@darth but where is all the fun in that?

Why not a more elaborate answer like:
I started out with #slackware
Than I switched to #mandrake (now #mandriva) for the sole reason it had the right drivers for my cd-rw drive.
I looked at #debian a few times and still use that in a lot of places when I want a system that I can keep sort of up to date but especially stable.
I have used #gentoo and #arch but found them lacking as a server operating system.
I have used some #redhat and #centos and #rocky and #alma and the likes but those always seem to be failing in places I don’t expect them too and I don’t really like their package manager systems.
I have dabbled in #suse and #opensuse now and then, but back in the day I was often put off by unexpected parts of German language interface that distracted me.
I did use #manjaro and #popOS and #mint but by now their user friendliness seems to hold me back rather than help me...

Update: nope. Rebooted, and it took 30 seconds for firefox to open on this 6th gen i5.

Update 2: 4 seconds after the first time it runs. I dunno now. :P

----

I seem to have figured out the problem that was making firefox take a long time to load on my #sway machines.

I added the following line at the beginning of my #swaywm config:

exec dbus-update-activation-environment

...things seem snappy again.

I'm on plain #Debian, just in case someone's curious.

cc: @amin

Cinnamon 6.2 doesn't seem so many changes for me, I'll just wait to reach unstable
#devuan #debian

The minimal version of Debian Linux 12/11 does not install sudo. When performing a network installation for Debian, the usual approach is to use the minimum version, which only installs the essential packages. Most Linux container images based upon Debian also skip sudo, and if your project needs sudo, then read on how to install and configure sudo and grant access to a user on a Debian Linux version 12/11. https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/how-to-install-and-configure-sudo-on-debian-linux/ #linux #sysadmin #debian

@paul

Take a look at Thomas Krenn.

https://www.thomas-krenn.com/en/products/rack-server/2u-servers.html

You can select FreeBSD as operating system in the first drop down menu, after selecting a server model. This way you get only compatible hardware listed in the configurator.

I'm quite sure they deliver to the UK too.

Hope this helps you out.

Edit1: fixed typos

#Fediverse #Linux #BSD #FreeBSD #Debian #RunBSD #RunLinux

Legit question... for the people more experienced than I am.

How do you know if/when you're ready to move away from #ubuntu ? I've been using Ubuntu for the past 2 years as my main OS and I'm feeling a little more comfortable around it and the CLI but there are still some things I don't know how to do like check logs for errors or problems, how to grep things effectively, how to search repositories for anything specific that I may need. Even when I Google things I sometimes have to Google things more than once because I didn't remember how to do a task.

I'm thinking about maybe moving to #debian because there are still some issues with Ubuntu 24.02 LTS that I'm not sure I'll have the patience with having to report the problems and waiting for resolutions. I'd also like to experiment and learn more by doing but I also don't want to bite off more than I can chew. So I'm doing some asking around and research on this...

How many of you guys started with Ubuntu and switched out and what did you switch out to?

#linux

Right #Fediverse #Linux and #BSD folk
Where are you buying your server hardware from?
(Ideally in the UK or Europe that ship to the UK, but I'll accept worldwide answers too)

Specifically I'm in the need for a couple of 2U rack mount servers that are compatible or at least tested with #FreeBSD, but I could run #Debian too

Will be for a corporate business so I need the whole "corporate vanity" of having a brand new out of the box server for them (don't worry, I buy second hand ones for my own use).

#RunBSD #RunLinux

Does anyone have any suggestions for #videoEditing software in #Linux ? I'm on #Debian so would prefer an apt package or a .deb, but as long as it's open source and has a Linux build I'll probably be able to use it.

Note: I've already tried KDENlive, and that's what I'll use if I can't find something better, but I'm looking to see if there's anything with better performance out there, or something that can edit variable framerates without having to transcode the video first.
That being said, it's entirely possible that the performance is much better than I thought and it was a problem with my former OS or accidentally not using the GPU 🤦‍♂️

My Raspberry Pi (and Linux) monitoring tool now comes (v2) with option to do remote configuration updates via dashboard: https://github.com/nekromoff/rpi-monitor-dashboard

Not only you can monitor your #RPi or Linux devices, but you can change what they report back using remote updates. How great is that?
#raspberrypi #ubuntu #debian #server #monitoring #dashboard #software #opensource #oss #webdev #python #php #servermonitoring

@stefano

#CyberSecurity #SSH #VPN #ITSecurity #SysAdmin #TechSupport #OpenBSD #Debian

Oh dear! How stupid people can be!

