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Debian in the Research Software Ecosystem: A Bibliometric Analysis
Joenio Marques da Costa, Christina von Flach
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18073 https://ar…

Debian in the Research Software Ecosystem: A Bibliometric Analysis
Context: The Debian system has historically participated in academic works and scientific projects, with well-known examples including NeuroDebian, Debian Med, Debsources, Debian Science, and Debian GIS, where the scientific relevance of Debian and its contribution to the Research Software ecosystem are evident. Objective: The objective of this study is to investigate the Debian system through academic publications, with the aim of classifying articles, mapping research, identifying trends, a…

Debian Hint #9: If you need to know what version of Debian you're currently
running, look in /etc/debian_version or use 'lsb_release -sc' command. If you
want to know the codename for that version (for example, 5.0 is codenamed
'Lenny'), check this URL:
https://www.

The future of debate: get an LLM to generate your tirade, copy it to the world dog, have it spotted by an LLM spotter and rejected on that basis.
https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2025/07/msg00031.html

Just is coming to debian on August 9th! https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2025/07/msg00003.html

#Debian 13 ("trixie") slated for release Aug 9th: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2025/07/msg00003.html 🎉

I'm in the mood to watch content again!
Right now I'm spending my time watching news about different penguin species.
I especially love the penguin named Debian.
#Linux #Debian

Out of sheer curiosity, my wife just set up her first #Linux on a computer via the #Debian 13 #Trixie netinstall:

Number of #bitnami container images in the #homelab cluster: 4
Number of #bitnami container images to remove: 3

Run the #tests (#dev)
I needed to build the latest dovecot on my box, to see if I could get it working (getting unresolved symbols in the one from debian testing)
BUT the test stage fails. Turns out the devs expect "example.com" not to resolve, *but it resolves* !
This is a kn…

Debian in 2025 is really relaxing. When I think back with horror to how I struggled with Debian in 1999 after switching from the well-functioning Red Hat Linux to Debian to get all my hardware to work halfway, and how easily everything works out of the box today without much fiddling, even with Debian Stable - a remarkable advance. 😎
If I had known this earlier, I would have long since returned to the quasi “mother” of all major distributions. But as we all know, man is a creature of…

Have I missed something or is there no way with openssh to exempt certain netblocks from the MaxStartups setting?
There's PerSourcePenaltyExemptList but that's spoecifically for the "penalties" things which are separate from MaxStartups, right?
https://

Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Linux: Debian 13 kommt als Trixie
https://www.heise…

When @… becomes your entire brain’s playlist, you know autism is real and you’re officially stuck in hyperfixation mode!
#ActuallyAutistic #Autistic

I needed a Debian 13 LXC container, but proxmox doesn't have one available yet, even though Proxmox 9 in based on Debian 13.
Anyway, I wrote a post explaining how to make a new LXC template for Debian 13 to use with proxmox
#proxmox #lxc #debian13

