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Installation • Implications of hardening /usr partition

I am going to install Linux and am considering putting /usr into its own partition. During normal boot i would use the option ro in the /etc/fstab file. This will make the entire /usr partition as...

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Testing And Unstable • [Testing - Trixie] Downgrading from stable with t64...

Hello, I recently upgraded to testing and just discovered that security updates arrive delayed to testing. Overall, I would prefer to come back to stable.I have a btrfs setup with automatic snapshots...

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System and Network configuration • Latest kernel installs, but won't load on...

Hello All,I have 2 different pc's running Debian 12 with kernel i686 Linux 6.1.0-18-686One is GNOME, The other is MATE. (DE)Both have updated and installed to kernel 6.1.0-21 But will not load the new...

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System and Network configuration • Re: Installing Linux RT without NVidia and...

Honestly, I don't remember. But I'm pretty sure I waited until a new update of the kernel fixed this issueStatistics: Posted by Outline — 2024-06-03 07:43

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Off-Topic • Debian 12 (BOOKWORM) running PeppermintOS Classic

I'm having a issue with Debian 12 kernel 6.1.0-21 686 (or) the OS.When clicking on tool bar icon (open in terminal), I get NOTHING.When I right click and choose (open in terminal) from the context...

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Installation • Re: Implications of hardening /usr partition

Mounting /usr read-only (or most of / for that matter) is supposed to be supported... Whether it actually works is likely dependent on what systemd has decided to deprecate this week.Statistics:...

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Off-Topic • Re: Debian 12 (BOOKWORM) running PeppermintOS Classic

Moving this to Off-Topic as Peppermint OS is a derivative, not pure Debian.Generally you should seek help from the site of the derivative OS.Apparently this was an error. Read the first comment and...

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General Questions • Re: Difference between aptitude and apt/dpkg for managing...

dpkg is Debian's lower-level package manager, and both APT and Aptitude are frontends to it. APT is command-line while Aptitude provides TUI interface and minesweeper game. Both run in terminalI think...

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System and Network configuration • Re: How can be removed safely from Debian...

Apparently sudo gives more permissions to the user than root itself, because you can run easier applications than root, consequently to damage by mistake your system as user. Also, I noticed even if I...

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General Debian • [Discussion] Does "based off" Debian Just Mean..

I have been using Debian since Squeeze, and have used several distros since then. Ubuntu, Mint (and LMDE), OpenSUSE, Fedora, Arch (many derivatives), and since, I'm back to using Sparky (based on...

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Programming • Re: Recommendations for learning GTK4 UI creation in Debian

Thank you for your insights juribel. Really, you use Perl? I think I have never met someone who actually still uses it.I'm not especially happy about many aspects of ChatGPT. So I don't think I am yet...

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Beginners Questions • Re: [Installation] Cannot login after install

I hit Ctrl-Alt-F3, added a new user and logged right on in. Thanks!Statistics: Posted by cph_asap — 2024-06-05 03:51

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Beginners Questions • Re: [Software] [SOLVED] Is there a native 'bootable USB...

Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner!Yes indeed, gnome-disk-utility will do the job. It can be found as 'disks' app in Debian and it is natively installed (at least in my distro - Bookworm).Similar...

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Testing And Unstable • Re: Labwc (Wayland Compositor) Fails to Start

At https://labwc.github.io/getting-started.html I found /usr/share/doc/labwc/ had the labwc config files, rc.xml, menu.xml, autostart, environment and themerc, which can be copied to ~/.config/labwc....

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Testing And Unstable • [Testing - Trixie] Supertuxkart is not running

I installed Supertuxkart but it won't run.Code: hasan@debian:~$ supertuxkart supertuxkart: symbol lookup error: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libshaderc.so.1: undefined symbol:...

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Testing And Unstable • Re: [Testing - Trixie] Supertuxkart is not running

Hi, have you tried to install libshaderc?Code: >apt search libshaderclibshaderc-dev/unstable 2023.8-1 amd64 Library API for accessing glslc functionality - static libraries and...

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System and Network configuration • Re: [Solved] Skype apt-key deprecated problem

Gentlemen, many thanks for your inputs to my issue. Here are a few comments in response :Sunrat – it seems that waiting will not result in a solution because MS decided to discontinue the repository...

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Beginners Questions • Program Downloadable in One Debian Distro - Not...

I have a Debian server on which I installed IceWM and XORG and installed a program named xinput. I have a Debian Gnome install where I login with Gnome Classic on Xorg and the program xinput is not...

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Beginners Questions • Re: Program Downloadable in One Debian Distro - Not...

https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/xinputStatistics: Posted by CwF — 2024-06-06 05:44

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Hardware • Re: [Solved] [Hardware] epson 3850 printer - can't use duplex mode...

Think I found another one. Pages print normal on one document on libre office document. I print a web page and get lines through the some parts of it. I'll save this for another...

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