OK, TIL (Today I Learned):

If "apt install" tells you "after this installation, XX GB additional disk space will be used" – that means that YOU SHOULD LOOK if that's available. Because, APT DOES NOT – it simply … well, stops working when the disk is full 🤦‍♂️

Have fun then cleaning up. Glad I ran a Timeshift backup immediately before…

(EDIT: it was `apt` in my case, not `apt-get`. But such a thing simply should not happen at all.)

#Debian #apt

The #DebianIndia community is organizing a #MiniDebConf.

📍 Venue: Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
📅 Dates: 14th and 15th of March 2026.
🔗 https://kanpur2026.mini.debconf.org/

Submit your talk proposal now. See you there!

#Kanpur #India #Debian #FreeSoftware #OpenSource

MX Linux 25.1 Is Out with Dual-Init Support, #Debian 13.3 Base, and #Linux Kernel 6.18 LTS https://9to5linux.com/mx-linux-25-1-is-out-with-dual-init-support-debian-13-3-base-and-linux-6-18-lts

#OpenSource

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Screenshot of MX Linux 25.1 with the Xfce desktop environment showing the Welcome app.

MX Linux keeps your /home directory safe! Learn how to migrate to MX Linux from another distribution without losing /home data.

Read more details here: https://ostechnix.com/migrate-to-mx-linux-without-losing-home/

#Mxlinux #MigrateToMxlinux #HomeDirectory #Linuxdistribution #Debian

#Linux Weekly Roundup for January 18th, 2026: #Firefox 147, #Wine 11, #KDE Plasma 6.6, #GNOME 49.3, #GRUB 2.14, #Ubuntu 25.04 EOL, #NVIDIA 580.126.09, #Thunderbird 147, #Wireshark 4.6.3, #Tails 7.4, #EndeavourOS Ganymede Neo, GNOME 50 Alpha, MX Linux 25.1 Beta, #PipeWire 1.4.10, #Amarok 3.3.2, #Debian on #OpenWrt One, #RaspberryPi Imager 2.0.4, and more https://9to5linux.com/9to5linux-weekly-roundup-january-18th-2026

#OpenSource #FOSS

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9to5Linux Weekly Roundup - January 18th, 2026

One of the upstream projects I maintain in #Debian is guile-gcrypt,
and I noticed there was a new upstream version in #Guix but I could not update my git repository, as the platform hosting it, notabug.org, seems to be going through some rough "404 page not found" times.

Because it is packaged in Guix, I knew there was a very good chance it was also archived on #SoftwareHeritage and sure enough, I was able to download and refresh my local git repository, and even verify the latest signed tag!

Street art in #Paris is weird these days.
#Debian #GNU/#Linux

You Can Now Run #Debian GNU/Linux on the #OpenWrt One Open-Source Router https://9to5linux.com/you-can-now-run-debian-gnu-linux-on-the-openwrt-one-open-source-router

@collabora #Linux #OpenSource

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Photo of the OpenWrt One router

The Debian GNOME team has formally announced its intention to remove GTK2 from the Forky development branch ahead of the release of Debian 14, planned for mid-2027.
https://linuxiac.com/debian-plans-to-remove-gtk2-before-debian-14/

#linux #debian #opensource

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The Debian GNOME team has formally announced its intention to remove GTK2 from the Forky development branch ahead of the release of Debian 14, planned for mid-2027.

The PAM Duress is a module designed to allow users to generate 'duress' passwords that when used in place of their normal password will execute arbitrary scripts.

This functionality could be used to allow someone pressed to give a password under coercion to provide a password that grants access but in the background runs scripts to clean up sensitive data, close connections to other networks to limit lateral movement, and/or to send off a notification or alert (potentially one with detailed information like location, visible wifi hot-spots, a picture from the camera, a link to a stream from the microphone, etc). You could even spawn a process to remove the pam_duress module so the threat actor won't be able to see if the duress module was available.

https://github.com/nuvious/pam-duress

#security #Linux #Arch #Debian

Python 3.14 and Ruby 3.4 transitions, dh-python development, a hybrid dependency solver for crossqa.debian.net, rebootstrap updates and making Debian CI resistant to the growing scraper traffic.

#Freexian collaborators worked on these and many more contributions to #Debian in December 2025.

Read all the details at:
https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-contributions-12-2025/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

We thank the organizations subscribing to our Long Term Support contracts (https://www.freexian.com/lts/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social) and consulting services (https://www.freexian.com/services/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social) for making this possible.

#python314 #ruby34 #debianci #rebootstrap

MX Linux 25.1 Beta Brings Back Dual-Init Support, Based on #Debian 13.3 https://9to5linux.com/mx-linux-25-1-beta-brings-back-dual-init-support-based-on-debian-13-3

#Linux #OpenSource

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Screenshot of MX Linux 25.1 Beta with the Xfce desktop environment, showing the Welcome app.