Ich könnte das letzte Debian da natürlich noch loswerden…
#proxmox

TIL: always always always keep a sources.list line to stable-security, even if you're on #debian #sid
```
linux-image-amd64:
 Installed: 6.12.41-1
 Candidate: 6.12.41-1
 Version table:
*** 6.12.41-1 500
       500

This song is released under the GPL-2.0 license as part of the game. Links:
http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/a/adonthell-data/adonthell-data_0.3.8-2_all.deb

Musste meine #Debian #Trixie Installations-Strategie überdenken. Für #steam brauche ich ja i386 Unterstützung.

Well then, I believe this was the first Debian upgrade (from 12 to 13 in a desktop/workstation environment) that just went perfectly well without fighting with some package halfway through the install. (Now to get into the subsystems to see what all changed :) )
Kudos Debian team! Nice work.
#Debian

The package name "x2gothinclient" can be parsed in two ways:
1. "x2go thin client"
2. "x2 goth in client"
🤪
#x2go #goth #debian

Just is now in debian stable 🥳
https://www.debian.org/News/2025/20250809

Wow installing :debian: #Debian is... slow... And terribly annoying all these unnecessary questions. Maybe I used the wrong installer, but man...
And no sudo configured for the user. visudo not available as root. Only the installer cdrom set up as apt mirror, can't install anything.
Okay I'm outta here wtf 😂

Me acabo de enterar de que Proxmox 9.0 estš disponible ya. La base es Debian 13, que también salió hace poco.
Voy a revisar el procedimiento para actualizar mi servidor en los próximos días
https://www.proxmox.com/en/about/company-details…

"Just tossing it out there."
Request to reconsider i386 (x86) port for Debian 13
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2025/08/msg00124.html

Can I get a Fedora user to test something on ngscopeclient for me?
Download the latest RPM from GitHub Actions CI (specifically the CI package, not one you've compiled yourself and install it.
Does it report a plausible version number
1) in the package itself
2) in the title bar
3) in the about dialog?
Just fixed a bug causing empty strings to appear instead of version numbers in the Debian CI builds and I'm not sure if Fedora was impacted too. It use…

Y2K38 bug? Debian switching to 64-bit time for everything
We say everything... just not the oldest hardware. Unix Epochalypse less than 13 years away.
⏱️ https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/25/y2k38_bug_debian/

Debian isn't waiting for 2038 to blow up, switches to 64-bit time for everything
: We say everything... just not the oldest hardware. Unix Epochalypse less than 13 years away

Just wrote this quickie shell script to create and launch Debian13 KVM VMs. Just provide the hostname. Sharing in case someone else can use this.
The template is the debian13 nocloud image that I expanded to 20 GB. https://cloud.debian.org/images/cloud/trixi…

Somebody saved Progeny Debian 1.0, and it's available to download here! https://erdincay.github.io/progeny-debian-linux/

As a Debian user for three years, and Linux for 5 years, I find it hilarious that I know more about Windows than my friends who actually use Windows as their main OS.
At this point, I feel like their go-to tech support, except I’m the only one who gets confused when I see a Windows license key that actually works!
#Debian

#OpenTelemetry Injector #Debian/RPM #package

Debian Trixie Update done. Ohne Bohren ...

Hmm, #debian what was on your mind when you replaced the EOL packages `dstat` with `pcp`?
On freshly installed #trixie instead of a "dumb" command line tool I have several daemons listening on all available interfaces by default (and `/etc/pcp` contains 345(!) files, which I woul…

And <sigh/> no, the #debian13trixie upgrade saga isn't (yet) complete. The Gnome file manager -- still known to #debian as 'nautillus', for historical reasons -- was missing on my laptop.
apt install --reinstall nautillus
fixed that, and also brought in a bunch of oth…

Hmm that was a fight.
Upgraded my webserver container to #debian trixie - easy (once I'd remembered how many nspawn setup worked).
Updated host Ubuntu VM - easy.
It reminds me it's still on #Ubuntu 22.04 and I should upgrade to 24.04 ...erm sure..
hmm, no networking...

Notice: Repository 'http://deb.debian.org/debian trixie InRelease' changed its 'Suite' value from 'testing' to 'stable'
#debian

