I Have To Agree!

#Linux #Windows #Debian #LinuxMint #Ubuntu #FedoraAtomic #Fedora #ArchLinux #Arch #Meme #Memes #Humor

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Cartoon penguin with a yellow beak and feet sits smiling. Red text on its belly reads, "Today is the official funeral of Microsoft Windows 10..."

A while ago, my brother gave me his old Samsung NC110 netbook. I was contemplating just tossing it to recycling, but ended up installing #BoronLinux on it. Boron interface isn't half-bad for small netbook displays, but it isn't exactly light-weight as it runs the full #debian kernel. Still, it takes up only slightly over quarter of 2GB memory, so with the light-weight desktop environment, it's not too bad considering the potato CPU and low RAM. I'm thinking if I should replace the HDD with a spare SSD, maybe RAM as well if I got my hands on an upgrade for gratis, just because - not that I have any particular use for it, though. Maybe #pihole? Still, I'd probably prefer passive cooling for any Pi-hole applications.

https://www.bunsenlabs.org/

#doomEternal auf Nightmare habe ich ja jetzt durch, auf #Control habe ich gerade noch nicht so richtig Lust ​​ Was soll ich heute Abend anfangen? Irgendwas kurzweiliges, aber belangloses wäre nett. #debian #linux #gaming

Some of these linux distros absolutely need better marketing and information presentation! There are kickass features I discover in some of these that has me like, "why wasn't this obvious or prominently highlighted before this is awesome!"

#linux #opensource #linuxmint #fedora #ubuntu #arch #debian

#FOSS #Unix #init #dinit #Debian @Devuan #Linux

Well this is going to cause a stir.

I wonder how other distros depending on Debian will feel about this change.

"It's important for the project as whole to be able to
move forward and rely on modern tools and technologies
and not be held back by trying to shoehorn modern software
on retro computing devices."
This quote from the article vexes me deeply. It feels like an accusation as an confession.

https://lwn.net/ml/all/20251031213541.GA73786@debian.org/

#linux #debian

#Debian introducing hard #Rust dependencies in APT. I don’t care about Rust at all, and also don’t care about APT internals as long as it works. But Rust developers never fail to word their rewrite announcements sound arrogant and totally dick. https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2025/10/msg00285.html

@rqm Looking at that thread, there are definitely people who are not thrilled about the idea.

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2025/11/msg00004.html

#Debian

Call me a reactionary but I seriously think #debian dropping support for all old hardware because .. Rust... is very shortsighted.
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2025/10/msg00285.html

Endlich! Ich habe es geschafft, die Dovecot-Konfiguration aus meiner Mailserver-Anleitung auf das neue Dovecot 2.4 aus Debian Trixie anzupassen.

Welche Parameter anzupassen sind (und eine komplette Beispielkonfiguration) findet ihr in meinem Blog:

"Alte Dovecot Konfiguration zu Dovecot 2.4 (Debian Trixie) migrieren" - https://thomas-leister.de/mailserver-migrate-config-to-dovecot-2.4-debian-trixie/

#mailserver #blog #selfhosting #dovecot #debian #trixie

I'm running some tests on my old and trusted Raspberry Pi A+.
I've installed Raspbian - latest release, lite version. At the prompt, it's using 92 MB of RAM, mainly due to systemd and NetworkManager. As soon as you use it (even just for apt), it starts swapping and becomes almost unusable. It took 5 minutes just to install Python.

I tried NetBSD (on the same memory card): 35 MB of RAM used (including Postfix!) and it's totally usable.

