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@dfloyd888 @rl_dane

I've been of the opinion one can learn Debian by picking up an #Ubuntu book - but only if the person has some experience. The gotchas do exist but for setting up servers, I would expect the processes between the two to be similar.

Ubuntu, while a #Debian derivative, has forked far enough that it's definitely not 1:1. #RHEL and #CentOS were much closer in that regard (but they also were not the same).

As for SUSE, sure you can check it out. I've used it on and off since 2005 and have seen and felt its changes. Just my opinion:

SUSE just feels...incomplete. It has good ideas but poor execution. It markets itself as the distro for users, sysadmins, developers, and makers. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to quite meet the challenge since each of those users have very different needs and instead has some kind of identity crisis. The lack of packages in its stock repos, along with many 3rd party apps not supporting it, shows. It wants to appeal to everyone but instead lacks focus.

Interestingly, Debian is much closer to being for everyone (or the universal OS) given its repos and flexibility. Unfortunately documentation is where it falls short.

I've been using Debian as my daily driver for the past two decades. When I think of #Linux, I think of Debian. To me, other distros are merely other Linux-based operating systems.

@pixx @spaceraser @peteorrall

Yeah, driver/hardware support and stability.

I've had OpenBSD kernel panic on me when I was trying to probe for battery threshold settings, and FreeBSD will freeze when pulling up a heavy website, even on a (merely) not-quite ten-year-old laptop. 😅

I don't doubt that OpenBSD has way better security features than linux, and that the FreeBSD network stack can outperform Linux in many ways. But in my own (dinky) experience on nothing other than laptops, it hasn't been perfect.

That said, I've seriously loved the #BSD experience, and continue to daily drive (Free|Open)BSD on my personal machines. I only have one Linux laptop now, and while it's the nicest laptop I own, I use it the least.

Also, there are small things like KOReader not being available for FreeBSD, even though it's written in Lua and there's plenty of Lua support in FreeBSD. Also, OpenBSD (which, again, is amazing for what it is, and what they're wanting to concentrate on) still has no Bluetooth, nor any modern fs options. And I have yet to figure out how to get audio out of my headphone port on FreeBSD, let alone bluetooth.

I'd just love to see the #Linux community embrace the kind of OS-building that the BSD guys do every day, and not just ship an amalgam of disparate parts.

To say it in a meme form,

Me: "Why can't Linux be an OS, for crying out loud?"
Systemd: exists
Me: "No, no, no, not like that. 🫣"

Hmm, are security updates in Ubuntu only going into Pro nowadays?!?!? #ubuntu #linux

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The following security updates require Ubuntu Pro with 'esm-infra' enabled: python3.8-venv libsoup-gnome2.4-1 linux-headers-generic-hwe-20.04 libopenjp2-7 bind9-dnsutils poppler-utils gstreamer1.0-alsa libcups2 intel-microcode linux-headers-generic gnupg-utils linux-libc-dev xserver-common libpython3.8-dev gir1.2-soup-2.4 gpg-wks-client gstreamer1.0-plugins-base-apps openssl libblockdev-swap2 xserver-xorg-core gir1.2-gdkpixbuf-2.0 gnupg-l10n libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 libc6-dbg libssh-4 libc6-dev libpython3.8-minimal libctf-nobfd0 libwbclient0 git-man libsystemd0 gcc-10-base libexpat1-dev libavahi-glib1 gstreamer1.0-plugins-good libgs9 libpng-dev python2.7-minimal libsqlite3-0 python3-protobuf python3-urllib3 binutils libsnmp-base bind9-host libitm1 libavahi-common-data python3-filelock libavahi-common3 sudo python2.7 python3-pip libc6 gpg-wks-server libpython3.8 python3.8 python-apt-common xserver-xorg-legacy git gpg libblockdev-crypto2 udev locales gstreamer1.0-plugins-base cups-server-common libblockdev-loop2 libquadmath0 libklibc libblockdev-fs2 cups-common linux-image-generic-hwe-20.04 libblockdev-part2 python3-requests libexpat1 libgstreamer-plugins-good1.0-0 libudev1 libsoup2.4-1 libcaca-dev gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio systemd-timesyncd etc

On #Linux, there are a few apps I use that are available only as #AppImage. I've been downloading them, copying to /opt/$app, chown root:root, chmod 775 (rwxrwxr-x)

Does that seem right, to you?

