Updated Debian Linux version 13: 13.6 has been released. If you regularly update your system using the APT you will get these updates but you may have to schedule system reboots.

https://www.debian.org/News/2026/20260711

#linux #debian #sysadmin

Curious about what will happen in DebConf 26 in Santa Fe? Check out the schedule that just came out of the oven! https://debconf26.debconf.org/schedule/ #debian #debconf #debconf26 #freesoftware #dc26 #santafe #debianargentina #07

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A few days ago, I decided it was time to give @kde Plasma a try on Debian Testing. I've not used Plasma in years. It's really come a long, long way. What a great experience!

#kde #plasma #linux #debian

@ChuckMcManis the problem isn't #SystemD, but #Canonical and/or misconfigured Updating/Livepatching on your end...

Also #debian is also using SystemD!

Get over it, and hate the right stakeholders fir the right reasons…

hey #docker oficionados.

Have been googling (DuckDuckGoing?) on if there is a way that Docker can spit out the command with which a container was started?

This is essentially faster than scrolling back through my terminal history.

#Linux #Debian #mastoAdmin

I think I’m going to set up #Debian now. I have a huge problem with some packages conflicting and refusing to build on Arch, hindering the system update. Not cool and will take too much time to resolve for something that shouldn’t’ve even happened. I need a really boring system to base things off, as I care about software and ideas (and ed(1),) and not about drivers and systemd whatever. I just want something that is guaranteed to stay out of my way. So yeah, it’s a values decision.

I am also considering #Guix, but the stance on non-free software and the dire gaming situation is somewhat disincentivizing. No systemd and lack of slop though. Can I install Shepherd on Debian? Is Devuan a good distro? Is SysV too vaporwave with kids these days?

#Plan9 sounds fun too, especially for running in a container on a more secure system.

God damn. Gnome's "activities" overview remains absolutely genius design. You tap *one* button, and you have access to 95% of what you use on a regular basis. It's sad that other desktop environments don't have this.

#FOSS #FLOSS #OpenSource #Linux #Debian #Gnome

Alt...

A Gnome desktop with "activities" revealed. There is a desktop window slightly shrunken, in the centre of the screen, a series of desktop thumbnails across the top, and a "dash" with frequently used programmes along the bottom. One button reveals your whole computer.

okay, some big debian questions; so I'm using rsync daily to backup all my important stuff (both locally and to offsite)

my debian stable (trixie) has version 3.4.1, which is fine; but I don't want the newer, sloppified version..

so I wondered:

- can I tell my debian install to just keep this version forever? or will that break things sooner or later?

(to everyone explaining how to hold a package, yes thanks but I know that; my question is more like "can I do that forever without things breaking". but I understand the answer must be no 😅 maybe the question was more out of desperation; that clearly isn't the way to go in the long run.. a real solution must come from the debian team then =>)

- since debian tends to be pretty strict when it comes to stability (it's called debian stable after all), is there an active discussion going on, in the debian community, about how to deal with obviously sloppifying packages like rsync?

will debian maybe freeze them at the last non-sloppified version too somehow, so I don't have to deal with that?

surely, it can't be that obviously worse versions of packages go from debian experimental, through testing, to stable, right? 😬

I'm rather curious/puzzled/anxious how debian will handle cases like this, since there's bound to be a ton of them before long.

does anyone, someone more familiar with the debian community, have some insights on this process, and if this is being actively discussed? I really hope it is!

because this is going to be a massive, make or break, problem before long - it kinda already is, at least for me, a random user, who is worried their backups might start breaking soon 😬

btw. I understand I could switch from rsync to some forked version, and I probably will if the answer to my question is "no, there's little discussion, and they are going to let the sloppified packages trickle through the experimental => testing => stable chain"; but that only works around the problem for this specific package.

I don't have time to find slopfree alternatives to all of these hundreds of tools that exist in a standard debian installation..

or maybe, would debian at some point maybe switch to forked, non-sloppified versions of packages, and denote them the new defaults, and handle the upgrade in somewhat automated fashion?

I remember how mariadb became kind of the new standard mysql, after oracle acquired that. but of course that only works if there is a big enough community of hobbyist programmers to maintain these unslopped forks - if only for security fixes; I'd be happy enough if everything just stays mostly fixed in functionally from this point in time on.

questions, questions! sorry this got a bit long and winding. just worried about the future of linux. I'm sure we all are.

#linux #debian

@structuredsucc The conservative and slow-moving nature of #Debian is a feature, not a bug. When mass delusions - like the AI gold-rush - seize the IT industry, Debian holds its course, a bulwark of sanity and steadiness in a churning sea of narcissism and recklessness. #Linux