A Guide to Debian Community Discord “Debian Community is an effort by users on Discord to create an instance/venue to discuss Debian GNU/Linux [...] We have a far larger amount of younger users and cross-distro users who are interested in discussing Debian-centric subjects”
[Solved] Suspend external usb-disk “I noticed, that it is continously spinning and not going into any suspend mode. [...] I really want my drive go to sleep when it's not in use...”
[Hardware] Swappiness on servers “the disk IO you 'spend' on swapping initialisation stuff out to swap, to reclaim ram, will be more than compensated for by the 'saving' of disk IO you'll get from the increased buffer and cache space allowed by that reclaimed ram.”
[O/S] Frequent and random freezing “Found another post describing a similar issue; increasing the swap size was their solution. [...] Been 16+ hours without at single freeze. Seems to have fixed the problem.”
Crystal language... How does Debian compile it? “Am I right that somewhere in the world there is a machine that is, or has been, somehow bootstrapping and compiling Crystal purely from source, and pushing out crystal packages to apt, and if so how can I replicate this?” (Thanks to @donald for pointing this one out)
Do Wayland Programs Require a Wayland DE? “If you are running in an X session, there will be no wayland compositor and no wayland support. Most applications will detect this and fall back to X.”
Change Debian Logo B/t Grub Menu and Login Screen “I would like to customize the Debian Logo (most likely a gif file) that appears between the Grub menu and the login screen.” (Thanks to @donald for pointing this one out)
[Solved] How To Configure Exim4 For External Email “I spent a few days attempting to get this to work. [...] I am posting this to help anyone else struggling to get exim4 working with an external email server for sending email and forwarding local mail sent to root to an external Internet email address.”
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Debian on family computers “I recently set up 2 old computers with Debian 12 and gnome for my kids(3 and 4 years old) and wanted to share the experience.” (Thanks to @wizard10000 for pointing this one out)
[Software] Pre install of user name at Login "We have all been newbies some time, so little explanation. Login manager is the one that in graphical mode asks for the username and password, and then lets to the graphical session, which can be Gnome, KDE, Xfce,..." (Thanks to @donald for pointing this one out)
[Testing - Trixie] testing-security repo “The Wiki did not give a reason why adding the security repo was recommended, so I contacted a member of the Wiki team for clarification, and added the above (his words) with permission.” (Thanks to @donald for pointing this one out)
How do you install apps that you downloaded? "The solution is to read that wiki link--the whole thing--especially the part following..." (Thanks to @wizard10000 for pointing this one out)
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Run debian live as rescue system from HDD "With a few simple steps, I replaced the somewhat outdated Knoppix with an up-to-date Debian Live as my rescue system on my regular hard disk."
CD drive fails to copy medical MRI data to a host "With a few simple steps, I replaced the somewhat outdated Knoppix with an up-to-date Debian Live as my rescue system on my regular hard disk." (Thanks to @FreewheelinFrank for pointing this one out)
[HowTo] Install and configure Debian bookworm "This guide is primarily intended for beginners, although it does assume some basic familiarity with GNU/Linux." (Thanks to @Wizard10000 for pointing this one out)
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apt migrating to DEB822 - Slight issue "You have to add "signed-by" to the line [...] or switch to the new format." (Thanks to @wizard10000 for pointing this one out)
Any thoughts on KeepassXC security? "In Trixie they've created keepassxc-full and keepassxc-minimal packages. Minimal is supposed to be the more secure option built without network capabilities and browser integration."
Is it possible to add a link to the Debian user mailing list thread over here? Or is this limited to topics under discussions in forums.debian.net only?
[Solved] sudo apt update not working "Debian is transitioning the way they do apt sources but I wasn't aware they'd made the change in Bookworm installers as well."
