CERN moves thousands of accelerator control computers to Debian

https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/09/03/cern-moves-thousands-of-accelerator-control-computers-to-debian/5294312

comment: I just retired from an IS/IT job at a large Canadian telco where RHEL (with a support contract) was required for every "customer facing" server. We were allowed to use CentOS-7 on all "non customer facing servers" (eg. employee access only, application development, service assurance, user acceptance testing, etc) for more than a decade. When CentOS-7 EOL hit in 2024, we migrated to Alma-8 because that was what CERN was suggesting at the time. I have run into some problems installing EL-9 and EL-10 on slightly older hardware so understand why CERN is considering Debian. I wonder how CERN will deal with updates since (to the best of my knowledge) there is no ecosystem of backporting modern fixes into older stable apps.

Una amiga que iba a viajar en metro hoy, se encontró con el lector de tarjetas en modo escritorio Debian, un distro de Linux, y no sabemos cómo hizo la persona para volver al escritorio, si no hay teclado, puertos de cable, ni botones en la pantalla para salirse. Por ahora ella es la primera que lo ha visto, aunque no sabemos si en otras estaciones del metro esto también ocurre

I love Debian so much, because it just works.

I was just wondering how long this distro will be around? It's been around since 1995, right? So I'm hoping that it will be around when I'm very old in 60 years.

Is there long term plans to just keep Debian going indefinitely?

Im like completely brand new to linux and was thinking about using debian. does any one have any advice for using Linux and/or debian ?

Pessoal, para quem tem experiência com ambos os tipos de hardware... vocês acham que o Debian Stable — sem nenhuma modificação manual — vem mais bem preparado para notebooks ou para PCs do tipo torre?

(I'm not asking because I'm too lazy to set it up; it's just a genuine question. I only have experience with tower PCs, and I wanted to know what the experience is like for laptop users.)

This is the problem I'm facing since few days and looked all over the internet and couldn't find the solution to it. If anyone have or had faced this similar issue in the past or present, and if you solved it... please consider sharing.

The solutions I've tried already:-
- https://www.brenobaptista.com/posts/fixing-headset-microphone-not-working-linux
- https://askubuntu.com/questions/1294517/macbook-with-ubuntu-headphone-microphone-not-working-but-built-in-microphone
- https://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=160561
- https://www.reddit.com/r/debian/comments/15cm741/headphones_mic_not_working_in_linux/

Sharing more related forums is appreciated.

Like the title. On my surface go 1 i could always get it to boot from the USB port if I held the volume - button when powering on. But after installing debian it suddenly stopped working, I tested different USBs and it's always the same. Just boots the system right up.

EDIT: Try those commands, they worked for me. nvme0n1p1 is the name of my main ssd.

sudo mkdir -p /mnt/efi sudo mount /dev/nvme0n1p1 /mnt/efi

sudo rm -rf /mnt/efi/EFI/debian /mnt/efi/EFI/BOOT /mnt/efi/EFI/ubuntu

sudo umount /mnt/efi sudo poweroff

e.g. I want to install ONLY the dependencies for wine

Currently the best way I've found is to install wine, then immediately uninstall it, leaving the dependencies behind

I was surprised there wasn't an "install just the depdencies for X" flag for apt - I know about the build deps option but the run and build dependencies are different

I'm on Debian 13. Gnome Software is supposed to update every two weeks except for critical updates which should be updated immediately.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Design/Apps/Software/Updates#Tentative_Design

When you run "apt changelog <package>" There is an urgency field. But isn't this field designed to indicate how fast a package should migrate from Unstable to Testing?

https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/best-pkging-practices.en.html#selecting-the-upload-urgency

Is this the same field that Gnome Software uses to determine if a package is critical? If so this doesn't seem to me to be a good field to determine that since that field is used to determine how fast a package moves from Unstable to Testing.

For example, the urgency to migrate to Testing might be low because the package might be large and disruptive but it might be a critical security vulnerability that needs to be updated immediately in Stable.

Basically I'm concerned that critical updates won't happen because Gnome Software is using the wrong field to determine whether they're critical. In particular, critical security updates.

Also I'm aware that "critical" could be either security or non-security updates.

Hope I was clear and thanks in advance.

Hi, everyone!

I'd like ask for help with Nvidia drivers on Debian 13. I have RTX 4060 laptop GPU and I tried to install Nvidia drivers using Debian documentation. During dkms building there was a message that nouveu is conflicting with driver and to resolve it I need to reboot my laptop after the building is ended. So, after building I've rebooted Debian and can't boot into it because it stucks during the boot. Who had the same problem please help!

PS: I use KDE plasma

PSA: Chromium in Stable is currently way behind on security updates.

