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Happy birthday, #Debian! #linux #gnu

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basti » 🌐 2026-08-16
@basti_sb@mastodon.social

#Debian feiert heute seinen 33. Geburtstag. Am 16. August 1993 kündigte der damalige Purdue-Student Ian Murdock an, eine neue Linux-Distribution entwickeln zu wollen. Niemand ahnte damals, dass Debian zum Fundament des modernen Internets heranwachsen würde.

#linux

Debian Celebrates 33 Years of Free and Open Source Software

https://linuxiac.com/debian-celebrates-33-years-of-free-and-open-source-software/

Schon ein bisschen gruselig ​​ #debian #linux #gaming #chernobylite

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Screenshot aus dem Spiel Chernobylite. In einem verfallenen Haus sind merkwürdige, schattenhafte humanoide Umrisse an einer Wand zu erkennen. Auf einem rostigen Fass sitzt eine schäbige Puppe.

(more Linux news in previous posts)

LightDM returns from the dark with first release in 4 years:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/08/lightdm-new-release-new-maintainers

Mango Wayland Compositor Hits 0.16.0 with Native Touch Support and XWayland Fixes:
https://www.linuxcompatible.org/story/mango-wayland-compositor-hits-0160-with-native-touch-support-and-xwayland-fixes/

DebConf27 Debian Developers Conference to Be Held in Asahikawa, Japan:
https://9to5linux.com/debconf27-debian-developers-conference-to-be-held-in-asahikawa-japan

Debian Developers Begin Voting Over LLM Usage Within The Project:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-Votes-On-LLM-Usage

Fedora CoreOS To Enable systemd-oomd & zRAM Swap By Default:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-CoreOS-OOMD-zRAM-Swap

ChatGPT desktop app is now available for Linux (in preview):
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/08/chatgpt-desktop-app-linux-preview

RustConn 0.20 Continues Further Polishing This GTK4/libadwaita-Based Connection Manager:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/RustConn-0.20-Released

Make sure your Flatpak is up to date due to security issues:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/make-sure-your-flatpak-is-up-to-date-due-to-security-issues/

Mesa 26.1.7 Lands as a Targeted Bugfix Drop for the Stable Branch:
https://www.linuxcompatible.org/story/mesa-2617-released-stable-branch-bugfix-drop-with-driver-fixes/

Mesa 26.3 Intel Driver Code Enables Large GRF Mode For Newer GPUs:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Large-GRF-Mode-Mesa-26.3

Open-Source exFAT Programs 1.4.3 Improves Fsck & Mkfs:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/exfatprogs-1.4.3

Linux Patches Enable Apple M4 NVMe Support:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Apple-M4-NVMe-Patches

Liquorix Kernel 7.1-11 Brings a Single Targeted Patch to Your Gaming and Streaming Setup:
https://www.linuxcompatible.org/story/liquorix-linux-kernel-7111-adds-a-single-stability-patch-for-debian-ubuntu-and-arch/

Liquorix Drops Kernel 7.1-12 With Heavy Project-C Scheduler Tweaks:
https://www.linuxcompatible.org/story/liquorix-kernel-7112-kernel-released-with-projectc-scheduler-optimizations/

Samba 4.25.0rc1 Released: Persistent Handles, Cluster Functional Levels, and AES-Only Domain Encryption:
https://www.linuxcompatible.org/story/samba-4250rc1-launches-with-smb3-persistent-handles-aes-encryption-and-cluster-functional-levels/
(Am I the only one who starts hearing the Samba De Janeiro song in my head every time I read about Samba? lol)

(FOSS news in comments)

#WeeklyNews #News #Linux #LinuxNews #LightDM #Wayland #WaylandCompositor #DebConf #DebConf27 #Debian #Fedora #FedoraCoreOS #ChatGPT #RustConn #Flatpak #Mesa #exFAT #LinuxKernel #Liquorix #Samba #FosseryTech

Falls Interesse besteht, die neue @tuxedocomputers Debian Testing basierende Preview ist raus.

Viel Spaß beim Ausprobieren.