#RunBSD #NetBSD #Raspbian #Linux #Debian

What would you think about a new API endpoint that lets you run unattended upgrades with a simple call like:

/nodes/{node_name}/apt/upgrade

#Linux #OpenSource #PatchManagement #Security #DevOps #Automation #Ansible #PVE #PVE8 #PVE9

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A Proxmox Node running apt-get -y dist-upgrade command via API in a non interactive and unattended way by a patched and extended API from gyptazy

Q4OS 6.1 "Andromeda" released, based on Debian 13.1 "Trixie", with KDE Plasma 6.3.6 and Trinity desktop 14.1.5

https://q4os.org/blog.html#news250912

#q4os #debian #linux #kdeplasma #trinitydesktop #linuxdesktop #debiantrixie

#pve #pve8 #pve9 #airgapped #offline #airgap #debian #repository #apt #mirror #aptmirror #opensource #virtualization

https://gyptazy.com/blog/proxmox-in-air-gapped-environment-local-repository-mirror/

https://gyptazy.com/blog/debian-13-trixie-final-lxc-container-image-for-proxmox8-proxmox-9/

Just upgraded my test laptop to #Debian #Trixie. Upgrade process couldn't have been any smoother...or any more boring!

Will be upgrading the daily driver this week.

This is one of the reasons why I love Debian. Rock solid stability, predictable, and boring aren't just for servers!

#Linux

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A newly upgraded Debian Linux system running the hyfetch command line program. Hyfetch, a neofetch fork, prints the system's specs along with a Pride-colored Debian logo in a terminal.

@jhx happy birthday, #Debian!

Debian turned 32 today! 🎉

💡 The Debian project was officially founded on August 16, 1993, by Ian Murdock. This day is also known as Debian Day.

#linux #debian

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Happy Birthday, Debian, August 16, 1993. There are two numerical balloons over the Debian logo on the left that say 32. Below, there are many balloons and confetti.

Ceci n'est pas Linux.

#illumos #SmartOS #Debian #Linux

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The default Apache Debian index.html - but actually running inside a LX zone on SmartOS

I recently had to do some Docker related things which meant that it was time to retry Linux. My first idea was to install Debian SID and Void Linux - using dm-crypt and LVM on a spare laptop, and I wanted to tell the story of my time using each, as maybe you can get something out of it. Let'a get on with the story now.

# 1. Setting up Debian

I had no idea if the GUI installer for Debian was going to cause an issue, so I went for the next best thing: a KDE image and debootstrap. I was pretty confused by a lot of things, examples of which being setting rd.luks.uuid, locales, and I thought I install systemd in the initramfs as if it were Arch but I eventually gave up and used /etc/crypttab with it working. I had a Debian with full KDE setup in 2 days.

# 2. Setting up Void

I also set up Void while booted into Debian because I had prepared LVM for that when setting up Debian. I had to variate from the Void Linux disk encryption setup because using LUKS1 just felt weird. But I did borrow the crypttab setup from Debian which worked with a caveat: I had to decrypt twice. This was fixed by someone in the voidlinux libera channel thankfully. I had a nearly fully working Void with KDE setup at the end.

# 3. Issues with Void

With everything setup so that PipeWire could start with D-Bus, it did not start. I had another issue related to wireplumber and pipewire-pulse because I forgot to link their configs to `/etc/pipewire/pipewire.conf.d`. Other than that, no notable issues with Void.

# 4. Issues with Debian

I really like packaging things, and thought of adding a package I really wanted to Debian, but I really cannot wrap my head around packaging for Debian. I get it somewhat, use the `dh-*` set of tools to make a package for Meson, cargo, etc. but I'm still kind of stumped outside of that. I really like FreeBSD ports, NixOS packages and XBPS templates from Void as they are really simple to work with. I won't say that it's awful to work with Debian's packaging as I really have not had enough time to understand it.

# 5. Next stop, NixOS

I was previously a NixOS user, and I really need to revisit it as I used to really like it and haven't used it in a while. Additionally, I am also a maintainer for a few nixpkgs packages myself, so it would probably be a good idea for me to use NixOS to have the nicities of it while also contributing back to nixpkgs more. I like it for the same reasons as everyone else.

# 6. Why not FreeBSD

I love FreeBSD, and would like to put it on everything I own, but I had to use Docker. Installing Docker in FreeBSD looks really messy. I had no choice other than to set up Linux, on thankfully a spare laptop and not my main machine. I'll be honest, if I didn't need Docker, I would just use FreeBSD on that laptop.

