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We get mail: A reader recently suggested we take today's Distro of the Week - Fluff Linux - on a test drive, and we obliged. This American distro based on Arch Linux with the KDE Plasma desktop environment did not disappoint, and was impressive on several levels.

After about a year of improvements, the German distro Garuda knocks it out of the park with its latest release, Garuda Temeraire. Distro of the Week puts this Arch-based distro through its paces and likes what it sees.

Once you get past what can best be described as an interesting default desktop photo, Poland's Linux Q83's latest offering makes one wonder: With one this solid, why is this Debian-based distro ranking in the 90s on Distrowatch.com when it should be much higher?

The developers at MX Linux 25.2 Infinity, this week's Distro of the Week, took an already superior distro in MX Linux 23.6 Libretto and surprisingly made it even better. In addition, it is a distro aimed at everyone, from the newest of newbies to the most grizzled greybeard.

The British Linux distro Peppermint OS, based on either Debian or Devuan, offers much to users of all stripes, yet presents itself as an empty vessel for the individual user to fill with their particular needs and wants. Which, in their opinion, is as it should be.

Like how gravity works or the ending of the movie “2001: A Space Odyssey,” one of life’s mysteries is why the Turkish Linux distro Pardus isn’t near the top of the list of all-time greats.This week's Distro of the Week is Pardus 25.2 Xfce, which shows all of its strengths.

And the hits just keep on coming . . . Not only was last week a first for Distro of the Week, we follow up with another first: This time, it's a Spanish distro based on Devuan, complete with its lack of systemd and using XLibre as the default X server. Ladies and gentlemen -- that covers most of you -- welcome to Vendefoul Wolf Excalibur Xfce, this week's Distro of the Week.

This week's Distro of the Week is a first on two levels: First, it's the first Greek distro we've ever reviewed in our short lifetime, but way more importantly, we finally - FINALLY! - got a Slackware-based Linux distro to run. And run it did - boy, did it ever.

With the departure of Jono Bacon as the community leader at Ubuntu, names for his replacement are flying like shuttlecocks over a badminton net. Who will it be? While Larry the Free Software Guy places his bet on California LoCo leader Nathan Haines, he really thinks the next Jono will be Canonical engineering chief Alan Pope.

With more than 100 exhibitors and about 95 speakers at SCALE 11X this weekend, there's a lot to do and see. But when the sun goes down, the sessions end and the expo hall closes, the fun really begins for the attendees.

Kyle Rankin gets the nod from the SCALE staff to give the second keynote at SCALE 11X in February. Rankin joins Matthew Garrett in keynoting the 11th annual first-of-the-year Linux expo in North America next month.

With Windows 8 being released to the public Friday for a rousing $80, Larry the Free Software Guy takes the suggestion of a CrunchBang forum poster named "merelyjim" to spend his money more wisely in the FOSS realm, and urges others to think about doing the same.

In response to the TechCrunch article entitled, "Canonical’s Mark Shuttleworth Tires Of Critics, Moves Key Ubuntu Developments Out Of Public Eye," Larry the Free Software Guy wonders aloud, "Was it something I said?"

Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth says parts of Ubuntu 13.04 will be kept a secret, out of the public eye until its unveiling.

Now that Ohio Linux Fest is in the books, we get to set our sights on Linux/FOSS events for next year. Starting in February, we get to turn it up to 11 -- as in SCALE 11X, which is being held on the Presidents Day weekend at the Hilton Los Angeles Airport hotel. Registration? Open. Call for Papers? Deadline is Dec. 10. Keynote? One of two chosen so far. Are you ready?

Have something to say? Working on a project others should know about? Get those papers ready: The Call for Papers for the Southern California Linux Expo SCALE 11x is now underway.

A wide spectrum of topics will be covered at Texas Linux Fest 2012, and the event announces the session speakers have been chosen for the Aug. 3-4 expo in San Antonio.

While putting on his "Linus T. speaks for me" T-shirt, Larry the Free Software Guy suggests there's really only one response to the recent Linus Torvalds-Nvidia hubbub: Yawn.

It has been brought to Larry the Free Software Guy's attention that he has been somewhat hard on a particular Linux distro and its esteemed project leader. He may have said some mean and unfair things about this distro and its leader. So he makes amends here.

Larry the Free Software Guy apologizes to No Starch Press for taking so long to review "The Linux Command Line: A Complete Introduction" by William E. Shotts, Jr. It's not that he reads slowly, it's just that the book was so interesting that he had to do most of the command-line things he learned in the book that was as entertaining as it was educational.