Distro of the Week: Kiro Linux Xfce

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Belgium’s Kiro Linux, made by ArcoLinux’s Eric Dubois with a little help from Claude AI (AI which you can turn off easily, if need be), is a strong contender for anyone who values a modern, rolling-release system. Further, it’s a thoughtful reinterpretation of Arch Linux, and a welcome addition to the Arch-based family.

Fedora 45 Ate My Browser Passwords (Almost): Saving Brave’s Keyring Key Before You Upgrade

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On my machines, the upgrade to Fedora 45 replaced gnome-keyring with oo7, and on the first one Brave came out with an almost empty password list. Nothing was actually lost: the old passwords were still on disk, and my real password store is KeePassXC anyway. On a second machine, an XFCE desktop, I upgraded carefully, with backups, and found where it goes wrong and how to fix it. This article explains how Chromium-family browsers store passwords on Linux, what oo7 does differently, the steps that got every password back under XFCE, and a small script, browser-pwsafe, that saves everything you need before an upgrade.