ProxLB 1.1.11 was released, focusing on deeper integration and smarter balancing for Proxmox VE clusters. This version introduces a beta integration with Proxmox’s native HA and affinity/anti-affinity rules (please report any kind of bugs!), allowing ProxLB to work seamlessly with existing placement constraints instead of duplicating them.

The balancing behavior has also been improved: operators can now prefer smaller or larger VMs during placement, and node memory reservations are respected to reduce overcommitment.

Overall, 1.1.11 makes ProxLB more predictable, safer, and better suited for production use, while paving the way for future HA-aware scheduling improvements.

Blog post: https://gyptazy.com/blog/proxlb-proxmox-ha-affinity-rules-version-1-1-11/
Release/Changelog: https://github.com/gyptazy/ProxLB/releases/tag/v1.1.11
GitHub: https://github.com/gyptazy/ProxLB

#virtualization #VM #VPS #PVE #Prox #ProxmoxVE #KVM #VMware #Enterprise #Homelab #ResourceScheduler #affinity #antiaffinity #devops #tools #python #debian

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ProxLB for Proxmox Clusters in version 1.1.11

@karen This year marks 30 years that I've been using #Debian as my primary operating system. FLOSS has been daily living for me for that long.

3/

#Linux Weekly Roundup for January 11th, 2026: #Devuan 6 on #RaspberryPi 5, #LinuxMint 22.3, #Debian 13.3, #Budgie 10.10, #Nitrux 5.1, #IPFire 2.29 Core Update 199, #KDE Gear 25.12.1, KDE Frameworks 6.22, #Mageia 10 alpha, KDE Plasma 6.6's new features, Budgie 11 enters development, new Linux laptops, #ArchBang Linux 1001, #GStreamer 1.28 Release Candidate, and more https://9to5linux.com/9to5linux-weekly-roundup-january-11th-2026

#OpenSource #FOSS #GNU

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9to5Linux Weekly Roundup - January 11th, 2026

Geekery: #linux #debian #X11 #xterm

In 2025 I switched back to original xterm.

I had previously been using alacritty for several years, after a period of looking for a term-em that actually did all the things I wanted and wasn't too much of a pain in configuration or RAM use.

And before that I used rxvt (or urxvt) for about two decades.

Why did I switch this time? Because I did a quick review of about 40 term-ems in the course of a week, and was utterly astonished to find that xterm had acquired all the features that I actually wanted to use.

In the same way that I care about the fuel-efficiency of a car more than whether it's nominally a standard motor or a non-plugin-hybrid, I don't care about whether or not the term-em takes advantage of the graphics coprocessor to do the job. Do letters show up real fast? Great, I don't care how they got there.

But I want to be able to specify the fonts that I like, not have strange boxes show up when someone writes their name in a non-roman character set, use a bunch of colors, not show me the scrollbar but always have scrolling available, and not have weird bugs.

Since xterm is the only term-em I can approximately guarantee everything has been tested against, a bug that shows up as a result of using a particular term-em is least likely to manifest with xterm. Pragmatics.

I would like to extend kudos to the authors of Terminology, a term-em which, on first run, pops up a slider and asks you to adjust it until the font size is comfortable. That's worthy of a Galactic Prize for Extremely Obvious Cleverness.

#Debian goes retro with a spatial desktop that time forgot

https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/09/desktop_classic_system/

#retro

#Debian #Linux 13.3 "Trixie" Released with 108 Bug Fixes and 37 Security Updates

https://www.debian.org/News/2026/20260110

Updated Debian 12: 12.13 released https://www.debian.org/News/2026/2026011002 #debian #bookworm #01

Updated Debian 13: 13.3 released https://www.debian.org/News/2026/20260110 #debian #trixie #01

#Debian 13.3 “Trixie” Released with 108 Bug Fixes and 37 Security Updates https://9to5linux.com/debian-13-3-trixie-released-with-108-bug-fixes-and-37-security-updates

#Linux #OpenSource

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Debian 13 default wallpaper/splash screen

I've built something useable. Maybe you need that, too.

#OpenBSD Clients with moonlight-qt
#proxmox hypervisor with libegl and #radeon GPU
#debian VMS with #virgl GPU in proxmox and sunshine streaming server

Now you can play your games running only on linux on OpenBSD. This also works good over the internet/VPN.
The actual intention was building remote desktop capable vms, because 3d Desktops (GNOME), high Display resolution, modern browsers and spice protocol dont give a smooth experience these days. This also works now.

#unigineheaven is at 99% native performance. The GPU is shareable to many VMS.
Can't wait to see how amdgpu native driver context passthrough is coming out when it's available.

RE: https://slothrop.org/2024/11/11/82/

The hard drives on my Debian machines have an ugly tendency to fill up over time, with stuff I don't need: old logs, kernel images, that sort of thing.

I literally can't code for shit. So I got an AI assistant* to help me solve this routine problem in finite time.

I stuck the script inside a blog post that I wrote mainly as a reference to myself. Please feel free to point out if I've missed a much more obvious solution.

