Consolidated archive or torrent of many of the useful, stable, and popular versions of Debian or similar highly versatile distros?

Kind of a strange use case, but a friend and I are creating bug-out data cache hard drives for possible apocalyptic scenarios, and we're wondering if there's a way we can download or torrenr them all at once instead of needing to pick and choose them all.


I should clarify, we intend to use these on scavenged computers, including everything from consumer tech to embedded systems and computerized appliances like cash registers and order systems. So older 32 bit versions from the 90s and early 2000s are just as important.

We also intend on archiving Windows XP and 7 for our data caches.

https://redd.it/1osb1jv
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A Lost Unix Treasure: Fourth Edition Tape Finally Found
https://ponderwall.com/index.php/2025/11/09/unix-lost-tape/

https://redd.it/1osi8wp
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What happened to Unix Stickers?

In the 2010s Sticker Mule offered Unix Sticker Packs for just 1$ per package.
I am out of stickers and wanted to order a new pack today and just realized that sticker mule now does not offer these packages anymore and instead wants to have 5$(!!) for each sticker (completely insane, considering that you would get a full package for just a dollar back then).

Do you know about any other good shop that offers open source / technology / linux stickers in good quality?

https://redd.it/1oslr3j
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wayland global positioning

If I understand things correctly, most steam games current rely on xwayland or a compositor specific feature to position their window on the user's preferred monitor, while in a wayland-only scenario the wayland devs prefer to have it open randomly, and the application should be able to be resized without any error, despite the fact that I always want it to open on my preferred monitor

Been reading some of the current discussion over the wayland protocols related to global positioning, e.g. https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/merge\_requests/264, though it gets into some other discussions about multi-window apps that need to move their windows dynamically around the screen. Some of the sentiment that I'm getting is that some, not all, of the waylands devs want to remove the idea of global positioning at all costs, even if it breaks existing UI paradigms that are still in use and are thriving over on windows and macos. Some of the cross-platform toolkits have their own devs in the discussion, like SDL, and tbh I would feel frustrated in their position too because if I had to support windows, macos, and linux/wayland, I honestly feel like there would be no other way to handle this besides just saying, "the user experience on wayland is borked and is impossible to fix on our end"

Why is it not impossible to provide a protocol that implements global positioning, and then leave it up to the compositors if they want to support it in the first place? I feel like that would leave applications functioning correctly on regular desktop setups, while giving other setups like VR the choice to say, hey, we don't support global positioning because it literally makes no sense here. Reading these wayland discussions is honestly maddening

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How screwed am I?

Inherited a non-boot system from a cnc machine

custom linux distro (heros5) unknown based on?
legacy bios, not efi
no installation source

(supposedly) machine was shutdown without drive shutting down successfully, came up with errors. drive was placed in another machine, who knows what then returned to cnc machine non-boot., incorrect signatures

forensic recovery pulled up a deleted partition which corrected one set of errors.

spent days going through grub repair. looks as if all the files and directories, etc. are there

finally get it to boot to a kernel panic.

able to try anything as I'm working off cloned drive.
have attempted live environments, no success
fsck seems to checkout

Hopefully someone will have a better solution than me repeating myself.
Any help appreciated Thanks in advance

panic at the kernel



https://redd.it/1osthy3
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UxPlay and iOS hotspot

UxPlay works flawlessly in my home network and I can mirror the screen of an iPad on my Debian laptop.

However, when the two devices (iPad and Debian laptop) are connected to the hotspot of my iPhone, UxPlay does not work.

I guess this has to do with the default settings of the iOS hotspot, any idea how to circumvent the problem?

https://redd.it/1osozv5
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What makes a Linux Distribution good for you?

Just want personal opinions, to see how the Linux community views each distribution differently, and what unites the Linux community together. Please answer with honesty and your own opinion. Include qualities such as “ease of use/security/customizability/CLI/GUI/etc.” And include a distro example!

