#debconf — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #debconf, aggregated by home.social.
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(more Linux news in previous posts)
LightDM returns from the dark with first release in 4 years:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/08/lightdm-new-release-new-maintainersMango Wayland Compositor Hits 0.16.0 with Native Touch Support and XWayland Fixes:
https://www.linuxcompatible.org/story/mango-wayland-compositor-hits-0160-with-native-touch-support-and-xwayland-fixes/DebConf27 Debian Developers Conference to Be Held in Asahikawa, Japan:
https://9to5linux.com/debconf27-debian-developers-conference-to-be-held-in-asahikawa-japanDebian Developers Begin Voting Over LLM Usage Within The Project:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-Votes-On-LLM-UsageFedora CoreOS To Enable systemd-oomd & zRAM Swap By Default:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-CoreOS-OOMD-zRAM-SwapChatGPT desktop app is now available for Linux (in preview):
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/08/chatgpt-desktop-app-linux-previewRustConn 0.20 Continues Further Polishing This GTK4/libadwaita-Based Connection Manager:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/RustConn-0.20-ReleasedMake sure your Flatpak is up to date due to security issues:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/make-sure-your-flatpak-is-up-to-date-due-to-security-issues/Mesa 26.1.7 Lands as a Targeted Bugfix Drop for the Stable Branch:
https://www.linuxcompatible.org/story/mesa-2617-released-stable-branch-bugfix-drop-with-driver-fixes/Mesa 26.3 Intel Driver Code Enables Large GRF Mode For Newer GPUs:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Large-GRF-Mode-Mesa-26.3Open-Source exFAT Programs 1.4.3 Improves Fsck & Mkfs:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/exfatprogs-1.4.3Linux Patches Enable Apple M4 NVMe Support:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Apple-M4-NVMe-PatchesLiquorix Kernel 7.1-11 Brings a Single Targeted Patch to Your Gaming and Streaming Setup:
https://www.linuxcompatible.org/story/liquorix-linux-kernel-7111-adds-a-single-stability-patch-for-debian-ubuntu-and-arch/Liquorix Drops Kernel 7.1-12 With Heavy Project-C Scheduler Tweaks:
https://www.linuxcompatible.org/story/liquorix-kernel-7112-kernel-released-with-projectc-scheduler-optimizations/Samba 4.25.0rc1 Released: Persistent Handles, Cluster Functional Levels, and AES-Only Domain Encryption:
https://www.linuxcompatible.org/story/samba-4250rc1-launches-with-smb3-persistent-handles-aes-encryption-and-cluster-functional-levels/
(Am I the only one who starts hearing the Samba De Janeiro song in my head every time I read about Samba? lol)(FOSS news in comments)
#WeeklyNews #News #Linux #LinuxNews #LightDM #Wayland #WaylandCompositor #DebConf #DebConf27 #Debian #Fedora #FedoraCoreOS #ChatGPT #RustConn #Flatpak #Mesa #exFAT #LinuxKernel #Liquorix #Samba #FosseryTech
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¡Gracias por una #DebConf hermosa!
¡Anticipando otra #miniDebConf en Argentina!
PD: Me encantan los #Andes en el fondo.
¿A la derecha es el Cerro #Aconcagua? -
❤️ Unas últimas palabras desde el Local Team de DebConf26.
Después de meses de preparación y dos semanas muy intensas en Santa Fe, quisimos dejar nuestro agradecimiento a las personas, equipos, instituciones y familias que hicieron posible esta DebConf.
Fue muchísimo trabajo, aprendizaje, algunos imprevistos y, sobre todo, comunidad y nuevas amistades.
Nuestro mensaje de despedida en Bits from Debian ya está disponible también en español 🐧🇦🇷
🇦🇷 Español:
https://bits.debian.org/2026/08/debconf26-words-from-localteam-es.html🌐 English:
https://bits.debian.org/2026/08/debconf26-words-from-localteam.html¡Gracias por haber sido parte de DebConf26!
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Transcript of the talk "How to provision, install, configure and keep thousands of Debian and Debian-based systems updated" at DebConf26 in Santa Fe
#ActiveDirectory #Ansible #Automation #AWX #DebConf #DebConf26 #Debian #Deploy #DevOps #FreeIPA #GitLab #GNU #IaC #Linux #migrate #Proxmox #SantaFe #talks #Ubuntu #UNL
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Transcripción de la charla "Cómo aprovisionar, instalar, configurar y mantener actualizados miles de sistemas Debian y basados en Debian" en DebConf26 en Santa Fe
#ActiveDirectory #Ansible #Automation #AWX #DebConf #DebConf26 #Debian #Deploy #DevOps #FreeIPA #GitLab #GNU #IaC #Linux #migrate #Proxmox #SantaFe #talks #Ubuntu #UNL
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**Mastodon**
😢 DebConf26 llegó a su fin en Santa Fe 🇦🇷 😢
Más de 270 personas de 35 países se encontraron durante la DebCamp y DebConf para seguir construyendo Debian.
En Bits from Debian publicaron el cierre oficial del evento, con un repaso y el anuncio de que DebConf27 será en Asahikawa, Japón 🇯🇵
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C U in Asahikawa, Hokkaido, September 2027. https://bits.debian.org/2026/08/debconf26-closes.html #debconf #debian #debconf26 #debconf27
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I had a wonderful time at #debconf. I felt really well, in such a way that I’ve never experienced before. People don’t seem to look wierdly at you if you were just sitting or hanging around alone. They wouldn’t force you to socialize. And when I felt like so, it was fine. We could talk about cryptography, certificate our PGP keys, verify our identities. It was crazy: no one would look at me like if I was paranoid, nobody called me an extremist, an outdated/ancient person. Using XMPP or IRC was fine. Indeed, all of this things were simply usual and even encouraged.
