Hacker News with Generative AI: Debian

Creating Debian packages from upstream Git (optimizedbyotto.com)
In this post, I demonstrate the optimal workflow for creating new Debian packages in 2025, preserving the upstream git history. The motivation for this is to lower the barrier for sharing improvements to and from upstream, and to improve software provenance and supply-chain security by making it easy to inspect every change at any level using standard git tooling.

Debian, Linux, Software Development, Open Source, Git

116 points by JNRowe 32 days ago | 26 comments

Why does Debian change software? (liw.fi)
When I wrote Why is Debian the way it is?, a year and a half ago, I was asked to also cover why Debian changes the software it packages.

Linux, Debian, Software Distribution

279 points by tapanjk 37 days ago | 205 comments

Debian Trixie is hard frozen (debian.org)
Two days behind schedule, we have frozen trixie a bit more on 2025-05-17. This means that we are one step closer to the release of trixie.

Debian, Linux Distributions, Software Releases

57 points by p4bl0 39 days ago | 9 comments

CachyOS, Clear Linux and Debian Deliver the Best Performance on Framework Laptop (phoronix.com)
Debian 13 Testing did pick up a few wins for the OpenSSL benchmarks.

Linux Distributions, Benchmarking, Laptop Performance, Debian

5 points by hochmartinez 43 days ago | 1 comments

Debian Looks to Better Address Ill-Maintained / Dormant Packages (phoronix.com)
Newly re-elected Debian Project Leader Andreas Tille posted today to the project's mailing list a few updates about different happenings in the Debian world ahead of the Debian 13 "Trixie" release due out in the coming months and also with DebConf 25 happening this July in Brest, France.

Linux, Debian, Open Source

12 points by mikece 49 days ago | 1 comments

The Debian testing/trixie release on amd64 is now reproducible for over 95% (debian.org)
Progress on securing our distribution against supply chain attacks: The Debian testing/trixie release on amd64 is now reproducible for over 95%, and counting.

Debian, Security, Supply Chain, Reproducibility

36 points by foresto 54 days ago | 3 comments

Path Isn't Real on Linux (danielh.cc)
On a fresh installation of Debian 12 (bookworm), executing echo $PATH shows the following output:

Linux, Operating Systems, Debian

113 points by max__dev 59 days ago | 112 comments

Why Debian Is Dying (debian.org)
We all know Debian is [dying], right?

Linux Distributions, Operating Systems, Debian

19 points by Deeg9rie9usi 66 days ago | 4 comments

MX Linux 23.6 brings Debian freshness, without the systemd funk (theregister.com)
MX Linux 23.6 is here, taking the baseline of Debian 12.10 and adding some selected tweaks and updates of its own.

Linux, Operating Systems, Debian, MX Linux, Systemd

6 points by LinuxBender 71 days ago | 1 comments

Deb-books: books hidden in Debian source packages (codeberg.org)

Debian, Software, Open Source, Hidden Messages, Security

8 points by todsacerdoti 72 days ago | 0 comments

Binary Distribution Rebuilds (josefsson.org)
I rebuilt (the top-50 popcon) Debian and Ubuntu packages, on amd and arm64, and compared the results a couple of months ago. Since then the Reproduce.Debian.net effort has been launched. Unlike my small experiment, that effort is a full-scale rebuild with more architectures. Their goal is to reproduce what is published in the Debian archive.

Linux Distributions, Debian, Ubuntu, Reproducibility

30 points by JNRowe 88 days ago | 5 comments

Debian Testing/Trixie removes systemd-resolved (ycombinator.com)
Debian's systemd maintainer today removed both systemd-resolved and systemd-nspawn packages [0] from Testing/Trixie/Debian 13 - soon to be in feature freeze - due to disagreements with the Technical Committee [1].

Debian, Linux, Operating Systems, Systemd, Technical Committees

36 points by iam-TJ 91 days ago | 3 comments

A neater Proxmox no subscription setup (pages.dev)
Download and install a Debian package for your no subscription deployment of Proxmox suite of products. Also remove "No valid subscription" popup in one go and safely. Initial version. PVE and PBS tested. Feedback welcome.

Proxmox, Virtualization, Debian, Open Source, Linux

6 points by free-pmx 92 days ago | 0 comments

Debian bookworm live images now reproducible (lwn.net)
In a short note to the Reproducible Builds mailing list, Debian developer Roland Clobus announced that live images for Debian 12.10 ("bookworm") are now 100% reproducible.

Linux, Reproducible Builds, Debian

766 points by bertman 93 days ago | 200 comments

Reconsidering Debian's Inclusion of Non-Free Firmware – A Call for Discussion (debian.org)
In 2022, the General Resolution to officially include non-free firmware in the installation images shocked me because it signified a move away from Debian’s conceptual roots.

Debian, Open Source, Firmware, Operating Systems, Linux

8 points by ajdude 108 days ago | 2 comments

20 years of Linux on the Desktop (part 3) (ploum.net)
While I was focused on Ubuntu as a desktop solution, another GNOME+Debian product had appeared and was shaking the small free software world: Maemo.

Linux, Operating Systems, History, Debian, GNOME

35 points by rufflepuff 109 days ago | 12 comments

Why Linus Torvalds doesn't use Ubuntu or Debian [video] (youtube.com)

Linux, Operating Systems, Ubuntu, Debian, Video

7 points by oumua_don17 114 days ago | 0 comments

The Debian Publicity Team will no longer post on X/Twitter (twitter.com)

Debian, Social Media, Twitter, Open Source

12 points by geoffbp 147 days ago | 1 comments

Debian Is Ditching X (Twitter) Citing These Reasons (itsfoss.com)
People who use Linux-powered computers recognize Debian for being the most influential Linux distribution out there. Known for its stability, it offers a vast repository of software packages and acts as the foundation for many of the most impressive Linux distros around.

Linux, Debian, Operating Systems, Open Source

10 points by gpi 148 days ago | 1 comments

The Debian Publicity Team will no longer post on X/Twitter (debian.org)
The Debian Publicity Team will no longer post on X/Twitter. We took this decision since we feel X doesn't reflect Debian shared values as stated in our social contract, code of conduct and diversity statement. X evolved into a place where people we care about don't feel safe. You are very much invited to follow us on https://bits.debian.org , on https://micronews.debian.org/ , or any media as listed on https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Publicity/otherSN #debian

Social Media, Open Source, Debian

108 points by edward 149 days ago | 26 comments

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

86 points by kumiokun 162 days ago | 33 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 180 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 185 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 203 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 203 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 212 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 220 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- 221 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 228 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 229 days ago | 0 comments