On November 9th, 2025 with 71 comments
A maintainer of Debian's Advanced Package Tool (APT) "has announced plans to introduce hard Rust dependencies into APT starting May 2026," reports the blog...
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On July 21st, 2025 with 28 comments
It was nearly a decade ago when the first RISCV64 port was started for Debian, reports Phoronix. But one of the big features planned for Debian 13.0 (planned...
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On April 13th, 2025 with 42 comments
Linux Mint Debian Edition 7 "will come with full support for OEM installations," according to their monthly newsletter, so Linux Mint "can be pre-installed on...
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On March 8th, 2025 with 43 comments
Google has introduced a Debian Linux terminal app for Android in its ongoing effort to transform Android into a versatile desktop OS. It's initially available...
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On April 14th, 2024 with 25 comments
Ubuntu 24.10 [expected this October] and Debian GNU/Linux 13 "Trixie" [expected June-July 2025] "will feature a refined APT command-line interface," reports...
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On December 30th, 2023 with 14 comments
They create a dedicated desktop icon for your favorite web-based application — a simplified browser that opens to that single URL. Yet while Linux...
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On October 8th, 2023 with 22 comments
Thursday ZDNet reported...
As security holes go, CVE-2023-4911, aka "Looney Tunables," isn't horrid. It has a Common Vulnerability Scoring System score of...
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On September 16th, 2023 with 22 comments
This week saw the public beta-testing release of "Linux Mint Debian Edition". Besides listing download locations, its release notes also list out the...
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On August 17th, 2023 with 33 comments
Debian blog: Over 30 years ago the late Ian Murdock wrote to the comp.os.linux.development newsgroup about the completion of a brand-new Linux release which he...
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On June 10th, 2023 with 62 comments
Slashdot reader e065c8515d206cb0e190 shared the big announcement from Debian.org: After 1 year, 9 months, and 28 days of development, the Debian project is...
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On March 2nd, 2023 with 133 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: Now, leaders from the GNOME Foundation and KDE Foundation, along with Debian Linux, are considering [...]...
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On October 2nd, 2022 with 65 comments
Michael Larabel writes via Phoronix: Debian developers have been figuring out an updated stance to take on non-free firmware considering the increasing number...
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On August 29th, 2022 with 43 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a story from the Linux/Open Source news site It's FOSS:
While Firefox is still the default web browser in Debian, you can find the...
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On August 28th, 2022 with 94 comments
"Debian currently doesn't load non-free firmware by default on its systems," reports Phoronix, "even when it means no working hardware support/acceleration...
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On July 30th, 2022 with 60 comments
"For more than a decade, Google has been baking and eating its own homemade Linux desktop distribution," writes Computerworld.
Long-time Slashdot reader...
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On March 15th, 2022 with 218 comments
juul_advocate shares a report from iTWire: A developer who had more than two decades of service in the Debian GNU/Linux project was stripped of his status in...
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On October 23rd, 2021 with 140 comments
Luna (Slashdot reader #20,969) quotes the Devuan web site.
"Dear Friends and Software Freedom Lovers," its announcement begins:
"Devuan Developers are...
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On August 15th, 2021 with 40 comments
"One of the oldest and most renowned distributions of Linux has been released!" âwrites Slashdot reader Washuu2.
Phoronix reports it took "just over two...
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On April 18th, 2021 with 209 comments
An anonymous reader writes:
Debian Project Secretary Kurt Roeckx has announced the results of a closely-watched vote on what statement would be made about...
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On April 6th, 2021 with 387 comments
New submitter juul_advocate shares a report from iTWire: The outcome of a general resolution proposed by the Debian GNU/Linux project, to decide how to react...
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On January 13th, 2021 with 48 comments
Jake Edge, writing at LWN: The problems with "vendoring" in packages -- bundling dependencies rather than getting them from other packages -- seems to crop up...
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On October 24th, 2020 with 20 comments
PeerTube (developed by Framasoft) is "the free and decentralized alternative to video platforms, providing you over 400,000 videos published by 60,000 users...
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On September 5th, 2020 with 236 comments
Artem S. Tashkinov writes: 253 emails have been leaked from private (high-level) mailing lists of Debian, in which its representatives vocally complain about...
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On August 16th, 2020 with 10 comments
27 years ago today, in 1993, Debian first appeared in the world. August 16th has since been recognized as "DebianDay," celebrated shortly before the annual...
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On December 28th, 2019 with 203 comments
DevNull127 writes: The Debian Project has announced the results of its vote on how much to support non-systemd init systems. The eight options voted on...
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On December 8th, 2019 with 225 comments
"It's been five years already since the vote to transition to systemd in Debian over Upstart," reports Phoronix, noting that the Debian developer community...
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On December 5th, 2019 with 43 comments
An anonymous reader writes: Security researchers found a new vulnerability allowing potential attackers to hijack VPN connections on affected *NIX devices and...
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On November 16th, 2019 with 212 comments
Debian "is heading toward a new general resolution to decide at what level init systems other than systemd should be supported," reports LWN.net.
"I'm...
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On September 22nd, 2019 with 135 comments
"Debian Project Leader Sam Hartman has shared his August 2019 notes where he outlines the frustrations and issues that have come up as a result of init system...
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On July 7th, 2019 with 158 comments
"After 25 months of development the Debian project is proud to present its new stable version 10 (code name 'buster'), which will be supported for the next 5...
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