Debian — The Universal Operating System

slothrop,
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Fresh install on a ThinkPad:

19 mins 10 seconds

governa,
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JamesDBartlett3,
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@governa
Great article! Thanks for sharing.

governa,
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@JamesDBartlett3 👍 👍

97a403640c83ac12bce556ded8db2f3ebe891801832fa1114abda73a6ae8598c,
tripplehelix,
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@97a403640c83ac12bce556ded8db2f@mostr.pub I use task-*-desktop makes it much easier than remembering all the dependencies.

LaKorin, French
@LaKorin@travelpandas.fr avatar

Salut, j'aimerai bien afficher dans ma barre des tâches la température de mon pc. Je suis sous debian 12. J'ai déjà le visionneur de capteur installé mais j'aimerai l'avoir affiché quelque part en permanence.
Quelqu'un une idée

Le repouet aide votre PC à rester au frais

mergy,
@mergy@self.social avatar

Posted the cobbled-together fix (it seems) for Linux folks here https://mergy.org/glibc-vuln-fix-for-debian-for-now/

At least you can see if your distro is similar or not.

outofcontrol,
@outofcontrol@phpc.social avatar

@mergy Thanks for your detailed posts on a work around for this issue. I appreciate the level headed approach here.

jhx,
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Made a decision.
For the longest time I've always had too many distros that I tried to run and support.
I need to fokus on something in the end... and not drift around all the time.
So, it is - only
I use all day / every day.
It does not make sense for me to run any other distro.

On the side I will focus on - that's it.

The many distros / derivatives have learned me a lot over the years... and I'm very thankful for that. But, less is more.

dirkmoellnitz,

@jhx Sounds Like a good decision. ist great and you don' t need anymore.

snonux,
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@jhx There used to be a Debian GNU/kFreeBSD spin of Debian, BTW :-) https://wiki.debian.org/Debian_GNU/kFreeBSD

stafwag,

Use a GPG smartcard with Thunderbird. Part 1: setup GnuPG

https://stafwag.github.io/blog/blog/2024/04/21/use-a-gpg-smartcard-with-thunderbird-part_1-setup-gpg/

I moved to a Thinkpad w541 with coreboot so I needed to set up my email encryption on Thunderbird again.

It took me more time to reconfigure it again - as usual - so I decided to take notes this time and create a blog post about it. As this might be useful for somebody else … or me in the future :-)

@stafwag

stafwag,

@adamsdesk For the fsf europe fellowship card I don't know. I got my card 8 year ago from floss-shop.de. (I live in Europe/Belgium BTW ) You can check with them if they ship to Canada.

But the setup should work with any GPG compatible smartcard. I'm also looking at Not sure if nitrokey is available on your side of the ocean 🙂

is also a option:
https://stafwag.github.io/blog/blog/2015/06/16/using-yubikey-neo-as-gpg-smartcard-for-ssh-authentication/

But I lean more to nitrokey as I have the impression that they're more active in the opensource community

adamsdesk,
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@stafwag Thanks for the info. I'll do some more research and see.

jhx,
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For anyone new to the guide linked below is quite nice - Some good advice in there (If one starts out with ) 😉

magic :debian:

https://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=155919&sid=4763cb027ce3c03135089012e651cd09

puppygirlhornypost,
@puppygirlhornypost@transfem.social avatar

@jhx https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian heavily recommend any new user read this article.

puppygirlhornypost,
@puppygirlhornypost@transfem.social avatar

@jhx Yeah absolutely, I’ve made frankenubuntu trying to use Debian repositories for chrome. I thought I was being so smart following a stack overflow (or prolly unix exchange one of those sites) thread regarding setting priorities in apt sources. Nah I ended up having the system slowly replace ubuntu packages with Debian packages and yeah by the time I noticed it was far too gone to recover (Debian’s build of dpkg doesn’t support the compression that ubuntu ships their dpkg with and packages .deb with)

drajt,
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My desktop computer is 10 years old, and the CPU just isn't up to it anymore. I don't want a gaming system, but I don't want a overprices bottom of the range tat either.

I need something that will run #Debian, drive a 4K screen, be fine for editing pictures in #gimp, and doesn't need much local storage, that's what 1Gig #Ethernet and #NFSv4 is for.

Some of the small form factor PCs looks sensible, e.g. Bee-Link. Suggestions?

mpjgregoire,
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news:

"as the progress on the t64 transition is slowing down, I want to give an
overview of some of the remaining blockers that we need to tackle to get
it unstuck. I tried to identify some clusters of issues, but there might
be other classes of issues."

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2024/04/msg00331.html

HankB,

@mpjgregoire
(My favorite distro and arguably the best distro as indicate by the number of other distros based on it.)

Thank all of you!

2/2

mpjgregoire,
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@HankB Personally, I'm not irritated -- I run Stable after all -- but I have been curious about progress, so I'm glad that the e-mail was sent.

(Here's a chart showing last week's progress with the armel architecture: https://buildd.debian.org/stats/armel.png .)

liaizon, (edited )
@liaizon@wake.st avatar

Exciting day at Research working on the Pocket Reform! Today I am attaching CPU modules to adapter boards and then attaching adapter boards to logic boards. Almost ready to start flashing the system image (hello ) onto them soon after @mntmn finishes the final touches!

liaizon,
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@trevorflowers @mntmn I enjoy your build updates as well!

chiefgyk3d,
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@liaizon @mntmn oh this is so exciting, knowing one of these boards could be the one in my own Pocket Reform. It's so amazing to see this come together from an idea I backed to a finished product right before my eyes.

I really wish more companies would be this transparent, as I find this so awesome.

Perhaps one day we can get a youtube tour of the assembly process as it's cool to see all of what needs to happen and come together.

jhx,
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Small article about with and /
can sure be fun sometimes 😎 (Or I should rather say using a device under )

https://jhx7.de/blog/debian-kvm-bridge/

HankB,

@jhx I'm surprised I haven't run into this but I don't generally mix VMs and Docker containers on the same host, but I'm bookmarking this for when I do.

Thanks!

jhx,
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@HankB
Hope it helps 😉

governa,
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As Backports do not offer Long Term Support (LTS), buster-backports is soon to be removed from the Debian Archive. :debian:

https://lists.debian.org/debian-backports-announce/2024/04/msg00000.html

pleia2,
@pleia2@floss.social avatar

Some have rolled their eyes at the "paranoid" requirement from the community of in-person gpg key signing as a step to become a Debian developer, and it's often been a real barrier.

But I'm reminded of it at the keynote today as the Foundation's Jim Zemlin talks about the xz vulnerability and identity verification of developers.

It was never paranoia. It doesn't solve everything, and people can still be dishonest, but it was never excessive paranoia.

brainwane,
@brainwane@social.coop avatar

@pleia2 I hope any identity verification steps would have alternative avenues available for checking trustworthiness. I discuss some possibilities in

https://www.harihareswara.net/posts/2024/trust-new-maintainer/

TheGingerDog,

some clamav related package is being a bit naughty here.

tripplehelix,
@tripplehelix@fosstodon.org avatar

@TheGingerDog That ain't good. Have noticed Clam on access scan is killing performance recently too.

TheGingerDog,

@tripplehelix I think it was clamav-unofficial-sigs but not 100% sure.

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