Debian point release upgrade
Following the recent upgrade to the Debian Operating system, 11.4 to 11.5 I decided to make a video / screen cast of the upgrade process..
This was partly as I wanted to make something to contribute to the Debian Academy and it made sense to make this.
The video is quite long about ½. I am hoping the team can take the source file and edit so it is shorter.
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How to Teach Online Courses (17 September 2022) · Events (Indico)
A few years ago I was involved with Debian Academy. For various reasons the project came to a halt.
Fast forward to 2022 and the project has now been restarted, the first course being presented is on how to create a course using Moodle. The will be presented from the 17th September.
The course is free to sign up to, you will need an account on the Moodle system. Further details are below.
Over time more courses will be created, which is one of the reasons the above course was created, so others can also create their own courseware.
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Date : Saturday 17 Sept 2022, Time :14:00 → 15:00 UTC * https://ocw.fs.al/mod/bigbluebuttonbn/view.php?id=1171
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If you would like to chat with some of the team members, then we hang out on IRC, using the oftc network, channel #debian-academy
Debian Conference 2022 – call for proposals
The deadline for submitting talk proposals, for this years conference is April 15th. Please see the call for proposals page for details.
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Debian Updated 26/3/2022
Today, should see updates to Debian:
Please wait for OFFICIAL announcement before upgrading. Information will appear on the Debian website
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Debian Conference
The the 23rd edition of DebConf [2] will take place from July 17th to 24th,2022 at the Innovation and Training Park (ITP) [3] in Prizren, Kosovo, and will be preceded by DebCamp, from July 10th to 16th.
[1] https://debconf22.debconf.org [2] https://www.debconf.org [3] https://itp-prizren.com
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ToriOS Internship Program – version 1.0
Goals:
1- Oxidize the C++ programs used in ToriOS, and improve them. 2- Oxidize the scripted builds. 3- Oxidize the scripts used in ToriOS, and use serde for configuration, support multiple formats in and out. 4- Build separate libraries for separate tasks. Many small libraries that can be reused are better than one big one for everything. 5- Bring these components together and create a desktop environment using any window manager. 6- Replace GNU with Rust equivalents to make Oxidized Linux as the base of the operating system. 7- Configure multiple window managers using the same graphical tool, allowing for the conversion of one window manager format to another, seamlessly. 8- build menus for window managers with an oxidized menu generator. 9- Oxidize FLTK applications menu program. 10- Make portrait and landscape layouts for the desktop. Using dbus to load things when needed.
Longer term wish list goals:
1- Rust + FLTK to create a modern panel/tray system. 2- Handle the virtual desktops, use ~/Desktop.d/... for handling multiple desktops with multiple icon layouts. Just a desktop manager, not a file manager. 3- Build our design of a very modular onscreen keyboard. 4- Make all GUI apps display a TUI when no $DISPLAY exists. 5- Volume manager to trigger whatever events are configured. 6- Pre-built Phone images to flash as well as ISOs to download. 7- replace any GTK specific programs with Rust + FLTK versions. 8- use a native Rust GUI toolkit when one is mature enough.
Note:
The word [#Oxidize] is used to mean converting an older program to use Rust, instead of whatever programming language it was originally written in.
IF AND ONLY IF YOU MEET ALL THE REQUIREMENTS, please apply by sending an email to: [ ali AT torios DOT top ]
#Linux. #Debian,#Ubuntu,#volunteering,#Jobs,#ToriOSInternship
Searching for information – Debian release notes
One essential skill is to be able to search for information. This is expected of people before they ask questions. In looking for Debian release notes I tried a search on the Debian website, only to find a link to Debian 3, and also Debian 12 which is the next release.
If you get a similar issues, I would suggest redoing the search in something like DduckDuckGo or similar . Searx, is a privacy respecting meta data search engine.
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Use pastebin from command line
Use pastebin from command line
Quite often, when you have a problem where, in order to get help you need to paste the contents of a file,or command output so that it can be shared, for example on IRC (Chat) or a forum, this can be challenging to begin with.
As it is depreciated that you paste more than 2 lines in to IRC chat. The way round this is to use a service called pastebin. Debian [1] has it's own service for this [2]. There is a tool called pastebinit which is really helpful from the command line.
The first step is to switch to the root user. Sear for and install the package pastebinit as per below.
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root@Desktop:/home/user# apt search pastebinit
Sorting... Done
Full Text Search... Done
pastebinit/stable 1.5.1-1 all
command-line pastebin client
Install
root@Desktop:/home/user# apt install pastebinit
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
linux-image-5.10.0-7-amd64 linux-image-5.10.0-8-amd64
Use 'apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following NEW packages will be installed:
pastebinit
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 46.6 kB of archives.
After this operation, 342 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye/main amd64 pastebinit all 1.5.1-1 [46.6 kB]
Fetched 46.6 kB in 0s (342 kB/s)
Selecting previously unselected package pastebinit.
(Reading database ... 190310 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../pastebinit_1.5.1-1_all.deb ...
Unpacking pastebinit (1.5.1-1) ...
Setting up pastebinit (1.5.1-1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.9.4-2) ...
root@Desktop:/home/user#
Once complete switch back to normal user (usually type exit)
user@Desktop:~$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list > pastebinit
user@Desktop:~$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list | pastebinit
https://paste.debian.net/1228146/
In this example I have used the cat command and piped the contents in to pastebinit, this has given me a url to paste in to chat, (or copy manually)
Open this in a browser and you and others can see the contents, and people can help you further.
This is really useful too if you are stuck at the command prompt, without a graphical interface.
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1 Debian 2 pastebin – debian 3 Paignton Library STEM Group TAGS
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Updated Debian 11: 11.2 released
The Debian project is pleased to announce the second update of its stable distribution Debian 11 (codename “bullseye”). This point release mainly adds corrections for security issues, along with a few adjustments for serious problems. Security advisories have already been published separately and are referenced where available
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Catfish – file search
For some reason, XFCE doesn't come with a pre-installed file search facility and thunar lacks this feature.
However you can use the command line to search for files
find -name “file.png” for example
However this isn't really an option for a lot of users. The solution is a program called catfish, ( i guess you fish for files).
apt install catfish as root of course
Enter the file you are looking for in to the search box and press enter -
Results will be displayed
Hopefully this is helpful. I have asked about this on #debian and it seems to be something that needs to be addressed.