🌀 https://os.tuxedocomputers.com/preview/

#tuxedoos #debian #linux

Herzlichen Glückwunsch zum 33 Geburtstag #debian #debianday

Founded in 1993 by Ian Murdock, Debian celebrates 33 years as one of the most influential projects in the Linux ecosystem.
https://linuxiac.com/debian-celebrates-33-years-of-free-and-open-source-software/

#debian #opensource

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Founded in 1993 by Ian Murdock, Debian celebrates 33 years as one of the most influential projects in the Linux ecosystem.

Heute ist #DebianDay!

Mehr zu #Debian gibt es im Dokument "Eine kurze Geschichte von Debian" auf
https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/project-history/index.de.html oder apt install debian-history

Happy birthday #debian
33 years!

#debian33years #debianday

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Debian logo with the text "lesbian" and two anime girls cuddling and lesbian pride hearts

🗳️ Debian Opens Vote on the Future of AI-Assisted Contributions

｢ Voting began on August 15 and will stay open until August 28. Only Debian Developers can vote, using Debian’s ranked voting system to list their preferences among the options ｣

https://linuxiac.com/debian-opens-vote-on-the-future-of-ai-assisted-contributions/

#debian #ai #opensource

Reinstalling @debian on my laptop, specifically #DebianStable with @kde , always feels like coming home.

#Debian #KDE #Linux

@secbox @debian @kde I’m not on #debian stable, or even #devuan stable, which is my preferred go to for a Debian environment, but I’m running #kde right now on my new #framework laptop, and it is definitely nice.

Definitely a different experience from #gnome because they changed drastically from version 2 to 3 and beyond, whereas KDE doesn’t feel that different from where it was in KDE 3.

Linux microblog update: I wanted a voice chat server for gaming, so I logged into my Freedom box and pushed a button in the web interface.

Now to deal with CGNAT so I can reach it from anywhere...

#Linux #debian #freedombox #microblogish

Wondering which other #Linux distros have already voted to ban slopcode besides #Gentoo. https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Council/AI_policy

Sounds like #Debian is in the middle of voting on the subject and we won't know which way they swing til near end of the month.

#ArchLinux still has no policy that I can find, though the continued attacks on the AUR are making me consider leaving anyways (or at the least, reevaluate how much of a package-building freeloader I intend to be).

#Fedora, not that I really like RPM-based distros much anyways (personal preference! that family tree does lots of good work, just not my thing for hobby shit) seems to have an explicit-allow policy.

Bets on whether someone else already has a page up with a table on this subject? 😅

@cm0002 With SDDM being abandoned, I’m quite happy to hear about this.

I used to use this a lot when getting things up and running in #debian and #ubuntu minimal installs.

Prior to the battery issue, I used that #Dell #laptop for a solid five years. Solid 2019 era business-class machine with decent specs. It ran so well with #Debian and I thought it was pretty snappy. And then I bought this #ThinkPad P16s Gen4....

It's such an insane multi-generational leap that it's hard to believe it's a *mobile* #CPU. 🤯

Debian hat die Abstimmung über die Zukunft KI-Gestützter Beiträge gestartet. Die Abstimmung läuft bis zum 28. August. Nur Debian-Entwickler können abstimmen.

#linux #debian #ki

https://linuxiac.com/debian-opens-vote-on-the-future-of-ai-assisted-contributions/

RE: https://sunny.garden/@bragefuglseth/116920572163082606

Quoting this again because it extends to the recent happenings as well. You really shouldn't be caring too much about them.

The #Linux Foundation is way less relevant for the Linux desktop space than you might think. The "Linux" in its name is a little misleading, because while it does indeed support the development of the Linux kernel, it also oversees a bunch of other projects. It's not at all comparable to e.g. the #GNOME Foundation, #KDE e.v. or the #Debian project.

It's not run by the same kind of people, and does not have the same kind of goals. It does not concern itself with the ideology of the free software movement, or the "community" in the sense that you and I perceive that word.

It exists as a collaboration ground for corporations, and primarily serves the interests of those.

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Brage Fuglseth » 🌐 2026-07-14 / 2026-07-14
@bragefuglseth@sunny.garden

Linus Torvalds is an important figure for kernel development and the general existence of Linux, but he should not be treated as an authority on everything Linux- or software-adjacent because of that.

For example, it has very little to say what desktop environment he prefers, or if he uses LLMs to develop his personal projects. The world could do with less idolization.

