The folly of Debian major version upgrades
The author attempted to upgrade their Debian server from Buster to a newer version but encountered a critical failure when installing a new package, which removed libcrypt and locked them out of the s…
The author attempted to upgrade their Debian server from Buster to a newer version but encountered a critical failure when installing a new package, which removed libcrypt and locked them out of the s…
The article describes a problem where a user reinstalled Debian on a new NVMe drive with the same hostname, causing both the old and new drives to have identically named LVM volume groups ("heartofgla…
The article provides a step-by-step guide on self-hosting a Git frontend service using Gitea on a Debian server with Nginx. It covers setting up a PostgreSQL database for Gitea, downloading and instal…
The article provides a step-by-step guide for replacing the default Ubuntu 20.04 operating system on an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Free Tier ARM64 instance with a Debian 10 cloud image. The pro…
Debian and Kali Linux virtual machines running under KVM/libvirtd lack pre-installed agents like qemu-guest-agent and spice-vdagent, which prevents smooth mouse cursor movement between the guest and h…