@stefano

#CyberSecurity #SSH #VPN #ITSecurity #SysAdmin #TechSupport #OpenBSD #Debian

Oh dear! How stupid people can be!

Email received a few days ago: "We need to know which version of SSH is installed on the server, as we want to ensure it is not vulnerable to external attacks." My response: "Don’t worry, SSH is accessible ONLY via VPN, and I am the only one with access to that VPN—activated only when needed—so there is no way for there to be any issues, regardless of the version used."

Email received this morning: "We’re not interested; you must provide the SSH version installed and, if it's not the latest, ensure us of the update date."
My response: "Sorry, could you explain the rationale? SSH is not exposed, it’s not listening on any public IP."
Their reply: "Provide the version."
My response: "OpenSSH_9.7, LibreSSL 3.9.0, on OpenBSD."
Their reply: "This is not considered secure. It must be OpenSSH_9.2p1 Debian-2+deb12u3."
My response: "It’s not Debian; it’s OpenBSD."
Their reply: "So the systems are insecure."

And they claim to be a cybersecurity company...

#CyberSecurity #SSH #VPN #ITSecurity #SysAdmin #TechSupport #OpenBSD #Debian

Yesterday I tried to replace systemd by #OpenRC on a freshly installed #Debian testing. This was surprisingly easy and quick. But when I tried to install a desktop like KDE, LXQt, Mate or XFCE, apt always wanted to uninstall OpenRC again and revert to systemd. I couldn't even really figure out which dependency requires systemd. Is there anyone running a Debian system without systemd but with a desktop environment like the ones mentioned above?

Sunday rant:

I've stopped using any bleeding edge/rolling #linux distro. Not because I dislike them, not at all, because I'm not much invested anymore in running the newest software/kernel/etc.

I am happy with the stable distros I run - which provide all I need. 😎

Thanks to #ArchLinux for all the fish and skills it has thaught me.

I've go my #Debian / #Slackware and a tiny bit of #Rocky
That is all I need.

Consider me retired from rolling distros 🙂

I hereby declare our household #Windows-free (again) after investing 1½ days setting up #Debian12 on a #SurfacePro3 of my wife. 🤓

#Linux #Debian is not there yet for being set up by a non-IT-professional person but the end result is somewhat OK for now (still a few annoying things to fix like loss of WiFi after hibernate/resume, black screen after lid opening, wrong external screen resolution, ...).

However, this might have saved us from buying a new notebook for university. 🤑

#bookworm #FOSS

Behind my Back Door there is the next #Debian version growing in the wild.

@flaki I really liked #Xubuntu but #Debian 12 #Xfce is something special.

Debian 12 is a great distro - really good work by the community behind it.

@ferki

#Debian 12:

mawk 1.3.4 20200120
Copyright 2008-2019,2020, Thomas E. Dickey
Copyright 1991-1996,2014, Michael D. Brennan

random-funcs: srandom/random
regex-funcs: internal
compiled limits:
sprintf buffer 8192
maximum-integer 2147483647

@ferki
#Debian's awk does not support that option "--field-separator"

Output:

[lumina ~] $ sudo tune2fs -l /dev/nvme0n1p2 | awk --field-separator ': +' '/^Filesystem created/ {print $2}'
awk: not an option: --field-separator

Small #Debian hint

If you want to see the changelog for a packge you can simply leverage apt with the changelog switch 😎

$ apt changelog openssh-server

#neofetch of my 2011 Latitude E6420 prosumer laptop running #Debian #Linux 12 (Bookworm). 🐧

13 years and counting, still sees daily use. 💪

Deploying two mini PC systems in the coming week for family members - both will run #Debian

I've set up a older laptop years ago with #Debian for one of them...
no complaints or problems whatsoever. Keep in mind: Both are not computer savvy at all!
(And yes, the system still runs and is in use daily)

It just shows that #Linux can be driven by anyone! 😎

#Linux #Debian

I've said that I went back to my Ryzen PC...

-> Not quite.

The challenge is on! 😎

Using my mini PC here for all the tasks at hand.
At least for a week I will evulate the system and my workflow on it.

For gaming: I can simply boot my PC when needed. Besides, many games I have already run totally well on the mini PC.