Even though I only have the one user account on my personal machines (usually), I'm allergic to the idea of installing apps that aren't available to all users, by default, unless there's a specific reason that only a particular user should have access to an app.

Since switching to Linux, I no longer have to wait HOURS for software updates on Windows & macOS. I can take almost ANY distro from the past year or so (or older in many cases) , install it from an ISO and then update it to the latest and greatest in LESS TIME than it takes to perform a simple point update on macOS.

And then they have the nerve to notify you that your machine is gonna be SLOW while all those new files get indexed.

No, thanks.

#Linux #maOS #Windows #OpenSource

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#Linux #LinuxKernel #OpenSource #DevOps #SystemEngineering

JioSphere è il nuovo browser sviluppato in India che punta su privacy, personalizzazione e integrazione Web3 con JioCoin. #JioSphere #Browser #Privacy #Linux

https://www.linuxeasy.org/jiosphere-browser-privacy-personalizzazione-web3/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

@cybervegan @NTOY - I gotchu, fam

https://web.archive.org/web/20190725063027/https://www.angelfire.com/linux/linuxitna/InstallFest_Waiver.html

(Note this is just an example waiver. I think the one we used was a little bit different. I think we used something along these lines: https://tldp.org/HOWTO/Installfest-HOWTO/legalprotection.html )

#linux #linuxInstallParty #installParty #solarPunk

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#OSS #CloudNative #Linux #Kubernetes #PlatformEngineers #DevOps #SysAdmins #FOSS

Sony's introduction of the PS2 Linux Kit caught the attention of researchers at NCSA. They combined 70 PS2 consoles in 2003 to form a supercomputer, highlighting its ability to perform complex scientific calculations.

credit: https://www.reddit.com/r/ObsoleteSony/comments/1ije8cz/sonys_introduction_of_the_ps2_linux_kit_caught/

#linux #opensource

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A person (man) in an "Area 51" T shirt stands next to a large server rack filled with many of networked Sony PlayStation 2 (PS2) consoles.

Surveillance relies on sensors being present.

PH4NTXM removes that assumption at the kernel level.

Microphone, camera, and audio output never reach userspace.
Applications, browsers, and malware have nothing to enumerate, request, or exploit.

When sensors don’t exist to the operating system, surveillance tooling loses its footing — not because it’s blocked, but because the attack surface is gone.

There’s no muting.
No permissions.
No trust model.

By enforcing sensor absence at the kernel boundary, entire categories of monitoring and exfiltration simply fail by design.

This isn’t anti-surveillance through resistance.
It’s anti-surveillance through architecture.

#ph4ntxm #linux #debian #os #live #privacy #security #opsec #infosec #research #tech #technology

I've had quite an interesting time over the last few days with #ManjaroLinux. It has a beautifully put together KDE plasma desktop, and it's really slick. However, it's definitely not for the beginner. For me, the experience has been like going back in time a few years, but with the advantage of having #Claude and #Gemini to help me.

Thanks to AI (and a lot of prior knowledge, an essential when using AI in my opinion), I was able to get a number of things working that didn't just work out of the box, including:
- an Epson printer/scanner
- a Brother laser printer
- a Bluetooth mouse
- KVM virt-manager

The mouse was the most interesting. I'd read that my MediaTek chipset isn't well supported, and through the UI it detected the mouse but refused to successfully connect. However, using the command line bluez utility all is good.

One final thing to work out is why it's not going to sleep. It'll sleep when triggered manually, but not when left idle. I suspect the web browser might be at fault, but that's tomorrow's challenge.

All in all, despite my reservations about #Linux distros with systemd, #Manjaro has greatly exceeded my expectations. Isn't #FOSS great?

PSA

Your "old" computer is probably NOT EWaste.

Especially not, if the provider of your commercial OS or other paid service says so.

#E_Waste_Conoisseur

#FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #Linux #HAIKU_OS #HaikuOS

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If you were to use only one Linux distro for life, which one would it be?