#Debian has begun voting about contributions made with LLMs

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2026/08/msg00002.html

Finally installed Debian on my desktop PC. Most of my computers have integrated graphics, so this was my first time setting up nVidia drivers.

I know some distros have utilities or scripts that make this easier, but this was not a good experience.

Once it worked though, it worked really well.

#Linux #Debian #nVidia

The Debian project started in 1993 and celebrates its birthday on August 16th of each year: Debian Day. This year we'll have at least 19 gatherings in 3 continents; c u there! #Debian #Debian33years #DebianDay #DebianDay2026

We know that many of you are already waiting for the Open Beta of TUXEDO OS based on Debian Testing. We will officially announce the release at the FrOSCon 2026 Linux conference.

https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en/The-time-has-come-The-open-beta-for-TUXEDO-OS-is-just-around-the-corner.tuxedo

#tuxedo #debian #tuxedoos #release #linux

debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso is now 946MB. I remember when this was the one I used to grab because I was on a low-bandwidth connection.

You can *definitely* fit an entire distro in 946MB.

#Debian

TUXEDO OS Beta auf der Basis von Debian Testing angekündigt
https://linuxnews.de/tuxedo-os-beta-auf-der-basis-von-debian-testing-angekuendigt/ #tuxedoos #debian #linux #linuxnews

I recently discovered a command injection vulnerability (CWE-78) from Info-ZIP (zip). Advisory: https://sintonen.fi/advisories/infozip-test-option-command-injection.txt

The fix is now available in #Debian as DSA 6439-1: https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2026/msg00350.html

Other platforms shipping zip command should also pick up the patch: https://sources.debian.org/data/main/z/zip/3.0-16/debian/patches/fix-command-injection.patch

NOTE: macOS included zip command is not affected.

#advisory #vulnerabilityresearch #cybersecurity #infosec

https://github.com/kekyo/pipetune/

#debian #ubuntu #effetune #dsp #pipewire

About LLM, AI companies, the environment, the climate crisis.

In the context of the huge discussion about AI in #Debian, I wrote that email:

https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/5742777.MHq7AAxBmi@turnagra

Debian discussion to ban LLM, https://www.debian.org/vote/2026/vote_002.

Undeniable arguments, with sources!

#debian #llm

> It is our belief that widespread LLM usage comes from the "move fast, and break things" attitude that, while common in many parts of this industry, is contrary to what makes Debian Debian, and is inappropriate for Debian contributors. (1/3)

Yet Another Fine Kernel Upgrade

#linux #debian

This week's Linux and FOSS news

LINUX NEWS

COSMIC 1.3 Desktop Environment Released with Frosted Glass Effect:
https://9to5linux.com/cosmic-1-3-desktop-environment-released-with-frosted-glass-effect

GNOME Wants to Let You Test Experimental Features Without Breaking Anything:
https://feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17380180/gnome-test-center-announcement

GNOME OS Safe Mode Improving The System Reliability:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-OS-Safe-Mode

Ubuntu 26.04 fixes trash dialog bug that defaulted to cancel:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/07/ubuntu-26-04-trash-dialog-cancel-button-fix

Ubuntu 26.04 fixes Papers bug that sent PDF links to wrong page:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/07/ubuntu-26-04-papers-pdf-viewer-bug-fixes

SteamOS 3.8.15 brings a performance fix and SteamOS 3.8.23 Beta is out too:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/steamos-3-8-15-brings-a-performance-fix-and-steamos-3-8-23-beta-is-out-too/

KDE neon 20260716 delivers Plasma 6.7.3 and KDE Gear 26.04.3 on Ubuntu 24.04:
https://www.linuxcompatible.org/story/kde-neon-20260716-released-plasma-673-and-kde-gear-26043-on-ubuntu-2404-lts/

Collabora announce a preview of Holo Core, an AArch64 port of Arch Linux for Steam Frame:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/collabora-announce-a-preview-of-holo-core-an-aarch64-port-of-arch-linux-for-steam-frame/

Clonezilla Live 3.3.3 Disk Imaging Tool Adds Reverse-Connection Network Cloning:
https://9to5linux.com/clonezilla-live-3-3-3-disk-imaging-tool-adds-reverse-connection-network-cloning

Gearlever 4.6.0 Lands with JSON Output for AppImage Automation:
https://www.linuxcompatible.org/story/gearlever-460-released-with-json-cli-output-for-linux-appimage-automation/

(more Linux and FOSS news in comments)

#WeeklyNews #News #Linux #LinuxNews #LinuxMint #Debian #Ubuntu #PopOS #KDE #OpenMandriva #Phosh #TUXEDO #Shelly #Deepin #postmarketOS #FosseryTech

Est-ce que quelqu'un.e saurait me dire comment installer #reaper sur mon #laptop sous #linux avec une #debian 13 ?

