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#postmarketos

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https://postmarketos.org | PLEASE READ: https://postmarketos.org/chat | Slow channel, just ask your question and wait for an answer (can take a while) :) | Don't paste logs directly, use e.g. https://bpaste.net | **Tor Users** register nick & get a cloak to unmute: https://www.oftc.net/UserCloaks | This channel is logged: https://irclogs.dersco.re/OFTC:~h~postmarketos

#3

#alpine-linux

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Alpine Linux, the secure lightweight distro | release 3.23.3 is out! | slow channel, ask your question and wait for a response. :) This channel is logged: https://irclogs.alpinelinux.org

#4

#fdroid

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F-Droid, the free and open source app repository (official channel bridged with #fdroid:f-droid.org on Matrix) | Public logs at https://matrix.f-droid.org/alias/%23fdroid:f-droid.org | https://forum.f-droid.org | https://floss.social/@fdroidorg | Development discussion: #fdroid-dev | Matrix bridge currently unavailable

#5

#asahi

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Asahi Linux: porting Linux to Apple Silicon macs | "Does XXX work yet?": https://alx.sh/fs | GitHub: https://alx.sh/g | Wiki: https://alx.sh/w | Topics: #asahi-dev #asahi-re #asahi-gpu #asahi-alt #asahi-stream #asahi-offtopic | Keep things on topic | Logs: https://alx.sh/l/asahi

#6

#oftc

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https://www.oftc.net | OFTC's public support channel. Our social channel is #moocows | Do NOT paste spam when reporting it | Want a cloak/vhost? See https://www.oftc.net/UserCloaks/ | https://www.oftc.net/Privacy_Policy/

#7

#debian-next

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testing → forky | you may need to debug sometimes | faq: https://deb.li/sidfaq | ongoing transitions: https://deb.li/xns | multiarch fun: /msg dpkg multiarch failures | NO FLOOD: /msg dpkg paste | | /msg bots NOT people | offtopic → #debian-offtopic | oldstable, stable → #debian | can't talk? /msg NickServ help register, /msg NickServ help identify

#8

#tor

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Welcome to #tor, which is for asking questions about using Tor | FAQ: https://support.torproject.org/ | Forum: https://forum.torproject.org | Developer discussion on #tor-dev | Relay operator discussion on #tor-relays | It's 'Tor', not 'TOR'

#9

#dri-devel

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<ajax> nothing involved with X should ever be unable to find a bar

#10

#tor-project

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Welcome to #tor-project, a channel for non-technical discussions by the Tor project community --- feel free to watch, or become a Tor person and participate. | Tor usage questions in #tor | Cypherpunks are writing code in #tor-dev | Relay operators are talking in #tor-relays

#11

#why2025

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WHY2025, Aug 8-12 2025 % ​Compliments and feedback: 2029@why2025.org & https://wiki.why2025.org/Feedback ​

#12

#debian-mentors

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Get help contributing (inc packaging, infra) | Join #packaging for other packaging | Join #debian for user support | Thanks for being friendly and helpful | Links: https://www.debian.org/intro/help https://mentors.debian.net/intro-maintainers https://wiki.debian.org/Glossary https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMentorsFaq | Sponsoree repository: https://mentors.debian.net

#13

#asahi-dev

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Asahi Linux: porting Linux to Apple Silicon macs | Non-development talk: #asahi | General development | GitHub: https://alx.sh/g | Wiki: https://alx.sh/w | Logs: https://alx.sh/l/asahi-dev

#14

#alpine-devel

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Alpine Linux distribution development | release 3.23.3 is out!

#15

#virt

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libvirt, virt-manager, gtk-vnc, virt-top and virt-p2v | For oVirt, goto #ovirt | Please STAY and wait for an answer.. | https://libvirt.org

#16

#debian-offtopic

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#debian social and offtopic chatter | try to keep it mildly family-friendly | not a support channel → #debian | rants → /dev/null | a minute of silence, please: <roryms> i've run out of strawberry mentos :(

#17

#freedesktop

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https://www.freedesktop.org infrastructure and online services || for questions about freedesktop.org projects, please see each project's contact || for discussions about specifications, please use https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xdg or xdg@lists.freedesktop.org

#18

#postmarketos-devel

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postmarketOS, pmbootstrap and tools development | This channel is logged: https://irclogs.dersco.re/OFTC:~h~postmarketos-devel

#19

#chimera-linux

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https://chimera-linux.org | matrix: #chimera-linux:matrix.org | read first + links: https://chimera-linux.org/community

#20

#ceph

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http://ceph.com/get || dev channel #ceph-devel || test lab channel #sepia || dashboard channel: #ceph-dashboard

#21

#llvm

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The official LLVM community real-time chat is now at https://discord.com/invite/xS7Z362

#22

#linux

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Get Linux help | Please be patient when asking | You'll need to authenticate to talk.

