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General Questions • Must be Superuser to use mount

I expected for Gnome to have this feature as default, or any Desktop environment for that matter.Statistics: Posted by EuroNiceguy — 2025-01-16 00:31 — Replies 11 — Views 360

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General Questions • [Software] enterprise backup solutions???

I wouldn't want to end up in a situation where I had a highly particular backup solution, maintained by only one or a few people which can disappear one day either to disinterest or waning...

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General Debian • [Discussion] Where have you been unable to run Debian?

Long before then we could get textual streams embedded in the 'blank' of analogue broadcast. The stream was not the subs, but an independent ‘ticker’. We could get a copy of the newspaper! The first...

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General Questions • [Software] glx gears error on iMac G5 nVidia NV34M...

Good Evening,Firstly apologies if this is posted in the wrong area however there are a few strands to the thread. I am running Sid installed from the PPC64 Debian port (https://wiki.debian.org/PPC64)...

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General Questions • [Solved] BTRFS migration (from ext4) of root filesystem

Not fully sure if this is the right place to share some conclusions of a day of migration experiments, saving others some time. Happy to be redirected to a more appropriate place.I needed to migrate...

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Beginners Questions • [O/S] I2C bus not finding any i2c device on debian live

@arzgi Unfortunately, i cant say the device. I modified the kernel config and and added CONFIG_...=y and recompiled the kernel, then i was able to load the module using modprobe. I have done this same...

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Beginners Questions • [Installation] Need help making USB bootable

It is unclear why they want to change the working directory ...The reason is that it's much easier to write a bash script that runs from the folder in which the files on which it acts are located. The...

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General Questions • [Software] libre office bug - contact

There is nice packages reportbug and|or reportbug-gtk, which help you to send correct message to correct address...You also can read guides on Wiki.Debian.org: BugReport and Debian.org: Bugs:...

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Hardware • Anyone made RTX 4060 running on Debian 12?

This might be a stupid question but it's something that's possible to overlook - did you make sure to install the kernel headers before installing the nvidia drivers?Statistics: Posted by Mort —...

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System and Network configuration • [Solved] Download is performed unsandboxed...

Though this has been marked solved but if you could help me sort this out. I recently installed Debian 12, and made the only user (myself) part of sudo group to install software otherwise i have to su...

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Installation • Secure Boot - Installer works flawlessly, but a reboot into...

What I would try next is disabling validation. It's something the Linux shim team was able to persuade Microsoft to permit, not least because it leaves secure boot in force as regards Windows. What I...

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Hardware • New to Debian 12, problems rebooting after updating driver

It's unlikely you bricked it. Are you able to log in to a teletype by hitting Ctrl+Alt+F1? There's a lot that can go wrong when updating the nvidia drivers. My suggestion would be to start with taking...

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System and Network configuration • [Solved] QEMU/KVM network not starting

Hello,I will try to get feedback from the maintainers.Very good. Please post updates. It is only a work around and not solved. Let's hope the next update works.I'll be paying attention, but as stated...

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Docs, HowTos, Tips & Tricks • [HowTo] adjust filesystem space reserved...

Debian and other Linux distributions reserve 5% of a filesystem for the root account; this is so unprivileged users can't completely fill up a filesystem and break system operations such as event...

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Beginners Questions • [Software] Very few programs opening - consistent error...

I tried to put the code above in code tags but it didn't work.Statistics: Posted by wizard10000 — 2025-01-17 21:56 — Replies 3 — Views 129

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Testing And Unstable • [Testing - Trixie] System Sometimes Unable to Suspend...

Important update! I just had this happen while I was shutting the laptop down! So, this problem isn't limited to just suspending.Statistics: Posted by Cosmonaut_ — 2025-01-17 23:00 — Replies 3 — Views...

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Hardware • Problems Switching Between Graphics Card and Integrated Graphics

Hi Everyone, My computer has both an Nvidia RTX 3060 GPU and an AMD Ryzen 7 5700G APU, and I had always been able to switch between the two on the fly without having to change any settings. After a...

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Off-Topic • [Off-Topic]Is this web site maintained?

thx you for your understanding im only 10years old.i want to learn more about computers thats why i want microsoft edge on my 32bit T42 ibm think pad [very old] soo i can use things like scratch...

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Debian Development Discussion • [Discussion] What about making apt...

From what I've read, there's approximately zero chance of Debian moving to a container app model. If that's what you're looking for, vote with your feet.Off topic here, but apropos of the linked prior...

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General Questions • [Software] What is the best way to install Ghidra (sw...

I just unpack the .zip in a directory and run ghidraRun.Java programs are and always feel "foreign" so that's OK.Statistics: Posted by reinob — 2025-01-18 17:40 — Replies 1 — Views 64

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