An effort to revive and reinvigorate the 2002 Gtk2 GUI programming toolkit is growing and gaining interest… as we predicted would happen a few months ago.

With half-way through the Debian 14 "Forky" development cycle, the Debian release team is out with an update this weekend and some big news.

I am running Poweredge R620 servers. With Debian 10 I had no trouble, I could reliably set my network names using udev and they came up consistently even when moving from older hardware years ago. Knowing full well that upgrading to Debian 11 would break everything, I have resisted for years, but I finally gave up and started moving forward.

After fighting for the past day with a machine, I think the answer here is going to be that beginning with Debian 11 there is simply no way to reliably name the network interfaces now.

Starting with bullseye, udev is officially dead. There are still some remaining files buried on the system but /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules no longer has any effect on the network interfaces.

/etc/default/grub -- "net.ifnames=0 biosdevname=0" have been removed and update-grub run

/etc/systemd/network/ -- I created the link files such as 10-eth0.link with the appropriate MAC addresses, but because the ethX names already exist, renaming is not possible:

[Match]
MACAddress=74:86:7a:ed:f6:a3

[Link]
NamePolicy=
Name=eth0

systemctl status systemd-networkd.service -- confirmed that this service is indeed active and running

Very early in dmesg I continue to see this:

[    2.193760] tg3 0000:01:00.0 eth0: attached PHY is 5720C (10/100/1000Base-T Ethernet) (WireSpeed[1], EEE[1])
[    2.227087] tg3 0000:01:00.1 eth1: attached PHY is 5720C (10/100/1000Base-T Ethernet) (WireSpeed[1], EEE[1])
[    2.247850] tg3 0000:02:00.0 eth2: attached PHY is 5720C (10/100/1000Base-T Ethernet) (WireSpeed[1], EEE[1])
[    2.263753] tg3 0000:02:00.1 eth3: attached PHY is 5720C (10/100/1000Base-T Ethernet) (WireSpeed[1], EEE[1])

The problem here is that the ethX names are being assigned backwards. The physical plugs have other brackets in the way so what I previously used as eth0 and eth1 is now being assigned to eth3 and eth2. And despite all of the above, debian and systemd refuse to ever assign "predictable" names to any of the interfaces (nothing shows up in dmesg). I ran across some info about a "BIOSdevname" setting in the actual BIOS, but can find no such setting in the last available BIOS rev for these servers. Because the system is assigning the ethX names, I am unable to reassign the correct names using the systemd link files.

The only solution I've found to work is to use the link files and assign the interface with names like dmz0, dmz1, etc. What's the deal here and what ever happened to the concept that I should be able to set up my computer the way I want to? The udev utility was 100% reliable for all the machines I've run since it was first introduced, and now we're stuck with a system that simply can't be given alternate information? Yeah I'm frustrated and annoyed.

I don't know if anyone else has run across other possible solutions, I fought with the last box for two weeks trying to name eight interfaces in the proper order and never could find anything that would work.

Do I need to choose a mirror for a server or a not moving computer to reduce the load on the central servers?

deb.debian.org is somehow load-balanced using a global CDN. Will this CDN-backed service pick the fasted mirror for me every time I update or will it just load-balance within the infrastructure of Debians main servers? The connection and download speed is not very different when choosing a mirror near me or just using the default.

I want to do what is best for the project.

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Installing Davinci Resolve on Debian with MakeResolveDeb + basic usage

Want to contribute to Debian but stuck on packaging task? Welcome to Mentoring Mondays

Around 2020, I got the aforementioned laptop. At that time, I was using Windows, and generally, my IT knowledge was quite poor. Then I had a break from using it due to issues with computer overuse, and after returning from treatment (2021), I started using other laptops. This one ended up in a closet. Around 2023 I got a my beloved ThinkPad T470.

After some time, I dug this laptop out of the closet and wanted to install Linux on it. I managed to do it, but I couldn't install the drivers for the dedicated graphics card. Because of that, I didn't have HDMI or the dedicated card itself functioning. I was installing proprietary drivers, which generally caused issues with the kernel. So, the laptop just sat there for a long time.

At a certain point, towards the end of 2025, I realized that I actually needed a more powerful machine than the ThinkPad T470. So I dug out this old laptop, and at the urging of the LLM I use daily, I tried to put it together. With its help, I finally managed to set up those drivers because it turned out that my previous failure to install them was simply because I hadn't enabled the 'contrib' repository.

It was a success! What's more, it's quite a beast now. I threw in a 1 TB SSD, 16 GB of RAM, bought a 200W power supply, and raised the TDP to 45W in UMAF. I must say I am proud of this computer, and I also tweaked a lot of things within the system itself. This laptop has also taught me a lot; before this, I briefly had a PC with an Athlon, which introduced me to playing around with motherboard settings.

