I have seen some forum strangeness here, but cleared up when I dropped my addons to stop blocking (ublock and privacy badger) or use a new private window with those off.  Something likely related to cookies/cache, etc. Probably wont spend a bunch of time on it here unfortunately.

Yes, bookworm is being actively looked at, and we may even beta for some folks, but nothing official just yet. I am using it as a daily driver currently so iron out any strangeness - My newer hardware is much happier with the 6.x kernel also.

Hi folks,

Good news - beta testing is coming. There will be a separate message being sent out in the next couple days to the folks who have been selected for the first round of beta testing and some resources and guidelines. The general dates are as follows.

Beta 1 - based on 20.10 - should be ready for download and private link sent 3-21
Beta 2 - based on the beta 21.04 - should be ready for dowload and private link sent 4-11 (since the upstream should be beta final around 4-1/4-2)
Ubuntu 21.04 should be released 4-22 if things go as planned
We will target a release roughly 2 weeks after that date (depending on any show stopping bugs discovered in beta 2).

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More info in the coming days including more videos, news, screens, and dates for all the lightweight Linux goodness.

Watch the intro at YouTube for a little history and info https://youtu.be/y2ksffwwqzM

Look for more info in the Beta forums about details and software, and testing goodness.

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If you want to sign up to beta test the new wattOS R12 - please send an email to beta@planetwatt.com - with your name, forum name, and preferred email for communications.

Once the beta release date is announced in the next couple weeks we will list the relevant topic areas here, and list of beta testers forum names here. You must have a forum account name (which we will share here) and valid email address (which we will not share).

I hear people are looking for me 

Apologies folks. I know things seem dead. I would explain what I am doing, but it would be complicated. Lets just say I have responsibilities that cross 3 time zones and thousands of people and am fighting the infosec stuff every day.

I've actually been thinking about it and think it might be an opportunity to "re-tool" and maybe get creative and collab on the release.

So with that I will open this question....What are the things that are most relevant to you today for an OS? What distro is your jam? What window manager, biggest pains, etc. I still love minimalism, and run i3 window manager and build things by scratch.

But what really matters now in 2019? Fire away and give me some thoughts? (also probably going to just blow the whole web site up and start fresh, but keep an archive...(both the last version and this one, but again..being a web master is about 30th on the list right now)...so steady state there...

Soon