People that wanted to help could do it, in fact, I believe the majority of us were there to share, to learn, to build something. It was quite diverse, from different parts of the world. There were lots of talks, and lots of activities.
I created this account running or hidding away from bullying behaviours, trying to find a place were I could build a safe identity and community. I’m not sure if the language (not my mother tongue) has to do with this feeling, but for sure the event has a distinct aspect that makes me feel welcomed, really welcomed, not just evanescent words.
Perhaps argentinians (?) are so hurt that we just spark aggressively to each other. It’s still an open question.
Thank you #Debian community! ❤️
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DebConf26 – Santa Fe, Argentina
TL;DR: What a great DebConf! I managed to recharge my Debian batteries, and my talks / BoF sessions all went fine. Already looking forward to DebConf in Japan next year!
DebCamp
The evening before DebCamp started, we had a nice bbq (we taught some locals to call it a “braai” at an organiser’s house and went for a walk around the river as the sun set. It was a very peaceful lead-in to DebCamp.
- I set up and sent out the call for Forky desktop artwork:
- Had many nice discussions about various Debian topics with all the Debian people around. It’s really fun being around people who are natural problem solvers who care deeply about both technical and social issues. At one point Jonas told me “Holy shit, these people are motivated!” and I appreciate that so much too!
Debian LTS wine
- Most of my DebCamp was dedicated to preparing for my demo and main talk that followed at DebConf.
- Sadly, we had no loopy this year, I just didn’t have the time, and the people who stepped up to help last year were either overwhelmed with other issues or couldn’t make it. I’ll try to make it happen again for next year by kicking it off long before DC27.
View of Santa Fe city from hotel
DebConf
Talk – Is it even possible to build a truly universal system installer?
In this talk I do a very quick comparison of system installers based on my experience with them. It’s hard to directly compare all of them, since there are so many, and each have their own niche that they attempt to satisfy.
I also introduce Yasi – my attempt to answer the question of whether we could build a universal installer, which can also better cover advanced installations, automated installations and niche setups.
It’s very early days for the project, and I didn’t quite feel ready to share the code with the world, but it was nice that I did a quick demo where I could install a Debian system… and the resulting system actually booted up. *phew*.
This is also going to be my main focus for the mid-term future. I aim to have all the basic partitioning options working by the time Debian 14 (Forky) is released, and by the time Debian 15 is released, I have a long list of features that I aim to have working. So, my timeline for having something that’s generally useful is around a year from now, and in around 3 years it should be a fully fledged installer that should cover a very large amount of Debian use cases and architectures.
Day Trip
For the day trip, we did a tour across Santa Fe, visited Constitución de la Nación Argentina, had lunch where we tried various dishes based on local fish from the river, and then went on a boat ride on the river.
BoF Sessions:
Funding in Free Software Projects: I initially registered this BoF because I’m increasingly concerned about how upstreams are asking for donations in their software. I increased the scope to talk about funding in free software in general. It followed Marga’s talk about funding, which focussed more about how developers are funded in general. We didn’t dive very deep into this, but we certainly need some further discussion (and action) on this within Debian.
Debian Social Team: My most important issue for this team is a carry-over from last year, I want to set up barman (packaged in Debian) for live postgres syncing for our larger databases. For the smaller DBs, doing a daily dump is quite cheap. But for Matrix, it’s very expensive in terms if i/o and CPU, so it would be ideal to do less regular complete dumps and use live replication for the first line of redundancy instead.
Images Team: I wasn’t initially planning to say much during this session, I have some ideas to reduce both size and count of images, without losing any benefits, but I don’t have any work to show for that yet. I ended up talking a lot more than I anticipated, the topics covered were quite good and representative of the current state of Debian images built. I don’t have time to create a full summary, so I suggest checking the etherpad / video recording if you’re interested.
Some more wine variety during the conference dinner
Debianites in the main hacklab
Rosario
I’m spending two days in Rosario before I head home. Exploring a bit, catching up with sleep, finishing this blog post, signing keys and exploring some ideas I made note of during DebConf.
Thank you to the DebConf26 Team!
It was a little surreal not being part of any DebConf team for the first time ever, I’ve just been too focussed on getting Yasi ready for my talk (no regrets!). I hope to be more involved again next year, in the meantime, I’m very grateful to everyone who has made this happen, you did a stellar job! I hope to see many of you again next year in Japan!
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DebConf26 llegó a su cierre en Santa Fe 🇦🇷
Desde Debian Argentina queremos agradecer especialmente a todas las personas voluntarias que ayudaron a hacer posible este evento.
Nada de esto habría funcionado sin quienes estuvieron en recepción, salas, logística, comunicación, traslados, armado y desarmado de salas y tantas tareas invisibles durante estas semanas.
Gracias por poner tiempo, energía y compromiso para recibir a la comunidad Debian internacional en Argentina.
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Wake me up when the next #debconf begin! #debian #debconf26
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Kudos to Walter Lozano for a great walkthrough of what’s new in Apertis v2026!
If you caught his talk or want to continue the conversation around Apertis, Debian, or embedded systems, Walter will be around for the rest of DebConf26. Come say hello!
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Software Bills of Materials are increasingly important for licensing, security, and compliance, especially in embedded systems.
Starting in 15 minutes at DebConf26, join Walter Lozano to explore how Debian tooling can help generate SBOMs and support transparent software supply chains.
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Interested in Apertis? Catch the latest findings from Walter Lozano's talk kicking off in a few minutes at DebConf!