More #debian drama with #keepassxc this time. One DD decided to fork but not rename and make his fork the default on debian. While i wasnt affected as a regular keepassxc user, this arrogant attitude seems to be defaulting in Debian.: "f*ck users, lets do what I (or my employer) wants.." "wontfix", "not going back", "dont use debian", not responding to bugs, aggressively closing bugs they dont like -even those of other maintainers-, etc..
25 years ago today, Google was founded. On the same day, I wiped Windows 98 off my computer, believing that Debian Linux (which I had been using for a while but still kept Windows on another partition) could do everything I had been doing with Windows until then.
Since that day, many installations of Linux, *BSD, MacOS have graced my computers, but Windows has remained, on a few occasions, only an occasional (unwelcome) guest.
In the spirit of a typical support group phrase, I can joyfully say: 'Hello, I'm Stefano, and I haven't been using Windows as my primary operating system for 25 years.'
This "packagers thinking they know better than the developers, and unilaterally patching things" mentality, along with distros often shipping outdated versions, is why many upstream software developers dislike dealing with Debian (& any LTS distro), and now ask users to test/run #Flatpak versions of their applications first and foremost.
Matrix certrainly has its rough edges, but I find it awesome that pretty much every major Linux community now has their dedicated space. All federated, of course.
이미 앞서 공유한 바 있지만, 올해 연례 #데비안#Debian 개발자 컨퍼런스인 #DebConf24 가 #부산#부경대 에서 열립니다! 참가 등록이 이미 오픈 된 상태인데요, DebConf 는 전세계를 순회하는 행사이니만큼 올해 지나가면 또 쉽게 참석하긴 어려우니 여건이 되는 분들은 참석 해 보시면 좋을듯 합니다.
Random #Debian Astro package of the week is mocassin. mocassin is a fully 3D or 2D photoionisation and dust radiative transfer code which employs a Monte Carlo approach to the transfer of radiation through media of arbitrary geometry and density distribution. It was originally developed for the modelling of photoionised regions like HII regions and planetary nebulae and has since expanded and been applied to a 1/3⤵
It depends on what you're doing with it, but I'd say #Devuan and its parent #Debian should be near the top of your list. I'd also consider #FreeBSD and #DragonflyBSD.
I know that "Debian" is an ancient Sumerian word meaning "old", but when I used the former #CentOS bug-for-bug clone of #Red_Hat #RHEL, its packages were even older. I had to find 3rd party repos that had more-current versions of various libraries and applications. (Examples: I neded newer versions of PHP, php-intl, the internationalization library that php-intl depends upon in order to run almost anything because RHEL freezes the major versions of such software for years.)
Which makes sense when you're paying for stability ... you probably aren't installing current versions of $APPLICATION, so the language in which it is written probably needs to stay old, just with security patches.
Not using AI generated randomness in #opensource like decided by #gentoo today is a really good and important decision, I really hope upstream projects and of course #debian follow this!
Exciting day at #MNT Research working on the Pocket Reform! Today I am attaching CPU modules to adapter boards and then attaching adapter boards to logic boards. Almost ready to start flashing the system image (hello #Debian) onto them soon after @mntmn finishes the final touches! #OSHW
Meanwhile, #Debian is considering rolling #xz back not only to the point before the backdoor was added, but to where the person who _wrote_ the backdoor hadn't contributed any code to xz yet.
Which means considering creating patches to fix ABI breakage such a rollback would cause.
guyss my ma gave me her old HP Elitebook from 2012 its so beautyifful and thick and i managed to bypass the admin locks on it (it was a work laptop and some fuckers bought the school and ran it into the ground 8P) and installed debiannnnnn i feel so slay this is my new school laptop im gonna cover this in stickers lolol #linux, #laptops, #debian
The longer I use #debian and the more I use other (Berkeley software or Linux™) distributions the more I feel Debian needs to change to live much longer.
E.g. I find it really hard to get information how a package is build/packaged. What patches are included? Are the build flags different to other distributions? Why does Debian use its own Linux™ kernel config and not the defconfig of the corresponding CPU ISA? Why does it not do defconfig + downstream {en,dis}ables?