[Discussion] Why Debian still uses sudo instead of doas?
doas has nearly the same (or it's already of same) functionality, is smaller and much easier to configure than sudo. It's also said that doas is more secure, mostly due to it's much smaller...
View Article[Software] apt-get dist-upgrade broke my system
I'm running the newest version of Debian and I was trying to install VLC but it required packages I didn't have, so I was told to run the command "sudo apt-get dist-upgrade" to install these...
View Article[O/S] Why, God, why can I not upgrade my OS?
Hello,We have an older computer that had Debian 9 installed on it when we bought it. I have managed to get it upgraded as far as Debian 9.13, cinnamon version 3.2.7, kernel 4.9.0-19-amd64, but I can...
View Article[Solved] Kernel image not discovered anymore automatically by apt
I've installed linux-image-6.1.0-16-amd64 (manually ran apt install linux-image-6.1.0-16-amd64) back when 15 had a bug. I now discovered linux-image-6.1.0-17-amd64 is available (and I just manually...
View Article[Off-Topic] Tech nostalgia
What's your all-time favorite piece of old-school tech that brings back memories?Statistics: Posted by Hallvor — 2024-01-29 14:52 — Replies 6 — Views 136
View ArticleBizarre Bandwidth Issue
I have a weird bandwidth related networking problem on my headless Debian 12 server. Speedtest-cli consistently shows my download/upload at 800+/800+ Mbps. Any actual data transfer, such as through...
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Debian Installation Not Recognizing SSD
Hello guys, I'm having trouble installing debian 12 on my Acer Aspire A315-23Here's my BIOS: While this is how it freezes on detecting the media: Fast Boot is disabled, secure boot is disabled, the...
View ArticleDebian 12.4 amd64 installer bootia32.efi (Mac Pro 1,1 2,1) stalls
Finally after many years, the Debian 12.4 amd64 installer contains a bootia32.efi but currently its broken for Mac Pro 1,1 and 2,1(32bit efi) The Mac Pro 3,1 efi64 works fine. In the past both debian...
View ArticlePrevent restore of hibernation image
I just messed up a production SSD because Linux restored an old and obsolete hibernation image from swap and all file system information was out of sync. I am now running a "brtrfsck --repair" as the...
View Article[Software] Firefox .deb package
I use debian 12 stable Xfce with backports. It is a great distro. My bank does not accept firefox-esr, so I have been using regular Firefox downloaded from Mozilla with no issues. Recently I learned...
View Article[Pipewire/ALSA] Can't adjust Master and Capture separately?
Hey everyone,I'm not extremely experienced with Linux audio, only a little bit, but I was wondering what could possibly cause this. Is this a bug, or is this expected behavior?On my laptop, in...
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[Solved] wget2 interprets command-line options as URL's
Hello. I want to download manual from Web.I.e. all html files in https://dev.overpass-api.de/overpass-doc/en/ an in its sub-directories and nothing else.I have tried this my wget2.sh script:Code:...
View ArticleIs this error related to routing?
Hello,Please consider the following scenario:Code: VPS (Shadowsocks Server) ---> Home Server (Shadowsocks Client + OpenVPN Server) ---> Client (OpenVPN Connect)VPS: 172.20.2.55Home Server:...
View ArticlePlymouth ShowDelay does not work!
Hello, all!I use tty1 to autoly login and 'startx' to exec my software without a display manager. First, I hope the plymouth can work as soon as possiable, I don't konw how to do?Second, I hope the...
View Articlehow can I disable nvidia in grub
I want to disable nvidia driver and use nouveau for one of grub entry I created.I tried this but I still see nvidia loaded:https://askubuntu.com/a/1340254Statistics: Posted by nooblinx — 2024-01-30...
View ArticleIPTables redirect rule works on amazon linux, not on debian
Hi folks,Here is my iptables:Code: Chain PREROUTING (policy ACCEPT)target prot opt source destination REDIRECT tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:submission redir ports 23001REDIRECT tcp -- anywhere...
View Article[Solved] IPTables redirect rule works on amazon linux, not on debian
Hi folks,Here is my iptables:Code: Chain PREROUTING (policy ACCEPT)target prot opt source destination REDIRECT tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:submission redir ports 23001REDIRECT tcp -- anywhere...
View ArticleDebian 12.4 - Kernel 6.1.0-17 - Bluetooth disabled
Hello,I have a Thinkpad L390 with Debian 12.4. With the latest kernel image 6.1.0-17 the Bluetooth doesn´t work. From Gnome appear always disabled with no option to enable it. But if I use kernel...
View Article[Software] Force pure-ftpd to read pure-ftpd.conf
Hi all,I'm trying to get my pure-ftpd systemd service to read parameters from /etc/pure-ftpd/pure-ftpd.conf instead of the /etc/pure-ftpd/conf directory. I see that there's a pure-ftpd-wrapper binary...
View ArticleLooking for partitioning suggestions
So, I'm just going to cut to the chase. My current partition layout is:1. UEFI on GPT, Debian 12 is the only OS currently on the drive (not counting Virt Manager VMs)2. EFI system partition, FAT32,...
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