This week's Linux and FOSS news

LINUX NEWS

Linux Mint 23 to offer full Wayland support (but X11 is staying):
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/07/linux-mint-wayland-fully-supported

Debian 12.15 Released as Bookworm's Final Point Update:
https://www.linuxcompatible.org/story/debian-gnu-linux-1215-released-final-bookworm-update-signals-lts-transition/

Debian 13.6 “Trixie” Released with 124 Bug Fixes and 120 Security Updates:
https://9to5linux.com/debian-13-6-trixie-released-with-124-bug-fixes-and-120-security-updates

Ubuntu 25.10 loses security updates on 9 July, 2026:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/07/ubuntu-2510-eol-july-9-2026

Ubuntu 26.10 retires dbus-daemon after 22 year run as default:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/07/ubuntu-26-10-dbus-broker

Ubuntu Reverts to GNU cp After Rust Version Briefly Breaks Live Image Builds:
https://debugpointnews.com/ubuntu-reverts-rust-cp-after-live-image-build-failure/

Pop!_OS Rolls Out Its "Frosted Glass" Desktop Style For COSMIC:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/COSMIC-Frosted-Glass-Arrives

TUXEDO Computers Plans to Rebase TUXEDO OS on Debian Testing:
https://9to5linux.com/tuxedo-computers-plans-to-rebase-tuxedo-os-on-debian-testing

OpenMandriva GitHub Disrupted & Nefarious Package Push In Sabotage Attempt:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenMandriva-Disrupted

Hannah Montana Linux has been revived with a modernized stack, but still a lot of pink!:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/7/hannah-montana-linux-has-been-revived-with-a-modernized-stack-but-still-a-lot-of-pink-/

Deepin 25.2 upgrades Treeland Wayland compositor, adds image content search & improves DDE:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/7/deepin-25-2-upgrades-treeland-wayland-compositor-adds-image-content-search-and-improves-dde/

Ryzen AI Developer Platform: AMD's Own Linux Distribution Built Atop Debian:
https://www.phoronix.com/review/ryzen-ai-linux-os

postmarketOS introduces KDE Plasma 6.7, better USB gadget handling, and Waydroid updates:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/7/postmarketos-introduces-kde-plasma-6-7-better-usb-gadget-handling-and-waydroid-updates/

Phosh 0.56 adds CPU load-meter plugin, application hiding, and tablet lock screen rotation:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/7/phosh-0-56-adds-cpu-load-meter-plugin-application-hiding-and-tablet-lock-screen-rotation/

KDE Plasma 6.6.6 Released with Numerous Bug Fixes and Various Improvements:
https://9to5linux.com/kde-plasma-6-6-6-released-with-numerous-bug-fixes-and-various-improvements

KDE Frameworks 6.28 Released with Support for New KRunner Conversion Units:
https://9to5linux.com/kde-frameworks-6-28-released-with-support-for-new-krunner-conversion-units

Bazaar 0.9.1 drops with "similar apps" discovery and accessibility tweaks:
https://www.linuxcompatible.org/story/bazaar-091-release-similar-apps-discovery-and-accessibility-improvements/

Shelly 2.4.1.2 lands with key fixes, solidifying its spot as an Arch-native package manager alternative:
https://www.linuxcompatible.org/story/shelly-2412-lands-key-fixes-for-libalpm-package-manager/

(more Linux and FOSS news in comments)

#WeeklyNews #News #Linux #LinuxNews #LinuxMint #Debian #Ubuntu #PopOS #KDE #OpenMandriva #Phosh #TUXEDO #Shelly #Deepin #postmarketOS #FosseryTech

Tuxedo Computers are putting Ubuntu Linux in the bin to use Debian for Tuxedo OS https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/tuxedo-computers-are-putting-ubuntu-linux-in-the-bin-to-use-debian-for-tuxedo-os/

#Ubuntu #Linux #TuxedoOS #Debian #OpenSource

It's been a while I refreshed my pinned #introduction toot, and I figured today will be a fitting day to write a new one.

