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This is awesome, maybe one day any IT company in Malaysia can onboard debian contributer like clear-code
https://www.clear-code.com/blog/2021/10/8/on-boarding-2021-08.html

Aktivis, pengguna & pembangun perisian #sumberterbuka di #Malaysia pernah gah dan hampir menjadi peganti mainstream iaitu perisian sumber tertutup / berbayar / tiada ketelusan (#tranparency) tapi ia ansur pudar dan mungkin hilang. Di mana silap nya?

#opensource #activist #public

Then you can update the other package by excluding problematic package. But don't forget to reset hold package

sudo apt-mark unhold libc6:i386 libc6

#Debian #sumberterbuka # linux #Sid

6. If apt upgrade give use warning about outstanding grave bug such as

"Grave bugs of libxml2 (2.9.10+dfsg-6.7 → 2.9.12+dfsg-4) <Outstanding>
b1 - #993638 - libxml2: XHTML 1.0 validation is broken"

you can exclude the package to allow others upgrade pkgs by using

sudo apt-mark hold libc6:i386 libc6

Debian GNU/Hurd 2021 released!
https://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2021/08/msg00040.html

#Debian #Gnu #Hurd

If you are using #debian #bullseye and want #oracle #virtualbox, you can add Fast Track repository (https://fasttrack.debian.net/) , it not available directly on debian #linux official repo because of upstream on security support are not so good. It better to use #KVM / #Qemu for #opensource alternative

If you use flatpak and uninstall some package, thus data still on your machine. use command "flatpak uninstall --delete-data"

It will ask you for the deletion confirmation for each app you uninstalled but haven’t deleted data for.

#flatpak #debian #linux #opensource #data

5. Last tips, consider using LVM or btrfs file system , so you can rollback to the last snapshot if unexciting thing happen :)

#Debian #Sid #Testing #Linux #Opensource #SumberTerbuka #Malaysia

4. Using "sudo apt full-upgrade" will removes packages that become obsolete, but it make your #Debian much cleaner. Anyway, you can just use "apt upgrade" to avoid unwanted removal of any packages that you depend on

3. Remember to run "sudo apt update" before installing packages that pull in new dependencies on your Debian.

2. Install apt-listbugs, apt-listchanges and configure it via "dpkg-reconfigure apt-listchanges" . So you will aware of super critical bugs or important changes when you install new packages or during an upgrade on your #debian #Sid / #Unstable .

Here some tips for any #Debian user who use #Sid aka #DebianUnstable

1. If you go into Stable or Testing thinking that it is stable, it not. when you do come across problems, they will persist for longer compared to Sid. The reason is that upstream fixes go to Sid first

UbuCon Asia 2021 #1 - Call for Speakers https://malaysia-team.pages.debian.net/posts/ubucon-asia-2021-cfs/

#localgroups #loco #asia #OpenSource #ubuntu #debian #ubuconAsia2021