TIL: In #Linux, when you "switch user" (in Wayland or X11), the second user opens up a separate session which you can directly switch to using the Ctrl-Alt-F-keys without re-authenticating, as long as the user-specific sessions aren't locked.
In Debian 13 #GNOME, the first user session is Ct…

I have a dual-boot setup with Debian and Elementary on my laptop, because Elementary was my very first Linux distro, so it’s got a place in my heart.
Anyway, here are some shirts I own, along with two logos and a tux I made at work using the Plasma CNC!
#ElementaryOS #Elementary

Not gonna lie, my blood ran cold when I read this part: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1099130#62

Updating a ten year old Linux install to the latest Debian stable on my wife's laptop. My brother in law did the old install, all on one giant partition. Which means I'm still backing up all of her files in preparation for the install. I don't understand why anyone would do it this way.

If you're quick, presumably this won't last long, you'll find the Download link from #Debian's home page returns a 404. Lots of changes for the new stable release in progress.

Así tengo mi escritorio actualmente.
Es el gestor de ventanas #openbox , le he quitado el marco superior, se parece a un Tiling Window pero sin serlo.
Sigo en Debian 12, tengo mucha pereza en subir de versión. Cuando se vaya el calor sofocante que tenemos en España migraré a la versión 13. 🤭
Uf, hacía meses que no subía un

I am using Desktop Linux¹ for decades because it is woke and gay²!
We want all the gay and merry people playing together :-)
__
¹specifically Debian
²read @… in https://

#ARKSurvivalAscended #ARK #Linux Wildcard released Ragnarok last night, and just got my server install

GitHub - cdp1337/ARKSurvivalAscended-Linux: Simple install script for installing Windows version of Ark Survival Ascended on a Debian server. Registers with systemd for integration and creates convenience links in /home/steam/ArkSurvivalAscended.
Simple install script for installing Windows version of Ark Survival Ascended on a Debian server. Registers with systemd for integration and creates convenience links in /home/steam/ArkSurvivalAsc...

Hopefully Debian will dump rsyslog...

""The [newly formed] Debcrafters’ […] team will take the lead on syncing & merging packages from Debian, reviewing proposed migration issues, upstreaming Ubuntu deltas, and take ownership of major transitions […]""
Makes me wonder how many similar efforts Canonical/Ubuntu already announced over the years to improved the interaction with Debian – and what became of them.

If you don't like Debian, maybe rocks just aren't your thing, I love rocks, they sit there, never move, never break, just stable, just like Debian. :debian:
#Linux #Debian #Rock

So you need to get the version of Intel #MKL.
You can't really take it out of the pkg-config files, because not every distro mkl version combo supplies these files. On top of that, without pointing fingers, certain distribution installs pkg-config files with "debian" in the version field.
Well, there's INTEL_MKL_VERSION you can get via the C preprocessor, right? Except that its semantics depend… on mkl version. Given that mkl is released as "<major>.<update>.<patch>", versions prior to 2025.0.0 constructed the version number from <major> <minor> <update> (where <minor> seems to be always 0, and <patch> was not included), and 2025.0.0 forward use the more logical <major> <update> <patch>.
Well, yeah, it's kinda doable. You parse the major first, and parse the rest depending on whether it's >= 2025 or not. For versions prior to 2025, you get it truncated to update. It works, but still kinda funny.
#WTF

What I have also come to appreciate about my lean Debian stable is that there are no updates every day (or even several times a day) that require a reboot. As is the case with Fedora or Arch. I also find this very pleasant because it doesn't constantly interrupt my work. Yes, comfort comes with age.
#linux

Obscure kernel bug use-after-free and then the VLAI severity told me "maybe important" before I read the drama #kernel

[CVE-2025-38001] Exploiting All Google kernelCTF Instances And Debian 12 With A 0-Day For $82k: A RBTree Family Drama (Part One: LTS & COS)
CVE-2025-38001 is a Use-After-Free vulnerability in the Linux network packet scheduler, specifically in the HFSC queuing discipline. When the HFSC qdisc is utilized with NETEM and NETEM packet duplication is enabled, using HFSC_RSC it is possible to cause a double class insertion in the HFSC eligible tree. Under normal conditions, this would lead to an infinite loop in hfsc_dequeue() due to an RBTree cycle. However, by adding TBF as root qdisc, it is possible to prevent packets from being deque…