*Gemini, in this case

#debian # maintenance

@passthejoe

Similar situation, upgraded desktop to #Debian 13, and Nvidia's proprietary driver dropped support for my old GTX 1050(?) card.

Difficult path, for me anyway, would be to hold to old driver and old cuda.

Thought about it.

"They say eff me and my old card? Nooo, I say 'eff them! and their stupid #nvidia driver! And the little dog they rode in on! Ha!"

Pulled Nvidia card. Found a DisplayPort port on motherboard, so just running Intel graphics with open driver now.

#linux

Debian needs your help on this. 👨💻

https://itsfoss.com/news/debian-data-protection-team/

#linux #debian #volunteers

#Debian's Data Protection Team is No More, Maybe You Can Help?

https://itsfoss.com/news/debian-data-protection-team/

manpageblog is written in Python and available for many systems, including #FreeBSD, #OpenBSD, #NetBSD or #Solaris based ones like #Illumos but also on #Linux like #Debian or #Ubuntu.

Changelog v1.6:

• Pagination support added
• Sitemap support added
• SEO optimized
• LD+JSON support added

The project source is available on GitHub at:
https://github.com/gyptazy/manpageblog
You can find a real-life demo on my website at https://gyptazy.com

#opensource #devops #minimalism #purism #web #blog #blogengine #blogging #coding #python #website #manpageblog

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manpageblog - a UNIX man page themed static blog engine

I can say, however, that I've reunited with an "old friend" who is still in great shape. Before I get dozens of replies about it being insecure: in theory, it is, but it's not accessible from the outside. It's isolated within its own network and is only able to connect and fetch backups for 'extreme disaster recovery' (only at specific times, restricted by specific firewall rules). It served its purpose today, and tomorrow, it might be even more useful.

18:33:01 up 3188 days, 4:47, 1 user, load average: 5.09, 4.73, 4.74

Debian, Btrfs, and zero internal dust.
It's kept in a sterile, extremely protected room.

#IT #SysAdmin #Debian #Linux #Uptime #ServerUptime

Systemd-Free #Devuan GNU+Linux 6.1 Released with Unofficial #RaspberryPi Images, Based on #Debian 13.2 https://9to5linux.com/systemd-free-devuan-gnulinux-6-1-released-with-unofficial-raspberry-pi-images

@devuan #Linux #GNU #OpenSource

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Screenshot of Devuan GNU+Linux 6.1 with the Xfce desktop environment showing the About Xfce dialog.

Updated my tutorial for #selfhost #selfhosting RustDesk. https://wiki.haacksnetworking.org/doku.php?id=computing:rustdesk It contains full manual installation and updating, including suggested virtual hosts for dropping the gohttp server behind a reverse proxy with a proper TLS cert. #floss #opensource #freesoftware #debian

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screen shot of the network relay section on rust desk clients, showing where to put the API key

As we welcome a new year we have more Debian events lined up for 2026, and we’re happy to announce another MiniDebConf in India. MiniDebConf Kanpur 2026 will be held at Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur on 14th and 15th March 2026. https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2026/01/msg00000.html #debian #DebianIndia #MiniDebConf #MiniDebConfKanpur #01

You can simply use relay instances to be interconnected with other instances to exchange posts and it works seamless with #Mastodon, #Pleroma, #snac / #snac2 and many other ones! If you're in tech, you might want to use:

https://fedi-relay.gyptazy.com

You can simply add it to get a bigger reach but also to get more interesting content into your own timeline which becomes even more important on single user- & smaller instances.

#activitypub #mastodon #fediverse #opensource #bsd #runbsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #dragonflybsd #debian #proxmox #xcpng #talos #coding #programming #fediwall #relay #fedirelay #acitivitypubrelay #selfhost #homelab #community

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Activity Pub / Fediverse Relay

#MiniDebConf is going to Kanpur after Navi Mumbai!

#debian #debconf

Stay tuned to https://mini.debconf.org

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Haack's Networking - Authoritative DNS w/ Bind9

- root zone and base server cluster
- name server registration; glue records
- full CLI-driven zones/records
- full Webmin-driven zones/records
- DNSSEC howto for CLI & Webmin

Wiki Tutorial: https://wiki.haacksnetworking.org/doku.php?id=computing:bind9dns

You can add zones/domains & create A, AAAA, SPF, DMARC, DKIM, SRV, CNAME, and/or any DNS record you want; it's self-hosting heaven ;O

#gnulinux #freesoftware #sysadmin #live #debian #peertube #bind9 #dns #opensource #selfhost

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screenshot of the webmin bind9 dns website panel for a public-facing bind9 cli + webmin dual tri-node authoritative DNS server covered in the tutorial

Haack's Networking - Informal Hacking Sessions #03

Today's agenda includes:

1) Writing the bind9 authoritative tutorial
2) Monitoring the rebuilt rsnapshot nodes
3) Editing and adding to the hard drive vitals post

https://content.haacksnetworking.org/w/byjvKm4LXLLn7q4ngYaG8f

#gnulinux #freesoftware #sysadmin #live #debian #peertube #bind9 #dns

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nuclear explosion in yellow, orange, and black tones ...

