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3 days ago the RSS feed of planet.ubuntu.com stopped working due to a TLS cert error.
I THINK it's due to them overhauling & moving it to a github-hosted replacement, but as this was done just by redirecting DNS the new host doesn't have a TLS cert with the correct name. If so, this means that people following the old RSS feed can't do so any more and they got no notice that this was going to happen.
I don't know for sure though because my query remains unansw…

ZFS encrypted root on Ubuntu 25.10, installed from a fresh USB key works fine following the instructions at
https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/Getting Started/Ubuntu/Ubuntu 22.04 Root on ZFS.html
It's a …

Schnell noch die Weihnachtszeit bei Muddi nutzen um ihr Kubuntu 25.04 auf 25.10 zu updaten bevor es in 36 Tagen keine updates mehr bekommt.
#Linux #Ubuntu

And... just realized I made the rookie error of not running the upgrade under screen. One time about 6 years ago I did this with Ubuntu and the update got aborted halfway through and was a huge mess to recover from. Hopefully Debian isn't so brittle now.

Mein persönliches „Linux auf dem Desktop“ war so ungefähr von 1999 bis 2014, erste Hälfte Debian, zweite Hälfte Ubuntu. Parallel Solaris am Büroarbeitsplatz. Danach aus verschiedenen Gründen Wechsel auf OS X.

@… @…
FreeBSD, GhostBSD, NomadBSD, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, KDE Plasma

qa_user: User interactions on Q&A websites (2016)
Networks of interactions among users from four online Q&A sites: Stack Overflow, Math Overflow, Super User, and Ask Ubuntu. A directed edge (i,j) indicates a user i responded to user j's post. Edges are timestamped. For each Q&A site, four differently defined networks are provided, based on the definition of an edge: (i) a user answered a question, (ii) a user commented on a question, (iii) a user commented on an answer…

#Linux question: I would like to have a shared partition, on a #DualBoot between Windows 11 and Ubuntu 24, which would be encrypted but still useable (read & write) from both OSes.
It seems that one way to do this is via "Veracrypt" (see

Encrypt partition for use in Ubuntu + Windows
I have a machine with dual boot Windows 10 / Ubuntu 20.04. I would like to set up a new HDD (1 partition) dedicated for documents and other data - which I would like to have have encrypted, but

This meme is probably going to trigger the #Ubuntu purists, you know, the so-called Snap elitists.
I oppose Snap and Ubuntu, and as a Debian and Secureblue user, I consider Snap unnecessary bloat.
#Debian

@… Seeing as Mint uses Ubuntu as its base, I don't know if Mint is really not as good on drivers or privacy. I've been using Mint for quite a while now and really like it. I wasn't as happy with Ubuntu.

Love it when Ubuntu/Debian frees up space like this:
#apt #ubuntu #aptitude #debian

🫰🏿 Snap out of it: Canonical on Flatpak friction, Core Desktop, and the future of Ubuntu
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/11/03/canonical_jon_seager_qa/

Snap out of it: Canonical on Flatpak friction, Core Desktop, and the future of Ubuntu
Ubuntu Summit: Jon Seager, VP of Engineering, talks exclusively to The Reg

Ubuntu Touch is an important project for a freer future for mobile platforms, but current alternative operating systems are simpler to use at the moment.
https://theprivacydad.com/using-ubuntu-touch-on-a-pixel-3a-phone/

Today I installed #ZorinOS on a Thinkpad which initially came with #Ubuntu, but was never upgraded beyond 20.04... It worked like a charm! Really appreciate the Zorin dev's work! This is a good OS for family and friends in need of Windows like OS!
The fingerprint reader even just worked out of t…

A new puzzle: normally in #XOrg I can blank the screen with "xset dpms force off" and with KDE/Plasma I could bind this to a hot key, but in Gnome #Ubuntu 25.10 using #XFCE4 it will work from inside a terminal, but as a hotkey it blanks, pauses, then refreshes the screens. Why would this be? Or perhaps, is there a prefered method to instantly blank all screens in XFCE-4? Not to lock, just to turn them off.

