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Installation • Untangling My Mind on Subject of Debian Firewall Software

I feel my head is getting smacked from several directions as I try to have a coherent understanding of Debian firewall software. At this point, i am looking for a few pointers regarding current use or...

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General Questions • Re: How do I install w/o optical drive

All the answers are here: https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanualStatistics: Posted by roseway — 2024-01-01 22:30

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Installation • Re: Untangling My Mind on Subject of Debian Firewall Software

a few pointers regarding current use or non-use of iptables, nftables, firewalld, and ufw.ufw is available from the Debian Repository. This recent post is about 'buntu and ufw,...

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Installation • Re: Difficult to read fonts in WINE

How about defining an alternative font with wine regedit?https://superuser.com/questions/491373/ ... ng-in-wineStatistics: Posted by Inqb8tr — 2024-01-02 00:36

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Beginners Questions • Re: ACPI Warning: Time parameter 255 us > 100 us...

ACPI error messages are common in linux. The reason is that the linux kernel follows the industry's open specification for the implementation of ACPI standards, but the manufacturers of BIOS/UEFI...

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General Questions • Re: [Software] Debian 11 Postfix and SMTP Smuggling exploit

Thanks, I saw the announcement on the Postfix list and have installed 3.5.23 with the new anti-Smuggling configuration settings.Statistics: Posted by jhg — 2024-01-02 01:43

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Beginners Questions • Re: [Sound] How to enable Startup Sound on Debian 12...

Operating systems usually are not participants in whether or not a startup sound plays, or which. Startup sounds are usually enabled and controlled somewhere in Desktop Environment settings. Thus,...

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Installation • Re: Cannot Find Sound Card on Dell Precision 5480

What follows is a list of most of the audio-related software installed on my Rocket Lake Bookworm:Code: # dpkg-query -W | egrep...

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General Questions • Re: [Software] Update a legacy BIOS boot to use UEFI?

Without actually seeing your partition layout (and types), I couldn't comment on what Windows is up to. If it was really booting in native UEFI mode it would have needed an ESP, and I'm pretty sure...

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Installation • Stuck on "Loading initial ramdisk" on fresh install

I recently acquired a Dell PowerEdge R820 which I'm trying to get an operating system running on. I've tried installing both Proxmox and bare Debian.Here's just about everything I know:- I used the...

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Installation • Re: Stuck on "Loading initial ramdisk" on fresh install

Google does a lousy job of suggesting what GPU is in an R820. What do you have in yours? If it's a Matrox, I think you may need to put a discrete GPU in it, or possibly try installing an older Debian...

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General Questions • Re: [Software] How put user name on login screen?

FWIW, the linked instructions work in Debian 12 Cinnamon (which uses LightDM).Statistics: Posted by pbear — 2024-01-03 03:50

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General Debian • Re: Which non-hp printer for my deb laptops?

Hi Thanks for all your inputs.I will head over to the office solutions store and check out the brother lineThanks againStatistics: Posted by Heeter — 2024-01-04 01:28

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General Questions • Re: PHP file upload issue

Restart nginx and php-fpmNow I am able to upload files.Thank you for your assistanceHave a great new year!Great news! I hope your new year is off to a great start too! Statistics: Posted by Jeremy...

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Hardware • Re: WiFi frequently disconnects. Using rtw8822ce

With Plasma, for some reason, wifi does not disconnect, but when I use the tty, error messages get spammed immediately and wifi disconnects.Is it always reproducible ?Yes it is reproducible.Steps to...

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General Questions • Strange output of "who" command

Hello,Recently I updated my Debian server from 11 to 12.When I execute the "who" command, the login time is strange like follows:Code: username pts/0 9640093-11-26 07:12 (192.168.15.73)The "date"...

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Hardware • Re: Blocked from entering disk decryption password after reboot...

I installed bookworm 12.4 from the live GNOME image on a USB stick. I used the encrypted LVM option with separate home partition. There are two installers on the Live ISO: (i) the Standard installer...

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System and Network configuration • Re: Cannot use apt upgrade or autoremove....

it is exactly where i attempted to manually add my windows to grub.If you mean you tried to add a custom boot entry for windows to /etc/default/grub... Don't. Literal grub configuration fragments you...

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General Questions • Re: [Software] Error in APT

Amazing!You are right! ThanksFound the file in the path you mentioned, this file is zero bytes, is it safe to delete it?Don´t know what it does, in this machine Installed a Virtualmin LAMP stack via a...

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Beginners Questions • Re: [O/S] SUDOERS file

What have I done wrong?Nothing. It's just that Debian by default enables the root account and does not add the primary user to the sudo group. You can run the system fine this way. Whenever you want...

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