So: Challenge accepted! 😎

@kzimmermann That is pretty much the conclusion so far 😉

It runs #Debian #Linux and so far there have been no worries - as expected.

@DOTADER

I love Fuzzel.

I'm still using X11 because life is *way* better in #KDE on X11, at least in #Debian Stable.
I think very recent versions of KDE #Plasma are fixing most, if not all of the #Wayland pain points I was experiencing.

I guess I'll find out next year, lol

#DatDebianLife

My currently very calming desktop under KDE Plasma

#linux #unix #opensource #freesoftware #kde #kdeplasma #fedora #debian #archlinux

Introducing tori, a tool to track your system's configuration and replicate it.

I've been simultaneously using and developing it personally for the past 5 months, and now I would like to teach it to fly so it can break out from our nest.

This version still has very few of the features I enjoy in my personally-hardcoded version. If it sounds interesting, just stay tuned.

I wrote a blog post with a more in-depth description of what it is, how it works and why I built it:

https://blog.jutty.dev/posts/introducing-tori.html

#OperatingSystems #portability #SysAdmin #shell #POSIX #ash #BSD #FreeBSD #Linux #VoidLinux #Debian #ConfigurationManagement

Didn't do it. The 3.11 runtime helped. But Python's latency with #scikit-learn is still at-least twice as high on #FreeBSD as it is on #Debian. The reasons for this are not immediately clear to me. This doesn't bode well for my argument that BSD is a good alternative to Linux for data science workflows. 😅. I guess because I've always used Bhyve + Docker + Debian for DS, I never noticed the speed issues before. I'll send a note to the FreeBSD Python mailing list. Maybe they'll know.

#TIL about #lsix (https://github.com/hackerb9/lsix) and calling #xterm with the option "-ti vt340" to be able to display inline images inside an xterm—thanks to lsix having just arrived in #DebianUnstable: https://packages.debian.org/sid/lsix

These inline images (or the backend used to display them) seem to be called #sixel graphics. And they're said to work transparently through SSH. Maybe better than #chafa or #catimg.

#BloomScrolling on the terminal! 😉

#Kerdalo #JardinsDeKerdalo #Debian #DebianSid #ImageMagick

@dillo @nixCraft

Oh, just the default #Debian version:
Dillo version 3.0.5

For more than 20 years, I’ve downloaded files using wget because I could never remember curl options.

It turns out that I was not alone.

@samueloph created a simple wrapper around curl called "wcurl". This is brilliant! And, yes, the name is very intuitive. Best of all, it is already in Debian (and on my system) but it should really be part of the official curl distribution (ping @bagder )
https://samueloph.dev/blog/announcing-wcurl-a-curl-wrapper-to-download-files/

#curl #debian

#Centos left the building, good time to advocate for #Debian and #FreeBSD for your server.

scli (#Signal cli client) for #Debian!!!! WHAT!!!

https://gitlab.com/packaging/scli/

Woo hoo! Gotta try this!

(Will it have #aarch64 support, tho????)
>> No. 😔
>>> Aaaaand I've already given up. Their #debian repo isn't signed. Nope.
#Distrobox to the rescue!!! XD

cc: @amin

#DebiarioDiBordo, data stellare -298503.5. Tema: "Dì che sei appassionato di Star Trek senza dire che ti piace Star Trek usando solo #Debian e #i3wm."

Svolgimento:

@debacle @nixCraft @amin

Thanks for contributing to #Debian!!! :D <3

@fbievan @nixCraft @amin

I'm still on KDE 5.27 on my work machine (and X11) and am happy with it.

I do use bemenu, wofi, and fuzzel a lot on my Sway machines. Sway is the only #Wayland compositor I use right now, because it handles transparency a lot better than picom on i3.

I'd give wayland another shot whenever #Debian upgrades to Plasma 6.x, but probably not, because there's *still* no Disable-While-Typing (disable mouse cursor, that is), which I find essential.

