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Which distro for daily-use main computer? Says,

Debian 12 (many selectable desktops, which one is good?)
Ubuntu LTS 24.04
other deb based Linuxs...

Today when I did the most recent update to the 6.1.0-30-amd64 kernel I noticed that installing all possible localisation and language files for...

Recently reinstalled Debian due to some issues. Previous install had Cinnamon default, which I later changed to XFCE via command line install. Then I...

Hi!

Currently I'm running Debian 12 with xfce on my old laptop. I'm pretty sure it has bluetooth adapter on board. I've tried to pair my headset...

When I do
df -h
It should shows the drives as /dev/mapper/disk1 /dev/mapper/disk2 etc but it is showing them as /dev/dm-1 /dev/dm-2

It only started...

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Being lot more used of ZFS (I have some little difficulties weth mdadm and Linux software raid so far). After having done quite some extended...

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Since a recent reboot (and quite some preceding uptime) into Linux 6.12.6 and later 6.12.9, my Trixie installation does not show nor use any HDMI...

I have host machine (debian bookworm) on terminal with kvm guest machine (also debian bookworm). I want to migrate my sound from bluetooth speaker...

I have a persistent issue with Scrivener running in Lutris (ie, Wine). Every time I use a touchpad swipe gesture to either switch workspaces or...

Debian and other Linux distributions reserve 5% of a filesystem for the root account; this is so unprivileged users can't completely fill up a...

Dear Community,

powertop is reporting quite the powerdraw due to interrupts compared to idle when I touch the touch pad (XPS 13 9315 with an Intel...

Not fully sure if this is the right place to share some conclusions of a day of migration experiments, saving others some time. Happy to be...

Hello Debian Community!

I saw that this community started a Discord community. I would propose that Debian look into on the Internet Computer...

1. When I sign something with gbp in the host system the terminal brings up a dialog with a password field (I use XFCE). When I do this in a chroot...

Hello. I've got an Intel Arc A380. I'm trying to compute pytorch computations to the XPU device on it. However, the guides from Intel are for Ubuntu...

I have a physical bare-bone systems with Vecow SPC-9100 hardware Intel Core Ultra 7 165U series.
dmidecode and lshw commands are not displaying the...

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ukify build --linux=/vmlinuz --initrd=/initrd.img --cmdline='root=/dev/disk/by-id/nvme-WDS250G3X0C-00SJG0_185250422455-part1...

I'm trying to confirm that I have the Intel HD 4600 working on my server. It's headless and getting a display connected to it is trouble because it's...

I have Bookworm installed with Samba Version 4.17.12-Debian configured as a domain controller with internal dns.

Windows 11 clients can join and log...

I am happy to announce the release of SbK Debian Openbox 125.
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I am happy to announce the release of SbK Debian Cinnamon 125.
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I am happy to announce the release of SbK Debian LXQt 125.
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I am happy to announce the release of SbK Debian Xfce 125.
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I am happy to announce the release of SbK Debian Talking Mate 125.
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I have noticed something (since installing Trixie) I have never seen before on any of the Debian based distro I have used in the past. If I miss...

i've always found it funny how much more stable debian's unstable distribution compared to the stabler rolling release distros.

unstable is far from...

I'm wanting to run waydroid however, the laptop that I'm writing this post on is a IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon ^th generation. It's currently...

Hello, today I booted up my computer and found my background has been switched to xfce's default background. I tried to change it by following these...

Hi,

In the moment I don't want to update from plasma 5 to plasma 6. Which packages should I set to hold to avoid the update for now?

Although I'm not convinced System and Network Config is the correct forum for this, the historical posts related to Apache HTTP tend to cluster...

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...

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...

Hi All,

We at Waverian decided to rewrite the ancient Livermore Loops for modern OSes, write both a CLI , a lib, and a GUI for it + publish the...

The feedbot is broken, not sure how I forgot this one. :)

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OpenStreetMap migrates to Debian 12

On Wed 27 November 2024 with tags...

Happy 20th anniversary with love to Mozilla's Thunderbird and Firefox suites, 20 years of strength and security in the world of FLOSS! #mozilla...

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...

I am happy to announce the release of SbK Debian Cinnamon 12/24.
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I am happy to announce the release of SbK Debian LXQt 12/24.
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The SpinsbyKilz.com watermark is not present in the...

I am happy to announce the release of SbK Debian Xfce-Compiz 12/24.
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I am happy to announce the release of SbK Debian Talking Mate 12/24.
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Hello,

Trying to install latest Debian netinstall on an old Apple Xserve. I see there is now a boot32 on the 64 bit so grub boots. After this I can...

After installing a pdf-tools package inside emacs and writing (pdf-tools-install) in init.el, emacs offered me at launch to recompile some epdfinfo...

I've got a Thinkpad T430 (11-12 years old), with Core i7 and 16 GB RAM -- still a very serviceable machine -- and I've got an extended internal...

Please how to discover why Debian 12 bug reporting (KDE Crash Handler) says: Submitting bug report... for a hour+ ?

Package: reportbug
Version:...

I cannot get OpenVPN to tunnel traffic using the connection. The traffic ends up outside the tunnel. The tunnel gets established but no traffic is...

Well, sort of working - you have to launch it from a terminal but I plagiarized and modified a short script - it looks like this: #!/bin/bash

xhost...

I have a Dell Precision laptop and use a Logitech M705 with a Unifying receiver. I'm running Bookworm with Cinnamon manually installed (for the sake...