#Catbird Linux

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What will you create today? Make it on a worthy operating system. Catbird Linux is the real deal - power and freedom for your PC.

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Catbird Linux version 1.2 released, with updates, bug fixes, and tweaks.  Good to go for crunching numbers, writing code, and creating content.

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Catbird Linux v3.2 is USB pluggable Live Linux for writers, programmers, data crunchers, and content creators.

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Catbird Linux v3.2 is USB pluggable Live Linux for writers, programmers, data crunchers, and content creators.

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Catbird Linux Helps You Produce

Whether you're writing code, blogging, creating videos, or photos for your online shops, Catbird Linux has the tools you need.

Catbird Linux is a live environment you boot from a flash drive, which runs on new and old PCs. It is Debian Sid at its best, with a snappy tiling window manager (DWM) and tuned for high performance. It is full of media editing and creation tools.

Catbird Linux also has Python, Lua, Go, and other software languages you would want for data analysis tools. Scrape the web, build databases, take notes, and master your world.

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Clear your mind and great content will come in...

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Catbird Linux 1.6 Released!

Catbird Linux is the OS you can use daily if you're a content creator, web scraper, or market watcher. This new version has an upgraded kernel 6.0.11, freshened apps, and upgraded Python support for MySQL and DuckDB.

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Catbird Linux is updated to version 1.4.0.

Linux for content creators, coders, and getting started in data science. Analyze your friends' Reddit and Twitter posts using Python.

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Podcasters, how do you set up your audio compression and limiting for best sound? Here are some tips, with a diagram or two to help! Made with Audacity and Gimp in Catbird Linux.

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Hello World, from Catbird Linux

Ladies and gentlemen, heroes and scoundrels, I present to you the GNU/Linux system I call "Catbird Linux." As the small yet intrepid and wise catbird fulfills its purpose in-domain, so does this digital namesake in its domain. It has been my daily driver for years, having started as a customized version of Debian Sid, then Mint, then Ubuntu. With each iteration, it has improved in the core purposes as a tool for gathering information, writing notes, creating audio, visual, and written content, and streaming some music when I'm in the mood for some punk or psychedelic tunes. So, version 1.0.0 is the first version uploaded for *other people to use, who may have similar uses for their computers.

The core system is actually rather stripped in nature. I started this iteration with Ubuntu MATE 20.04 and stripped out or disabled much of the bloat. Then the i3 Window Manager was set up, and a realtime Xanmod kernel installed. The rest of the way to a three gigabyte iso file involves adding lots and lots of Python, Go, and Java. You will be able to script quite a lot with this system. Know what you want; look at the output of pip list, and get to work coding. It is heavy on the mathematics, science, web scraping, and sentiment analysis modules.

Neovim is a beautiful application for coding. Not only can you edit code, but you can take interlinked notes using the Vimwiki plugin. It is set up as rather sparse, but functional here, with colors easy on the eyes. JupyteLab can do much with scripts too, with multiple kernels and Vim-like editor settings and Language Server support.

Firefox is loaded with useful bookmarks. A selection of Software Defined Radio (SDR) servers are set up, as are sites like NASA's WorldWeather, Quandl, and Finviz. TwitGrid runs in Firefox, and its purpose is to be a Twitter broadsheet. Watch the default profiles, grouped in several topics, or enter your own to take the measure of humanity and what it is focusing on. Measure humanity and take the measure of what it is NOT focusing on.

Shotcut and Audacity are very good apps to use if you are into producing podcasts or videos for the web.

Several small, efficient, and effective programs and scripts are ready to run in the terminal. W3m is a terminal pager / web browser, augmented by tools Readability-CLI and Surfraw. Lf is the terminal file manager. Numerous search and sort utilities, such as fzf, ripgrep, fd, are in there too. Look at the Bash Aliases reference links and the bashrc file for more details.

Catbird Linux runs fine on modest dual core x86_64 processors. You should have at least 4 GB of RAM; solid state drives are better than spinning ferrites. Perhaps I am impatient, but a quad core machine with 8 GB of memory sure runs this system an a mega snappy manner.

Well, that is all for this introduction of Catbird Linux. Enjoy your computing with this; may it enhance your workflow.

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These "window manager" distros lead in performance - lots of speed per unit of resources on your machine. Catbird Linux is my favorite live environment, with visual appeal and a rippingly responsive workflow.

Catbird Linux Helps You Produce

Whether you're writing code, blogging, creating videos, or photos for your online shops, Catbird Linux has the tools you need.

Catbird Linux is a live environment you boot from a flash drive, which runs on new and old PCs. It is Debian Sid at its best, with a snappy tiling window manager (DWM) and tuned for high performance. It is full of media editing and creation tools.

Catbird Linux also has Python, Lua, Go, and other software languages you would want for data analysis tools. Scrape the web, build databases, take notes, and master your world.