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Colonel Panic · 2024-03-16 10:39:46

shortarcflyer wrote:

I have it multibooted on my "testing" laptop and it really flys on a modern pc. Very fun and interesting to play with. I dont rely on it for everyday use but it does work very well for a debian based distro in my opinion.

I'm similar. I'd like to have an ultra-lightweight distro for when this machine starts becoming "difficult" (it seems to be struggling with big loads at the moment).

All I've added to it so far are "full fat" Vim and Neovim for text editing, Terminator for terminal duties, and Seamonkey for browsing as I found Badwolf difficult to use; but I'm planning on adding some more small applications soon especially terminal-based ones (Elinks is probably going to be the next one).

johnraff · 2024-03-22 05:17:32

People upgrading to KDE Plasma6 take care.
https://linuxiac.com/usage-of-plasma-6- … ous-risks/

...we highly recommend that you hold off installing any global themes on your Plasma 6 desktop environment

shortarcflyer · 2024-03-22 13:27:02

Install of RebornOS on my main laptop. Openbox wm and my wallpaper I made at playgroundai.

Last edited by shortarcflyer (2024-03-23 01:09:19)

Colonel Panic · 2024-03-27 14:59:06

I've just installed the latest version of Mageia (9). It looks quite retro and its repositories seem smaller than those of the other rpm-based distros, but otherwise it works OK.

Last edited by Colonel Panic (2024-03-27 14:59:25)

shortarcflyer · 2024-03-28 02:19:31

Colonel Panic wrote:

I've just installed the latest version of Mageia (9). It looks quite retro and its repositories seem smaller than those of the other rpm-based distros, but otherwise it works OK.

I had Mageia 9 installed on my spare laptop at one time and cant say I really had any issues with it. The only reason I removed it was to install Garuda in its place.

shortarcflyer · 2024-03-29 01:34:31

shortarcflyer wrote:

Colonel Panic wrote:
I've just installed the latest version of Mageia (9). It looks quite retro and its repositories seem smaller than those of the other rpm-based distros, but otherwise it works OK.
I had Mageia 9 installed on my spare laptop at one time and cant say I really had any issues with it. The only reason I removed it was to install Garuda in its place.

Removed DSL 2024 and install Mageia 9 in its place. I did a net install of Mageia to get the items I particularly wanted and to avoid others I did not want. Openbox WM, stock wallpaper and custom conky.

unklar · 2024-03-30 12:16:32

Attention, backdoor in the xz-utils package of Arch, Debian (testing, sid), Fedora and openSUSE.

Guys, check your installations!

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-secu … 24/03/29/4
https://boehs.org/node/everything-i-kno … z-backdoor
https://gist.github.com/thesamesam/2239 … 78baad9e27

Colonel Panic · 2024-03-30 12:50:05

unklar wrote:

Attention, backdoor in the xz-utils package of Arch, Debian (testing, sid), Fedora and openSUSE.
Guys, check your installations!
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-secu … 24/03/29/4
https://boehs.org/node/everything-i-kno … z-backdoor
https://gist.github.com/thesamesam/2239 … 78baad9e27

Thanks, this is worth knowing. For the time being I'm going to avoid the distros mentioned (Arch, Debian testing, sid, Fedora and openSUSE), because I don't know enough to get out of trouble if my system gets infected. I'm currently posting this from Slackware.

People with more knowledge than me can doubtless make other decisions.

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ratcheer · 2024-03-30 12:51:41

Thanks, unklar.

On my Arch system, I saw the news, ran to install the fix, and found that the fix had already been installed in yesterday morning's updates. Those guys are quick!

unklar · 2024-03-30 15:09:31

ratcheer wrote:

... Those guys are quick!

Yes, that's right, it also happened yesterday at sid(uction) without my involvement or knowledge.

What have I done so far, what are my results?
In sid:

apt policy xz-utils
xz-utils:
  Installiert:           5.6.1+really5.4.5-1
  Installationskandidat: 5.6.1+really5.4.5-1
  Versionstabelle:
 *** 5.6.1+really5.4.5-1 500
        500 https://deb.debian.org/debian unstable/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

doas ./detect_sh.bin
probably not vulnerable

doas systemctl status sshd.service
Unit sshd.service could not be found.

