4. Most of the utilities and scripts associated with MOFO Linux, such as the wrappers for SuperSDR and Sshuttle, are based on originals stored in my Github repositories. The binaries or scripts are now cloned from the repos to /usr/local/src and symlinked to /usr/local/bin. Maintenance is easier, as they can now be updated with a simple "git pull."
  5. The Element Messenger and chat application was adding a lot of size to this iso image, weighing in at more than 460 MB, so I have switched it to use the online web interface, working through the web browser.
  6. The Telegram Messenger and chat application was also adding a lot of size to this iso image, weighing in at more than 180 MB, so I have switched it to use the online web interface.
  7. Discord has been added as another chat application, also working through their online web interface in the browser.
  8. Some tools have been changed for efficiency and to use data files in csv format, instead of odd mixtures of spaces and quotations.
    • Csv data can be more easily edited, parsed, and otherwise managed.
    • The Internet Radio Playlist no longer needs a template, and can handle thousands of stations.
    • SuperSDR-Wrapper now also uses csv files, loading parsed SDR server and station data into Pandas dataframes.
  9. Note-taking is better now in MOFO Linux:
    • Obsidian now gets its own keybind: Super + O.
    • I crafted a nifty terminal-based note sorter and editor, available with Super + Shift + O. Hit the F key for deep, recursive searching through all subfolders.
  10. Python-Tgpt accompaniess the older Golang-based Terminal GPT.
    • This new AI chatbot can use more than 40 models.
    • Quality and speed are quite good.
  11. Wezterm multiplexing is set up and running smoothly. Therefore, pop-up terminals available on keys Super + Enter and Ctrl - Alt - T are now set to open a clean Wezterm, with no Tmux. Split your panes with the same key combos: Ctrl + A, \ or Ctrl + A, - (that's the pipe key or dash key, with no shift needed).
  12. Separately from the bootable iso file, I have created a converter script which transforms Debian (or its derivatives) into an equivalent MOFO Linux operating system. It can install the scripts, utilities, fonts, and configuration files. If you want to try it on a minimal Debian, Xebian, Mint LMDE, or MX Linux rig, look for it locally within the directory /usr/local/src/circumventionist-scripts, in my Circumventionist-Scripts repository on Github, or in the downloads section of this project on SourceForge.

Over the last two months, I have divided my time equally between Python-Tgpt and Go-Tgpt chatbots. The quality of responses varies somewhat between the models used, but they are each useful in exploring different topics and working on software programming. Even their mistakes can teach something useful, if you have enough expertise to discern when an AI is just wrong and you can give scrutiny to the error.

MOFO Linux is the bootable, self-contained live Linux environment which opens the internet and makes it "just work" for people, including those behind censorship barriers, reaffirming that censorship is dead. MOFO Linux is free as in "freedom" and free as in "free beer." 

Cheers,
PC / MOFO Linux


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