Wayland in BookwormWayland in Bookworm
We are getting towards the freeze for Debian/Bookworm so the current state of packages isn’t going to change much before the release. Bugs will get fixed but missing features will[...]
Tag: Debian
KDE Icons Disappearing in Debian/UnstableKDE Icons Disappearing in Debian/Unstable
One of my workstations is running Debian/Unstable with KDE and SDDM on an AMD Radeon R7 260X video card. Recently it stopped displaying things correctly after a reboot, all the[...]
BTRFS and SE LinuxBTRFS and SE Linux
I’ve had problems with systems running SE Linux on BTRFS losing the XATTRs used for storing the SE Linux file labels after a power outage. Here is the link to[...]
WordPress Multisite on DebianWordPress Multisite on Debian
WordPress (a common CMS for blogs) is designed to be copied to a directory that Apache can serve and run by a user with no particular privileges while managing installation[...]
Apache Mesos on DebianApache Mesos on Debian
I decided to try packaging Mesos for Debian/Stretch. I had a spare system with a i7-930 CPU, 48G of RAM, and SSDs to use for building. The i7-930 isn’t really[...]
More KVM Modules ConfigurationMore KVM Modules Configuration
Last year I blogged about blacklisting a video driver so that KVM virtual machines didn’t go into graphics mode [1]. Now I’ve been working on some other things to make[...]
SE Linux in Debian/StretchSE Linux in Debian/Stretch
Debian/Stretch has been frozen. Before the freeze I got almost all the bugs in policy fixed, both bugs reported in the Debian BTS and bugs that I know about. This[...]
802.1x Authentication on Debian802.1x Authentication on Debian
I recently had to setup some Linux workstations with 802.1x authentication (described as “Ethernet authentication”) to connect to a smart switch. The most useful web site I found was the[...]
LUV Server Upgrade to JessieLUV Server Upgrade to Jessie
On Sunday night I started the process of upgrading the LUV server to Debian/Jessie from Debian/Wheezy. My initial plan was to just upgrade Apache first but dependencies required upgrading systemd[...]
BTRFS Status June 2015BTRFS Status June 2015
The version of btrfs-tools in Debian/Jessie is incapable of creating a filesystem that can be mounted by the kernel in Debian/Wheezy. If you want to use a BTRFS filesystem on[...]