@nixCraft Good news for #Debian.

Nice, kernel 6.17 finally arrived in #Debian / #Devuan Unstable!

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

Right; mail server upgraded to #debian Trixie; I did it by recreating it in a local VM first; package install to match, and then tested a restore from my encrypted backups - which was a good exercise in its self. Then a dist-upgrade; fixing up Dovecot was the hairiest bit - they've randomly changed the name of a bunch of options. mail_location is now mail_driver/home/path/inbox_path and the ssl options have also changed. mbox files are deprecated , but still work for now - job for later.

I've come to the conclusion that, while I am still using #Windows 11 out of inertia, it's time to contemplate an exit plan towards #Linux . The switch won't be any time soon (I have too much other stuff on my plate for the foreseeable future), but I do want to avoid paying further license fees to #Microsoft .

Major areas of concern:

- My #Steam library. I am by no means a heavy gamer, but I want to check if the major games I enjoy are known to work on Linux.
- Migrating away from #GoogleDrive towards #NextCloud is going to be a major chore, but it's something I can start in advance.
- I am a very heavy user of Notepad++ for my #TeXLaTeX typesetting, so I need a replacement whose user experience comes close (and no, neither vim nor emacs count).

As for what distribution to choose... I dunno. Lots of people at my place of work use #Debian , so maybe that would be a good idea?

Donnez une 2e vie à votre ordinateur | Activité gratuite | Lévis (QC) | Dimanche 16 novembre 2025

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#Linux #Debian #Québec #Lévis #FreeSoftware #Installfest #lgdl

Hello les utilisateurs de #Debian 😬

@VvV vient de me demander de lui mettre à jour son client NextCloud, problème elle est sur Debian 12 et donc la version 3.7.3 qui ne sera bientôt plus exploitable.

Une solution pour mettre à jour facilement, je ne trouve rien de probant sur le web. Merci 🙏

#Linux #MastoHelp

Either I've written a lot of articles over the years, or I'm getting old. Or, you know, both.

I went looking for an article I wrote this or last year that touched on the #Debian FTP Master team and instead turned up one from 2010 that I'd completely forgotten about. I have no recollection at all of writing this one for @lwn ...

https://lwn.net/Articles/381667/

#XLibre became the default Xserver on the #Debian-based #HomeServerHQ in September. Please read the announcement at https://github.com/orgs/X11Libre/discussions/358#discussioncomment-14297511 and learn more about this #Linux distribution at https://homeserverhq.com. A big thank you to https://github.com/homeserverhq!

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XLibre on HomeServerHQ

Is there some way to quickly spin up a #Debian GNOME install that has a default selection of apps more sensible for home users like Fedora has without all the confusing nerdy icons people will be intimidated by and not need or should I just keep installing Fedora on things when people just generally ask "I want to try Linux"?
I'd like to explore Debian as an alternative because it's so slow with major versions and has a massive package repository

J'ai (enfin) publié sur mon blog mon retour d'expérience sur la DebConf 2025 organisée à Brest cet été : https://jeremy.lecour.fr/blog/2025/10/26/debconf-2025/
#Debian #DebConf #DebConf25

#Jellyfin has released 10.11.1 with some bug fixes. If you're using the #Debian repo like I am, it should be available to install.

Link: https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/releases/tag/v10.11.1

#SelfHosting

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A screenshot of the terminal window on my server showing that new versions of the following packages are available to install: - jellyfin-server - jellyfin-web - jellyfin

Age makes you more cautious. I used to carry Debian CD's with me & do all my upgrades while in flight without electricity or Internet — just to test myself I could hack my way out of a screwed up GRUB or problematic #Linux build.

I'm taking my spouse's laptop all the way from #Debian buster to trixie this morning (going through bullseye to bookworm first), & I'm actually nervous. I *think* it's just because it's my spouse's machine.

Ironic thing is upgrades are so much safer these days.

les gens qui ont pris une carte grahique AMD, ça se passe bien sur des distrib #debian ou #ubuntu modernes?

My wife showed her work laptop running #Debian #Liniux instead of Windows 10 to a colleague.

The colleague had never heard of Linux so she googled it and saw #Tux so she wants Linux on her laptop now that Windows 10 is past it, and her AMD A9 isn't on on the upgrade list.

#sweat #debian #askfedi

Mon seul regret vis à vis de Debian 13 pour l’instant, c’est que ce n’est pas le thème de @juliettetaka qui ait été retenu cette fois-ci.