OpenMediaVault 8 "Synchrony" released, based on Debian 13, with WPA3 authentication support for wireless networks, linux-cpupower instead of cpufrequtils, and several improvements

https://www.openmediavault.org/?p=4002

#openmediavault #debian #debiantrixie #linux

Anyone using Akonadi (Kmail, Kontact) on Debian 13? 👀

#Akonadi #KMail #Debian

The more I use @CachyOS the more impressed I am.

It's an #arch based distro so you need to be actively rolling with the changes, but if that's your desired lifestyle anyway? Hardly a penance.

Not for everyone, if you want stability, that's what @fedora or #debian are for!

#Parrot 7.0 Ethical #Hacking Distro Released with #KDE Plasma, #RISCV Support, and #Debian Trixie Base https://9to5linux.com/parrot-7-0-ethical-hacking-distro-released-with-kde-plasma-risc-v-support

@parrotsec #Linux #OpenSource #infosec #security

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Screenshot of Parrot 7.0 with the KDE Plasma desktop environment showing the application menu.

#Linux Weekly Roundup for December 21st, 2025: #Firefox AI kill switch, #LinuxMint 22.3 Beta, #Scribus 1.6.5, #SparkyLinux 2025.12, #OpenShot 3.4, #Emmabuntüs #Debian Edition 6, #Flatpak 1.16.2, #LibreOffice 25.8.4, #OpenZFS 3.4, #fwupd 2.0.19, #NVIDIA 590 graphics driver, Linux 6.18 LTS on #Ubuntu, Linux 6.17 EOL, #Kdenlive 25.12, #Darktable 5.4, #Ventoy, 1.1.10, #MPV 0.41, #GnuCash 5.14, and more https://9to5linux.com/9to5linux-weekly-roundup-december-21st-2025

#OpenSource #FOSS #GNU

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9to5Linux Weekly Roundup - December 21st, 2025

#Debian #Linux Gets Its Own PPA-Like System as Debusine Repositories Launch

https://linuxiac.com/debian-gets-its-own-ppa-like-system-as-debusine-repositories-launch/

He publicado nuevo vídeo en mi canal de Youtube | CARETO: Aplicación sencilla para enseñar tu careto con tu webcam en Debian 13 Trixie #Debian #Plasma #Careto https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTRjvTj022k

From pencil to color, it's all done by hand. Here is under a timelapse of my recent comic strip: two days of work in 30s. I use Krita to bring my art to life, on Debian, one stroke at a time.
Check out my making-of directory for 20 more like this: https://www.peppercarrot.com/0_sources/miniFantasyTheater/making-of/

#krita #debian #timelapse

Well, #Debian #Trixie 64-bit seems to be rock-solid when I run it in #Virtualbox, it's only a crashy piece of shit in #UTM. 32-bit Trixie is fine in UTM, as are #FreeBSD and #OpenBSD. This isn't a general 64-bit #Linux issue, as #Devuan #Excalibur seems to be stable.

I suppose that means it's time to ditch Debian for my #CPAN testing.

FYI we're aware of an issue with bootstrapping Debian-based releases (trixie and bookworm) on recent versions of Bastille.

The source of this issue is found "upstream" of us, but we're looking into some workarounds.

Thank you to everyone that reported the issue and we appreciate your patience.

#FreeBSD #BastilleBSD #Debian #debootstrap

Ever thought about APT compatible add-on package repositories for Debian? Like PPAs but having proper compatibility with #Debian, QA tests and automatic built-in snapshot capabilities?

Glad to announce #Debusine repositories are now in public beta for Debian developers and maintainers.

Head to https://www.freexian.com/blog/debusine-repositories-beta/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social to learn more about it and how you can use it.

#Freexian #DebusineRepositories

@justine

Heya! I've been daily-driving it for nearly a month on my main at-home laptop (Thinkpad X260).

It's pretty great! ZFS is darn near bulletproof, and after some initial challenges of getting wifi and GUI configured, it was pretty "boring"... until I tried upgrading to 15.0, lol

Figured out how to roll back to 14.3, and I'm now waiting for 15.1 before I try again (although I believe the issues I had have now been resolved, but I'm still going to wait ;)

Package availability is amazing (better than Debian in some cases!), and most things compile without any issues, although some things that don't have very well-written Makefiles are iffy and I got stuck.

Been having fun with Dosbox-X, playing games I loved 20-30 years ago. I couldn't get the Linux version of Kerbal Space Program to run under compat_linux, but I didn't really expect it to.

#OpenBSD definitely gets my vote for noob-friendly #BSD, since it has X11 in the base install, and it configures itself, but I now have sway (Wayland) running under #FreeBSD just as if I were still on Linux, so as long as someone is willing to skim through the pertinent parts of the handbook, it's a great OS.

