Hacker News with Generative AI: Debian

Setting Up an RK3588 SBC QEMU Hypervisor with ZFS on Debian (kumio.org)
The BananaPi M71 2 aka ArmSoM-Sige73 has attractive specs for use as an efficient but capable device for small-scale server deployment. As it’s performant enough to be interesting for real-world mixed workloads with some margin, it makes sense to consider it as a KVM hypervisor. Very relevant for setting up a small private cloud (雲立て or “kumotate”).

Server Deployment, Debian, KVM, Cloud Computing, Arm

82 points by kumiokun 2 days ago | 30 comments

ISPmail – a free guide to your own (Debian) mail server (workaround.org)
ISPmail is a free but extensive do-it-yourself guide to help you build a fully-functional mail server from 100% open-source components.

Linux, Open Source, Email Servers, Debian, Guides

15 points by petecooper 20 days ago | 0 comments

Debian's approach to Rust – Dependency handling (2022) (dreamwidth.org)
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Debian, Rust, Dependency Management, Programming Languages, Open Source

69 points by zdw 25 days ago | 205 comments

Apertis v2024 released – Debian Bookwarm for industrial embedded devices (lwn.net)
Apertis is a Collabora-developed Debian derivative distribution designed to be incorporated into electronic devices; the v2024 release is now available. It is now based on the Bookworm release, and includes support for Podman, ONNX Runtime, OP-TEE, and more.

Linux Distributions, Debian, Embedded Systems

10 points by mfilion 43 days ago | 1 comments

Debian opens a can of username worms (lwn.net)
It has long been said that naming things is one of the hard things to do in computer science. That may be so, but it pales in comparison to the challenge of handling usernames properly in applications.

Debian, Security, Usernames, Open Source

249 points by jwilk 43 days ago | 288 comments

OpenStreetMap Migrates to Debian 12 (debian.org)
🚀 After 18 years on Ubuntu, we've upgraded the @openstreetmap servers to Debian 12 (Bookworm). 🌍 openstreetmap.org is now faster using Ruby 3.1. Onward to new mapping adventures! Thank you to the team for the smooth transition. #OpenStreetMap #Debian 🤓

OpenStreetMap, Debian, Server Migration, Ruby

68 points by edward 51 days ago | 4 comments

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

35 points by mpitt 60 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

6 points by greyface- 60 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

72 points by FergusArgyll 67 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 68 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 74 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 85 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 90 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 107 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 115 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 120 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 123 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 136 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 139 days ago | 1 comments

Orphaning bcachefs-tools in Debian (jonathancarter.org)

Linux, Debian, Software, Open Source

177 points by pabs3 140 days ago | 213 comments

Debian Orphans Bcachefs-Tools (debian.org)