#Debian

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@Bristow_69
@aprilorg

Je suis à l'aise avec #linux, j'ai déjà installé des tas de versions (et de distributions — toutes dérivées de #Debian ) sur mes ordinateurs personnels successifs, et j'aimerais me rendre disponible sur cette carte, mais je n'ai pas d'idée des bonnes pratiques pour accompagner une migration (la mienne est bcp trop ancienne)

Existe-t-il un document, quelque part, qui donne des pistes (et des checklists) sur comment aider à une migration vers Linux ?

Just got this email. The next point release for #Debian Trixie is scheduled for 15 November.

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A screenshot of the email that reads: Hi, The next point release for trixie is scheduled for Saturday, 15th November 2025. Uploads to proposed-updates will be frozen the preceding weekend. -- Jonathan Wiltshire jmw@debian.org Debian Developer http://people.debian.org/~jmw

Y'a des gens ici qui s'y connaissent un peu en paquets Debian (.deb) ?
Pourquoi quand on installe un paquet, le système prend par défaut les paquets indiqués comme "recommandés" (instruction "Recommends" dans le fichier de contrôle) ?
Est-ce qu'on prend un risque particulier du coup d'utiliser l'option `--no-install-recommends` pour avoir une installation minimale ?

#Debian #APT

@nixCraft With #Nvidia drivers? Like last week?

Seems to be less of a problem after moving to #Debian 13, though. Hooray!

Traffic meter per ASN without logs https://anarc.at/blog/2025-05-30-asncounter #debian-planet #python-planet #software #network #sysadmin #tor #censorship #python

Dis-moi un sshd_config qui n'a aucun PermitRootLogin (donc ni à yes ni à no), ça veut dire que le root login est possible ou qu'il est impossible ?

Y'a (commenté) PermitRootLogin prohibit-password (qui me paraît une option acceptable, non ? ça veut bien dire qu'on ne peut s'y connecter qu'avec une clé ssh autorisée ?) mais y'a rien d'autre sur RootLogin, ni commenté ni décommenté...

#ssh #sysadmin #Debian

edit : on m'a gentiment répondu RTFM et en effet le manuel a la réponse

La mise à jour de #Dovecot 2.3 à 2.4 m'a pris beaucoup trop d'heures de debug mais c'est (enfin !!!) résolu avec un local.conf au poil ! Serveurs à jour sous #Debian Trixie donc ! 🥳
#Mailserver #Postfix #Selfhosting #Hapilaps

Unofficial Debian Repository for some development Tools: Zig, Ghostty, Lazygit, eza, zoxide, uv... by Dario Griffo #Debian https://debian.griffo.io/

38 Debian LTS Advisories about security updates for various packages were released by Debian LTS contributors last month. These include notable security updates for modsecurity-apache, cups, python-django, thunderbird and many more.

Read our monthly report for September to know more details: https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-lts-report-2025-09/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

This work is funded by Freexian's Debian LTS offering. Become a sponsor of Debian LTS (https://www.freexian.com/lts/debian/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social) and enjoy the benefits (https://www.freexian.com/lts/debian/details/#benefits).

#freexian #debian #debianlts #cups #modsecurity-apache #thunderbird #django

Asking for $dayjob:

Is there something like a(n ideally #bootc-based) #immutable distro on #Debian basis, or ideally a way to install Debian that way?

Specifically, they want a containerised base install and to put their own flatpacks atop as needed (the latter step already exists), for a specific use case. Things like layering, A/B updates, etc. would be welcome.

deb.sury.org

Found a new meme format and saw an opportunity

#memes #linux #debian #funny

Bonjour
mon laptop vient de décéder (clavier dead, écran dead) 😭
est-ce une bonne idée de racheter un #acer (j'aime bien l'ergonomie des acer) qui tournera avec une #debian ? Ou je risque d'avoir des soucis d'incompatibilité ? (j'ai un souci de carte wifi avec l'acer du boulot, avec debian, je ne peux pas avoir de wifi du tout)
Sinon je prendrai un #thinkpad récent, si je trouve ce qui corresepond à mes besoins
#linux

Heads up if you're running #Debian #Forky (a.k.a. Debian Testing) and you have a lot of RAM. The new user-space OOM manager systemd-oomd doesn't treat kernel cache memory as available when calculating memory usage. That means it decides you're running out of RAM when you actually aren't and kills processes when it shouldn't.
Ref: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1118191
You might want to uninstall it until this is fixed, or mask systemd-oomd.{service,socket} and reboot to disable it.
#DebianForky #Linux #systemd

#aviGNU #Avignon #linux #debian

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Ne jetez pas votre PC !