My wife's Macbook laptop from 2015 was causing her problems because the operating system was old, the disk was always filled with Mac's shit she couldn't control, wasn't able to install modern applications, etc...
So, I've installed Ubuntu in her laptop and everything goes faster & smoother than before, and she has now a modern operating system in a perfectly working piece of hardware.

I love Flatpaks.
I hate Flatpaks.
It really is a “Haßliebe” at the moment.
It's *finally* easy to get the latest version of an app. (Although outdated Apps are traditionally a #Debian/#Ubuntu problem.) Using them feels mostly native now.
But they are confusing: You can install an app twice!? The data path is different. And they're still not good with hardware:

"A new version of Ubuntu is available. Would you like to upgrade?"
Well, yes. But maybe not right now.

"A new version of Ubuntu is available. Would you like to upgrade?"
Well, yes. But maybe not right now.

A not-so-boring talk on #ubuntu touch at #openalt

Let's see, is the game Hytale popular on the Fediverse? For folks looking at hosting your own dedicated server, I'm wrapping up my installer for Debian / Ubuntu servers.
https://github.com/BitsNBytes25/Hytale-Installer
Works with Warlock web game manager or by itse…

$ time curl -s -gb.archive.ubuntu.com > /dev/null
real 0m15.948s
$ time curl -s -gb.archive.ubuntu.com > /dev/null
real 0m0.034s
$ for i in {1..3}; do target="ubuntu-mirror-${i}.ps5.canonical.com"; echo -n "$target: "; curl -s -o /dev/null -4 -w 'Responded in %{time_total}s\n' "$target"; done
ubuntu-mirror-1.ps5.canonical.com: Responded in 0.011217s
ubuntu-mirror-2.ps5.canonical.com: Responded in 21.003718s
…

Idag är en heldag på huvudkontoret, jag var snäll och tog skjorta idag med min ubuntu tee under knäppningen. Men raka mig? Näe, hela huvudet ser ut som en kiwi - small rebellion ⭐️

... and I know I shouldn't be configuring new work laptop when I'm on vacation, but here we are.
Modern Ubuntu not including a ZFS root option from the installer is a giant pain.

Friday was an adventure in tech futility. Started with a gifted laptop, Dell Latitude, and the simple task of wiping its poor excuse for an OS and installing something sensible.
#Ubuntu wasn't it. OMG Ubuntu, what HAVE you done?! Tried first #UbuntuStudio then stock Ubuntu, 24.04, 25.04, 25.11, all the installers simply hung, no log, no journalctl, CPU chugging but nada detectable action, even hours later, just "Preparing…"
Net advice is old, of course, but points to the snap bootstrap service, fix has no effect but Kee-riced look at the mount table?! Snaps crackle and pop all over! Wtf, why? 🤯
And it is tedious. These 'DVD' iso files are 7GB, so, after 6 hours frustration, I thought, let's try something smaller to cut the turnaround time. #Debian13 simple bare-bones net-install seemed a good candidate …
And it was. Seemless install. 😊

No Mandrake? wtf

So, wieder ein #Ubuntu unter das Volk gebracht.

Why doesn’t logrotate work on Ubuntu?
#Sysadminnery
(half-serious... I support 1 Ubuntu 20 LTS machine with a high-abuse web server and periodically need to run logrotate -F /etc/logrotate.d/apache2 by hand because it really doesn't work… I’m likely to figurer it out... )

Twin Lake (N150) mini PC arrived and has been reformatted to Ubuntu Server. Next step: swap the fstab/samba stuff from the Chromebox to the new machine and make sure Time Machine backup keeps working.