@dfloyd888

I do love debian, although I'd kill for a yearly release cycle XD

#Linux running #btrfs and snubbing #ZFS (although I understand the license is... horricle) is the Linux equivalent to "Americans will use ANYTHING but use the metric system"

We're excited to meet community members and users at DevConf.IN 2026! See you on Feb 13-14!

➡️ https://www.devconf.info/in/

#DevConf #Fedora #Linux #OpenSource

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#CUPS #Linux #printing #RetroComputing #VintageComputing

Today we are trying to print with an old Canon LBP laser printer from Linux.

Uuhhmm.

It is NOT going well.

🤩

Bash is like, "Processing triggers" and I'm like, "Tell me about it."

#Linux

RE: https://esq.social/@D_J_Nathanson/115997840250051524

For those who might be wondering, it was an update that broke my setup below. ("kernel update" for the linux-insistent, just "update" for newbs like me).

I figured out how to roll back the OS to an earlier update and set that to default. It wasn't hard if you follow the directions exactly. Once you find the directions from a trusted source. Thanks to the Zorin forums.

Links to what I actually did in the reply. #Linux #ZorinOS

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Dave Nathanson » 🌐 2026-02-01
@D_J_Nathanson@esq.social

Woof. Zorin OS was running Crossover and Microsoft Word 2016 great. After a recent update, Word is now crashing randomly and displaying improperly.

Should I roll back the Zorin updates? I don't think there was any Crossover update.

If I should roll it back, how do I do that? I know how to use the command line but am very uncomfortable with it.

[Please don't come in my mentions and tell me to use Libre Office. That is not the question.]
#Zorin #ZorinOS #linux

You don't have to be perfect, but every step you take in the right direction helps:

X, Insta, TicToc -> https://joinfediverse.wiki/Fediverse_projects
Microsoft -> Install Linux on it
AI -> ask intelligent humans instead, e.g. #AskFedi
Google -> https://noai.duckduckgo.com
GoogleMail -> @Tutanota
iPhone -> jailbreak it, use it until its dead, get a Fairphone with @e_mydata
Amazon video, Disney+, Netflix, Spotify, etc. -> Torrents
Google/Microsoft/Apple calendar -> physical calendar
Zoom -> meet friends IRL, or use @signalapp
Whatsapp -> Signal, or better yet @mollyim
omnivorism -> vegetarianism, veganism, freeganism, flexitarianism, ... (just consume fewer animal products and save food)
car -> public transit, bike, car-sharing
flying -> discover the beauty of your closer surroundings by train
job -> general strike
consumerism -> sufficiency
despair -> collective effectiveness & empowerment

#BoycottUSA #UnplugTrump #fediverse #linux #fairphone #torrents #veganism #MobilityTransition #GeneralStrike #sufficiency #empowerment #DIDIt #UnplugMAGA #StopFascism

@akamran You don't unless you get rid of this whole Microsoft Windows sceme.
Install #Linux and experience digital freedom.

@gnulinux

Was ist der Digital Independence Day?
Der #DiDay ist eine gemeinsame Initiative vieler Organisationen, Verbände und Institutionen, die von Save Social - Networks For Democracy in Hamburg koordiniert wird. Die Initiative wurde beim letzten Congress von Mark-Uwe Kling (der mit dem Känguru) und Linus Neumann (der vom CCC) angekündigt.
Aktuell wird der DI.DAY von 44 Organisationen unterstützt. Darunter findet man fast alle, die in der Freien Software Szene eine Rolle spielen, wie z. B.: dem CCC, Wikimedia, Mastodon, Ecosia, Nextcloud, der Open Search Foundation, Digitalcourage, dem SUMA e.V., der Digitalen Gesellschaft, Tuta und viele andere.

#Microsoft zu #LibreOffice
#PayPal zu #Wero / @Taler

#Chrome zu #Firefox
#Google zu #Ecosia /
Amazon zum Buchladen
Gmail zu unabhängiger E-Mail
X zu #Mastodon
#WhatsApp zu #Signal

HomeAssistant, Immich, AdGuard, Jellyfin
Ralf schlägt #BigTech-Cloud zu #Nextcloud vor …
… und der Elefant im Raum heisst: #Windows zu #Linux

@marcuwekling
@Tutanota