🎥 🇦🇷 ¡DebConf26 ya empieza a sentirse en Argentina!

@martinbayo , parte del equipo de Debian Argentina y organizador local de la próxima DebConf26 en Santa Fe nos comparte esta invitación 🐧

📍 Santa Fe, Argentina
🗓 DebCamp: 13–19 julio 2026
🗓 DebConf26: 20–25 julio 2026

Queremos sumar más voces de la comunidad

Si participás en Debian, colaborás con software libre o simplemente querés invitar al mundo a venir a DebConf26, grabá tu propio video y envialo.

Nos gustaría compartir distintas miradas de la comunidad rumbo a DebConf26 🌎

📩 Podés enviarlo a: martin@debconf.org

#Debian #SoftwareLibre #DebConf26 #DebianAr

All good things come to an end and so is MiniDebConf Hamburg 2026, the "Closure" ceremony starts 17:10 CET in the Seminarroom. Stream available at https://hamburg2026.mini.debconf.org/schedule/venue/1/ #debian #MiniDebConf #MiniDebConfHamburg2026 #05

Missed the "Lightning talks" and don't know what happened? Fear not! We had "Debian Commons", "Four Crucial* Packages* You've Never* Heard About" and "How to disable Salsa notifications when projects are moved" #debian #MiniDebConf #MiniDebConfHamburg2026 #05

🍥 Debian must ship reproducible packages
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2026/05/msg00001.html

#debian #linux #opensource

"Making Things Happen in Debian: Reflections from two DPL terms" starts 16:30 CET in the Seminarroom. Stream available at https://hamburg2026.mini.debconf.org/schedule/venue/1/ #debian #MiniDebConf #MiniDebConfHamburg2026 #05

"Phosh: "Dispelling illusions" edition; or how I learned to Stop Worrying and Love Debian on my mobile device{,s}" starts 16:05 CET in the Seminarroom. Stream available at https://hamburg2026.mini.debconf.org/schedule/venue/1/ #debian #MiniDebConf #MiniDebConfHamburg2026 #05

"Lightning talks" start 15:45 CET in the Seminarroom. Stream available at https://hamburg2026.mini.debconf.org/schedule/venue/1/ #debian #MiniDebConf #MiniDebConfHamburg2026 #05

"ELBE - A Debian rootfilesystem builder" starts 14:45 CET in the Seminarroom. Stream available at https://hamburg2026.mini.debconf.org/schedule/venue/1/ #debian #MiniDebConf #MiniDebConfHamburg2026 #05

There now is even a debian backport version for emacs-jabber (aka jabber.el) - including omemo support:

https://tracker.debian.org/news/1750294/accepted-emacs-jabber-0106-1bpo131-source-all-amd64-into-stable-backports/

If you don't know debian backports yet:

https://backports.debian.org/

#xmpp #debian #backport #omemo #emacs

We will be back after lunch with "An introduction to immutable OS images" starting at 14:00 CET in the Seminar room. Stream available at https://hamburg2026.mini.debconf.org/schedule/venue/1/ #debian #MiniDebConf #MiniDebConfHamburg2026 #05

"Putting Past Upstream History in Debian Git" starts 11:30 CET in the Seminarroom. Stream available at https://hamburg2026.mini.debconf.org/schedule/venue/1/ #debian #MiniDebConf #MiniDebConfHamburg2026 #05

Live from Seminarroom at #MiniDebConfHamburg2026: "How I reverse-engineered a camera driver for my tablet" https://hamburg2026.mini.debconf.org/schedule/venue/1/ #debian #MiniDebConf #05

And we are back with "SBOMs for Debian" starting 10:00 CET in the Seminarroom. Stream available at https://hamburg2026.mini.debconf.org/schedule/venue/1/ #debian #MiniDebConf #MiniDebConfHamburg2026 #05

@Blf_tpe

What would happen, if all act in this way?

The most conservative estimation of #Debian users worldwide is 5 M. Other guesses are 10 M, 20 M and more.

If all act in this way, @debian would raise at least 300 MUSD/a.

We are 1041 DDs (Debian Developers) right now.

If all act in this way, we were able to not only work on Debian in our spare time, after work or at weekends, but full-time, with a salary of 288 kUSD/a 😉

So, thanks!

What I really like with FOSS software is the mentality behind it. So because I'm using so many incredible software it's important to me to give back some of my "savings” with projects I use. Today I registered the start of a small monthly contribution to #Debian which is doing its magic underneath so many distros, and rarely gets spoken about :)
So thanks @debian and keep on the good work !

