Post title stolen from c/hackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se, not crossposted because I don't care about comments on ycombinator and Lemmy users generally don't interact with bot posts.

Very curious how this is going to turn out. We're going to see LLM-contributions in Debian one way or another for sure (even the Linux kernel allows AI-assisted coding and tons of other upstream projects are using Claude etc.), but that doesn't mean that Debian shouldn't take a stance.

With the AMD Ryzen AI Halo developer platform there is the option of ordering this Ryzen AI Max+ mini PC with either Microsoft Windows 11 or "Linux OS". When receiving a AMD Ryzen AI Halo review sample last month, I fully expected it to just be an Ubuntu LTS install with ROCm preloaded. I was quite surprised when powering it up to find that it's an OS called the AMD Ryzen AI Developer Platform 1 "Rex" and is based on Debian Linux.

People often mistake the word “stable” in different contexts and I wish to clear up the confusion. There are two main meanings in the world of GNU/Linux for the word above and these two meanings are vastly different: once booted the system does not crash, therefore it is stable once installed the system behaves exactly the same for the lifetime of this install, therefore it is stable In both examples above you can mix-in the word “reliable” in more than one way as well, but for me personally the word reliable means that I can rely on my computer to be ready to do my bidding when I am ready to use the system.

Honest question: what would a Linux distribution have to do to earn 30 years of your loyalty?

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.

Installing Davinci Resolve on Debian with MakeResolveDeb + basic usage

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!