@nixCraft

My workflow on #Debian:

1) Is it in apt?
2) Is on flatpak?
3) Is it on pipx?
4) Can I 'go build' it?
5) (shudder) can I 'cargo install it'?
6) Is the git repo pretty straightforward and work well with just a single make/cmake/meson/ninja command (or just a few), and do they have deiban dependencies listed in the README?
7) Nah, I don't need it. lol

cc: @amin

#ThatDebianLife

#Debian 12.6 “Bookworm” Officially Released with 162 Miscellaneous Bug Fixes and 84 Security Updates https://9to5linux.com/debian-12-6-bookworm-released-with-162-bug-fixes-and-84-security-updates

#Linux #OpenSource

Random wishlist item for #Debian #apt : give me a way to add a comment when installing a package. Otherwise, future me will not remember what past me needed that one random library for and if it's still useful

Howdy Data Folks - Benchmarking R/Python workflows on #FreeBSD 14.1 and #Debian Stable (12.5) on an 8-core Intel machine. Performance in R is comparable (R is faster on FreeBSD, but it isn't statistically significant). But latency for Python 3.9.18 on FreeBSD is terrible compared to Debian. It gets worse the more CPU cores you use. This was unexpected (for me). Is this a known issue with Python 3.9 on FreeBSD?

It seems that installing #Debian #Linux with root on #OpenZFS is still a rather involved process: https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/Getting%20Started/Debian/Debian%20Bullseye%20Root%20on%20ZFS.html

Anyone have any hints to make the process easier?

edit[0]: I'm researching this for laptop use. Full-disk encryption is a must.

#ZFS

Now that I saw that amarok is available on unstable repos
#debian #devuan #amarok

Just noticed that my #Thinkpad #X240 / #X250 #Debian Sid (aka #DebianUnstable) installation had its 10th anniversary in April this year via https://packages.debian.org/unstable/installation-birthday

The installation is older than the X250 as I initially bought an X240: It finally had a usable resolution compared to the X230—but the awkward touchpad without hardware buttons for the thumbstick. So the next year I bought an X250 and moved over the installation. And my father got an X240 for his birthday. 😇

#InstallationBirthday

@amin

#Debian's always /home 🙃

Welp, I had to sadly cancel my experimentation with #NetBSD.
Couldn't wrap my head around the storage system to set up disk encryption, and when my #PinebookPro developed a structural fault that prevented me from daily-driving it, I had to adapt the next-best machine I had available to that use.

So, I just nuked and paved this X260 and installed #Debian on it so I could use it on the go tomorrow without having to worry about my personal documents being exposed for want of disk encryption.

Pity, I was liking NetBSD. hopefully I'll have more patience to go through the documentation later on and learn it properly.

@thelinuxcast

* weeps uncontrollably in Arch-based distros NUKED my grub setup, twice. Two different updates, two different distros, same problem: LUKS-encrypted disk get b0rked because of a grub update. Nothing I could find online helped, had to nuke and pave both times.

If anyone needs me, I'll be over here holding onto #Debian like a security blanket. XD

@DesRoin @thinkpadmuseum

BTW, have you messed with disk encryption yet? I just want to encrypt /home, but I'm so unfamiliar with how storage works on BSD. Well... and on linux as well, tbh, as I've been super spoiled with the #Debian installer. XD

@DesRoin @thinkpadmuseum

BTW, have you messed with disk encryption yet? I just want to encrypt /home, but I'm so unfamiliar with how storage works on BSD. Well... and on linux as well, tbh, as I've been super spoiled with the #Debian installer. XD

@kzimmermann

Have you tried #DistroBox?

It really eliminates 99% of the pain points with #Debian for me

#tcp #storage #virtualization #howto #linux #debian #esx

https://www.credativ.de/en/blog/credativ-inside/netapp-storage-and-nvme-of-for-breakthrough-performance-in-proxmox-virtualization-environments/

Don't see why a command deleting /home is a problem.

You have backups, right ?

Right ??

#systemd #Debian

@DOTADER

...

Oh, for the LIFE of me, I've never been able to get #scli working in #Debian. Python is friendlier than some languages, but if it isn't pre-packaged in #PyPi as an "app," just forget about it. It's going to be a pain if you're not a python programmer already.

The Python programs I *do* use that are available via pipx, though. Just beautiful.

Patience for plasma 6 to arrive here, falkon updated to 24.05 on experimental

#devuan #debian

New to the #Linux thing?