The only downsides to #FreeBSD vs. Linux is that S3 resume takes a little longer (8 seconds instead of 1-3 seconds), and I have occasional hiccups, which I'm sometimes not able to recover from. Loading some websites in Firefox will make everything hang for several seconds at times (even though I'm launching Firefox via nice (1)), and there are some times that sway never quite recovers from S3 suspend, although that's rare. The good thing is that sometimes it will catch the power button and shut down cleanly, and even when it doesn't, #ZFS is so bulletproof that it just takes it all in stride.

There are occasional Linuxisms that feel a bit odd, like some of my packages (the swaync notification system and the duckstation console emulator are notable examples) require #pulseaudio of all things, which sometimes eats up my CPU. That's... really weird to me. I liked how minimal sndio on OpenBSD is.

Both major BSDs have very sane syntax for the config file that governs Wifi access points, and that's very refreshing to me after using a TUI to join networks on #Debian (although it's definitely possible to uninstall #NetworkManager on Debian and use the native interface config files, but they're not as nice/simple as the BSDs').

One really fun (if a bit cartoonish) way of comparing the BSD philosophy to the Linux philosophy is to look at doas vs sudo, specifically man doas.conf, then man sudoers.

The manpage for the sudoers file is pretty long and convoluted, as is the syntax for the file itself. doas.conf is super brief and to-the-point, and its manpage is pretty concise.

I think once they add the GUI setup tool to the FreeBSD setup wizard, that will be a real game-changer.

P.S., I haven't really daily-driven OpenBSD in a while, but I'm planning on getting an adapter so I can power my OpenBSD Thinkpad X200t off of a power bank, instead of the very dodgy OEM battery, so I can experiment with OpenBSD some more. I know the latest version has fixed the problems I was having with Emoji support, so I think that OS deserves another look. With the little bit of experimentation I've done in the last week, I've been pleasantly surprised with even Firefox' performance on that little Core 2 Duo. The only bummer about OpenBSD to me is the lack of ZFS or any other modern filesystem, so the occasional power losses or hang-ups become much more dangerous.

Your future phone runs Debian.

#phosh #mobian #debian #linux

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My phone welcomes me friendly and reminds me that it runs Debian.

Emmabuntüs Debian Edition 6 Is Now Available Based on #Debian 13 “Trixie” https://9to5linux.com/emmabuntus-debian-edition-6-is-now-available-based-on-debian-13-trixie

#Linux #OpenSource

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Screenshot of Emmabuntüs Debian Edition 6 with the Xfce desktop environment.

I installed from scratch, instead of upgrading, a #Debian #Trixie at my office computer as my '/'harddisk decided to die unexpectely..
Everything went all right but a device (actually a #meshtastic dev) I used trough serial usb was not creating the coresponging #ttyUSB0 device file. It seems the braille display pack.,which is now installed by defualt,was avoiding the file to be created. So I just removed the brltty package as suggested in https://askubuntu.com/questions/1403705/dev-ttyusb0-not-present-in-ubuntu-22-04 and everything's working again

I checked in on my #Debian 13 system today. Everything is working nicely. Hard to go wrong with Stable.

SparkyLinux 2025.12 “Tiamat” Released with #Debian Forky Base, #Linux Kernel 6.17, and More https://9to5linux.com/sparkylinux-2025-12-tiamat-released-with-debian-forky-base-linux-kernel-6-17

@SparkyLinux #OpenSource

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Screenshot of SparkyLinux 2025.12 with the LXQt desktop environment showing the application menu.

Compilando Lagrange en Debian Sid.

gemini://z3r0.maverick-hq.org/gemlog/2025/2025-12-14-compilando-lagrange-en-debian-sid.gmi

#geminispace #geminiprotocol #lagrange #debian

@nemo @rysiek

I have #Debian (PC) and #Mobian (phone).

I keep thinking I'm going to return to Debian Stable after a long, long time away, but Aeon (and by extension OpenSUSE Tumbleweed) is so good, it's becoming harder and harder to do it.

#Debian #Aeon #OpenSUSE #Tumbleweed

I'm going to do a series of blog posts after the #Vizio trial is over about my upgrade to my #NovaCustom laptop & a much newer #Debian & all the stuff I went through to make it happen.

I'm starting this thread simply to have a place to keep all my ideas about those posts publicly, in case they are immediately useful.

I suspect I won't have time to engage in replying on this thread until circa 2026-02-15, which is when I plan to start the blog posts.

TL;DR: it's going pretty good.

Filebrowser is open for public registration & more testing on the navidrome/jellyfin instances. Drop-in music/media and and watch it populate!

https://upload.gnulinux.studio
https://upload.gnulinux.media

Create an account & test away. Post issues here as replies or DM me. Main site:

https://gnulinux.studio
https://gnulinux.media

User: pubglug
Pass: musicisawesome
Pass: moviesareawesome

#music #opensource #freesoftware #demo #jellyfin #navidrome #debian #sysadmin

Library gets nuked every Monday at 3am.

