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Finally, Solved Epiphany not displaying

Saturday, October 17, 2026

Epiphany browser on Linux has long given me trouble in refusing to launch or produce useful error messages for why it would not launch. Today, I finally got it working. The trick is to use WEBKIT_DISABLE_SANDBOX_THIS_IS_DANGEROUS=1 WEBKIT_DISABLE_DMABUF_RENDERER=1 epiphany to launch it. Edit /usr/share/applications/org.gnome.Epiphany.desktop so that the three lines with an exec command include the environment [...]

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Create a Devuan Source ISO

Tuesday, August 4, 2026

Many distributions do not provide a source ISO to match their installation media. Debian provides one, as does Oracle. As far as I know, those are the only two that do that. Since the GPL requires one to redistribute the source code with the program, one needs to possess a copy of that source code [...]

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Computing Notes & Reference Information

Monday, May 18, 2026

Changelog Legend: [+] = Added [*] = Changed [^] = Moved [=] = No Changes [x] = Deleted [!] = Bugs [_] = To Do [>] = Migrated [<] = Migrated Linux Operating System Notes: [_] Increasing watch handles on Linux [z260726wa] Adding external local disk storage to Nextcloud [_] Manually set the time zones [...]

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