Try #Debian GNU/Linux 😎

https://www.debian.org/

@tripplehelix @whynothugo

ALACRITTY ALREADY!!! lol

Yes, attempting the cargo install on #Debian now. (Not very hopeful, cargo really wants you to do the rustup dance for most things to install correctly, and I might just prefer to deal with the older package in the #Debian repo, but I'm giving it the old college try ;)

So installed a new active cooler on my #raspberrypi5 ... the "original" one was horrible to begin with and broke after two weeks. The new one called Armor Lite v5 seems to be much better, the passive cooling is already good enough for idle use and the fan when it runs is very silent and doesn't have to spin up to 5k rpm under load to keep the thing cool
#SBC #raspberrypi #ARM #OpenSource #linux #debian

I created some ready-to-use container images for #RV64:
* #Debian Trixie
* #Ubuntu Jammy (22.04)
* Ubuntu Mantic (23.10)
* Ubuntu Noble (24.04)
* #Fedora 39

https://gyptazy.ch/misc/riscv-container-images-for-podman-docker/

#riscv64 #rv #risc #docker #podman #images #containerreg #registry #userland

Wow, #Debian Bookworm is a year old today!
https://bits.debian.org/2023/06/bookworm-released.html

This is usually the point where I'd switch over to Testing, but xz scared me and I'm not going to do that. XD

#Debian offers an RT kernel as well

Real-time and Core editions of Ubuntu arrive • The Register https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/07/ubuntu_24_realtime_core/

I'm running a Samba server on my Raspberry Pi, and I'm able to log in and use it without trouble on my Debian 12 system. But on Fedora Silverblue 40, I can create, delete and read files but cannot write to them.

Any Silverblue users have a tip on what I can do to fix this?

Could it be something related to UID?

#RaspberryPi #samba #debian #fedora #silverblue #atomicfedora

@popey: Sounds familiar. Did that with #Debian some years ago as performance at the #VCFe because I wanted to install the most recent version of Debian possible on a vintage #Thinkpad 760XD: Pentium MMX w/166MHz + 48 MB RAM

The big issue was that the Thinkpad did support a CD-ROM drive, but couldn't boot from it. So I had to start with the last Debian release which still supported installing from floppies: Debian 3.0 Woody

I then upgraded until Debian 8 Jessie—the last release running on a P1.

I see you have a machine with an interesting processor there......will it #debian?

I already provide ready to use binaries for some systems:

#FreeBSD 14: https://cdn.gyptazy.ch/files/riscv64/freebsd/snac/
#Debian 12: https://cdn.gyptazy.ch/files/riscv64/debian/snac/
#Ubuntu 23.10: https://cdn.gyptazy.ch/files/riscv64/ubuntu/snac/

(Also works on Ubuntu 24.04).

Installed the #Debian stable-backported linux kernel in the clutch today:

$ uname -srm
Linux 6.7.12+bpo-amd64 x86_64

My laptop (2022 LG Gram 17) started acting flaky again, just like it did when I first got it (lots of random pauses, likely GPU/driver issues)

Debian 13 “Trixie” to feature different /tmp behavior.

https://news.itsfoss.com/debian-13-tmp-mounting/

#linux #debian

#Debian is switching to a tmpfs /tmp.

#linux

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2024/05/msg00014.html

@charadon

Oh really? What's going on with KDE6?

#Debian doesn't have it yet, either. Not even Sid. ;)

#BikeStreak, Day 65: After work from home I rode to the #Debian meetup at the https://dapizi2017.ch/ restaurant in Zurich. Several times the chat during and after dinner even included bicycle topics. (And I wasn't always the one who started these topic. 😇) But we also spoke about packaging and especially about library transitions (#t64 😉) and how binNMUs work.

7.9km at warm 18℃ to 22℃

Heute abend gibt's wieder feine Pizza oder Pasta in #Zürich im Restaurant DaPizi, so ab 18:30 Uhr. Warum? Naja, es ist #Debian-Treff, wie jeden ersten Dienstag im Monat!
https://www.dapizi2017.ch/

oh, and cc: @amin for #DEBIAN ;)

Compiling the latest release of less so I can get that sweet, sweet wordwrap feature.
#Less #Debian #ThatDebianLife #CompileIt!

