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| From | Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.devel |
| Subject | Re: Steam Deck: good news for Linux gaming, bad news for Debian :( |
| Date | 2021-08-12 06:50 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <CLaPf-3QB-1@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | (6 earlier) <CKQdP-7wd-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <CKSIF-DP-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <CKX5E-3BP-13@gated-at.bofh.it> <CKYO5-4qH-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <CL9zP-2JO-1@gated-at.bofh.it> |
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On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 3:22 AM Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > Debian is missing KDE's Amarok music manager. Amarok was removed as it required the obsolete Qt 4 library. Now that upstream has finally ported it to Qt5, it could be reintroduced to Debian. https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/amarok https://tracker.debian.org/news/1055955/removed-290-2-from-unstable/ https://bugs.debian.org/935022 https://amarok.kde.org/en/node/890 https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/ch05.html#reintroducing-pkgs > VirtualBox is not available on Debian 11. VirtualBox is not suitable for Debian stable because of how upstream does security updates. https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/virtualbox https://bugs.debian.org/794466 Also, it isn't in main because it needs a non-free compiler to build the BIOS. > I got tired of the constant need to download all of the packages. > I am on a metered internet connection. There are a couple of Debian initiatives that could help here: https://debdelta.debian.net/ https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg/Spec/DeltaDebs > where people can create Repo's of newer software versions to > use with stable Debian. We have backports for that, and there is the bikesheds idea. https://backports.debian.org/ -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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Steam Deck: good news for Linux gaming, bad news for Debian :( Samuel Henrique <samueloph@debian.org> - 2021-07-17 14:50 +0200
Re: Steam Deck: good news for Linux gaming, bad news for Debian :( Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org> - 2021-07-17 16:00 +0200
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Re: Steam Deck: good news for Linux gaming, bad news for Debian :( Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org> - 2021-08-10 19:40 +0200
Re: Steam Deck: good news for Linux gaming, bad news for Debian :( Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> - 2021-08-11 03:00 +0200
Re: Steam Deck: good news for Linux gaming, bad news for Debian :( Calum McConnell <calumlikesapplepie@gmail.com> - 2021-08-11 07:10 +0200
Re: Steam Deck: good news for Linux gaming, bad news for Debian :( Marc Haber <mh+debian-devel@zugschlus.de> - 2021-08-11 08:50 +0200
Re: Steam Deck: good news for Linux gaming, bad news for Debian :( Steffen Möller <steffen_moeller@gmx.de> - 2021-08-11 11:40 +0200
Re: Steam Deck: good news for Linux gaming, bad news for Debian :( Vincent Bernat <bernat@debian.org> - 2021-08-11 16:10 +0200
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Re: Steam Deck: good news for Linux gaming, bad news for Debian :( Timothy M Butterworth <timothy.m.butterworth@gmail.com> - 2021-08-12 05:30 +0200
Re: Steam Deck: good news for Linux gaming, bad news for Debian :( Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> - 2021-08-12 06:50 +0200
Re: Steam Deck: good news for Linux gaming, bad news for Debian :( Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2021-08-14 08:50 +0200
Re: Steam Deck: good news for Linux gaming, bad news for Debian :( Moritz Mühlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org> - 2021-08-14 09:20 +0200
Re: Steam Deck: good news for Linux gaming, bad news for Debian :( Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org> - 2021-08-16 16:30 +0200
Re: Steam Deck: good news for Linux gaming, bad news for Debian :( Romain Porte <debian@microjoe.org> - 2021-08-12 16:40 +0200
Re: Steam Deck: good news for Linux gaming, bad news for Debian :( Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu> - 2021-08-12 23:10 +0200
Re: Steam Deck: good news for Linux gaming, bad news for Debian :( Jonas Smedegaard <jonas@jones.dk> - 2021-08-13 00:00 +0200
git workflows (was: Steam Deck: good news for Linux gaming, bad news for Debian :() Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2021-08-13 00:40 +0200
Re: git workflows (was: Steam Deck: good news for Linux gaming, bad news for Debian :() Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2021-08-14 09:00 +0200
Re: git workflows (was: Steam Deck: good news for Linux gaming, bad news for Debian :() Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2021-08-15 07:10 +0200
Re: Steam Deck: good news for Linux gaming, bad news for Debian :( "Thaddeus H. Black" <thb@debian.org> - 2021-07-18 02:20 +0200
Re: Steam Deck: good news for Linux gaming, bad news for Debian :( Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> - 2021-07-18 03:00 +0200
Re: Steam Deck: good news for Linux gaming, bad news for Debian :( Hanno 'Rince' Wagner <wagner@debian.org> - 2021-07-18 10:40 +0200
Re: Steam Deck: good news for Linux gaming, bad news for Debian :( Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> - 2021-07-19 04:30 +0200
Re: Steam Deck: good news for Linux gaming, bad news for Debian :( Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> - 2021-07-19 22:30 +0200
Re: Steam Deck: good news for Linux gaming, bad news for Debian? Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> - 2021-07-19 23:40 +0200
Re: Steam Deck: good news for Linux gaming, bad news for Debian? Samuel Henrique <samueloph@debian.org> - 2021-07-20 00:30 +0200
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