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- | ==== 2018-02-17: New challenge, XPS 13 ==== | + | ==== 2023-06-11: Debian 12 Bookworm |
- | I got myself a new challenge: a brand new Dell XPS 13 9370 (2018 model) Developer Edition (non-touch). I really love this notebook, thus far I have not found one single point of criticism (I am not a webcam user ;-)). | + | No, this site is everything but dead ;-) |
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- | It comes pre-installed with Ubuntu and even after just booting it and using it for about 10 minutes I remembered why I don't like Ubuntu. So I quickly prepared a Debian Stretch installer stick with non-free firmware. The notebook is very thin and has no USB A ports anymore, let alone a RJ45 connector for LAN. So to install you depend on Wifi and for that the non-free firmware is really needed. | + | |
- | However, somehow the Stretch installer didn't like the firmware, not even the updated one. It was looking for a 3.0/ | + | Yesterday, June 10 2023, Debian 12 " |
- | Points of attention so far (the rest is working perfectly): | + | The most important changes are that from now on, the non-free firmware has been moved into its own repository |
- | * The Wifi randomly disconnects. I had to disable power management for the Wifi card, a description of that will follow later on this site. | + | |
- | * I am running KDE and using the compositor in hardware rendering mode (for e.g. the desktop cube) makes the screen become flickery after a while, the contents don't get redrawn. Switching | + | |
- | * The keyboard backlight turns off after just 3 seconds even though the setting is at 10 seconds. I will have to research this further (low prio). | + | |
- | As said, everything else works fine and I am really happy. Ironically, the [[https:// | + | Also, if you are running a dual-boot system, you will have to tell Grub to actually probe for other OS on your system, by default that is now disabled. Just enable the row '' |
- | As soon as I solved my problems I might make an account and edit the Debian Wiki page for the 9370. | + | |
- | Updates | + | Furthermore, |
- | ==== 2017-06-17: Debian GNU/Linux 9.0 (Stretch) released | + | ==== 2019-11-09: Major overhaul |
- | Not much news on my site, even though content gets constantly polished | + | I finally found the tome to do an overhaul of the documents. Remove obsoleted information, check all links, update information here and there. As usual I hope the information on this site will be useful to you! |
- | However, last night [[https:// | + | ==== 2019-07-06: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (Buster) released! ==== |
+ | I still remember the Woody and Sarge release cycles and I am so happy that Debian | ||
- | ==== 2017-05-06: Icedove became Thunderbird again ==== | + | Today it is here: Debian 10 a.k.a. Buster! Congratulations Debian team for another great release, your work is more than appreciated. |
- | Well... maybe a little late... but still. You get the picture :-) | + | |
- | ==== 2016-03-14: Iceweasel became Firefox again ==== | + | Next to lots of updated software, the biggest change undoubtedly is that Debian |
- | For years, the Debian | + | |
- | Please note that this also has an impact on your [[misc:sources.list]]! | + | You can find the full [[https://www.debian.org/ |
===== Archived news ===== | ===== Archived news ===== | ||
- | For news from the previous years please have a look at the News [[archive]]. | + | Older news can be found in the news [[archive]]. |
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