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#MiniDebConf Navi Mumbai

#Debian #FreeSoftware #OpenSource

Some photos from the event ( adding alt text with tuba seems broken )

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A wide shot shows a large room filled with people seated at red-clothed tables. The room appears to be a conference or meeting hall, with dark wood paneling along the walls and a large, white, blank projection screen at the front. Most of the people are facing forward, presumably toward a speaker or presentation, and many are looking at laptops or taking notes. Water bottles are visible on each table, along with some papers and other small items. The room is brightly lit by overhead fluorescent lights, and a large pillar is visible on the left side of the frame.

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A wide-shot indoor photograph depicts a presentation or meeting in progress within a conference room. A projection screen displays the word "Debian" in large white font, with a red circular logo to the left. Two people are standing near the screen, facing a group of seated attendees. The attendees are gathered around several round tables covered with red tablecloths. The room features wood-paneled walls and a drop ceiling with recessed lighting, and a dark rug is visible on the floor. The text on the screen reads: "Debian". People are seated at tables with visible cups and plates. Several individuals are wearing collared shirts, and one person is wearing a bright green shirt. The room appears to be dimly lit, with the projection screen providing the primary source of illumination.

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A group of people are gathered in a room for a presentation or lecture. A person stands in front of a screen, seemingly speaking to the audience. The audience members are seated in rows of chairs facing the speaker, with several tables in front of them. Most people are looking toward the speaker. The room has brown walls with vertical panels. There are bottles of water on the tables. A small portion of code is visible on the screen reading "text: 'This is just a test sentence'". The people in the audience are dressed casually and some have bags next to them.

#Grml 2025.12 Linux Distro for Sysadmins Is Out Now Based on #Debian Forky and #Linux Kernel 6.17 https://9to5linux.com/grml-2025-12-linux-distro-is-out-based-on-debian-forky-and-linux-kernel-6-17

#OpenSource

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Screenshot of Grml 2025.12 with the Fluxbox window manager showing the main menu.

Free Software that I rely on. One per day.

Day 9:

YunoHost

This is technically more of a distribution than an individual software. There's a portal, and a large volunteer packaging effort to create apps for it. And a large catalog of applications already packaged.

I definitely rely on it. So I'm counting it.

YunoHost is how I have Wordpress (which I've already mentioned) installed -- along with other software I haven't got to yet.

It is based on Debian Linux: a particular install with applications already configured to work on it, pretty close to "plug and play". It's like the packaging systems for Linux desktop systems -- but for the Internet.

It makes managing a web application site SO much easier. I decided to adopt it as the basis of my "virtual studio" instead of trying to write something new.

https://yunohost.org/

https://apps.yunohost.org/

#FreeSoftwareAdvent #YunoHost #Debian #FreeSoftware #OpenSource

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YunoHost through-web management interface, with access to "Users", "Groups and Permissions", "Domains", "Applications", "Updates", "Tools", "Diagnosis", and "Backup".

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YunoHost "applications" interface, showing "Pixelfed", "Misskey", "PeerTube", "Wordpress" applications installed, along with a customized static site and a couple of utility applications.

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Regular logged-in portal interface for YunoHost, showing five apps: Misskey, Peertube, Pixelfed, Wordpress, and a custom website app.

The two-day MiniDebConf Navi Mumbai 2025, organized by the Debian India community in collaboration with Mumbai Foss community, will take place on 13 and 14 December. On Saturday, a dozen talks will be presented, followed the next day by two workshops. You can find the schedule here: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEvents/in/2025/MiniDebConfNaviMumbai #debian #miniDebConfMumbai #DebianIndia #12

Demo'ing Navidrome and Jellyfin for our Public GNU/Linux Club:

User: pubglug
Pass: musicisawesome
Pass: moviesareawesome

https://gnulinux.studio [music]
https://gnulinux.media [videos]

#music #opensource #freesoftware #demo #jellyfin #navidrome #debian #sysadmin

Come join the fun: https://matrix.to/#/#introductions:gnulinux.club

Each of these instances has an associated filebrowser instance: https://tech.haacksnetworking.org/2025/12/09/setting-up-a-secure-public-facing-filebrowser-instance/

Making uploading, editing, removing, etc., music easy. DMs to test Filebrowser!

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cover of brand new day by lime, on navidrome instance

Muy interesante entrevista de la chica de sistemas a gunnarwolf (#debian developer)

¿DEBCONF 26 en Argentina?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wGMu2y0GMU

#IRC irc.libera.chat #lachicadesistemas

@hund Time to switch to #Debian

Windows 11's hardware requirements sent millions of perfectly functional CPUs to the landfill. Linux extended their lifespan by a decade. From an e-waste perspective alone, installing a lightweight distro is an act of environmental conservation.