#23

#pipewire

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PipeWire multimedia daemon. See https://pipewire.org. Latest version: 1.6.0. You must be registered with NickServ to speak (due to bot spam). Bridged to #pipewire:matrix.org

#24

#suckless

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suckless.org | EN | Use your brain | No patch handholding

#25

#tor-dev

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This is the channel for developing Tor. Feel free to watch, but please take commentary to #tor-project and usage questions to #tor. | Relay operator discussion at #tor-relays | Commit and bug notifications -> #tor-bots | "it's a simple fix, just have to work out which lines to change" -- teor

#26

#aarch64-laptops

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Linux support for AArch64 Laptops (Various Snapdragon laptops) - WIP kernel: https://gitlab.com/Linaro/arm64-laptops/linux/-/commits/qcom-laptops - Chat archives: https://oftc.irclog.whitequark.org/aarch64-laptops

#27

#moocows

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This is #moocows, OFTC's social channel. Moooooo! | Get Network/IRC/Services related help in #oftc | Please dont antagonise the cows. | Polite conversation only

#28

#tor-relays

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Welcome to #tor-relays, a channel for discussions by the Tor relay operator community --- feel free to watch, or become a Tor relay operator and participate. | Tor usage questions in #tor | Cypherpunks are writing code in #tor-dev | Non-technical community discussions are happening at @tor-project | Relay Guide: https://community.torproject.org/relay

#29

#debian-rust

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https://salsa.debian.org/rust-team/debcargo-conf/ see https://deb.li/rtbook for intro & docs | team meeting TBD

#30

#asahi-gpu

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Asahi Linux GPU development (no user support, NO binary reversing) | Keep things on topic | GitHub: https://alx.sh/g | Wiki: https://alx.sh/w | Logs: https://alx.sh/l/asahi-gpu

#31

#asahi-re

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Asahi Linux: porting Linux to Apple Silicon macs | Hardware / boot process / firmware interface reverse engineering | WARNING: this channel (only) may contain binary reverse engineering discussion | RE policy: https://alx.sh/re (MANDATORY READ) | GitHub: https://alx.sh/g | Wiki: https://alx.sh/w | Logs: https://alx.sh/l/asahi-re

#32

#asahi-alt

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Asahi Linux: porting Linux to Apple Silicon macs | User-contributed/unofficial distribution ports | Logs: https://alx.sh/l/asahi-alt

#33

#nouveau

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[Logged] https://nouveau.freedesktop.org | Please read TroubleShooting, Bugs and FAQ first. | IRC Logs: https://people.freedesktop.org/~cbrill/dri-log/index.php?channel=nouveau

#34

#alpine-offtopic

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Alpine Linux | Friendly, offtopic chat. Keep it respectful and non-political | MTBF: 2 days | Use #alpine-linux for support

#35

#radeon

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Support and development for open-source radeon/amdgpu drivers - http://wiki.x.org/wiki/radeonBuildHowTo

#36

#debian-social

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IRC channel for Debian Social | https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianSocial/

#37

#postmarketos-immutable

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u can't touch this | Working Group for designing and implementing immutable rootfs support in postmarketOS | https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Duranium_(Immutable_postmarketOS) | This channel is logged: https://irclogs.dersco.re/OFTC:~h~postmarketos-immutable

#38

#linux-msm

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#39

#mm

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#mm-chat for off-topic talk | as for me, -mm code doesn't pass my blood brain barrier | Free/alloc optimizations are scary, without reading the code. | do not trust a computer with a mmu | swap is what happens when mm people try to write a filesystem | oh god this is more subtle than I remembered | after all, nobody understands the M&Ms | Please uninstall VM

#40

#linux-media

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Linux Kernel Media Subsystem (LinuxTV) | *only registered users can talk* | https://linuxtv.org | logs: https://linuxtv.org/irc/oftc/log/linux-media | bugs: http://bugzilla.kernel.org (v4l-dvb category) | repo: https://linuxtv.org/git/media_tree.git | linux-media ML: http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html#linux-media

#41

#s6

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s6, the skarnet.org supervision suite, and related software.

#42

#mesonbuild

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Discussion about the Meson build system | 1.11 RC3 is out | You must be registered or connected via Matrix to join due to spam.

#43

#intel-gfx

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https://drm.pages.freedesktop.org/intel-docs/ - Intel kernel & media graphics development discussion | For Intel 3D discussion, join #intel-3d | How to report bugs: https://drm.pages.freedesktop.org/intel-docs/how-to-file-i915-bugs.html | Register your nick to talk: https://www.oftc.net/Services/

#44

#freedombox

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FreedomBox user support and discussion | https://freedombox.org | https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/Manual | #freedombox-dev for developers

#45

#tor-admin

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torproject.org support | unresolved issues https://karma.torproject.org/ | get help at https://help.torproject.org/tsa/support | Nulla solutio optima solutio est | triage ⭐ of the week: LeLutin and zen-fu

#46

#asahi-stream

100

Asahi Linux: porting Linux to Apple Silicon macs | Stream chat

#47

#c

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Welcome to #C. Everything relating to the programming language is on-topic here. For sockets programming, Google for "Beej Network Guide".

#48

#panfrost

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Panfrost - FLOSS Mali Midgard + Bifrost + Valhall - Logs https://oftc.irclog.whitequark.org/panfrost

#49

#debian-kde

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Welcome to #debian-kde https://qt-kde-team.pages.debian.net/ || Plasma 6 FAQ: https://wiki.debian.org/Plasma%206 || bookworm F 5.103 P 5.27.5 G 22.12 || trixie/sid F 5.115/6.6 P 6.2 G 22.12/24.12 || FAQ: http://wiki.debian.org/KDE || don't ask to ask, just ask || 3rd party sites are not welcome.

#50

#debian-raspberrypi

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https://wiki.debian.org/RaspberryPi (help making the wiki pages up-to-date!) | Prebuilt images: https://raspi.debian.net | No support for RaspiOS here