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[Forum] Please welcome bbbhltz, eamanu, and reinob to the moderation team!

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by donald » 2024-12-09 18:08 » in Forum information, requests, and feedback.

Please welcome bbbhltz , eamanu , and reinob as our newest members of the Forums Moderation Team . To reiterate our team structure, each of these...

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2024-12-15 23:20
A Guide to Debian Community Discord

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by Aristocat » 2024-11-17 20:38

Hello everyone! If you're checking this thread, I am the server administrator (or owner) of the Debian Community Discord. You may have encountered a...

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Forum guidelines. Please read before first post!

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Debian Code of Conduct

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A resolution instituting a Code of Conduct for Debian has been passed by the general membership.

Debian Code of Conduct

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What type of computer do you use?

Last post by Bulkley « 2025-01-12 19:48
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by anarchyinc666 » 2008-11-27 16:10
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I thought it would be nice to illustrate the different types of computers everyone uses, be it store bought or home made.

This is were you can brag...
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Last post by Bulkley
2025-01-12 19:48
[Discussion] "Super Simple Installer"-option

Last post by warmice « 2025-01-12 06:47
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by warmice » 2025-01-11 19:19

The Debian installer is great but it's not for the novice computer user. For that user I think it can be a bit much. Adding something like Super...

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Last post by warmice
2025-01-12 06:47
ID= only works for the ESP

Last post by jebez « 2025-01-11 15:11

by jebez » 2025-01-11 15:11

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

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Last post by jebez
2025-01-11 15:11
Debian on family computers

Last post by warmice « 2025-01-11 14:30
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by warmice » 2024-12-09 18:32

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...

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Last post by warmice
2025-01-11 14:30
Why the newline a the end of /etc/fstab is required

Last post by blackbird « 2025-01-10 21:00
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by jebez » 2025-01-10 11:22

My /etc/fstab without the newline at the end:
/dev/disk/by-id/nvme-WDS250G3X0C-00SJG0_185250422455-part3 /efi...

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Last post by blackbird
2025-01-10 21:00
Why is FileZilla Server not in the repo of Debian?

Last post by friendlysalmon88 « 2025-01-09 02:34
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by jebez » 2025-01-06 19:01

Instead of downloading the .deb from

Although there's FileZilla Client

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Last post by friendlysalmon88
2025-01-09 02:34
How to change my email in the Debian bug tracking system

Last post by Bachsau « 2025-01-07 21:26
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by postcd » 2025-01-02 14:13

It seems like I will no longer be reachable under old email address used to report some Debian bugs
This ancient and outdated/user unfriendly bug...

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Last post by Bachsau
2025-01-07 21:26
High consumption of cpu and temperature increase

Last post by CwF « 2025-01-07 00:21
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by danielhb » 2025-01-06 22:59

Hola.
Tengo instaladas tres distribuciones linux basadas en debian (las estoy probando) y en las tres, cuando veo videos de youtube (resolution 720)...

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Last post by CwF
2025-01-07 00:21
[Discussion] Does the Debian team supervise the Linux Kernel?

Last post by jmgibson1981 « 2025-01-06 02:11
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by Diesel330 » 2024-11-22 18:08

My question is if Debian developers have a picture of what is going on in the Linux kernel that they ship with their distribution, or they blindly...

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Last post by jmgibson1981
2025-01-06 02:11
[Discussion] Just to say hello and introduce myself.

Last post by Uptorn « 2025-01-06 01:50
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by SH65FLY » 2025-01-05 19:18

Hi thanks for allowing me to join the forum.
I am a old hand at Linux , started 1992 and still use Debian to this day.
Yes in the years I have done a...

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Last post by Uptorn
2025-01-06 01:50
Why did Valve switch from Debian stable to Arch Linux for the Steam Deck instead of Debian testing or unstable?

Last post by gamingondebian « 2025-01-05 18:15
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by jebez » 2025-01-05 14:47

That's something Valve designer, Lawrence Yang, told us during our hands-on time with the Deck when we asked about the switch from Debian to Arch....

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Last post by gamingondebian
2025-01-05 18:15
Would you recommend Debian to a brand new Linux user? Why/Why not?