#Linux #Sustainability #RightToRepair #ThinkPad #EWaste #fedora #arch #linuxmint #debian #ubuntu #alpine #windows #privacy

Window Maker Live 13.2 brings 32-bit life to #Debian #Linux 13

https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/09/microsoft_windows_maker_live_132/

Parrot 7.0 Ethical Hacking Distro Switches from MATE to #KDE Plasma as Default Desktop, Based on #Debian 13 https://9to5linux.com/parrot-7-0-beta-ethical-hacking-distro-switches-to-kde-plasma-as-default-desktop

@parrotsec #Linux #OpenSource #security

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Screenshot of Parrot 7.0 beta with the KDE Plasma desktop environment showing the System Settings app.

updating to Mastodon v4.5.3!
#selfhost #footiMac #Debian #mastodon #fediverse #upgrade

upgrade complete! #selfhost #footiMac #Debian #mastodon #fediverse #upgrade

just looking at my archive of postgresql backups over the past 2 years of my mastodon instance.

In December 2023 just shy of 1 year since spinning it up, the compressed gz file of the database was 600MB.

By Aug 2024 it was 988MB

In April 2025 it was 1500MB

Today it is 1800MB.

That is a 2 user instance. Not small!
#selfhost #footiMac #Debian #mastodon #fediverse #upgrade

What's the current thinking?

Calamares installer or traditional installer for #debian?

The year didn't even end and we have some great news for 2026! MiniDebConf Hamburg will be held from May 4th 2026 to May 11th 2026 at dock europe, the Call For Proposals and registrations are already open: https://lists.debian.org/debconf-mini-hamburg/2025/12/msg00000.html #debian #debconf #miniDebConfHamburg #12

My new SATA SSD arrives today. Time to start some new OS tests.

I'll probably start with Debian 13. I'm already running it on a desktop, but I need to check in with it on this laptop.

#Debian

LOOK EVERYBODY,

It's a #sassy #hellthread that I took NO PART IN!

IT HAPPENS!!! SOMETIMES!?!?

https://mastodon.social/@murena/115656237852149287

P.S., slightly tempted to jump in, but now I can't because I wrote this. lol

#deltachat #xmpp #murena #debian #freebsd #SassyGrumpyPeople #NotMyFault

Latest #RaspberryPi OS Release Lets You Safely Eject HDD and NVMe Drives Connected via USB https://9to5linux.com/raspberry-pi-os-now-lets-you-safely-eject-hdd-and-nvme-drives-connected-via-usb

#Linux #OpenSource #Debian

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Screenshot of Raspberry Pi OS showing the application menu.

#FreeSoftware versions of Vagrant is no longer maintained. Vagrant was one of the methods we suggested when people are learning #debian #packaging. I liked the way of sharing a Vagrantfile when doing a workshop for many people.

As I was preparing for another packaging workshop for #MiniDebConf at Navi Mumbai, I gave Incant a try. It is a replacement for Vagrantfile like declaration of machines and uses #Incus as its backend.

https://wiki.debian.org/Packaging/Pre-Requisites/Virtual-Machine#Incant

Join us at https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEvents/in/2025/MiniDebConfNaviMumbai

Red is Dead, 4K Anniversary Remaster Director's Cut

https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/176437648

(consider supporting my work pls https://analognowhere.com/support )

#unix_surrealism #analognowhere #redisdead #penguin #linux #arch #debian

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Red is Dead poster featuring 3 penguins with weapons and computers in a trench during the Corpo-Foss war.

37 Debian LTS Advisories about security updates for various packages were released by Debian LTS contributors in October. These include notable security updates for https-everywhere, openjdk 11 & 17 and intel-microcode. LTS team also contributed towards updates for Debian packages in various releases.

Read about these and more in our report for October: https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-lts-report-2025-10/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

This work is funded by Freexian's Debian LTS offering. Become a sponsor of Debian LTS (https://www.freexian.com/lts/debian/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social) and enjoy the benefits (https://www.freexian.com/lts/debian/details/#benefits).

#freexian #debian #debianlts #openjdk

#BoxyBSD chat is now also available in #irc!

People asked for old school possibilities to take part on the BoxyBSD chat and here we go! Finally, you can also simply join #BoxyBSD on Libera (next to your #FreeBSD channels)! This bridge was written by @gyptazy to support additional chat communications.

Important: This IRC channel is bridged between #Discord and #Matrix to have a unified communications flow without splitting the community. If you don't like Discord, please don't join this channel!

Infos about how to connect by IRC to Libera IRC:
- https://libera.chat/guides/connect

#FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #DragonflyBSD #MidnightBSD #OpenSolaris #Debian #FreeVPS #VPS #FreeVM #VirtualMachines #OpenSource #BSD #RUNBSD

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BoxyBSD now also on Libera IRC

The #Debian installer appears to be just as buggy as it was when I last did a from-scratch install on new hardware 10 years ago.

Still no way to tell the partition manager: "Start everything from scratch, I screwed up", so you have to drop into expert mode and do sfdisk --delete to get installer to not screw up royally if you need a second try.

