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I've got something like 7-8 month of Linux experience. What got me hooked, was when I learned to do a cli...

For my own organization and ease of backing up, I prefer adding a few directories like Projects and Podcasts to my Home directory (rather than...

Hello everyone, I am interested is it possible to add default menu in plank in Cinnamon DE?
or is has to be only Xfce to be able to add Whisker Menu...

Hi guys,
The script doesn't want to play on boot.
I tried this :
sudo vim /etc/systemd/system/win95.service

Description=windows95start.sh...

Hello, I'm trying to install Debian 11.3 and I get a firmware error during the initial install. I made sure I placed the non-free firmware files in...

Anyone else having syslog spammed with these kind of messages?

/var/log/kern.log:Mar 27 00:11:27 hostname kernel: clocksource: timekeeping...

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I am trying to install Debian 10.7 with non free firmware on my brand new HP Pavilion Gaming 16 laptop. For some reason, the installer tries to...

I am installing Debian 11.3 on my DELL Inspriron 5515 laptop with an AMD Ryzen 5500U with an on-die Ryzen GPU. The laptop also comes with an Atheros...

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I'm a new user in Debian's world. From the first day, I'm having an issue with freshclam app. Namely, I can't update its virus database using...

Preamble: I have researched online and read manual pages, specifically that of crypttab. I think I'm almost there but may still be missing something...

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I installed Debian 11.3.0 amd64, the custom locations for the mount points didn't change, it's about /home, /boot etc.

I managed to create...

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1) first (always) say something positive

being a big fan of...

Gaming is usually thought of as an activity from the GUI, but there are several nice CLI-based games that will run fine on just about any hardware....

I'm using Debian 11 on a spare desktop as a server, and after anywhere from 5 to 25 days it'll lock up and I'll have to force restart it by holding...

Hello everyone,
After installing Bullseye I started getting this warning in journal

NetworkManager : sup-iface : call-p2p-cancel: failed with P2P...

About plymouth :

probably has to do with the fact that for all my installations of Debian I use the...

Good day, all. I have been around Linux off and on for many years but would still consider myself a newbie. I have been poking around and have not...

Hope you all are well, dear friends and leaders.

Earlier djvu could be opened and read with add-on with evince or okular program.

Suppose I have...

On my AMD x570 chipset based system the current kernel linux-image-5.10.0-10-amd64 broke SATA hotplug, if I revert to linux-image-5.10.0-9-amd64...

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I use firewall-cmd to manage the firewall on Bullseye. On some servers, I get sometimes (no specific time) these error messages in syslog:

May...

I have been using pipewire on debian testing.
It is working great for my music needs, except that i'm not able to do Audio Sharing from Zoom

Debian...

I installed Debian on my laptop

$cat /etc/debian_version
bookworm/sid

$ sudo dmidecode | grep -A3 '^System Information'
System Information...

Considering the following scenario: a customer has charged me with selling them a custom made Debian PC (x64) that runs a specific open-source app in...

Hi everyone,

I am using a Dell Latitude 7404 and I installed Debian 11 for the first time a couple of months ago.
I have an issue with the keyboard...

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I need to get one simple program that connects with an external device through usb that only works on windows.
I don't like or want...

TL;DR - I have a DELL Inspiron 5515 laptop which includes an AMD Ryzen 5500U CPU with an on-die AMD Ryzen GPU. I have attempted to both launch the...

I have Peppermint11 (debian) installed on a six year old Acer Aspire ES1-521 laptop. The trackpad stopped working after the OS was installed. Google...

I am downloading some old versions of Jira server, and I am presented with an OBR file, when I lookup the file attributes, I get this:
# file...

This may have been asked so I apologize for bringing this up again.
When initially installing and you opt for LVM and encryption, is there a way to...

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I plan to buy a Pc with a 12th generation processor.
To support this processor I need the kernel 5.16 at least. I woul like to install bullseye...

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I'm having trouble loading ec_sys kernel module (in-tree, under drivers/acpi) that I myself compiled and signed. I'm running Debian 11 with...

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I have a very strange problem after updating to bullsyeye.
The update went smoothly as the last two machines I updated...
Only surprise was...

I am running Debian fully updated on an old macbook laptop. It's using the nouveau drivers for the Nvidia 9400m. Both Firefox and Chromium freeze...

Good afternoon to all.

Excuse my english.

I recently installed Debian 10 on a MacBook 4.1 and I found that it has an internal microphone.

I am...

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I finally installed a brand new Debian bullseye v11.3 into my 13 yrs.
old PC since my Jessie v8 was just too old and needed to start clean....

I'm a Debian beginner, and I use Debian 11 as the main application in parallel, and Bookworm as a side application on another disk ...
On Bookworm,...

after upgrading (more like a fresh install with Bullseye), I am encountering frequent system freeze on my LXDE desktop without warning. The following...

Hallo,
I have an old cubietruck, which is old, but still runs and is sufficient for my purposes as a web server.
Since armbian no longer supports...

I am new to Debian and am trying to set up hyperledger the code works fine until I execute then gives the following:
./prereqs-debian.sh: line 1:...

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I updated system using apt update && apt upgrade , then issued command apt install openjdk-17-jdk and it returned an error:
The following...

When I first installed Debian 11 on my laptop, I immediately install the game 0 AD from Discover; when I realized that the game version was woefully...

Edit: Updated older post for Jessie. Older post for Wheezy can be found here:

What is Usenet anyway?

Usenet is a worldwide distributed Internet...

I followed the instructions on this wiki page to install the wifi drivers on my Thinkpad X1 Carbon under jessie/stable. Basically, I installed the...

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I just installed Debian 11.3.0 x64, but I'm really struggling to install KVM and the relative UI offered by QEMU (pardon the literacy if it's...

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I just installed Debian 11.3.0 amd64 and I use Gnome, but the UI lags a lot, even the menu lags a lot just moving with the keyboard around,...

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I've just acquired a new laptop and am installing Debian Buster on it. during the boot sequence Light DM is halting it from continuing....

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I just installed Debian 11.3.0 amd64, the mouse lags constantly, I'm using Gnome.

Do you know any better driver present in stable ? I'm...