📱 Mobian Trixie Officially Released with Broader Device Support / @linuxiac

｢ Over two years in development, this release brings an updated base aligned with Debian 13, Phosh 46.0 (a mobile user interface for Linux phones), and Plasma Mobile 6.3 desktop environments, as well as a Linux kernel 6.12 for most supported devices. The Librem 5 remains on kernel 6.6 for now ｣

https://linuxiac.com/mobian-trixie-officially-released-with-broader-device-support/

#mobian #mobianos #debian #linuxphone

@dan1 Being a huge #debian fan #mobian looks awesome!

Debian’s Technical Committee overrules systemd maintainers, requiring /var/lock to remain writable in line with Debian Policy.
https://linuxiac.com/debian-tc-overrules-systemd-maintainers-on-var-lock-permissions/

#debian #linux #systemd #opensource

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Debian’s Technical Committee overrules systemd maintainers, requiring /var/lock to remain writable in line with Debian Policy.

I got email yesterday that my javascript Jupiter and Saturn moon predictors weren't working. Turned out to be a weird new #Apache "feature" enabled by default on #Debian Trixie that affects anyone with a /javascript directory. Details here:
https://shallowsky.com/blog/tech/web/apache-javascript.html

#Debian #armel has reached end of life with the release of #trixie and will not be included in #forky (already being removed from sid).

Unfortunately, that means e-waste for the affected devices, such as several older #RPi editions (unless switching to Raspian, which may or may not even work or support them for longer and is effort anyway).

armel has not been part of #LTS and #ELTS for a while, but this was not a problem as it’s a minority architecture and users could always upgrade (btw, if your armel box is still running bookworm, you’ll want to be on trixie by 2026-06-10).

I asked for it to be included in trixie LTS and ELTS, so that the old hardware can be used mostly securely until about 2035 instead of 2028, and the limiting factor for this is not will or infrastructure but funding. (While most security fixes aren’t specific to one of the architectures in question, there’s still some overhead, and armel is often slower to build and may need some more hand-holding than the newer armhf and arm64, so I believe that funding is actually needed.)

I’m just a private individual running one box with it I got as a gift, so I cannot offer much, but if you care about Debian and can offer funding, please approach @freexian (who organise LTS and offer ELTS as a separate-from-Debian offer) about this (and specifically mention armel).

If someone has connections to organisations involved in devices that cannot run armv7 hardfloat Debian or better, such as the #Raspberry Pi foundation, please ask them to contribute to #Freexian in the same way, so we can have proper Debian on these devices for seven years longer than planned.

Thanks in advance.

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DO NOT UPGRADE TO DEBIAN 13.1 IF YOU ARE USING SYSTEMD-NETWORKD!

I just applied the upgrade on my desktop and systemd-networkd segfaults on startup. I was hoping it was a transient but it fails after a reboot too.

(Edit: Issue is with VLAN aware bridges, see reply for bug report)

#debian

Je vois un tutoriel sur installer Debian en LUKS, y compris la partition /boot

Pour cela il change la chiffrement de la partition LUKS de Argon2 en pdkf2

C'est un compromis de sécurité acceptable ?
Sinon, est-ce possible (et utile) de garder /boot hors du volume chiffré et de chiffrer /boot uniquement en pdkf2 ?

https://www.debian-fr.org/t/tutoriel-installation-debian-avec-netinst-raid1-luks-lvm/91240/2#avant-de-passer-la-configuration-lvm-il-faut-changer-le-paramtre-pbkdf-de-la-partition-chiffre-8

#Debian #LUKS

The #Debian #XMPP team has published their notes on changes to XMPP packages and subsystems in Trixie.

Link: https://xmpp-team.pages.debian.net/blog/2025/05/xmpp-debian-13-trixie-news.html

If you're using #spamassassin on #debian, please consider testing the 4.0.2-rc1 packages. They're currently in experimental for unstable and built for bookworm in the bookworm-backports suite in my personal repo on people.debian.org. https://people.debian.org/~noahm/repo/

My plan is to update bookworm and trixie point releases to 4.0.2 once it's releases, so all the testing I can get is helpful. Please report any issues via the BTS or directly to me directly.