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10 Episodes for Season 1 each episode based on a popular or well known video game:

PAC-MAN
Warhammer 40,000
Concord
Mega Man
Unreal Tournament...

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A week ago I was having a little bit of trouble adding the weather report icon to the system tray on Debian Bookworm. I eventually managed it...

Not counting servers, has anyone ever seen a malware-infected Debian end user device? Or any distro for that matter?

I have most certainly come...

Hi community,

I have 3 drives on my system - one for debian (EXT4), one for windows (NTFS) and another for shared data storage (NTFS). I want to...

Debian 13

uname -a
Linux server3 6.11.10-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.11.10-1 (2024-11-23) x86_64 GNU/Linux

Have a Fibocom FM350-GL...

I would like to investigate the file structure of several microSD cards that I have thus I am in need of a hex disk editor, preferably one with a...

When 2FA started years ago I put it on everything that would allow it. It worked great and many security or password apps supported the feature as...

I would like to replace my existing ISC-DHCP HA installation with a KEA HA solution, as the ISC-DHCP server has reached the end of its support life....

Yesterday I installed the proposed software updates on Debian 12, including Chromium, and that made Chromium disappear. Trying to install it again...

I have recently removed some packages with the use of globs: $ sudo apt remove libreoffice-* , $ sudo apt remove cheese* , $ sudo apt remove...

I have an Asus Vivobook X1704VA laptop: my keyboard locks up randomly. At first I thought the problem might be with the xserver-xorg-input-libinput...

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I made two silly mistakes that have resulted in broken dependencies and broken boot state:
- tried to upgrade distros without ensuring all...

Snippet from /var/log/apt/term.log:

...
Setting up linux-kbuild-6.12.3 (6.12.3-1) ...
Setting up linux-image-6.12.3-amd64 (6.12.3-1) ...
I:...

Follow the directions you get to add the repository and its key when you click the Download Package link. This update has roughly ten dependent...

So I got myself a Thinkpad T480 and thought I'd upgrade the current NVMe up to 2TB. I ordered a Kingston KC3000 PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2 and replaced the...

I have just configured Cinnamon and when using the Nemo file manager, navigation is extremely slow. I take 5 seconds to move between folders even if...

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I have an error when reboot/shutdown.
It is about a partition I think about unmounting.
It does not cause a problem accessing the partition.
I do...

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/...

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

Target is configured to automatic startup...

Since installing Debian 12 along with the confusion related to different DE's - I've had tech solving fatigue every day; during this I did seem to...

I recently set up 2 old computers with Debian 12 and gnome for my kids(3 and 4 years old) and wanted to share the experience. They love clicking...

I'm not a new user to Linux, as I started with Debian Squeeze. All those years ago.

But, after using XFCE, GNOME, MATE, KDE, and others all these...

Hello everyone. It has been 3 weeks since I first noticed the following issue and I would like to ask if anyone else has noticed it too.

After...

I remember I saw this before, but I can't find it for the life of me.

It was within Debian website.

It has a list of kernels that were ported to...

I have provisioned a Debian 11 bullseye system as a QEMU/KVM guest on a Linux host. The guest runs XFCE, but the display is not scaling with the...

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

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

Because I've had it happen on two machines. The first one I noticed was originally installed a Neptune OS install from Summer 2023 that I upgraded to...

On a Lenovo 100S 11IBY )64bit processor/32bit firmware hybrid) Laptop with an Intel Atom 1.33gHz processor; 2GB of RAM. All audio seems to work...

Using command line I want to be able to rename a quantity of files to remove
the words and characters;

.0 (dot zero)

Here's the file name-...

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,...

Debian 12, MATE.

Having a really strange apparently input issue that is rendering my system 100% unusable.

The initial symptoms manifested as:...

When I installed Debian Bookworm 12.7 my wifi did not work. I ended up backporting kernel 6.9.7+bpo-amd64.

I was wonder if I reinstall bookworm and...

Hello all,

I am using sway which I launch from a TTY (no gdm). Screen sharing via firefox works if I open a terminal and run...

If so, you can prevent the kvm module's new selfish load at boot and not let other virtualization run behaviour with a kvm.conf setting:

echo...

I am regretting not taking notes when I was looking over some README.Debian.gz involving disk encryption, because I can no longer locate it. The...

Using Debian 12 32 bit on a low spec. laptop*; only installed a few days ago. Initiating a video in YouTube or from my files results in a phht sound...

Radeon HD7670M; Debian 12

Is there a way to automatically assign the PGD to GPU intensive applications, so I don't have to add a 'DRI_PRIME=1'...

Is it possible to run VM in live debian gnome usb?
If tor proxies are set up in live debian gnome then will they be auto setup in the VM too? I tried...

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,

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...

I'm trying to compile a kernel module that uses the persistent-data framework , but I'm having trouble identifying the package to install for it....

Hi all... I'm a bit 'green' when it comes to Linux installation procedures.

On Windows, I've used NTLite tool to build a custom Windows installer...

Hi, apologies if wrong section.

I generate svg with custom background like so :

mmdc version

$ mmdc -V
11.4.2
$ cat test.mermaid...