For all the distro-hoppers out there TuxMate can be a useful tool. You select the apps and it creates the command to install them. It can save you some time.
#linux

@… vielleicht einen Blick wert. Basis #ubuntu für den #Windows Ausstieg #linux

Ubuntu-Installation läuft. Tschüss Windows 10

I used to recommend #Ubuntu, and as of 2024, I started recommending #LinuxMint, especially #LMDE to the many (almost no people) who ask me for

as a security precaution I am now running all Eleventy projects submitted through support channels via a Virtual Machine (Ubuntu on VirtualBox)

qa_user: User interactions on Q&A websites (2016)
Networks of interactions among users from four online Q&A sites: Stack Overflow, Math Overflow, Super User, and Ask Ubuntu. A directed edge (i,j) indicates a user i responded to user j's post. Edges are timestamped. For each Q&A site, four differently defined networks are provided, based on the definition of an edge: (i) a user answered a question, (ii) a user commented on a question, (iii) a user commented on an answer…

I think I might be ready to move to Ubuntu touch or plasma mobile
This is with transparency off reduce motion
#iOS #a11y #LiquidAss

#Mastodon spotted! Hat mir Youtube deshalb das Video vorgeschlagen?

What's up with #Remmina on #Ubuntu? I have weird typing issues (duplicate characters, etc.). Switched to plain #FreeRDP and then all is well.
It did take me a while to find out what the command line is…

I bought an inexpensive mini-PC that came with Ubuntu pre-installed. That's fine, but I have no interest in running that; I want to run Fedora. Preferably Silverblue. But every attempt I've made to install Silverblue ends up with the error the commmand 'ostree admin --sysroot=/mnt/sysimage deploy --os=fedora fedora:fedora/42/x86_64/silverblue' exited with the code 1 which leads to

I hate this slapdash app I wrote. It makes assumptions about directory layouts & volume writability that are really only true on one Ubuntu VM. Containerizing this is going to involve rewriting so much to disentangle the paths.
#venting

Btw, afaiac I'd love to swap KDE out for Cosmic. But the window rules (or current absence of it) is preventing me from doing it. Like a Kwin for Cosmic, that would be cool. But what the Cosmic team has achieved so far is really impressive. I wouldn't be surprised if this becomes the default DE for Ubuntu.
#cosmic

I don't know what to think at this point:
```
FROM docker.io/ubuntu:24.04
RUN --network=none echo "hello world"
```
See that `--network=none`? It fixed my problem... but WHY? I mean, why do I need to enforce that for a simple `echo` call? 🫠

Well it's pretty unpolished, but it works. Made good progress on my web manager / installer for games.
Currently supports Debian and Ubuntu, (though technically works on any Linux distro in theory), and supports:
https://github.c…

Ich habe heute meinen virtuellen Root-Server von Ubuntu 20.04 auf 22.04 aktualisiert. Ja ich weiß, dass ich spät dran bin:)
Blöd, wenn das do-release-upgrade mit einer Fehlermeldung abbricht, dass jammy.tar.gz nicht gefunden wird. Weil die IPv6 Webserver von ubuntu.com ein Problem haben. Mit den IPv4 Servern gehts. (/etc/hosts hilft) Argl!
Megablöd, wenn dann bei ca. 60% des Updates kein Platz mehr auf der Platte ist. Mega Argl!
Gut, dass es jetzt trotzdem läuft. \o/

Here's another new #hosting provider experience I wasn't expecting to see. Forky installed by default. I selected Debian 10, because that was the latest version in config form. Maybe they thought they were doing me a favor? The hardware isn't that new. If I wanted Ubuntu I would have chosen that.
Trixie aka Debian 13 just came out in August, Forky is the current"testin…

@… Great. But why? There enough Linux installation tutorials out there. And anyone starting with the mainstream distros like Fedora/Ubuntu should have no problems using the GUI installers. I suspect the tutorial that is needed is not how to install Linux, but rather how to install anything that wasn’t already there when you bought your computer.

Successfully switched an old Chromebox to running Ubuntu Server last night. This one will probably wind up at my parents' place, and I'll grab another mini PC for here, so I'll have geo-redundant, ISP-redundant backups that don't require a cloud, on hardware low-power enough that electricity use is a rounding error.

qa_user: User interactions on Q&A websites (2016)
Networks of interactions among users from four online Q&A sites: Stack Overflow, Math Overflow, Super User, and Ask Ubuntu. A directed edge (i,j) indicates a user i responded to user j's post. Edges are timestamped. For each Q&A site, four differently defined networks are provided, based on the definition of an edge: (i) a user answered a question, (ii) a user commented on a question, (iii) a user commented on an answer…

@… I've been very happy with Mint since I switched from Windows in 2024. It works very well and is fairly customizable. It's also not a difficult transition from Windows. I found Ubuntu to be not as satisfying. I've also tried Zorin, but prefer Mint, because it is more customizable, at least for me.