What is the purpose of my post? To give hope to people with Nvidia GPUs or laptops with dedicated cards that it is indeed possible to set them up :)"

See the screenshot for the full specifications; I recommend taking a look

I forgot to mention, I've been using Linux since December 2022

I liked that text editor—it was different, terminal-based but not clunky. Unfortunately, it was removed, and as far as I know, trying to rebuild it from the source code is largely impossible due to some strange dependencies. Just wanted to share that :)

MariaDB's new AppArmor profile is now enforcing in Debian unstable. If you are a dba/sysadmin familiar with AppArmor and using MariaDB, check your logs and share feedback via the Debian bug tracker.

cross-posted from: https://leminal.space/post/32815986

Heya! We are hosting a Conference for Debian in Kanpur if any of you are from Kanpur or nearby cities, its organise by Debian volunteers, but its an open space for FOSS Activists, Users, or people who support the cause, its going to be a fun space, please join us!

Univeristy student keen to gain open source skills this summer? If you, or someone you know, want to contribute to Debian with Google's sponsorship, explore the GSoC 2026 project ideas now: https://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2026/Projects

Applications open until end of March - look into project ideas already this weekend!

I have some cool projects that I use such as zellij and yazi that I use but aren't in the debian repos, I would like to attempt to package them myself, is there any guides on how to do such? were could I get some help learning how to package things?

This is what happens when you've got several third party repos. I just wanted to clean up some unneeded config files before upgrading to Trixie. Looks like I moved to docker-ce from docker.io at some point in the past. And purging docker.io's files meant purgin docker-ce's files as well.

My Lemmy container remained surprisingly stable over that period. Only pict-rs went down or you would have gotten this post a little sooner.

Schematics reviewed and published!

If you would like to reserve a production desktop board this summer, we need donations....

https://www.powerpc-notebook.org/2026/01/schematics-reviewed-and-published/

@openpowerfoundation @osi @nxp @oshwassociation @fsf @debian

I think i understand adding a link to /etc/apt/sources.list so apt knows to check there for packages. What i don't understand is how to find those links.

For example: i know i want xed, a plain text editor. Wikipedia tells me that's maintained by Linux Mint, but the Mint website doesn't, as far as i can tell, have a link to a repository for installing Mint-specific packages in another distro (assuming that's possible). It doesn't mention what i might want to put in sources.list.

The same is true of Cinnamon, Mate, Xfce, KDE, and Gnome. If i install Debian and it doesn't come with one of these listed in the aforementioned file (and it doesn't), i have no idea how to get packages from that repository unless i can also find a downloadable .deb file and it has no dependencies from unknown repositories, or i download the entire desktop environment i want just a few packages from.

For context: i plan to install Debian without a DE and just get what packages i want from across several DEs. This will be hard to do if there are no software sources for apt.

Is this hard to find because it's something that people who don't know what they're doing shouldn't mess with? Am i just looking in the wrong places, or for the wrong thing?

One thing i've successfully installed with apt (as opposed to a .deb package) is LibreWolf, which i used extrepo for in accordance with the instructions on their website. Should i be using that instead for packages meant for specific desktop environments?

Of the desktop environments i've tried, i prefer Cinnamon overall. But i find that i'd rather use the KDE or Mate versions of some programs. I don't need Nemo when i'd rather use Thunar, or Gnome Characters when i prefer mate-character-map or kcharselect.

Is there any reason i can't start with nothing that's specific to any one DE, then install whatever i need to have Cinnamon applets with the Mate and KDE programs i want? I don't expect this to be easier than picking one DE and sticking with that, but is it so much harder that it's not worth the trouble to have my computer so customized? How common is it to use a custom blend like this?

This was sparked when, while cleaning up my system that still has similar programs from several DEs, i accidentally broke Cinnamon and had to reinstall it, complete with everything i'd removed in favor of some other DE's version of a program.

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What window managers are recommended for situations like this? I've always used whatever comes with my DE, without really being aware of the window manager. How does that affect what display manager i need?

Hello. I am going to try Debian for the first time, although I have been a Linux user for years. For a user with experience in Linux and for non-technical use of the system, is it more advisable to use Debian stable or testing? Thanks

I recently (a day ago) switched from Linux Mint to Debian and tried out several different DEs. I settled on Cinnamon but still have leftover packages and files from Gnome, Plasma, etc. Is there an easy way to remove everything that was installed automatically by a particular DE besides reinstalling Debian with just Cinnamon? Or do i have to go through all my programs manually?

I've already removed the DEs i don't like with tasksel, and i've tried apt autoremove but it doesn't remove anything.

If i do have to do this manually, is there a list somewhere of the programs that come with each DE so i know which of the four plain text editors and so on to keep?

After trying a few of these alternative programs, i've decided i will go through them manually since i like some that aren't from Cinnamon. Solutions are still welcome in case someone else has this same issue.

Wow! With Launchpad, you can track vulnerabilities in upstream like @debian. It can track comments from linked bugs from other bug trackers too. #UbuConIndia2025