75% of my last job was building debian packages -- i wouldn't be surprised if a lionshare of the contributors to this project are ex-colleagues :p

Hmm sounds interesting but a pita to do it every time. Is there any way to record a default search filter for apt? Or would I need to overwrite apt command with alias (and what do I do about aptitude, in that case)

Just to add to your answer, regular apt search will find all search keywords in the package name and description so OP may still have a ton of output in the search results. It may be helpful to narrow down the search to just the package name e.g.

apt search --names-only blahblah

It still accepts regex so something like

apt search --names-only ^blahblah

would find all packages with names beginning with "blahblah". The ^ regex specifies the beginning of the word being searched rather than searching anywhere within the package name (for the ppl not too versed in regex syntax).

One thing that confused me, the manpage for apt on my Debian system doesn't even mention "--names-only" so I'm not sure where that's documented officially.. I found it online and discovered it works in Debian Trixie.

Apt search support regex

search (apt-cache(8)) search can be used to search for the given regex(7) term(s) in the list of available packages and display matches. This can e.g. be useful if you are looking for packages having a specific feature. If you are looking for a package including a specific file try apt-file(1).

This is neat, thanks for posting. I was playing with btrbk a few weeks ago to take advantage of btrfs and set up incremental backups of my laptop to a storage server. The storage server only runs xfs, but I learned you can build btrfs subvolumes on top by creating a loop device with a few commands.

Anyway, it was really satisfying to set up and has me wanting more Fun with Subvolumes. Installing other distros onto subvolumes sound like a goos time to me! 😊

This is neat, thanks for posting. I was playing with btrbk a few weeks ago to take advantage of btrfs and set up incremental backups for my laptop to a storage server. The storage server only has xfs, but you can build btrfs subvolumes on top by creating a loop device with a few commands, no preallocated space required.

Anyway it was pretty satisfying to get going and has made me want to have more Fun with Subvolumes! Installing distros on subvolumes sounds like a good time to me!

Okay that's actually very cool. BTRFS keeps impressing.

I wouldn’t mind moderating

Thanks! It would be nice if some user(s) of debian itself would do it also but this is a start :)

Given how much worse Ubuntu has gotten in recent years maybe you'll find yourself switching to Debian soon enough anyway 😉

imo posts about lesser-known debian derivatives should be allowed here... but as i said earlier either the poster or a 3rd party source they're linking to should make a good case for why it is actually interesting and/or credible.

I wouldn't mind moderating, but I'm a dirty Kubuntu user not a Debian user directly lol. Although I have used Debian on servers a long time ago.

As @brickfrog@lemmy.dbzer0.com said I could see this community not including any derivatives. We already have communities for most of the big derivatives anyways. I would say we could also allow posts that are talking about apt or something even if the source is in reference to Kubuntu. IDK how we would handle posts about desktop environments, kernel patches, or exploits.

That sounds okay. TBH I was expecting this community to discuss Debian itself, not the many many Debian based distros in existence, so I'd be okay with going a bit further and having it be Debian-only. That's what most people post about here anyway.

Those earlier posts you mentioned seemed like low effort spam (IMO), like I'm not sure who here would want to discuss Lindows of all things.

Full and dist are two separate actions. I would highly recommend you pop the man page for apt.

They're using the automated updates. I guess that's not doing the apt full-upgrade or dist-upgrade ...

I allocated 1GB for boot. I'm using separate boot to have encrypted root.

apt full-upgrade takes care of this

This is one of the reasons why I don't use a separate partition for /boot anymore. As I understand it, a separate /boot partition is mostly a legacy thing unless you have an encrypted root partition or some other special setup. For simple cases I recommend having /boot on the root partition to avoid issues like this.

I think that's also the default setup used by the Debian installer if you select Guided partitioning – use entire disk. I'm not 100% sure tho.

Would rec moving them to something more simple, akin to ElementaryOS.

That said, /boot likely isn’t right sized for the number of versions of the kernel required by the bootloader in case of a failure. 512mb-1gb of storage is normally more than enough to handle said copies. As well, apt dist-upgrade will actually remove obsolete packages while apt upgrade does not.

I think that website is just very old, so they made everything as images instead of trying to get chinese characters rendering on early browsers.

How does this show up? 典

I mean he is right, I feel like this decision spits in the face of the spirit of the Debian social contract but whatever I guess... Considering Debian's position and how many projects rely on it I understand why the decision has been reached but that tells me it is thinking of itself as a business and not a community first.

Maybe CtrlShift+ or Ctrl+MouseWheel? It work for me to enlarge the page.

I know the site but i never payed that much attention to the text size because i'm not learning Chinese. Yes it's weird that everything is an image. I started using this Chinese handwriting input site to get characters as text, but that's obviously impractical if you need more than a couple characters.

The text size can be improved by zooming in the page. On Firefox (default in in mostt DEs, i think) you hold control and scroll up or press the plus key.

I wonder if the site is so old that it was written before there was a better way to display Chinese in HTML. I don't know any of its history tho.

Though this doesn't mean that the whole CERN IT infrastructure is being moved. The migration is specific to the accelerator control layer—the front-end computers that talk directly to the equipment running the beam.

Note that earlier reporting was wrong to suggest all of CERN was moving to Debian. People at CERN clarified that only a small part of CERN is switching.

i've gone the other way -- going from debian to red hat -- so i don't blame them. lol

Apparently the hive mind is angry you didn't demonize AI. You need to call it a "fascist world-destroyer" otherwise you get down votes from the zealots.

Whoa there, isn't that a bit dangerous!?

it would be nice if there was an ai free version of Debian

Yes but lemmy would have you believe that is also facism ¯\_(ツ)_/¯