Powiedzmy, że potrzebujesz pobrać wersję biblioteki Intel #MKL.
Nie możesz do tego używać plików pkg-config, bo nie każda kombinacja dystrybucji z wersją mkl instaluje te pliki. Na dodatek, nie pokazując nikogo palcami, jedna dystrybucja instaluje pliki pkg-config z "debian" w polu wersji.
Jest stała INTEL_MKL_VERSION, którą można zgarnąć preprocesorem C. Tyle że semantyka tej stałe…

Caved and went back to Debian in preparation for Trixie. Can't wait for the final release.

The moment I install Arch, I’m swept away by its customization, yet somehow, I find myself missing the stable comfort of a rock, and before I know it, I’m back on Debian again!
#ArchLinux #Arch #Rock

On the home stretch for getting ngscopeclient v0.1 out the door!
MacOS binary packaging is now mostly done (thanks Lain), although we don't have DMG's being produced in the CI flow yet.
After several hours of fighting with Windows, the Windows executable has an icon and behaves sanely wrt logging (logs to stdout if launched from a shell, but doesn't spawn a terminal if launched from the start menu).
Still need to do a few tweaks to the MSI installer as well as t…

Wahey! Success on my Javastation Krups, this is a Debian Sarge debootstrapped userspace running over NFS.
#retrocomputing

Das @… / Debian 12 Update hat einfach so funktioniert :o
Mal sehen ob ich noch irgendwo Fehler finde, aber bisher scheint es einfach glatt durchgelaufen zu sein

And <sigh/> no, the #debian13trixie upgrade saga isn't (yet) complete. The Gnome file manager -- still known to #debian as 'nautillus', for historical reasons -- was missing on my laptop.
apt install --reinstall nautillus
fixed that, and also brought in a bunch of oth…

Und wie nerdig ist eure Fediverse-Instanz?

Encouraging to see there are serious attempts to migrate Debian's wiki (MoinMoin) to MediaWiki.
https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/D75ZT8PQS7DZ.2SN89XVNPRZB1@debian.org

@… it’s still too weird to go from a system that I dislike to a system that I strongly dislike 😂 I was more curious to try one of those container oriented distros like Flatcar, but I also got to a point of very low maintenance effort with Debian and my shitty Ansible…

Patiently waiting for the full freeze of @… #trixie #debian #whenitsdone

It was inevitable something would break; Cura 5.10 as an AppImage crashes on Debian 13.
```
Could not initialize GLX
[appimagelauncher-binfmt-bypass/lib] ERROR: child exited with code 6
```
Time to start debugging I guess instead of printing.
#3DPrinting #Debian

✨ System integrity check: passed.
Realization timestamp: [now].
Condition: You are #ActuallyAutistic.
Environment detected: #Debian GNU/Linux.
Result: ✅ Sensory environment = predictable
✅ Package manager = apt (non-chaotic, logical)
✅ Folder structure = m…

Since I have found that installing #linux has become easier and easier the last few years, I decided to conduct an experiment. I gave my 10 year old daughter a usb stick and had her install it on a Dell laptop from 2011.
I recorded the whole thing (recorded her on my phone while a capture card recorded her screen). And for the most part, it went well. There was an issue about the corre…

In This Thread: denizens of debian-user mailing list who refuse to accept that there are people who do creative work without wanting to use email.
Apparently it is only "kids" who "don't understand what is important", who "have a mobile phone glued to their hand" and "don't care about their computer as long as it plays their games."

Ein neuer Alternate-PC hat Einzug gehalten. Um mit #TPM2 #LUKS verschlüsselte Festplatten automatisch zu entschlüsseln, ohne Passwort-Anfrage mit einer noch besseren Grafikkarte dabei. Die vom Debian Paketsystem noch nicht unterstützt wird.
Lernkurve: Secure Boot, Nvidia Open Modules kompilieren und sign…

You should not let “slim” restart while performing an apt full-upgrade under X.
You should not let “slim” restart while performing an apt full-upgrade under X.
You should not let “slim” restart while performing an apt full-upgrade under X.
#debian #trixie

Progress! By running a #Debian sarge (2005) dhcpd my javastation now gets as far as wanting to tftp! Figuring out what modern dhcpd's do (even the isc one) is for a later date
