Debian’s AI vote splits maintainers in three directions
Anyone who sponsors a small package into Debian (or sits downstream of one) ends up watching every patch land in front of a human reviewer before it ships. Two months into using…
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SparkyLinux 8.4 brings back 32-bit and offers Linux 7.1 testing
I have a drawer in my office that is, statistically, half full of computers. There is a ThinkPad X200 from 2009 that still runs. There is a netbook from 2010 that nobody…
Debian 13 closed an 18 year old bug, verify your reboot
A kernel update landed for Debian 13 on August 6, 2026, and most of the coverage focused on the wrong thing. The interesting story is not the named vulnerabilities. It is the…
A Debian 13 kernel update with 68 CVEs: what to actually patch
A Debian 13 Trixie kernel update landed recently with sixty-eight CVEs in the changelog. I have been on the receiving end of those changelogs for about a decade, and my first instinct…