And I never did get the network going during the installer. Can't find firmwares that are clearly there.🤷

#Armbian 25.11 Is Out with Support for Radxa ROCK 4D, NanoPi M5, #Debian Forky, and More https://9to5linux.com/armbian-25-11-is-out-with-support-for-radxa-rock-4d-nanopi-m5-and-debian-forky

@armbian #Linux #OpenSource

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Armbian 25.11

#Gnu #linux #curso #devuan #debian

📌 No te quedes afuera.
El curso es ideal para novatos
Vas aprendiendo a tu ritmo y lo mas importante la Cuota Mensual la fijas Vos🫵
Ademas contás con una canal de chat para consultas, soporte, cada clase se graba y la vez cuantas veces quieras!

Inscripción solo por email, en el asunto nombre, en el detalle desde donde escribes.

Se Agradece la difusión📣

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#Gnu #linux #curso #devuan #debian 📌 No te quedes afuera. El curso es ideal para novatos Vas aprendiendo a tu ritmo y lo mas importante la Cuota Mensual la fijas Vos🫵 Ademas contás con una canal de chat para consultas, soporte, cada clase se graba y la vez cuantas veces quieras! Inscripción solo por email, en el asunto nombre, en el detalle desde donde escribes. Se Agradece la difusión📣

So, my #NovaCustom laptop arrived last week. I sadly have not had time to do the install until today. I'm going to work on it today and I'll post on this thread in case anyone is bored on a Sunday and wants to watch me struggle to install #Debian — having not installed it from scratch in nearly a decade.

This might be fun — if for no other reason than the lolz of an aging technologist struggling with installing a #Linux-based system.

You have my permission to laugh. Follow along today here.

Hey, at least I still remeber to verify the sha256sum of an image before doing an install…

I appear to have exchanged keys with Neil McGovern and Steve McIntyre, both of whom I trust to have not signed this #Debian CD/USB install key without being sure, so I think I can use this image.

Reminds me I gotta generate a new GPG key.

Cc: @debian

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On an old laptop, bkühn in a shell downloads the Debian CD/USB image sha256sums and checks it against the sha256sum of downloaded file.

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On an old laptop, bkühn in a shell downloads the Debian CD/USB image signing key and adds it to his keyring.

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On an old laptop, bkühn in a shell looks at the signatures on the Debian CD/USB keyring. The only two keys bkühn had were Steve McIntyre & Neil McGovern.

getting some kind of #gradle error when trying to build #helloworld #cordova #android #app in #proot #debian in #termux 😐

why???

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[...] FAILURE: Build failed with an exception. * What went wrong: Execution failed for task ':app:processDebugResources'. > Could not resolve all files for configuration ':app:debugRuntimeClasspath'. > Failed to transform appcompat-1.7.0.aar (androidx.appcompat:appcompat:1.7.0) to match attributes {artifactType=android-compiled-dependencies-resources, org.gradle.category=library, org.gradle.dependency.bundling=external, org.gradle.libraryelements=aar, org.gradle.status=release, org.gradle.usage=java-runtime}. > Execution failed for AarResourcesCompilerTransform: /root/.gradle/caches/8.13/transforms/459cb14f885dfe9984b3b738a7946fbf/transformed/appcompat-1.7.0. > AAPT2 aapt2-8.7.3-12006047-linux Daemon #1: Daemon startup failed This should not happen under normal circumstances, please file an issue if it does. [...] Deprecated Gradle features were used in this build, making it incompatible with Gradle 9.0. You can use '--warning-mode all' to show the individual deprecation warnings and determine if they come from your own scripts or plugins. For more on this, please refer to https://docs.gradle.org/8.13/userguide/command_line_interface.html#sec:command_line_warnings in the Gradle documentation. BUILD FAILED in 1m 32s 27 actionable tasks: 27 executed Command failed with exit code 1: /root/hello/platforms/android/tools/gradlew cdvBuildDebug

Just dropped a new blog post, classic bridging with ifupdown. Hope some folks find it helpful or intriguing: https://tech.haacksnetworking.org/2025/11/27/classic-bridging-w-ifupdown/ If you have questions, hop over to Matrix https://matrix.to/#/@haacksnetworking:gnulinux.club and hit me up! #floss #freesoftware #opensource #debian #ifupdown #bridging #networking #virtualization

@jarrodu @lexinova @delta There are tons of moving parts in the diagrams: https://chatmail.at/doc/relay/overview.html#chatmail-relay-dependency-diagram

When I see a bunch of moving parts like that, I get cold feet, that it'll be as easy as people make out. Is there a Youtube/Peertube video on this? If it's as easy as you claim, then I'd like to see a from-scratch install on #Debian 12, using python's uv for the package manager of chatrelay (in a uv venv). Including sending initial testing messages proving it's working in production.

@delta I, for one, am waiting for them to support #Debian 13, not 12 (for chatmail relay). #Postfix changed their config variables as of 13; I'm concerned about an ugly upgrade path from 12 to 13.

This is the kind of thing that you have to expect in a rolling distro like Tumbleweed (and by extension Aeon).

I was seeing issues like this in #Fedora #Silverblue, and that's one of the factors that prompted me to move to Aeon.

At times like these, #Debian starts to look good.