We are done for today, but we will be back tomorrow! Same place, same time (10:00 CET ;-) and remember the schedule is the source of the truth(ish): https://hamburg2026.mini.debconf.org/schedule/ #debian #MiniDebConf #MiniDebConfHamburg2026 #05

"Bye-Bye Vlans, Hello Layer 3 Connectivity" starts 17:15 CET in the Seminarroom. Stream available at https://hamburg2026.mini.debconf.org/schedule/venue/1/ #debian #MiniDebConf #MiniDebConfHamburg2026 #05

"Protecting your websites against bad bots and attackers with Proof of Work using Anubis" starts 16:30 CET in the Seminarroom. Stream available at https://hamburg2026.mini.debconf.org/schedule/venue/1/ #debian #MiniDebConf #MiniDebConfHamburg2026 #05

"A Modern Editor Experience for Debian Packaging" starts 16:00 CET in the Seminarroom. Stream available at https://hamburg2026.mini.debconf.org/schedule/venue/1/ #debian #MiniDebConf #MiniDebConfHamburg2026 #05

"reproduce.debian.net - reproducing what is distributed from ftp.d.o" starts 15:00 CET in the Seminarroom. Stream available at https://hamburg2026.mini.debconf.org/schedule/venue/1/ #debian #MiniDebConf #MiniDebConfHamburg2026 #05

We will be back after lunch with "systemd - a summary" starting at 14:15 CET in the Seminarroom. Stream available at https://hamburg2026.mini.debconf.org/schedule/venue/1/ #debian #MiniDebConf #MiniDebConfHamburg2026 #05

"Meet (and Join ;-) the Publicity Team" starts 11:55 CET in the Seminarroom. Stream available at https://hamburg2026.mini.debconf.org/schedule/venue/1/ #debian #MiniDebConf #MiniDebConfHamburg2026 #05

"Onboarding in Debian: Improving Debian with high visibility, low effort" starts 11:35 CET in the Seminarroom. Stream available at https://hamburg2026.mini.debconf.org/schedule/venue/1/ #debian #MiniDebConf #MiniDebConfHamburg2026 #05

Upgrade time!

Package: #prosody
#CVE ID: CVE-2026-43504 CVE-2026-43505 CVE-2026-43506 CVE-2026-43507

Multiple security issues were found in Prosody, a lightweight #Jabber/#XMPP server, which could result in denial of service or insufficient access control when using the SOCKS5 proxy module.

https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2026/msg00163.html

#Debian #security #DSA #DoS

"Chicken, Egg, or go.mod? Solving Go Circular Build-Dependencies in Debian" starts 10:50 CET in the Seminaarrom. Stream available at https://hamburg2026.mini.debconf.org/schedule/venue/1/ #debian #MiniDebConf #MiniDebConfHamburg2026 #05

"WebIDAMd - OpenID Connect and OAuth for Linux system clients" starts now in the Seminaarrom. Stream available at https://hamburg2026.mini.debconf.org/schedule/venue/1/ #debian #MiniDebConf #MiniDebConfHamburg2026 #05

@HoSnoopy @kuketzblog @reticuleena

Ja, #slidge ist eines der vielen guten Argumente für #Jabber — ich nutze es um zu Matrix zu bridgen (und co-maintaine das Package bei #Debian 😉)

Aber für Signal oder WA ist's mir zu stressig: U.a. müßte ich mir ein Android-Device besorgen, lernen wie man es bedient, eine Telefonnummer für den Account opfern usw. Ich bin damit einfach überfordert 🤷

MiniDebConf Hamburg 2026 livestream starts in less than one hour! The "Welcome" session will be live 10:00 CET at https://hamburg2026.mini.debconf.org/schedule/venue/1/ #debian #MiniDebConf #MiniDebConfHamburg2026 #05

Disappointed you can't attend the Hamburg MiniDebConf in person? No worries, after MiniDebConf is before MiniDebConf: Another one will happen from 29th to 30th of August in Winterthur, Switzerland! https://ch2026.mini.debconf.org/announce/ #miniDebConfCH #debian #debconf #05

MiniDebConf Hamburg 2026 has already started, debianites have been doing hardwork at the hacklab for a few days now, but tomorrow the livestreamed talks will begin at 10:00 CET. Watch them live in https://hamburg2026.mini.debconf.org/ #debian #MiniDebConf #MiniDebConfHamburg2026 #05

Freexian is excited to support MiniDebConf Hamburg, currently underway at dock europe, Hamburg, Germany!

The talks are scheduled on May 9 and 10. If you can’t attend in person, the talks will also be live-streamed: https://hamburg2026.mini.debconf.org/

#debian #MiniDebConf #MiniDebConfHamburg2026 #freexian

If you're seeing articles about #chrome like https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-silent-nano-install/, just be aware that #chromium in #debian (and #UngoogledChromium) removes this garbage (https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium/pull/3676). Stuff like this is why I don't think the answer to "how do I get the latest software in my distribution" is not "Just use a flatpak/snap! Upstream Knows Best!™ "

For those interested in Debian and Free Software: Party with Debian people in
Hamburg, .de, tonight, Wed May 6:
https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEvents/de/2026/MiniDebConfHamburg#Party_.40_Slot
@devrtz
#minidebconfhamburg #debconf #debian #hamburg #slot-hh

@oscherler

That's very strange, indeed. Adding users to groups is a common admin task, and I never had any issue with that on my #Debian server farm. Logout/login of the affected user has always been enough.

