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Umm - I hope JPEG XL is offered....

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I use two partitions on my SSD - a non-encrypted ESP, and a LUKS encrypted partition which contains LVM encrypted volumes, including /boot. One of the...

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50% of people have a below average IQ.

While a lot of problems are caused by ignorance, which can be remedied, others are caused by people...

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Thank you for the suggestion

I tried it. It gives me motion sickness....

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With the currently fashionable 'infinite scrolling', it's of limited utility. Like you, I like the visual cue as to the size of the page, but I fear that...

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For all the people talking about using exFAT as a common filesystem between Linux and Microsoft Windows, a slight problem is that, for example, with ext4...

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When it's written in Rust. <joke>...

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Er - no you don't. The Linux kernel is used in a lot of small/embedded systems - for example SOHO routers where the resource usage of systemd might not...

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...into the danger the dogs were trying to warn about....

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Sorry, I was not sufficiently explicit: yes, the non-free software/firmware should ship on the same media/ISO as the rest of the distribution, but at...

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Pragmatism isn't always the best approach, for slippery slope reasons. My preference (and I'm not a Debian developer) would be to allow non-free firmware...

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So it'll be able to run OpenWrt. <grin> It'll be nice to get some capable ARM SoCs.

(Yes, this posting is tongue in cheek, and I'm...

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I wish there were some way of applying pressure to vendors to support old desktop and laptop PCs. I run some Linux laptops, but if I want to update the...

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Won't 'ip link' show you if you have a connection?

I didn't have ethtool installed by default on my system, whereas ip is a bit fundamental....

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It might be important to some that GNU coreutils is GPLv3 licensed, but uutils is MIT licenced.