Category: Debian

Do you experience unexplained crashes or freeze-ups on your Ubuntu (or other) Linux based home theater PC or gaming system? Here is a possible fix!

After installing Ubuntu 22.04, Kodi on a home theater PC would frequently freeze. This issue, applicable to various Linux distros, can be resolved…

Source: Do you experience unexplained crashes or freeze-ups on your Ubuntu (or other) Linux based home theater PC or gaming system? Here is a possible fix! – Two “Sort Of” Tech Guys

How to connect to Raspberry Pi Desktop using wayvnc VNC Server

The following description is from a (slightly edited) Mastodon post:

When I prepared a Raspberry Pi with the latest Raspberry Pi OS (based on Debian Bookworm) as a monitoring and observability display, I noticed the “wayvnc” package during the dist-upgrade.

Turns out this is a pre-installed VNC server package – at least on the Desktop variant.

But how can the VNC Server be configured and started and more importantly, how can I connect using a VNC viewer? Figured it out and wrote about it

Link: How to connect to Raspberry Pi Desktop using wayvnc VNC Server (Claudio Kuenzler)
Also see: Virtual Network Computing (VNC) in the Raspberry Pi Documentation

Live Migrating from Raspberry Pi OS bullseye to Debian bookworm

I’ve been getting annoyed with Raspberry Pi OS (Raspbian) for years now. It’s a fork of Debian, but manages to omit some of the most useful things. So I’ve decided to migrate all of my Pis to run pure Debian.

Source: Live Migrating from Raspberry Pi OS bullseye to Debian bookworm | The Changelog

Taking Linux Security To The Next Level With OpenSnitch Firewall

Enhance Linux security with OpenSnitch, the powerful application-level firewall that effectively controls your outbound connections.

Source: Taking Linux Security To The Next Level With OpenSnitch Firewall – OSTechNix

Downgrading a Package via apt-get in Ubuntu and Debian

Yes! That’s totally possible. You can downgrade a recently updated package using the apt command in Ubuntu and Debian based distros. Here’s how to do that.

Source: Downgrading a Package via apt-get in Ubuntu and Debian

Make the Sound Good when using PulseAudio in Linux

Linux uses PulseAudio, which has a poor default configuration, resulting in bad sound.

With some tinkering with the PulseAudio file, reading a lot of websites about the settings, I was able to get PulseAudio to have sound that’s subjectively as good as BSD, Mac, etc. By default, PulseAudio uses a resampler called “speex-float-1” which is horrendous. The reason this is chosen is to maintain compatibility on very small and bad sound cards. This shall be reconfigured to either “speex-float-10” or “soxr-vhq” for best quality. Some other changes also improve the sound.

Make the Sound Good (Reddit | r/linuxmint)
Also see: PulseAudio (Linux Reviews)

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