More folks need to follow this https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/latest/ and not make a hot mess of my damn home directory #linux #ubuntu #debian
debian
Librewolf is exactly what Firefox should be.
To the point where I find in #Librewolf new features I was explicitly missing in #firefox (like clicking on the lock to enable/disable cookies for a specific website)
And, yet, it works perfectly in #debian thanks to extrepo. But, seriously, it should be considered as the default Debian browser.
Congratulations to the team!
Don’t wait on Mozilla, switch to Librewolf !
It has been overshadowed by the release of the Trixie Installer RC1 release, but #Debian has also released a point release for Bookworm today.
It was a great opportunity to define net.ipv{6,4}.ip_nonlocal_bind so nginx(8) at thebus.top finally starts at boot without error because it has network but no IP defined. Once again systemd doing its stuff -_-'
It was a great opportunity to define net.ipv{6,4}.ip_nonlocal_bind so nginx(8) at thebus.top finally starts at boot without error because it has network but no IP defined. Once again systemd doing its stuff -_-'
Edited 21d ago
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Pondering #Linux distros...
Arch-based
You're either doing the full Arch experience (good for you), or doing something Arch-based that's going to be unpredictably unstable and leave you with a non-booting system at some point in the future, and not having the technical understanding to fix it. Been burned by that already (twice!), hard pass.
Directly #Debian-based
I love Debian. I've loved it ever since a kind person at a Linux LUG burned me a copy of the Debian Potato 2.2 CD-ROMs in 2000. But an every-two-year release schedule is kind of hard to deal with given our current break-neck seat-of-your-pants development practices. Lots of compilers don't even want to work in Debian after midpoint or so in the release (1 year old), requiring things like rustup to be able to compile many tools.
Ubuntu-based
I'm going to skip over all of the meme-based criticisms of Ubuntu, and even the more technical criticisms of snap, which isn't that hard to eliminate. Simply put, from the things I've read, canonical sounds like a cult of personality, and gives me a bit of the heebie-jeebies. Other than that, ubuntu-based distros have the great benefit of actually decent user-focus and community support.
Fedora-based
#Fedora is adored by a lot of Linux enthusiasts, and has the benefit of a fairly large user-base, as well as being in the sweet-spot of having biannual updates. The only negative is the big lumbering evil shadow of IBM. I honestly don't know exactly what the relationship between Fedora and IBM (RedHat) is, but I'm fairly certain [it can't be said that there is none].
Umm... what exactly is left? Anything user-friendly? Well, perhaps...
OpenSuSE-based. (Yes, I'm using the old capitalization, because I'm crochety like that ;)
OpenSUSE Leap seems to have a release every year, which is pretty cool, but the new #OpenSUSE #SlowRoll seems like a really nice solution!
SUSE gives off a lot of "RedHat before they turned super evil" vibes, and I'm down with that
OpenSuSE also packages a lot of software for other distros. The debian package I'm using for #GPXSee, for example, is provided by https://packages.opensuse.org — that's super cool!
Edited 3d ago
Since Debian Linux has recently left X, you can follow it on Mastodon:
Edited 125d ago
📰 Apareceram notícias sobre o pacote curl, ao atualizá-lo hoje no #Debian #sid (unstable) e que achei interessantes compartilhar. É o anúncio de alterações importantes, aparentemente entrando em efeito agora e iniciadas alguns meses atrás pelos mantenedores, em suma:- O utilitário curl, a partir da versão 8.8.0-2, passa a suportar HTTP/3, com os parâmetros --http3 ou --http3-only. Para conseguir isso, o programa agora passa a utilizar GnuTLS no lugar de OpenSSL. Ainda fornecerão uma variação de libcurl que continua usando OpenSSL.
- Incluíram o comando wcurl (veja seu manual) que facilita baixar um arquivo sem precisar lembrar os parâmetros do curl. Pode ser chamado no lugar dos usos mais simples de wget.
O conteúdo completo da mensagem está em https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs/main/c/curl/curl_8.12.0+git20250209.89ed161+ds-1_curl.NEWS
#curl #http3 #gnutls #openssl #gnu #softwareLivre
Edited 117d ago
Updated Version of the apache http caching setup for snac, including proxy media
I already wrote about caching here.
Now I extended what I cache a bit.
This was because after enabling the option to proxy media, I've seen access to the file paths /x/ and /y/ in addition to the path were snac stores the media that I include in my own posts ( /s/ ).
There are two locations to proxy media, depending if you requests the media via the mastodon api or via the web. (/x/ and /y/), oh and I added the nodeinfo2.0 path too, because I've noticed it was queried all the time by a lot of instances and it gives me pleasure to see something cached handed out in the access logs. 🙂 (I guess it is actually irrelevant for the system resources)
This is the updated setup:
Enable the relevant modules:
a2enmod expires cache cache_disk
Be sure "htcacheclean" is running to clean up the old disk cache. (under debian see /etc/default/apache-htcacheclean or else the relevant systemd service or whatever)
Then add this to the httpd Virtualhost config:
Further reading and all options are explained under https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/caching.html (and ff)
The Header that I set here, on the condition of Status code 200, is needed for the path /y/, because snac set no-cache on that location and mod_expires will honor that if we don't override it. I set it to the same Cache-Control value as mod_expires would. (I use mod_expires because it will additionally calculate the date and put that in the expires header. (hence the name I guess 😀 )
#Fediverse #Hosting #ITNotes #apache2 #httpd #Ownyourdata #Server #Snac #Snac2 #Tipsandtricks #Tutorial #Debian #caching
I already wrote about caching here.