14:46:20.679254 IP krups.44549 > 192.168.69.1.tftp: TFTP, length 17, RRQ "C0A84502" octet
#retrocomputing

Yep, I’m rolling with Debian and demolishing pizza like a pro on my birthday, August 22. Tech and toppings, the perfect combo!
#Linux #Pizza #Debian

Well, a week ago, I was somewhat surprised to discover that Debian 12 does not recognize my exotic WLAN card. This frustrated me briefly because I needed it, but I still wanted to wait for the official release of Debian 13 and then see if the card would be recognized and could be used with the improved hardware support of the more recent kernel.
Last night, I messed up my system a bit through some drunken tinkering and was faced with a decision: Debian 12 for a few more days or Trixie …

Day 1: Gene starts thread asking why his Thunderbird looks weird.
https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/acb28fa6-4521-4848-ae20-7fc5b5b72a76@shentel.net
Day 3, 32 mails in: Gene works out which desktop environment he is using.

Right now, forever, and probably even in my next life, I use Debian, because once you go rock solid, there’s no going back. 😋 :debian:
#Debian #Linux #Eurovision

Looking forward to Debian Trixie :)

Interesting debian-user find:
The YouDao plugin of the stardict-plugin package on Debian by default captures the X selection buffer — which can be FROM OTHER APPS — and sends the entire text, unencrypted, to remote servers, without telling the user that it will do this.
The maintainer has marked this bug as "wishlist" because they consider the mention of this in the package description to be sufficient warning.
The package can be pulled in as a Recommends.

You want adonthell's soundtrack, or more specifically Waste's Edge's soundtrack?
What you want is, if you are searching in Debian related channels, the debian package adonthell-data!
Though if you're on the fediverse you wouldn't mind someone made it available to you right here, right?
I won't have time for that cause right now I'm focusing on Wesnoth main soundtrack...if I get time...

"Those interested in making the Universal Operating System more Universal by introducing intimate hardware control software, please consider joining the team: https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Buttplug"

Too bad that you can't test the theme feature of #GNOME on a live distro since setting up "gnome-shell-extensions" requires a reboot to enable it.
Edit: it wasn't the "gnome-shell-extensions", reboot was required for enabling "User Themes" (via Extensions).
However, a logout/login was OK as well and it did work on my Debian live distro again (logout do…

Hello #Forky 👋. #Debian

Yes, I use Debian and GrapheneOS every day, no complaints here, just casually flaunting my taste in operating systems.
#Linux #Debian #Android

Year of our lord 2025 and you can buy a 122TB NVMe drive for $12,400 each, but you'll have to use UEFI to boot it and EFI still doesn't understand any software RAID, zfs, etc.
https://wiki.debian.org/UEFI#RAID_for_the_EFI_System_Partition

I did briefly use a version of Debian Testing on one of my computers a few months ago, but in the end it didn't work quite as well as the now almost finished version Trixie. So there are noticeable differences between Testing and a stable release, hehe!
No, what I mean is that many users use Debian Testing as their everyday system and apparently have no problems with it, unlike me. But of course, a lot depends on the hardware used and the state of development. Anyway, one thing is…

Sometimes, I wake up and realize all my computers run Debian, not Windows, and it makes me smile like a root user who just found sudo access without a password.
#Linux #Debian #Windows

So, ich habe fertig.
Mein #Debian hat jetzt #EFI und größere und neuere (schnellere?) SSDs.
Und der DKMS GraKa Kram läuft auch wieder.
Ich bin gerade dabei, die #Rear (Relax and Recover) Festplatte …

For those into Debian minutiae there seems to be an interesting question asked today about whether the Community Team and Release Team can overrule a package maintainer in order to remove a package from Debian on non-technical grounds.
This isn't very controversial in something like Ubuntu because there it's accepted that that kind of directive can come from above.
I don't think I will link to it.

My beloved waifu, Debichan, wholeheartedly approves of my gender-fluid, bisexual identity, only because I use Debian! 😉
#Waifu #Debichan #Debian

