Hacker News with Generative AI: Debian

The Debian Project Mourns the Loss of JéRémy Bobbio (Lunar) (debian.org)
The Debian Project sadly shares the news of the passing of Jérémy Bobbio (Lunar) on Friday, November 8, 2024.

Debian, Linux, Open Source, Community, News

33 points by mpitt 2 days ago | 1 comments

mesg(1) and write(1) no longer provided by Debian util-linux (debian.org)
Chatting is hopefully done using more security facilities, not by overwriting each other's terminal state anymore.

Security, Linux, Debian, Utilities, Software

5 points by greyface- 2 days ago | 0 comments

Debian Junior Desktop live image (debian.org)
These are files containing live images for the Debian GNU/Linux operating system. They are specifically for the amd64 architecture.

Debian, Operating Systems, Linux

71 points by FergusArgyll 9 days ago | 6 comments

Debcow Optimizing Debian Packages for Copy-on-Write File-Systems (phoronix.com)
Debcow is an experimental implementation of deploying Debian packages on copy-on-write file-systems like Btrfs and Bcachefs.

Debian, Linux, Operating Systems, File Systems

7 points by dmmalam 10 days ago | 0 comments

Debian Privacy Issues (debian.org)
Debian contains some telemetry client libraries and some packages depend or build-depend on them.

Privacy, Operating Systems, Debian, Security

9 points by pabs3 16 days ago | 2 comments

Debian’s “secret” sauce (lwn.net)
While Debian's "sauce" is not actually all that secret, it is not particularly well-known either, Samuel Henrique said at the start of his DebConf24 talk.

Debian, Linux Distributions, Operating Systems, Open Source

214 points by signa11 27 days ago | 45 comments

Debian Changes OpenSSH Packaging (lwn.net)
In the wake of the XZ backdoor, the Debian project has revisited some of the patches included in its OpenSSH packages to improve security.

Security, Open Source, Debian, Linux, Networking

28 points by todsacerdoti 32 days ago | 3 comments

Siduction Linux (siduction.org)
Siduction is an operating system based on the Linux kernel and the GNU project. In addition, there are applications and libraries from Debian.

Linux, Operating Systems, GNU, Debian

9 points by indigodaddy 49 days ago | 9 comments

Debian Packaging from First Principles (mikecoats.com)
I’ve used Debian as my distro of choice for well over a decade and whilst I’ve become familiar with “using” Debian I’ve never really understood how it worked under the hood.

Debian, Linux, Operating Systems, Software, Packaging

87 points by alexzeitler 57 days ago | 26 comments

Attracting and Retaining Debian Contributors (lwn.net)
Many projects struggle with attracting and retaining contributors; Debian is no different in that regard. At DebConf24, Carlos Henrique Lima Melara and Lucas Kanashiro gave a presentation about efforts that the Brazilian Debian community has made to increase participation. Their ideas and the lessons learned can be applied more widely, both for other Debian communities and for other projects.

Open Source, Debian, Community Management, Software Development

153 points by sohkamyung 62 days ago | 126 comments

Repack Zoom .debs to remove the `ibus` dependency (hashman.ca)
For whatever reason, Zoom distributes .debs that have a dependency on ibus. ibus is the "intelligent input bus" package and as far as I'm aware, might be used for emoji input in chat or something?? But is otherwise not actually a dependency of the Zoom package. I've tested this extensively... the client works fine without it.

Linux, Software, Debian, Zoom, Dependencies

10 points by egorpv 65 days ago | 0 comments

Debian Developers Figuring Out Plan for Removing More Unmaintained Packages (phoronix.com)

Debian, Linux Distributions, Software Maintenance, Open Source

8 points by LinuxBender 78 days ago | 3 comments

Debian releases 12.7 with 55 security updates and stability improvements (debian.org)

Linux, Debian, Security, Software Updates

20 points by p4bl0 82 days ago | 1 comments

Orphaning bcachefs-tools in Debian (jonathancarter.org)

Linux, Debian, Software, Open Source

177 points by pabs3 82 days ago | 213 comments

Debian Orphans Bcachefs-Tools (debian.org)