Last post by Dai_trying « 2025-01-03 06:29
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by m4c-attack » 2024-09-03 23:14
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A hypothetical I thought about when browsing /r/Debian... and seeing every 'Should I use Debian or ?' question is answered w/ Debian resoundingly....
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Last post by Dai_trying
2025-01-03 06:29
Text editor debate, zoomer edition

Last post by friendlysalmon88 « 2024-12-29 01:57
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by atharv » 2023-10-08 19:06

Vim, emacs and VScode are fawned over to death, but I'd like to talk about what other alternatives my fellow young people are choosing.

I personally...

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Last post by friendlysalmon88
2024-12-29 01:57
[Discussion] Not a rant but a cry for help...

Last post by bbbhltz « 2024-12-22 23:18
Replies: 35
by pierrick » 2024-09-26 10:12
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Returning to Debian after erring into the jungle of various distros (Suse, Fedora, Ubuntu, KUbuntu) for a decade or so. I say erring because...
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Last post by bbbhltz
2024-12-22 23:18
Voice control

Last post by CwF « 2024-12-20 02:15
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by Burnaby_Wayne » 2024-12-20 00:25

Anyone working on voice control of Debian? Not voice to text or text to voice, but voice commands to perform actions such as click the mouse, move...

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Last post by CwF
2024-12-20 02:15
[Discussion] Has anyone ever seen a malware-infected Debian?

Last post by Bloom « 2024-12-16 08:50
Replies: 12
by Uptorn » 2024-12-10 19:02

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...

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Last post by Bloom
2024-12-16 08:50
GIMP 3.0.0~RC1 backported from Sid to Bookworm in my repository

Last post by stevepusser « 2024-12-14 02:55

by stevepusser » 2024-12-14 02:55

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...

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Last post by stevepusser
2024-12-14 02:55
[Discussion] Things About LXQT

Last post by @ttila « 2024-12-13 08:12
Replies: 2
by Mindovermaster » 2024-12-13 04:11

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...

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Last post by @ttila
2024-12-13 08:12
Tmpfs disk savers, from ~/.profile

Last post by CwF « 2024-12-12 23:55
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by CwF » 2024-09-05 17:41
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In ~/.profile I have expanded the past thumbnail tmpfs to the entire ~/.cache, still on watch.
#create tmpfs disk savers
systemd-mount -t tmpfs -o...
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Last post by CwF
2024-12-12 23:55
[solved] How to find the list of kernels ported to stable, testing, and unstable

Last post by Mindovermaster « 2024-12-12 23:23
Replies: 5
by Mindovermaster » 2024-12-12 01:55

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...

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Last post by Mindovermaster
2024-12-12 23:23
Rolling Release Model

Last post by Greg_M « 2024-12-07 05:34
Replies: 6
by Greg_M » 2024-12-05 01:29

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...

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Last post by Greg_M
2024-12-07 05:34
[Discussion] What do you wish you had known years ago?

Last post by kent_dorfman766 « 2024-12-03 04:51
Replies: 19
by Uptorn » 2024-03-05 15:52

Is there any tool or command or simpler/faster way of doing something that you wish you'd known about when starting out on Debian? Or when starting...

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Last post by kent_dorfman766
2024-12-03 04:51
Debian's Community on discord is back

Last post by friendlysalmon88 « 2024-12-03 02:29
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by Narodnaya Volya » 2024-04-22 10:30

Debian's Community on discord is back after it was nuked.
Feel free to join

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Last post by friendlysalmon88
2024-12-03 02:29
Dual Monitor Issue

Last post by arzgi « 2024-11-27 12:57
Replies: 2
by viking007 » 2024-11-27 02:55

Greetings,

I'm new to the Linux environment so am a tad green but I've got a pretty good grasp on computer hardware having almost 25 years...

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Last post by arzgi
2024-11-27 12:57
How does debian-installer set the swap size?

Last post by wizard10000 « 2024-11-26 20:34
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by Noah Engle » 2022-08-19 00:49

Hello, I want to know how Debian chooses the size of the swap partition when using guided partitioning. I've done some research, and it looks like...

