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Linux freed #hardware, provided researchers with a rich source of data on collaboration, and sparked interest in #crowdsourcing! 🐧

Dive into the final part of this LPI series by our author Andrew Oram to see how Linux changed our lives: https://lpi.org/tgwa

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Linux Professional Institute (LPI)What is Linux? Eight Ways It Changed Our Lives, Part 3The first two articles in this series explored the far-reaching impacts of Linux on computing, business, and public access to software. This article concludes the series, covering the following trends: Sparking interest in the newly recognized phenomenon of crowdsourcing Furnishing ... Read more

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Stewart X Addison@[email protected]

Oct 20, 2026

That was "fun". It seems that #starfive's linux-headers .deb package for their kernels is compressed with zstd rather than gz/xz which is not supported by the version of dpkg shipped with their own Debian bookworm image on #RISCV.

Fortunately you can extract the downloaded .deb, recompress the files and create a new .deb:

ar -m -c -a sdsd linux-headers-6.6.20-starfive_6.6.20-vf2-1SF_riscv64.deb debian-binary control.tar.xz data.tar.xz

then install them with "dpkg -i"

https://github.com/yktoo/indicator-sound-switcher/issues/113#issuecomment-997810115

GitHubDEB install: unknown compression for member 'control.tar.zst' · Issue #113 · yktoo/indicator-sound-switcherDescribe the bug I tried to update indicator-sound-switcher but it errored on install. To Reproduce Basically install the .deb file or sudo apt update Desktop (please complete the following informa...

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