In archliux + nwg-shell:

pacman -Qi xz
Name                     : xz
Version                  : 5.6.1-2
Beschreibung             : Library and command line tools for XZ and LZMA compressed files
Architektur              : x86_64
URL                      : https://xz.tukaani.org/xz-utils/
Lizenzen                 : GPL  LGPL  custom
Gruppen                  : Nichts
Stellt bereit            : liblzma.so=5-64
Hängt ab von             : sh
Optionale Abhängigkeiten : Nichts
Benötigt von             : base  botan  ffmpeg  file  grub  imagemagick  imlib2  kmod  libarchive  libelf  libtiff  libunwind  libxml2  systemd  systemd-libs  zstd
Optional für             : mkinitcpio  python
In Konflikt mit          : Nichts
Ersetzt                  : Nichts
Installationsgröße       : 2,46 MiB
Packer                   : Frederik Schwan <freswa@archlinux.org>
Erstellt am              : Do 28 Mär 2024 22:06:56 CET
Installiert am           : Fr 29 Mär 2024 11:04:38 CET
Installationsgrund       : Installiert als Abhängigkeit eines anderen Pakets
Installations-Skript     : Nein
Verifiziert durch        : SHA-256-Summe  Signatur

 sudo systemctl status sshd.service
[sudo] Passwort für unklar: 
○ sshd.service - OpenSSH Daemon
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/sshd.service; disabled; preset: disabled)
     Active: inactive (dead)

The script does not work here.

Last edited by unklar (2024-03-30 15:23:48)

hhh · 2024-03-30 15:41:00

https://lists.debian.org/debian-securit … 00057.html

So, on Debian testing, sid or experimental...

sudo apt install --reinstall xz-utils

... will gaurantee that you've upgraded to the fixed package which has the suffix "+really." Verify by running...

apt policy xz-utils

https://packages.debian.org/sid/xz-utils

More info for other distros...

https://www.darkreading.com/vulnerabili … n-xz-utils

Sector11 · 2024-03-30 16:00:57

{cough cough} and then there is Debian Stable.

shortarcflyer · 2024-03-30 23:54:17

Didnt like Mageia enough to keep it. Arch distros are more to my liking so I replaced Mageia with EndeavourOS and now things are more better! :-)

Sector11 · 2024-03-31 01:32:21

shortarcflyer wrote:

https://i.ibb.co/0DSxnTN/Screenshot-2024-03-30-18-19-39.jpg

Interesting wallpaper, do you have a clean one?
Wife likes purple.

Colonel Panic · 2024-03-31 01:33:53

shortarcflyer wrote:

Didnt like Mageia enough to keep it. Arch distros are more to my liking so I replaced Mageia with EndeavourOS and now things are more better! :-)
https://i.ibb.co/0DSxnTN/Screenshot-2024-03-30-18-19-39.jpg

Great! A lot of people clearly like Endeavour; I've seen good things said about it on the Linux subreddits. Nice desktop wallpaper too.

I like your Conky set up too; it's short but clear and provides all the necessary information. I also like to have the uptime displayed, though I wouldn't say that was "essential".

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shortarcflyer · 2024-03-31 03:47:01

Sector11 wrote:

shortarcflyer wrote:
https://i.ibb.co/0DSxnTN/Screenshot-2024-03-30-18-19-39.jpg
Interesting wallpaper, do you have a clean one?
Wife likes purple.

Sure, here you go. It is a stock EndeavourOS wallpaper.

hhh · 2024-03-31 04:12:59

^ Another nice Galileo one in purple...

https://forum.endeavouros.com/uploads/d … 9b5cb.jpeg

Sector11 · 2024-04-01 00:47:02

shortarcflyer wrote:

Sure, here you go. It is a stock EndeavourOS wallpaper.
https://i.ibb.co/FWWJXR3/endeavouros-wallpaper.png

I figured that, still beautiful.

hhh wrote:

^ Another nice Galileo one in purple...

Grabbed it as well.

Thanks and Happy Easter guys.

shortarcflyer · 2024-04-01 22:39:41

Sector11 wrote:

shortarcflyer wrote:
Sure, here you go. It is a stock EndeavourOS wallpaper.
https://i.ibb.co/FWWJXR3/endeavouros-wallpaper.png
I figured that, still beautiful.
hhh wrote:
^ Another nice Galileo one in purple...
Grabbed it as well.
Thanks and Happy Easter guys.

You are welcome and I hope you and your family had a Happy Easter!

Colonel Panic · 2024-04-02 16:19:07

Bryan Poer (Endeavour developer) also posted this wallpaper on Twitter just before Christmas, which I think is really good;

https://twitter.com/OsEndeavour/status/ … 4264079388

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