I wrote an even earlier post on upgrading @debian Squeeze to Wheezy http://stevenrosenberg.net/blog/linux/debian/2012_0629_upgrade_squeeze_to_wheezy

I wrote about upgrading from @debian Squeeze to Wheezy in 2012 http://stevenrosenberg.net/blog/linux/debian/2012_1130_debian_wheezy_improvements

I wrote about Debian 9 Stretch and my feelings about @debian back in 2017 http://stevenrosenberg.net/blog/linux/debian/2017_0618_debian_9_stretch_is_the_new_stable

Yep, I blogged about the #Liquorix kernel for @Debian in 2011 http://stevenrosenberg.net/blog/linux/debian/2011_0223_debian_squeeze_and_the_liquorix_kernels_i_update_with_aptitude

The #Liquorix kernel has solved my touchpad-logging-flood issue in @debian Buster. I'm sure I blogged about the last time Liquorix saved my bacon, and that time was probably in 2010. http://liquorix.net

I was a huge user of Debian Etch (2007-08), Lenny (2009-10) and Squeeze (2011), with some time out for Fedora 13-15 (2010-11) before I returned to Debian Squeeze (2011-12), then Fedora 18-30 (2013-2019). Now I'm back on Debian Buster (and it's still 2019).

Another thing @debian has in its repo: JavaFX/OpenJFX for Java 11 https://packages.debian.org/buster/openjfx

One of the reasons I wanted to run @debian is that it has EVERYTHING in its repos. And it does. I just found Leiningen. While I love @fedora, Debian's huge repo allows me to manage nearly everything via apt. https://packages.debian.org/buster/leiningen

I'll say it again: swapping an M.2 NVMe SSD for a spinning hard drive is a total game-changer

Is Perl 6 being renamed? (plus thoughts on the Perl 5/Perl 6 divide) - Ovid http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2019/08/is-perl-6-being-renamed.html

Why Clojure? - Uncle Bob http://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2019/08/22/WhyClojure.html

If you must run Windows 10 - TinyApps.org https://tinyapps.org/blog/201811300700_windows_10_ltsc.html

A Book from Alan Turing … and a mysterious piece of paper — Stephen Wolfram https://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2019/08/a-book-from-alan-turing-and-a-mysterious-piece-of-paper/

I'm enjoying the slow pace of updates on @debian 10 Buster. I had one new package yesterday and none today. Right now I don't need anything to be new, so Debian Stable is a good place to park.

If you are using a dark theme in Linux (like Adwaita Dark in GNOME) with Firefox and are having problems with black-on-black or white-on-white form fields, this 2-year-old fix still works https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1283086#c7

The evolution of dial telephones http://www.arctos.com/dial/

Xfce 4.14 tour – Xfce https://www.xfce.org/about/tour

Why I love my paper dictionary - Austin Kleon https://austinkleon.com/2017/08/17/why-i-love-my-paper-dictionary/

So far, Debian GNOME on an M.2 SSD is killing Windows 10 on a spinning hard drive. It's not like it's a fair fight, but the performance gain is real and really huge. I didn't realize how much of a bottleneck a magnetic hard drive can be.

Debian has more rough edges than Fedora, and I'm still trying to get .exe files to run in GNOME without drama, but I wanted to have more apps packaged and a much quieter update cycle.

Everything is faster with a cheap M.2 SSD. I was able to get one super cheap, although it's almost too small at 250GB, and Debian Buster is FLYING on it.

The dev.to website is built with Ruby on Rails on the back end, JavaScript on the front end https://dev.to/devteam/dev-went-open-source-one-year-ago-today-and-we-have-so-much-more-planned-530f

This is the most minimal blog I've ever seen. And I like it. https://txt.black/~jack/

Java for everything (2014) https://www.teamten.com/lawrence/writings/java-for-everything.html

NY Times public editor: The readers versus the masthead - Gabriel Snyder/Columbia Journalism Review https://www.cjr.org/public_editor/nyt-headline-trump-mass-shootings.php

Will tumult in the Racketlang world send people running to Common Lisp? https://lisp-lang.org/

The vegetarians who turned into butchers - Melissa Clark/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/06/dining/butchers-meat-vegetarian-vegan.html