Hi! Despite the avatar, I'm not a furry

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, I'm a boring cishet white dude. Despite my privileged status, I might be considered a "terrorist"

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in some weird jurisdictions, and some companies

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will consider me a "malicious actor", because I built myself a crawler defense system that serves them an infinite maze of garbage. To them, I say: fuck you. I'm a Vengeful Mouse.

I also have the privilege of being able to admire the human body in all shapes and forms, even such "grotesque" things as a female presenting nipple (like this one: , not to be confused with the , an entirely different and totally not grotesque thing). I wish this was the norm, rather than a privilege.

I'm a serial drive-by contributor, I have my fingerprints all over the internet. I have code in #QMK, #Kaleidoscope, and #Chrysalis, but I contributed to #Forgejo, #niri, and a whole lot of other things too. I find great joy in playing with new things, and submitting patches or other contributions. I used to be a #Debian developer, I've put #Hy in production, and lately I've been building #NixOS configurations not only as a literate #OrgMode document, with with #OrgRoam. I am extremely normal and neurotypical.

Apart from these very normal things, I use #NixOS to boot into #Emacs, which is the real operating system I use, like a very sane, completely neurotypical person would. I also tend to live-toot (very verbosely) all kinds of shenanigans I'm up to, because I always forget I have a blog.

While I do wrangle code for a living in a variety of languages (in whatever language necessary, I'm a generalist! But if I can choose, I turn to #Rust, although #Lisp languages are also very dear to me), if it were up to me, I'd much prefer wrangling other kinds of words

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than programming language symbols. Sadly, we're not living in a world that makes possible, so I had no choice but become a #luddite and so can you.

But I'm not all about tech

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! I'm also Dad to wonderful Twins, and Husband to my Wife, who not only puts up with my crazy, but gently

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fans the flames too. I may occassionally toot about #parenting, too.

I may or may not have an unhealthy addiction to footnotes

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.

1. Nope, I'm not in denial stage, I do not work in infosec. ↩︎

2. I'm anti-fascist. ↩︎

3. Like Anthropic. ↩︎

4. Short stories like this toot, or The Tragedy of Byr (which might need an explanation to really understand what's going on). ↩︎

5. I wish I could leave tech, really. ↩︎

6. Where "gently" is either an eyeroll and more wood thrown onto the campfire, or straight up lighting up the neighbourhood, figuratively speaking. ↩︎

7. ...if you haven't noticed yet... ↩︎

Abbaye is a Static Site Generator (#SSG) for your #software releases, for those of us who can't or won't use a full-featured software forge.

Big release!

Some refactoring to make the code easier to maintain, some small bugfixes (mainly introduced by the new features :p).

But the star features of this release are:

• Artifact categories and naming: artifacts are now categorized and named consistently, making it easier to understand what each artifact is for, if you choose to do so. It is done via the new [[builder]] category, name and comment keys in the configuration file.
• Add multi-format support. It's still in the early stages but it's functional and supports HTML or Gemtext (for all my #smolweb folks out there).
• Add support for non-interactive terminals, as in the case of a CI/CD pipeline. You'll still see progress via some log messages and not be stuck on a black screen without any information! (note: this requires the use of abbaye --verbose)

Here's Abbaye's 0.8.0 page, as built with Abbaye itself: https://vit.am/~ololduck/abbaye/0.8.0/

#Rust #SmallWeb #Rustlang #StaticSiteGenerator

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view of abbaye's revamped sidebar where you can see that downloadable items now have names, categories and descriptions

Happy Birthday to #Debian 1.1 (Buzz) released 30 years ago today 🥳🥳🥳

1st version to be named after a Toy Story character, a film released just a few months before (November 22, 1995 in the US)

There were 474 packages available in Debian 1.1 (69,830 in Trixie, the current stable version)

@Gina

Hopefully they will go with #Debian

#sysAdmin #Debian "apt-listchanges : pour recevoir des emails détaillés que vous prétendrez lire avant de les archiver automatiquement"

https://slash-root.fr/debian-configuration-complete-dunattended-upgrades-pour-une-securite-sans-effort/