Okay, I give up. After several weeks with Linux Mint, I made the switch to Debian Stable today.
Why now in the end?
Although I managed to overcome all the initial difficulties of switching to Mint, I just have my problems with this distribution... not that it's bad, not at all, but it just doesn't suit me.
In the end, Mint is a great distribution for newcomers and those switching from Windows. But I've been working with computers for over 42 years, learned SSP …

#NixOS 25.05 system update (approx. for 4 weeks) took 1h7min on my lenovo #x260 i5 (16GB RAM).
I have no idea why the performance is so poor on that machine in contrast to T490 with same NixOS configuration.
I'll see after I switched back to

arse:
'Accept State: remote can't support version # {2}
Program Version (Minimum): 3'
Jun 11 15:07:08 major sh[1012]: rpc.nfsd: Writing version string to kernel: 2 3 4 4.1 4.2
Jun 11 15:07:08 major sh[1012]: rpc.nfsd: Setting version failed: errno 22 (Invalid argument)
OK, so Debian Trixie has NFSv2 server configured out of the kernel; (it has the client as a module)

Sometimes I wake up to find Debian decided to take a nap mid-shutdown, so I get to play the thrilling game of Force Reset, LMAO.
#Debian13 #DebianTrixie #Debian

But, what makes me particularly proud and happy - with all the thinking over the last few days about what to do with Linux, returning to Fedora was never an issue! In the end, it was a decision between Debian and Arch, two distributions that couldn't be more different. But I opted for stability over up-to-dateness. Better safe than sorry.
#linux

Sometimes, all I need to brighten my day is a little love from my timeless, ancient waifu, my forever heart’s treasure. 💖✨
#Debian #Trixie #Linux

If you'd like to know how my day has been, let's just say I had to get a rust app's binary onto someone's 32-bit Debian 7 (wheezy) machine. Kernel 3.2.0. Version of glibc unsupported by any version of rust.
Ended up cross-building it to i686-unknown-linux-musl from a modern amd64 host.

Alternatives to Big Tech/Big Data:
Windows, Apple, Google -> Linux (Debian, Fedora, Mint, Arch...)
Microsoft Office -> LibreOffice (Only Office would also work, but the founders are Russian, who knows...)
Google Android, Apple iOS -> Pixel with GrapheneOS, Fairphone 6 with /e/OS, Brax 3 with iode OS/Ubuntu Touch
OneDrive, Google Drive, iCloud, Dropbox, etc. -> Nextcloud, MEGA, pCloud, Proton Drive
Outlook, Gmail, etc. -> Proton Mail, Tutanota

Sigh, DHCPv6 still unusable for an IPv6-only Debian 13 (trixie) netinstall. Gets a lease but drops it almost immediately and doesn't renew.
So, I have to:
- Get a lease
- Switch to the shell to see what the lease is
- Go back to network config and select static network
- Set that address with a netmask of ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:: and a blank gateway
- Proceed with install
#Debian

Sometimes I’m posting about Syndicalism. Suddenly, I’m deep into LGBTQIA rights, because yes, my brain’s got tabs open everywhere.
Mid-rant, autism brain hits and it’s like, nope, time to fire up YouTube on the Debian box, because special interests top all discourse. The playlist is always oddly specific.
Then, work panic: my boss exists, bills exist. Pretend to be productive, start the loop again.

After weeks of use, I have now discovered that the exotic WiFi module installed in my mini PC is not recognized by Debian and cannot be used, as I was connected to the Internet via cable the whole time.
I only noticed this yesterday when I wanted to send a file to my computer via Localsend, which requires a connection via the same WLAN network. My ThinkPad T490s is also running Debian, and the WLAN module doesn't cause any problems there, and since I've only ever sent files ba…

My perfect combination for freedom and data protection: Debian on my computer and GrapheneOS on my Pixel. 👍
#linux #opensource #freesoftware

Hi! I’m an anarcho-syndicalist, gender-fluid, bisexual, and autistic individual living in Bergen, Norway, and I love Debian and GrapheneOS, and I wanted to reintroduce myself for all the new followers I’ve gotten in the past few weeks.
I like to be clear and specific, so here’s a structured list:
- Activism: Syndicalist (Anarcho-syndicalism)
- Gender: Fluid (changes, not fixed)
- Sexuality: Bisexual (attracted to more than one gender)
- Neurotype: Autistic (diagnos…

#Nvidia #Linux #Ubuntu #Debian

Debian, the GNU/Linux distribution for lesbians! 🏳️‍🌈
#Lesbian #Debian #Linux #Waifu