Differences

This shows you the differences between two versions of the page.

--- news:start [2018-02-17 09:27] – XPS 13 jens
+++ news:start [2023-06-12 17:41] (current) – Typo jens
@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
 ====== News ======
 ===== Current News =====
-==== 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 ;-)
-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/firmware-5.bin whereas there are only 3.0/firmware-4.bin and 3.0/firmware-6.bin files available. And because I wanted to start using this great piece of hardware as soon as possible I became lazy and just used the Buster installer which works fine.
+Yesterday, June 10 2023, Debian 12 "Bookworm" has been released. Thank you so much Debian team!
-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 [[misc:sources.list]] will be updated to reflect that later) and is now part of the official installer release. Finally Debian installations on bare-metal become feasible again with the official images :-)
-  * 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 to software rendering (no more cube) solves this problem and switching from the default OpenGL 2.0 to 3.1 makes it less likely to happen. I hope a future kernel module for the graphics will solve this problem.
-  * 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://www.archlinux.org/|Arch Linux]] Wiki pages for the [[https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dell_XPS_13_(9360)|9360]] and [[https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dell_XPS_13_(9370)|9370]] were more helpful than the [[https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Dell/Dell%20XPS%2013|Debian Wiki pages]] ;-)
+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 ''GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=false'' in the ''/etc/default/grub'' file and run an ''update-grub''.
-As soon as I solved my problems I might make an account and edit the Debian Wiki page for the 9370.
-Updates on this notebook and Debian will surely follow!
+Furthermore, obviously lots of software got updated to newer versions. Be aware that if you are running [[https://nextcloud.com/|NextCloud]] on Debian: PHP 8.2 is currently not supported by NextCloud, it will be in future versions 26+.
-==== 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 and updated where needed.
+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://www.debian.org|Debian]] Stretch has finally been released :-) Go grab [[https://www.debian.org/distrib|your copy]] and have an install party!
+==== 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 nowadays has a somewhat stable release cycle.
-==== 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 is finally able to do secure boot. Also, when using the Gnome Desktop, the default display manager will be Wayland instead of Xorg.
-For years, the Debian team had to rebrand Firefox into Iceweasel. Luckily, by now Debian and the Mozilla Foundation settled their "disputes" and henceforth Iceweasel will be called Firefox again in Debian.
-Please note that this also has an impact on your [[misc:sources.list]]!
+You can find the full [[https://www.debian.org/News/2019/20190706|release announcement]] on the Debian website.
 ===== 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]].