@… I carelessly think of MATE as maintained, in the sense that it looks better than GNOME 🙂
I am horribly prejudiced. I cringe at the possibility of people wrongly assuming that I use GNOME when the truth is, Ubuntu was nothing more than my passport to KDE Plasma – Kubuntu.

2021 hatte ich meine persönliche Microsoft-Linux-Gleiche, und 2016 schon die Windows-Linux-Gleiche. 1991 kam der PC mit MS-DOS ins Haus, 5 Jahre später hatte ich dann dem Druck zu Windows 95 nachgegeben, auch wenn ich anfangs meist direkt zu MS-DOS gebootet hatte.
2006 kam dann Ubuntu auf den Rechner, weil ich keinen Bock mehr auf die ständigen Neuinstallationen von Windows XP hatte, teilweise zwei Mal im Jahr. Außerdem hatte ich schon ein paar Jahre vorher sehr positive Erfahrungen mi…

@… That’s a Ubuntu fork kinda like Mint?

🛡️ #du_setup – Automated Server Setup & Hardening Script for #Debian & #Ubuntu #opensource

Getting gpg-agent-ssh to work properly on #Arch #Linux is/was quite a pain. These things just worked on #Ubuntu derivatives out of the box, here one really needs to understand what is going on.
But it was an int…

I had a couple folks hop into our Discord to ask for some help on the ARK Server installation script.
Got them resolved, but one of the comments struck me as interesting. "Do you support modded maps"
I didn't even think of modded maps... but that sounded like a good idea!
So I'd like to announce my Debian/Ubuntu installer for ARK SA now has support for modded maps! (and a bunch of other improvements to the UI)

so far, so amazingly good. the Dell 5290 has a close keyboard but with a nice haptic response and despite less RAM and similar bogomips to my old ZaReason, everything media has been smooth as glass in #Debian13 - never thought I would say so, but if you are new to pondering Linux for that machine that can't do Win11, for everyday use or science lab stuff unfettered by clouds, I wouldn't go near Ubuntu, you'll be just fine in Debian.

Wenn ich mal #Linux auf Rechnern ausprobieren wollte, habe ich zu #Ubuntu #Mint gegriffen, zuletzt auch mal #RaspberryOS

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initenv.sh fails (crypt_r build error)
#deltachat relay working neither on my Mac nor my Ubuntu box
Ar…

@… Kubuntu 25.10 here. I used the 25.04 installer for Ubuntu to give me OpenZFS-native encrypted root-on-ZFS.
Months have passed, I have not found the time to visualise how I might begin using bemgr, zectl, or ZFSBootMenu – without starting from scratch.
Management of ZFS boot environments:
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According to #FreePG right now: #ArchLinux, #Debian, #Fedora, #NixOS and #Ubuntu. Now #Gentoo joins that list, except that instead of silently making intrusive patching on top of GnuPG, we provide it as a separate package (app-crypt/freepg), and mark appropriately:
$ gpg --version
gpg (GnuPG) 2.5.13-freepg

They say a change is as good as being arrested, or something like that, and being reckless (and retired) I upgraded my vintage laptop to #Ubuntu 25.10 because why not, it was already broken from a few upgrades ago, and it was already clear #plasma on #x11 with my Radeon 570 was, well, not fun.
So down the list I go. Those of you on Mac or that other O/S ("little&soft"?) won't understand, but I went through each of the various desktops, just to see, not expecting a lot given my hardware.
Well, Ubuntu on Wayland works now, but, egad, it is ugly. Gnome and its Classic look, well, almost the same. One of the others is just a blank screen, but remember, my machine was already broken.
I ended up in #xfce which I hadn't used in, omg, never mind, only I'm thinking, hey old man, learn some new tricks! Need to add panel and some widgets and…
why is my panel's outline slowly blinking red? (left it in Add mode and buried the dialog box)