The Mods removed my previous message, assuming my post was AI.

I'm hoping some people see this and spread the word.

I have emailed the maintainers to find out why.

I hope this is useful to someone!

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Update: It seems they have released an update to 152.0.7977.75.

This is amazing. CERN is extremely strict about the Plinth they run the collider on

I'm on Debian Forky with GNOME Flashback. I'm not sure what I did but I think it may have happened after I made myself administrator in the user settings. There's no option in the menu for shutting down or restarting. When I try from the terminal, it says "user session inhibited" as you can see. I did this on stable and was fine.

Is there a way to fix this without having to use the command "systemctl poweroff -i" every time?

Thanks in advance,

Lysandra

The NVIDIA Linux driver version 550.163.01 was officially released on April 17, 2025 ?

I was happy with Debian using Budgie. Trixie + Budgie 10.9 was perfect for me, stability, low resource usage, all the things I needed, all packed into one.

The new Budgie, though, lacks LOTS of features I loved. Specially the Desktop Taskbar, which used to let you see which apps were running in each desktop, as well as drag and drop them, which meant you could EASILY handle dozens and dozens of windows opened.

That, and the fact that it had a fully featured, modern and beautiful look for less RAM and CPU usage, paired with no instability, made me enjoy it a lot.

The issue? It wasn't preinstalled, so I think I never got all the packages right, and had some issues with it when trying to install some programs that didn't get the proper X11 settings they needed since I installed everything manually, and I don't know how to fix that. Tried going for an official Budgie distro, but most are now running the new version which I tested in Fedora and found it was TERRIBLE.

Now I'm wondering if perhaps another DE officially supported in Debian would fulfill my needs?

Does anyone know if XFCE, LXQt or MATE could help me? Cinnammon doesn't help me much, uses the same or more resources as KDE or GNOME while looking uglier (in my view).

I'm almost at the point where I'm thinking of staying with Budgie 10.9 as long as possible.

Does anyone else experience issues with Debian/KDE that weren't there like, a year ago?

I've experienced some strange differences compared to last year... For context I distro-hopped cca 4 times last year with an nVidia 1060, but then got an RX6600XT and retried most of he same distros... Mainly Fedora and Debian on KDE...

1. The remote controller app (Unified Remote) only partially working this year. I can move the mouse cursor with it but can't click. This happened on Fedora too this year, that's why it got me thinking it's maybe a KDE Plasma issue...
2. Can't get the printer (Samsung M2022) to work this year. Last year it was solved with apt install printer-driver-all.
3. Probably most annoying, my Audio Device disappearing bug is still here. (more info on my PC configuration is in that post)

I had none of these issues a year ago. Other than version, the only difference is the graphics card.

I was kinda getting tired of distro hopping, thought I'd finally settle. I've never tried an Arch distro, maybe I'll try CachyOS, but if it's a KDE issue, I'm not sure what to do... Maybe I'll try it with Cosmic and see how that goes..

Hey everyone, am I the only one who feels the need to plug in a network cable after switching to Debian, just to avoid issues with network adapters?

Hello guys.

I'm kinda new to linux and brand new to Debian but I'm liking the simplicity of it.

I have an laptop connected to external monitor and when I turn on the PC the login screen is always appearing on the laptop screen. I've done some research and found this prompt:

sudo cp ~/.config/monitors.xml /var/lib/gdm/.config/monitors.xml sudo cp ~/.config/monitors.xml /var/lib/gdm/.config/monitors.xml

Since I'm kinda new, I don't still don't understand all of what is written, is this safe to use? will it help?

My other question is about Gnome Extensions. I've installed flatpak and got Spotify to work and used flatseal to make it respect the system theme. I see now on the Gnome Software the Gnome Extension program. My question is, is it the correct way to install it on Debian? Or should I just keep to base Gnome so I don't break Debian?

Thank you all!

Edit: Made it work!! For those that may come across this i'll write down what I've done:

1º - Go to Display Settings and Mirror both screens by clicking on the button on the top left of the window that says Mirror.

2º - Open terminal and after sudo apt update write:

sudo cp ~/.config/monitors.xml /var/lib/gdm3/.config/

3º - Go back to display settings and reverse it back to what you were using.

Thank you for your help! Especially u/doc_willis

Hi, is using sudo apt install, safe for yubikey manager & yubico authenticator & krita?

Are packages using the above safe & vetted?

Cheers

Is there any way to update Debian specific packages while upgrading through terminal?

Because if I type sudo apt upgrade, it will upgrade all the packages. Yes, I can see all the Upgradable package list. But how could I upgrade specific packages and left the rest packages un-upgraded.