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Last post by wizard10000
2024-11-26 20:34
[Discussion] Update of Thunderbird 128.4.3esr-1~deb12u1--no i386 pkgs

Last post by stevepusser « 2024-11-22 01:58

by stevepusser » 2024-11-22 01:58

in Bookworm, though it's there for both Bullseye and Trixie.

It seems to be a bug in Bookworm's default LLVM-14 compiler toolchain, as Trixie's is...

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Last post by stevepusser
2024-11-22 01:58
[Discussion] Where have you been unable to run Debian?

Last post by Uptorn « 2024-11-18 03:03
Replies: 7
by Uptorn » 2024-11-06 16:28

Do you have any devices to which you've wanted to install Debian, but could not for reasons technical or otherwise?

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Last post by Uptorn
2024-11-18 03:03
[Discussion] Things that were never explained to you

Last post by friendlysalmon88 « 2024-11-17 03:00
Replies: 1
by Uptorn » 2024-11-16 05:19

What Debian or Linux matters would you expect should be clearly communicated to newbies, but that you'd had to learn by trial and error?

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Last post by friendlysalmon88
2024-11-17 03:00
Share your Debian SCRIPTS

Last post by CwF « 2024-11-11 21:24
Replies: 94
by fabien » 2022-04-09 14:42
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Share your Debian scripts !
Why keep those valuable pieces of code out of sight?
Being of personal use, their polish is perhaps not as high as if...
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Last post by CwF
2024-11-11 21:24
[Discussion] Software that you wish were in the Debian repositories

Last post by sdibaja « 2024-11-11 13:15
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by Uptorn » 2024-11-04 14:50
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Is there any software that you wish were packaged in Debian? Anything that once was but is no longer available?
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Last post by sdibaja
2024-11-11 13:15
Samba advertises version number and os version

Last post by user1213213 « 2024-11-10 10:55
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by user1213213 » 2024-11-08 02:50

Samba advertises version number and os version when connecting to a share in Windows. This happens under the naming convention. Please does anyone...

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2024-11-10 10:55
Automatic mounting of USB HDD FLASH Pen

Last post by dilberts_left_nut « 2024-11-09 06:13
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by user1213213 » 2024-11-06 09:26

Does anyone in simplest possible terms know how to automatically mount USB HDD's, FLASH Pen's etc?
I'm on Debian server and would like the mounting...

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Last post by dilberts_left_nut
2024-11-09 06:13
My DebianGNU/Linux Bookworm Experience

Last post by Uptorn « 2024-11-08 16:17
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by davinci74 » 2024-11-07 16:28

Hello World! So I'm just stopping by this morning, It's 10 am here in Louisiana,USA and I just want to share my thoughts on my Linux journey. To...

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Last post by Uptorn
2024-11-08 16:17
Looking for some unique and complete themes

Last post by Uptorn « 2024-11-04 14:40
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by LloydLynx » 2023-09-23 01:31

I use MATE on Bookworm on an old 2007 laptop. My theme taste is mainly shiny skeumorphic frutiger aero with a soft spot for that early 2000s fisher...

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Last post by Uptorn
2024-11-04 14:40
Three sound cards all changing card number

Last post by user1213213 « 2024-10-29 16:39
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by user1213213 » 2024-10-29 14:40

How do I ensure my aplay -l card number remains the same and do not jump around changing numbers all the time. I have three sound cards. It's giving...

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Last post by user1213213
2024-10-29 16:39
[Discussion] Rebuilding Debian Community Discord

Last post by Aristocat « 2024-10-27 11:34
Replies: 3
by Aristocat » 2024-10-15 11:49

Good morning ya'll.

I am the owner of the UNOFFICIAL Debian Community discord server. Early yesterday morning, we had a rogue administrator ban all...

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Last post by Aristocat
2024-10-27 11:34
[Discussion] Debian has exceeded all my expectations

Last post by greenelephant « 2024-10-26 03:49
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by distro-nix » 2024-09-15 23:59

Debian became my sole distribution a month ago, but I have been using Linux since the mid-1990s. In fact, I clearly remember when Ian launched Debian...

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2024-10-26 03:49
output and input device not detected

Last post by Aki « 2024-10-04 15:27
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by purpurpetals » 2024-10-02 05:27

yesterday i was clearing some space from the flatpak folder and i stupidly deleted a few files from the flatpak/repo/objects folders
i mustve shut...