Umm... can someone who has the spoons handy log an issue that their latest release (non-beta) tarball is double-gzipped? (https://github.com/gwsw/less/issues)

#SpoonTheory -- I'm doing fine, but dealing with github REALLY DOES cost a couple extra spoons even when you're having a good day, lol. Stop using that MSFTy GPL-violating crap, my peeps! :P~

https://gyptazy.ch/howtos/howto-monitor-ssl-certificates-expiration-in-grafana/

@jhx Makes sense to me 😉 I guess I couldn't really fall for that because I started exploring "alternative" x86-PC operating systems in a time before internet at home was a common thing, let alone with a speed suitable for downloading larger software distributions 😁 (plus getting some "Linux distribution" to work correctly on your machine was a lot more work, e.g. no way to do this without manually editing a monolithic config file for #XFree86 if you wanted a GUI). So you were thinking twice before "starting over" 😅

I started with some old #SUSE, because that came bundled on a 💿(!) with some magazine. Soon I wasn't happy how its "yast" tool fought over changing all sorts of config files etc ...

Also found #Debian first on some magazine disc (2.1 "slink") and managed to install this as a server offering a few services. For the desktop, I tried #Mandrake for a while, back then it was one of the few with largely working and sane auto-configurations... but as #Debian just felt better (simple and powerful management tools you could understand, so they didn't interfer with your manual configurations), I finally got that on the desktop as well. Stayed with that for a *long* time until it grew in complexity and I had hard to solve issues (also related to #systemd when it was first introduced in Debian), so looking for alternative, I figured it was time to say goodbye to Linux. Tried #FreeBSD and this worked awesome for me! For some software, you need Linux, and when I do, Debian is still my choice...

In general, I developed a habit of never changing stuff "just for the sake of it", only when I can name things I'm unhappy with. So for example, I use neomutt instead of mutt now (lots of added features I like that were only available as unofficial patches for mutt), but when people tell my I should try neovim, I just ask myself, why? After all, I'm perfectly happy with vim.

So I also never tried #wayland so far, because I see no need for my usecase, as #Xorg works perfectly fine for me. Currently even experimenting with programming #X11 "directly" (using #xcb) instead of using some UI toolkit. 🙈 Of course, in C only -- there's little you *can't* do in that veteran language 😎

#DebiarioDiBordo, data stellare 298601.4. Dopo una piccola crisi di identità, dovuta forse all'adolescenza, il macinino azzurro è tornato sui propri passi e ha capito che è meglio ottimizzare quello che gli permettono i suoi limitati 2GB di RAM e processorino dual core. Ora si segue la linea del minimo indispensabile: #Debian stabile (edizione PF) e XFCE per i rari casi in cui servirà un ambiente desktop. Tra poco andrà su i3 e mi divertirò moltissimo a configurarlo.

A little rant about why I stopped distro hopping

#Linux #Debian #ArchLinux

https://jhx7.de/blog/why-i-stopped-distro-hopping/

I can for sure live with that power usage. 😎

Currently running:
- NAS (#FreeBSD - #ZFS mirror)
- Srv (#Debian)
- TP Link Omada
- Protectli (#OPNSense)
- TP Link Switch (Managed)

#homelab

@cuddle
The recent versions of #KDE are quite good - used it on #Debian a while ago for some time.
#Gnome is alright for me.

#Xfce is by far, for me, the gold standart. It just works.

Indeed, it fits any role quite nice. To be frank, I drive the default look since it fits the bill for me - no theming at all.
I'm more focused on the things I do with it than how it looks.

The functionality is top. And as you said, the stability of #Xfce is amazing!

@ramin_hal9001
I like others as well to 😉
Xfce for me is best - it does it's job so well I can't really live withouth it 😂
Always happy when coming home to my #Debian #Xfce workstation 😀

Not switching anymore, Xfce is the way for me. Feel you there a 100%

"Freesh is a sub-project that contains .debs of Linux-libre compiled for general purpose use on 64-bit ARM, 32-bit ARMv7 with hardware FPU, 32- and 64-bit x86, 64-bit RISC-V, the Motorola 68000 series (68020 or later; an MMU is required), Loongson 2F MIPS-compatible processors [...]"

Questo non lo sapevo! Magari può interessare a qualcunə che usa Debian o derivate...

http://www.fsfla.org/ikiwiki/selibre/linux-libre/freesh.en.html

#linux #linuxITA #linuxlibre #FreeSoftware #GNUlinux #debian

Selection of emulators available on #Debian

https://wiki.debian.org/Emulator

So I guess #Debian with #XFCE isn't totally perfect for me. I had to replace light-locker to fix a problem. And then I decided to install and remove a few other things, and reconfigure some others.

Really, it's the same level of quality as the other good choices I have. The only alternatives that are more turnkey are those where I just can't fix the things that bug me and so I write them off.