# 7. The End

That's my chaptered semi-rant about my journey with 2 Linux Distributions, and any options I may also pick. Honestly, FreeBSD is not as complicated in my opinion due to documentation, tooling and ease of use of said tooling. Jails, bhyve and other nicities are also pretty cool. Tha ks for reading.

#voidlinux #debian #linux #lvm #luks #freebsd #nixos

Debian 13 "Trixie" released with official support for riscv64, HTTP boot support, 64-bit time_t ABI, GNOME 48, KDE Plasma 6.3, Xfce 4.20, LXQt 2.1, Linux Kernel 6.12 LTS

https://www.debian.org/releases/trixie/release-notes/index.en.html

#debian #debian13 #linux

My home desktop - 1 March 2000 - a Pentium 233 MMX.
The OS was Debian Linux - you can see a printed Tux near the keyboard.
No broadband connection, just a 56k modem.
Iomega Zip drive - so I could download stuff at Uni and bring it back home.
One year later, this became my first 24/7 server.

#IT #SysAdmin #Linux #Debian #Throwback #Memories #Vintage #OldPhotos #OldTimes #OldNerd #OldMe #VintageSetup

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A late 1990s - early 2000s computer setup on a white desk, featuring a large beige Sony CRT monitor, a beige tower PC with front-facing floppy disk and CD-ROM drives, an external 56k modem, a beige keyboard, and various scattered items such as CDs, cables, and glasses. Behind the monitor is a large black Sony speaker, and a motorcycle poster hangs on the wall. The photo’s timestamp reads “1.3.2000.”

Proxmox VE 9.0 released based on Debian 13 "Trixie", with snapshots for thick-provisioned LVM shared storage, affinity rules in HA clusters, new fabrics function for SDN, support for adding new devices to a ZFS RAID-Z Pool with minor downtime

https://www.proxmox.com/en/about/company-details/press-releases/proxmox-virtual-environment-9-0

#proxmoxve #proxmox #debian13 #debian #hypervisor #virtualization

#RUNBSD! But BoxyBSD now also starts to support #Linux! We're starting soon with the Linux support for already present users, offering free boxes:

* #AlmaLinux
* #Alpine
* #Debian
* #Devuan
* #CentOS
* #Fedora
* #Gentoo
* #OpenSuse
* #OpenEuler
* #RockyLinux

Just next to our core OS like #FreeBSD, #OpenBSD, #NetBSD, #MidnightBSD and #DragonflyBSD (and #illumos). This should also make the step easier to compare and test different scenarios where BSD provides a different behavior compared to Linux systems.

Thanks to @gyptazy for the implementation!

#VPS #VM #VirtualMachine #OpenSource #Hosting #IPv6 #BGP #FreeHosting #Community

The release of Debian 13 "Trixie" is near as the Full Freeze starts on July 27th. The final release it set for August 9th.

Debian 13 will add official support for riscv64, a total amount of 11294 new packages, over 42821 packages will be updated, and it will transition to 64-bit time_t ABI

More informations on their release notes:
https://www.debian.org/releases/trixie/release-notes/whats-new.en.html#what-s-new-in-the-distribution

#debian #debian13 #linux

I have a theory about 6-month Linux and BSD upgrades having their own kind of "stability" because there's not as far to go between releases https://zola.passthejoe.net/blog/six-month-stability/

#Linux #Fedora #Silverblue #OpenBSD #Debian #Ubuntu

This time it's #Debian with #Docker. I used to avoid containers, preferring to run services directly instead. But setting up backups made me appreciate the separation between the application data in image and persistent state in mounted volumes. The final piece that convinced me is the ability to self-host my own container registry with @forgejo@floss.social

I'm doing the initial setup through #Ansible (learned from @notthebee@tilde.zone), but specific applications are managed via dockge. The ambition to do every adjustment through playbooks burns out really fast when working with a single instance.