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Last post by Aki
2024-10-04 15:27
[Solved] Headphone Microphone Issue on Debian 12

Last post by FreewheelinFrank « 2024-10-03 09:16
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by aadebian12 » 2024-09-28 19:52

Hello,
I have a problem with my headphones. A few days ago I installed Debian 12 and everything works fine except that sometimes the microphone...

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2024-10-03 09:16
Bug report

Last post by Diesel330 « 2024-09-21 07:48
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by Sbilko » 2024-09-19 20:20

Bug report: AVG antivirus found a Trojan in the debian ISO, please check the image.

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Last post by Diesel330
2024-09-21 07:48
Why do you use debian?

Last post by Augie77 « 2024-09-03 15:19
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by F37U5G0D » 2009-05-25 00:50
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Why do you use debian and not another distrobution?
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Last post by Augie77
2024-09-03 15:19
[Discussion] correspondence among deb repositories

Last post by yvs222 « 2024-08-23 15:53
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by yvs222 » 2024-08-04 16:15

Hi everyone,

I have a couple records to PPA in apt sources that used on Debian bookworm.
Using them I have to find out some correspondence (usually...

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Last post by yvs222
2024-08-23 15:53
[Discussion] Microphone issues in Debian 5.10.221-1

Last post by Srishti « 2024-08-02 11:37
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by Srishti » 2024-07-29 04:50

Hi Everyone,

I am currently struggling to enable microphone recording in a GCP VM of configuration- Debian 5.10.221-1 (2024-07-14) x86_64...

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Last post by Srishti
2024-08-02 11:37
[Solved] How to determine if a directory is a mountpoint and if it is mounted or not?

Last post by wizard10000 « 2024-07-30 10:09
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by buhtz » 2024-07-30 07:59

I think about what would be the unixoid way to determine if a directory is a mountpoint and if it is currently mounted or not.

The only way I knew...

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Last post by wizard10000
2024-07-30 10:09
I just found in my system settings a new option: Online Accounts (Debian 11 Cinnamon)

Last post by Dai_trying « 2024-07-25 15:41
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by Diesel330 » 2024-07-25 11:14

Such a disgrace and scary at the same time to find in my settings the logos of Facebook, Google and Microsoft... This was necessary guys right?...

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Last post by Dai_trying
2024-07-25 15:41
What Desktop environment do you use?

Last post by kopper « 2024-07-19 08:44
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by alienspy » 2023-10-28 12:22
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Hello! Let's have a poll about DE popularity.

I guess the votes will be like this for top 5. We will see if i am right :)

1. KDE

2. Gnome

3....
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Last post by kopper
2024-07-19 08:44
[Wanted] "Back In Time" is looking for translators in preparation for the upcoming release 1.5.0

Last post by buhtz « 2024-07-11 13:33

by buhtz » 2024-07-11 13:33

Hello together,

I'm member of the maintenance team of Back In Time (deb: backintime ) a rsync-based backup software.

We are in the middle of...

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Last post by buhtz
2024-07-11 13:33
[Discussion] fstab and impact for use of multiple disks

Last post by pbear « 2024-07-08 01:29
Replies: 3
by KnowKnot » 2024-07-07 11:00

Hi guys,
I have to NVMe sticks - one for the OS and installed apps ()its user part is EXT4), and one which should be basically for storing my data...

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Last post by pbear
2024-07-08 01:29
[Discussion] Help me understand root and sudo

Last post by wizard10000 « 2024-07-04 10:02
Replies: 24
by Augie77 » 2024-04-04 15:16
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During my first install of Debian/Bookworm, I was given the option of setting a root password, or not. Coming from Mint, I knew to use sudo so I...
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Last post by wizard10000
2024-07-04 10:02
[Discussion] Debian Audio System

Last post by FreewheelinFrank « 2024-07-04 06:02
Replies: 5
by PlagueSpale » 2024-02-22 14:46

Hello all, I'm fairly new to Debian (and Linux in whole) and I'm quite interested in what makes a system , i.e how system works, how are processes...

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2024-07-04 06:02

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