Now I extended what I cache a bit.
This was because after enabling the option to proxy media, I've seen access to the file paths /x/ and /y/ in addition to the path were snac stores the media that I include in my own posts ( /s/ ).
There are two locations to proxy media, depending if you requests the media via the mastodon api or via the web. (/x/ and /y/), oh and I added the nodeinfo2.0 path too, because I've noticed it was queried all the time by a lot of instances and it gives me pleasure to see something cached handed out in the access logs. 🙂 (I guess it is actually irrelevant for the system resources)
This is the updated setup:
Enable the relevant modules:
a2enmod expires cache cache_disk
Be sure "htcacheclean" is running to clean up the old disk cache. (under debian see /etc/default/apache-htcacheclean or else the relevant systemd service or whatever)
Then add this to the httpd Virtualhost config:
<LocationMatch "^/social/[^/]+/[xys]/|^/social/nodeinfo_2_0">
CacheEnable disk
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=86400, public" "expr=%{REQUEST_STATUS} == 200"
ExpiresActive On
ExpiresDefault "access plus 86400 seconds"
</LocationMatch>
Further reading and all options are explained under https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/caching.html (and ff)
The Header that I set here, on the condition of Status code 200, is needed for the path /y/, because snac set no-cache on that location and mod_expires will honor that if we don't override it. I set it to the same Cache-Control value as mod_expires would. (I use mod_expires because it will additionally calculate the date and put that in the expires header. (hence the name I guess 😀 )
#Fediverse #Hosting #ITNotes #apache2 #httpd #Ownyourdata #Server #Snac #Snac2 #Tipsandtricks #Tutorial #Debian #caching
Edited 104d ago
A slightly improved revision of apt-upgrade is now available at https://git.disroot.org/daltux/apt-upgrade/
This is a small personal collection of
#GNU #Bash scripts I’ve put together to simplify everyday updates for all the common stuff on Debian GNU/Linux-based systems. It has been available under the #GPLv3+ for a while, so you are free to use, study, modify, and share it however you see fit—following #Copyleft principles, always preserving the users' freedoms. If you improve it, consider sharing back your changes to help keep the spirit of #FreeSoftware alive. 🤝
I’d love to hear if it ends up being useful for you! If you run into any issues or have suggestions, please report them directly on Disroot Forgejo or just drop a comment here.
#apt #nala #shell #script #Debian #GNUlinux #FreeAsInFreedom #Disroot #SoftwareLivre
This is a small personal collection of
#GNU #Bash scripts I’ve put together to simplify everyday updates for all the common stuff on Debian GNU/Linux-based systems. It has been available under the #GPLv3+ for a while, so you are free to use, study, modify, and share it however you see fit—following #Copyleft principles, always preserving the users' freedoms. If you improve it, consider sharing back your changes to help keep the spirit of #FreeSoftware alive. 🤝I’d love to hear if it ends up being useful for you! If you run into any issues or have suggestions, please report them directly on Disroot Forgejo or just drop a comment here.
#apt #nala #shell #script #Debian #GNUlinux #FreeAsInFreedom #Disroot #SoftwareLivre
Vou, finalmente, converter uma primeira máquina virtual no centro de dados da universidade de #GNU/Linux para GNU/Linux-libre!
Pretendo seguir a ótima dica postada numa #TerSoftware por um dos próprios autores do projeto, @lxo, para aproveitar os pacotes .deb (para #Debian e derivados) já disponibilizados com o kernel Linux-libre compilado para uso geral para diversas arquiteturas:
https://www.fsfla.org/ikiwiki/selibre/linux-libre/freesh
A parte mais "difícil" parece ser decidir: linux-libre-lts ou o convencional... 😅
#GNUlinux #LinuxLibre #Linux #kernel #SoftwareLivre
Pretendo seguir a ótima dica postada numa #TerSoftware por um dos próprios autores do projeto, @lxo, para aproveitar os pacotes .deb (para #Debian e derivados) já disponibilizados com o kernel Linux-libre compilado para uso geral para diversas arquiteturas:
https://www.fsfla.org/ikiwiki/selibre/linux-libre/freesh
A parte mais "difícil" parece ser decidir: linux-libre-lts ou o convencional... 😅
#GNUlinux #LinuxLibre #Linux #kernel #SoftwareLivre
Edited 81d ago
#Debian folk, what version are you on as of now?
Options:
SDDM, KDE Plasma, root-on-OpenZFS – simple. On Linux.
Yes, I'll install the theme snaps.
Will I install zectl – a ZFS boot environment manager for Linux? Maybe …
<https://ramsdenj.com/posts/2020-03-18-zectl-zfs-boot-environment-manager-for-linux/> | <https://github.com/johnramsden/zectl>
#SDDM #KDE #Plasma #Debian #Linux #Ubuntu #zectl #ZFS #OpenZFS #Gnome #GDM
Edited 51d ago