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More recently: ksysguard (and its remote monitoring over SSH with ksysguardd), which has apparently been superseded upstream by plasma-system-monitor. The latter drops a vast swathe of useful features in favour of "prettier" graphs, a hamburger menu, and the usual soydev "nobody was u...

To me it seems that sudo or the doas alternative cancel out the security benefit of privilege-hierarchy. If you enable sudo for any command, sure. Many arguments for "desktop" use of sudo miss the point entirely, going for either the "root == always bad" or "easier for newb...

Those whatever_proxy scripts are not part of a standard grub install, and this is almost certainly yet another mess made by Grub Customizer. Grub Customizer is trash (and worse, it's Ubuntu trash), get rid of it, clean up it's mess, and reinstall GRUB. Also see here WRT the backup files is supposedl...

dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-5.10.0-28-amd64_5.10.209-2_amd64.deb (--unpack): cannot copy extracted data for './boot/vmlinuz-5.10.0-28-amd64' to '/boot/vmlinuz-5.10.0-28-amd64.dpkg-new': failed to write (No space left on device) Free some space on your /boot fi...

KitchM wrote: ↑2024-04-03 14:02they are not listed from the home page.

That's the short generic version, and easily found with a websearch. The longer edition is a very obvious link on the wiki homepage.

wiki.debian.org wrote: * Download
* Installation guide
* Upgrade guide (amd64)

KitchM wrote: ↑2024-04-03 13:13 hope that there will be a simple apt or Synaptic upgrade path

There is, and there always has been.

Just one must not think that GNOME/KDE will run smoothly on it FWIW, KDE Plasma runs very well indeed on the X230 or pretty much anything else from that hardware generation, provided you give the system a reasonable amount of RAM. As for GNOME... I've said my piece on GNOME many times before. Why i...

A lot of people try Linux on the hope it will save them from buying a new computer. It might too... But almost certainly not when the idea is approached with that as the only goal, and no time or effort is devoted to learning or configuring a completely new OS and software selection. Debian will ru...

At ten years old, the current one has done its duty and deserves to retire. As long as it is functional, I don't see why a device should be pulled from service. Especially if the use case is just for web browsing. Indeed. All of these examples *looks around room* run Devuan stable (i.e. ~= Debian B...

If you don't conquer the average non-tech user, gnu/linux will never leave the low market share it has for the last twenty or so years. Personal desktop market share is a desirable goal for software which is either distributed under a per-install paid licence or otherwise extracts value on a per-in...

if Skype is available in Flathub, it should have been tested and work ok, otherwise it should be removed. Then you'll have to take that up with Microsoft, Flathub, or the appropriate flathub git repo. Skype is not a Debian package, and none of this has anyhing whatsoever to do with Debian. Much the...

a number of advantages since then systemd can reliable know when the service is ready. We all spent 2+ decades without this particular advantage, and I for one am still not particularly motivated by it. If openssh can be convinced to let in at least some part of the camel (i.e. implement sd_notify ...

I mean preserving it as an example against the assertion that "software is only secure when it is always the most recent up-to-date everything" Of course. This was just too good a "dependency bloat bad" and "I told you so (WRT systemd-entangling everything)" opportunit...

How would you approach this while still retaining systemd support? By patching openssh to support the systemd-notify interface without using an external library? I wouldn't, because I personally don't consider "retaining systemd support" worth the effort, and find the idea of patching dae...

Possibly. Then again, if one were looking for a way to attack openssh then looking through the list of libs it loads for any projects in search of a new maintainer wouldn't be a terribly silly place to start. Aside, the usual deflection from our lord-and-saviour Lennart and his clergy has already be...

Bookmark this for those times when the argument is made that freezing software versions is a security risk. Nah, I think I'll file it under "Why gratuitously linking everything against systemd is a bad idea". As per the KISS principle, security-critical packages like openssh (or, ya know,...

The very early release images were not officially preserved, but some user contributed copies are available. See note here.

Personally I'd suggest skipping LGA775/771 systems, on account of being pre-QPI (i.e. still using a northbridge & common FSB) and power hungry for the performance (especially memory bandwidth, particularly for MP systems). If it's just to play around with none of this really matters of course, b...

A caveat to remember with my advice is it is coming from legit workstation class experience with a whatever it takes mandate ... From what I understand VBox is much better on low end hardware and may be your answer. I've mentioned it before, but it probably bears mentioning again: While KVM/QEMU pe...

Soooooo, are you going to tell us WHICH REPO nfs-common is on or what??? Why? nfs-common is in the main stable repo, as a cursory search on packages.debian.org would reveal. The appropriate source lines for said repo are on the debian wiki, as they have ever been. Don't post a problem again without...