I heard some comments from #Linux #tech YouTubers lately that building #Debian packages was hard, so here's my take.

1) Create a directory laid out how you want the installed files to look. This structure will get mirrored to the system upon install.
2) In the staging folder create a DEBIAN folder with, at minimum, a "control" file in it with fields like app version and such.
3) Run "dpkg-deb --build FOO" where FOO is the name of your staging folder.

Done. Screenshots with captions attached.

Orphaned two of my #Debian packages today:

* #wicd: https://bugs.debian.org/1071199 (Upstream halfdead but has a bunch of new commits I haven't looked at. Upstream was changing a few times in the past years. #Python 3 port incomplete/buggy. Depends on GTK2 → already only in Debian Experimental)

* #pconsole: https://bugs.debian.org/696888 (Requested an adopter more than 11 years ago. No more use it for ca. 12 years as I switched to mssh which copes much better with tiling window managers like Awesome and i3.)

Endless OS 6 Is Here Based on #Debian GNU/Linux 12 “Bookworm”, Here's What's New https://9to5linux.com/endless-os-6-is-here-based-on-debian-gnu-linux-12-bookworm

#Linux #OpenSource

I'm as intrigued by #Guix as I was by #NixOS, but ultimately I'm not sure the complexity is worth it for me.

Even #OpenBSD has a ratio of complexity vs. benefits that fits well with my work (and play) flow.

#AtomicFedora, #UniversalBlue and #OpenSUSE #Aeon all hide enough of the nitty gritty behind the scenes — updates happen without me needing to know it.

And traditional #Debian is so familiar and reliable, it's hard not to tap it for just about any use case.

#TIL: A #Xen #Dom0 running #Debian 12 Bookworm or #Gentoo may crash xenconsoled or xenstored upon #DomU boot if the Dom0 initially has too much RAM:

kernel BUG at arch/x86/xen/p2m.c:542!

In my case it happened with #DebianBookworm's kernel 6.1.0-21-amd64 and in the case of https://bugs.gentoo.org/920747 (via https://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-users/2023-12/msg00005.html) it was Gentoo's 6.1.67-gentoo-x86_64, both with 64 GB.

Fix:

/etc/default/grub += GRUB_CMDLINE_XEN_DEFAULT="dom0_mem=1024M,max:1024M"

/etc/xen/xl.conf += autoballoon=0

How to enable #Debian #Linux 12 Backports repository https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/install-enable-debian-linux-12-backports-repository/ Learn how to enable, install, and search for packages from the Debian Linux 12 "bookworm" Backports repository in this quick tutorial. #sysadmin #opensource

25 years ago today, Google was founded.
On the same day, I wiped Windows 98 off my computer, believing that Debian Linux (which I had been using for a while but still kept Windows on another partition) could do everything I had been doing with Windows until then.

Since that day, many installations of Linux, *BSD, MacOS have graced my computers, but Windows has remained, on a few occasions, only an occasional (unwelcome) guest.

In the spirit of a typical support group phrase, I can joyfully say:
'Hello, I'm Stefano, and I haven't been using Windows as my primary operating system for 25 years.'

Please boost and share your experience!

#Linux #OpenSource #OperatingSystems #TechJourney #GoogleAnniversary #Debian #MacOS #BSD #WindowsJourney #Mastodon #TechLife #GeekLife #Google #Windows

@justsoup
I follow it with interest. I tend to think of #Gentoo as the the spirit of #BSD brought over to Linux. But Chimera has literally brought over BSD components and clang/llvm tooling. And ZFS support by default. Not production ready yet, so it's unlikely to unseat #Debian when I need to spin up Linux in Bhyve. But it would be fun to do some benchmarking with phoronix to compare performance against the usual suspects.

[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/BSD-LLVM-Linux-Alpha-Coming

Setting up DNSCrypt was easier than anticipated on my Debian machine without systemd-resolved. I really like the binary distribution, which is available as a self-contained directory with the binary and sample configuration. You can run the whole thing from that portable directory and move it around or specify locations on the command line if you wanna spread it.

Also, the gradual and modular approach to the generic Linux installation was a delight to follow, always being reminded to take small and verifiable steps along the way.

For anyone interested, this is it: https://github.com/DNSCrypt/dnscrypt-proxy/wiki/Installation-linux

#DNSCrypt #DNSSEC #DNS #sysadmin #debian #netsec #networksecurity #it