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I have recently installed standard Debian 12 with both gnome and LXQt desktops. I wanted to use a bluetooth device and that was easy to do in gnome...

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I've just installed Debian 12 (cinnamon desktop) on my ageing Razer Laptop.

I have a non-functioning windows key and escape key.

My...

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I am new to configuring a 4 port NIC on Debian 12. The hardware in which Debian is installed is a Dell R630 with a Integrated NIC 1: Intel(R)...

Hi for many packages, the latest release is the best and most stable, as opposed to being more risky. For example, wayland environments such as sway...

After a nightmarish day after installing Debian 12 (32bit); I thought I'd go and do the checksums before continuing- just in case an OS that seemed...

I have discovered that conky running on wayland (sway) does not function. Based on my readings this appears to be because conky on Sid is not...

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I recently got a message on Firefox that says:
Some of Firefox’s security features may offer less protection on your current operating system”...

Hello, to upgrade to a much newer kernel, we enable the bookworm-backports source and upgrade the kernel. I noticed that when doing this, it also...

This is hardly a crisis. I'd just like to understand the why of it.

I am currently running nine VM's of Debian 12.8.
I have six hardware devices...

I'm using a MacBook Pro with the latest stable Debian. My network adaptor is Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries BCM4322 802.11a/b/g/n Wireless LAN...

I had a request to backport it to Bullseye and Bookworm bases, but I had to change a load of Qt5 QML package dependencies to the Qt6 qml6-...

Just curious, are there any folks around these parts who are actively using SwayFX? If so are you willing to share information on tricks and tips?...

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I recently upgraded to Debian 12 from 11 a couple months ago and everything works great, with the sole exception of my wifi frequently...

Debian 12

I have a gigabyte AMD motherboard with onboard lan. I added a 10Gb SFP+ PCI-E Network Card to the computer. I have two networks, LAN w/...

I have been setting up a new VM on my machine and been running into an issue.
$ sudo dmesg | grep IOMMU
DMAR: IOMMU enabled
AMD-Vi: AMD IOMMUv2...

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I recently updated my debian bullseye to bookworm and became aware, that I'm not able to use my VPN connection anymore.
I use the Cisco...

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I recently tried to do a sudo apt update and received the following system response.

$ sudo apt update
password for stuart:
Hit:1 bookworm...

Hello. Through lots of luck. I managed to get in contact with the creator of the project scanvirus. A command layer on top clamscan, bash script. I...

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I applied the recent updates to my Debian testing and that also updated my KDE to 6.2.3-1.
However, the System Tray icons have...

I usually install Debian using the minimal netinstall then do the following:

- Install a minimal Plasma desktop with baseapps and spectacle
-...

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We recently migrated debian from CentOS and we are seeing cpu yield is more in Debian (> 4 uSec) compared to CentOS(2 uSec).
May I know why...

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I am running Debian 12 and
ii open-iscsi 2.1.8-1 amd64 iSCSI initiator tools

Target is configured to automatic startup...

I have a serious memory leak in my program. I am trying to debug it with valgrind, but I cannot make it display lines of code for some specific...

Today I tried the most recent netinstall testing (2024-12-03) but each time I tried to install my system with it the installer I stumbled over the...

Since the last X11 security update (not sure if related), my Battery and Brightness menu in KDE becomes completely out of sync with the current...

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I am not able to install Intel's ice iavf and mellanox driver at the same time as there is dependency on auxiliary driver.
Getting below...

Please help install Debian 12 on Apple Xserve.

I installed Debian x64 netbook to a USB. It loads on the xserver. I can get the installer going by...

Hi all, is there a way to disable 'grub-install' during 'apt upgrade' ?

If I rename it, during the upgrade what apt does ?

I have linux-image-6.10.11-686-pae installed but it is marked as obsolete and there are no other kernels available.
Thanks.

I updated the various qemu packages last weekend (2024.09.28). I have been running a Windows 10 guest quite successfully for several years but since...

Hello guys,
I have an issue with my Intel WiFi 6 AX201 (rev11) on Bookworm

The wifi option doesn't show up in settings or ip a

I installed Debian...

I am having a hard time with Linux to be honest. Everything is just so complicated compared to Windows and I feel I am getting too old for all this...

Concerns :
webkit2gtk security update :
For the stable distribution (bookworm), these problems have been fixed in
version 2.46.4-1~deb12u1.

All...

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I have a Thinkpad X200 (pretty old I know, but I like it), with Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm), and I'd like to put a custom firmware on it....

I'm on Debian 12 using XFCE.
When I open the lid of my laptop and it wakes from sleep, it briefly shows the screen before prompting me for the...

I am attempting to run azote on Wayland Sway using sid. The following error is being thrown.

Any help is appreciated.

mark@debian ~
╰─➤ azote...

I bought a new laptop with an nvidia rtx 4070 dgpu and i was trying to install Q4OS Plasma (based on debian + kde plasma) and ran into a problem.
I...

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I want to create/build an ISO Debian 12 with using preseed file to made an unattended installation on VMWare infrastructure.

I use the note to...

After six years of stalled development, it appears a new developer(s) will be picking up rkhunter .

I had wondered why rkhunter hadn't been...

system: debian 12 kde
I have an Intel AX200 wifi card in my pc. This cards works ok but I see a small issue in the output of teh command 'dmesg |...

I am looking forward to retiring my ThinkPad T440s, so I am wondering what do you think is the best Debian laptop, according to the following...

During boot of my Debian 12 I get the following error:
lis 13 11:39:27 pluton kernel: integrity: Loaded X.509 cert 'Microsoft Windows Production PCA...

Hullo!
I Am considering migrating from X to Wayland, mostly for quite specific reasons and blah blah blah,
but also because it seems fairly...

Hi, I recently obtained a Ryzen 7 laptop. It is a new laptop from a new Chinese company called N-One who have been making mini PCs before and now...

F.T.C. Launches Antitrust Investigation Into Microsoft

(click the link, it is not behind a paywall)

Regulators are demanding information from the...

Hi, I recently installed debian 12 on my 16 yo computer. I am using XFCE and disabled some startup services namely-Power manager, Print Queue Applet,...

Kernel 6.11.7 and 6.11.9 hangs intermittently while booting
Console displays the following message

sd 2:0:0:0: No Caching mode page found
sd...

Hi guys! I've checked this up online but i can't find a straight forward answer. I have this line of code running in Kidalog answer=$(kdialog...

I want to run an '𝕏 Spaces' on 𝕏.

In their Help Center it says:

Spaces is a way to have live audio conversations on X. Anyone can join, listen,...

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I have currently a dual boot with windows and debian 10.

I have to migrate from debian 10 to debian 12, so I tried to install...