If you can reproduce the error, you should report it to Debian!

@oscherler

That would be horrible, indeed, if it were true. Fortunately, it isn't.

#Debian

Adding a user to a group on a Debian server requires a reboot. How fucked up is that? #Linux #Debian

https://superuser.com/questions/1850304/adding-user-to-group-not-taking-effect-until-restart

@HolgerSchurig @abcdw @daviwil

That's true, however I strongly prefer to only install software that comes from my distribution. For many reasons 😉

#Debian

@debacle @abcdw @daviwil Your freedom to install and use software isn't limited by decisions done by some Linux distribution. You're always free to install e.g. zig, rust or Ghostty by means not designed by your distro.

Get zig here: https://ziglang.org/download/

Get Ghostty here: https://ghostty.org/docs/install/binary#debian

So, too good, #ghostty can be in your #Debian installation within 5 minutes!

BTW; I'm a happy Debian Sid user

@josch

I'll try to find out about the LTE bands…

If somebody is very likely to contribute to #freeSoftware (#Debian or otherwise), I'ld make a special price for the pocket reform. Will put it on the forum, thanks for the hint!

@maryjane

Note, that you also can

sudo apt install railway-gtk

on #Mobian and #Debian.
#trixie has version 2.7.3, #forky has 2.9.4.

@pauldoo @abcdw @daviwil

Oh, sure, but I prefer having "everything" from my favourite #appstore that is #Debian 🙂

@pauldoo @abcdw @daviwil

To have a proper #Debian package, the software must be build only with tools, that are also in Debian.

I.e. before anything written in #zig can officially be packaged, we need the #ziglang compiler in Debian main. People were working on it, but no update since ≈ one year.

https://bugs.debian.org/995670

I can't help, because -ENOTIME amd -ENOZIGFOO.

@abcdw @daviwil

Too bad, that #ghosttty will not be in #Debian any time soon, so neither will #ghostel 😞

Reason: We don't have #zig, and it doesn't look promising to me.

I'll stay with #eat and #vterm 🤷

#ziglang #Emacs

Not quite sure what to think of that reply to my #Debian #ZFS package bug report yet... need to let that sink in.
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1135579
It's the first time I'm hearing that an "apt get dist-upgrade" on Debian Sid is supposed to be a "self-created problem". That a user should do x steps first. But maybe the rules for "contrib" packages are different?
Anyway, that makes me even more seriously consider switching from ZFS to #btrfs...

@schenklklopfer I didn't expect periodic, *deliberate* breakage, even on #Debian Sid. Occasional breakages on Debian Sid=unstable, ok, but deliberate ones?

The "PS:" part I wrote would have been a compromise for me, the apt command should fail before it does anything, especially if conflicts are known in advance. Instead of creating a broken system after that command. But maybe I'm missing why that's somehow not possible.

A few snapshots of the Freexian team from MiniDebConf Campinas 2026.

Our collaborators took part as organizers, speakers, and attendees. Proud to support and engage with the Debian Brasil community.

Thanks to everyone who made it a success!

#debian #freexian #miniDebConfCampinas #debianbrasil

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Digital Photograph of Antonio Terceiro and Lucas Kanashiro, who are Debian Developers and Freexian Collaborators, giving a talk at MiniDebConf Campinas 2026. They are in an auditorium addressing the audience seated before them. Three projector screens displaying the talk slides can be seen behind them. Antonio is addressing the audience while Lucas can be seen smiling encouragingly at Antonio.

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Digital Photograph of Santiago R.R. and Lucas Kanashiro, who are Debian Developers and Freexian collaborators, giving a talk at MiniDebConf Campinas 2026. The talk is happening in the same auditorium as in the previous photograph. Two projector screens displaying the talkslides can be seen behind them. The slide displayed is titled 'História e Background do LTS'. Santiago is addressing the audience, who are not visible in the photograph, and Lucas is looking at the projected slide.

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Group photograph of the MiniDebConf Campinas 2026 attendees. The attendees are outside the venue building looking at the photographer. Most of the attendees are wearing MiniDebConf Campinas T-shirts. A stand with retractable banner displaying the event logo and sponsors can be seen amidst them. The venue surroundings and the photographer can be seen in the reflections on the glass walls of the building behind those being photographed.

#Debian or #Trisquel #GNU / #Linux users, do you use the #Emacs package of your distribution, or do you build Emacs from source?

#AskFedi