Thank you!

https://redd.it/1osvkuh
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What is the best Linux I can install on my old MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2009)?

That's it. What is the best Linux I can install on my old MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2009)? I love that old school laptop and it has a MacOs installed, decent, but wanted to know if I could install a really fast Linux so get better juice from it.

The Mac has an SSD 250 kingston upgraded.

2.53GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 3MB on-chip shared L2 cache running 1:1 with processor speed.

4GB (two 2GB SO-DIMMs) of 1066MHz DDR3 memory.

NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics processor with 256MB of DDR3 SDRAM shared with main memory.


Thank you.

https://redd.it/1osytkf
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nvidia libdrm support

(This is a bit of a technical post, bear with me)

I recently stumbled upon this post from august 2022:

https://developer.nvidia.com/docs/drive/drive-os/archives/6.0.4/linux/sdk/common/topics/window\_system\_stub/libdrmSupport12.html

It says there that libdrm is *not* implemented on top of the drm-kms driver. This seems odd (or outdated) to me, since nvidia's drivers have a drm kernel module and the kernel module was open-sourced a while back. Is this still current? I'm currently reading up on the linux graphic stack.

https://redd.it/1oszply
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Reminder that Linux is AMAZING for your old systems!
https://redd.it/1ot21gq
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The Linux conversion is complete
https://redd.it/1ot22n5
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Any distros that are lightweight and can run on a Chromebook without issues? I just installed Lubuntu and my 16 GB of space is already full.
https://redd.it/1ot44sa
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Linux 6.18-rc5 Released: "Small And Boring"
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.18-rc5-Released

https://redd.it/1ot513m
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Hibernate mode is being abandoned by most Distros. Why?

Does this have to do with security issues? If so, why not just encrypt the SWAP partition? I saw that Fedora leans more toward ZRAM, but as I understand it's not an alternative to hibernate. Wouldn't hibernate be helpful for battery quick drain (which is a known problem on many laptops)?

https://redd.it/1ot8rah
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From Gtk+libadwaita to Qt+KDE Frameworks: Easyeffects rewrite
https://github.com/wwmm/easyeffects

https://redd.it/1ot9xcl
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The airplane’s passenger screen infront of me was running Linux code mid flight, which seemed abit unusual to me
https://streamable.com/4l8l8j

https://redd.it/1ota5o3
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Based on a true story
https://redd.it/1otc42y
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The Linux Kernel Looks To "Bite The Bullet" In Enabling Microsoft C Extensions
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.19-Patch-Would-MS-Ext

https://redd.it/1otdo8h
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Firefox 145 Binaries Available - Aside From 32-bit Linux Being Removed
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-145-Released

https://redd.it/1othzlx
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After 35 years, I ditched Microsoft.

I'm almost 45 years, started with MS-DOS5 as a kid and here I am writing that I entirely ditched Microsoft.

I'm not gonna bother you with all the reasons that I have, but the main reason is security. These big tech companies push you into their clouds, steal your data and spy on you.

To me back in the 80's and 90's Microsoft was all about innovation and cool stuff. Now these days, just like Google, it seems to be all about power and money. There seems to be barely anything happening anymore, aside from releasing a new Windows version every X year with the same stuff but the start button on a different location, and perhaps a few different colors and more and more cloud integration.

I've seen MSDOS, Novell Netware, all Microsoft releases, BSD, OS2/Warp and a bunch of linux distro's. For now I'm on Mint as I love how tidy and clean everything is, not sure what is next.



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Is there a repository of videos for live desktop wallpapers?

I'm not sure in which community should I post this question in particular, if you have a suggestion I would appreciate it.

The thing is that there seems to be some some Linux apps that allow you set a video file as your desktop background, I know that the easiest thing would be to look for some on YouTube but it tends decrease the video's quality. So i was wondering if there's a place where people can submit/download videos to set them as desktop background, similar to the Wallpaper Engine's Steam workshop.

https://redd.it/1otofkg
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