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I refurbish old computers and then donate them to good causes — for example, to non-profits that help kids with cancer or the...

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I'm using Debian 11
Hardware : HP Elitebook Folio 9470m

NOTE : The battery is not an original HP brand laptop battery, I purchased it from...

Hopefully I'm putting this in the correct forum. I am a long time admin, but this one has me stumped. When I first bootup and login to my laptop...

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My apologies if this has been answered here before. A swap partition is 1G I would like to expand it to 20G. In the past I used Gparted...

This morning my grandparents managed to get ransomwared on their chromebook. This issue somehow also caused my Debian desktop system to hard freeze...

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I have a problem with my Logitech C922 webcam. The microphone does not work anymore. It's is recognized by pulseaudio and is not muted:
*...

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In SDDM، after shutdown، service shutdown process is displayed، but not in gdm.
How can I set gdm to show the services shutting down in...

I would like to run a personal VPN server at home so I can remotely connect to my LAN at home and access shared drives.

I have never done this, so I...

Have downloaded and installed VM VirtualBox with Windows 11 Pro Environment, however VBox configuration will not run due to missing Linux Kernal...

I have two similar desktop pc, Dell i5. One installed with MS Windows(version?), the other with Debian 12. The Windows system can connect to my hdmi...

Setting up nut-client on a RPi 3B+ and a RPi 4B. Both hardware version fail as follows:

admin@nut-clientns1080:~ $ upsc nut-clientns1080@localhost...

I just set up an Optiplex 7050 Micro with a fresh install of Debian 11 Gnome. The only thing installed so far is available updates, openssh server,...

Since migrating a large forum that I administer to Discourse with Docker about 6 months ago I’ve been seeing infrequent crashes, with the cloud VM...

Is it possbile to set a dark theme for the forum page?

Hello, so I mount my google drive unit in debian so I can backup my homeworks, however I wanna make a symbolic link in Documents to the google drive...

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I don't know what happened, I didn't change anything on my old debian8 server (uptime around 1600 days) but suddenly vim stopped working...
when...

I am running Debian 12 on a USB stick on an ASUS Chromebook C100P. Every so often, usually about 5 minutes after booting the computer, the keyboard...

Hi, I used to have Debian then I installed Windows in another partition and GRUB menu was lost.

I tried the default solution to reinstall grub etc...

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I need to have executable file on desktop.

Created file on desktop (from cmd is command working)
Xorg –query 172.28.87.189 –dpi 100 :199...

i have a problem with steam games (as of right now team fortress 2 is the only game i have tested) where team fortress 2 will close a few seconds...

I installed the live install app debian-12.1.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso SHA256:9168ff53d789537db4f5233e7dfa5e860519c44b68132b70805218f842b00041

The live...

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I have chromium/stable-security,now 117.0.5938.62-1~deb12u1 amd64
It should have fixed Bug#1051355 , but it still appears in my...

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Since few years, I'm facing more and more complexity with obtaining latest version of an application versus the security path to follow. I know...

I'm just after a sanity check on my plans before I start re-creating servers.

More than a decade ago I was introduced to ZFS and started using...

As the title says, I much prefer the Linux Mint Cinnamon icons, such as lock, shut down, etc.. over the Debian Cinnamon icons.

Before I move files I...

In Debian Bookworm, with Mate Desktop Environment Pulseaudio is the audio server installed by default. I had some troubles when trying to connect my...

Moved from a thread that has been labeled solved :

Doing file transfers between host and guest is trivial with VirtualBox; but it is nothing but...

From it appears that the Debian appstream generation was last done on Sep 2 ( Last updated on: 2023-09-02 20:55 )

Any reason why it hasn't been...

In all graphic applications that I run and need root access, I can't access them. It appears the window, but not the gap to introduce the root...

I Only use my HP LaserJet PRO M426dfw printer about twice a year. I haven't had a need to do two-sided printing since switching to Debian about 18-20...

I bought a second-hand Lenovo, 8 years old, with an existing Windows 11. It also has a BIOS and an EFI partition, which I did not think was possible,...

Is there any guidance how to provision an eSIM for the WWAN card under Debian (or any Linux for that matter)?

If I see correctly ModemManager does...

I've had a Dell Latitude for a while. I'd upgraded from bullseye to bookworm earlier this summer. I decided that since the system was rather old it...

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I'd like to know the proper way to install an up-to-date version of gajim with omemo support in Debian 12. The current package version in the...

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I tried the last weekly images at

but these images are from 4 September and seems that are not updated.

What is the correct link for the...

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I have set up a Debian 12 minimal Server for my environtment and I have installed ntpsec using apt install ntp, which got me ntp ntpsec...

The print screen key is mapped to a different application that doesn't automatically store a png. How can I map it to shutter?

Hello,
As a result of some problems (exposed in another thread) this past weekend I performed a fresh install of Debian 12 Stable KDE.

Well, after...

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I'm member of the maintenance team of the Back In Time ( deb: backintime ). The team works voluntarily without payment and budget.

In the...

Due to some problems I have decided to try upgrading from Debian12 Stable to testing.
To do this I have followed the steps in the debian wiki where...

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I'm trying to process a bunch of text (email) files read one by one from a zip file into a pipe.

Assuming process is a script that reads stdin,...

Hello! I often notice that if i use NTFS flash/pen drive in Windows after using it in Linux, Windows asks for disk repair. Recently NTFS flash drive...

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I'm just wondering what motivated development of LVM and what the benefits of using it are?

For a 'home workshop' type setup, LVM seems less...

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Does anyone know if there is such a thing as a BIOS rescue cd, that is, a disk that can boot into, display the current settings of, and enable...

Operating System: Debian Bookworm
Desktop Environment: Xfce

I have Debian with all the latest updates installed. After installing software like...