Sorry for the late response. yeah, no official release for April. We are focusing on improving performance like GPU / VPU acceleration, chromium build, nvme boot etc.
Hi. As not quickly finding any more suitable thread, a small wish for the next Debian release:
Would it be possible to enable CONFIG_CIFS kernel option by default in the next release. That option enables support for Windows/Samba network file protocols and allows mounting Windows/Samba network drives & setting up a SMB server into Linux system?
That would save at least me from building my own kernel + likely someone else has similar needs too.
Got 202303 image installed with color correction, firefox, xfe and requirements for building kernels. However, I don’t know which kernels and dtbs are available and the advantages of installing them. also would like to have the icons show up on the desktop instead of having to open Settings
I don’t think there’s any advantage to installing kernels/dtbs unless there’s specific missing hardware support you’re trying to fix.
In terms of icons for applications, I may be misunderstanding what you mean, but you just press the windows key (or whatever it is on your keyboard), or move mouse to top left corner, and then the search bar appears at the top and your pinned and active applications in the dock at the bottom).
Just type in the name of the application you want (or click on the grid icon in the dock), and once it runs you can right-click on it’s icon pin it to the dock).
If you want the dock to be permanently visible and/or on the left side of the screen (e.g. like Ubuntu) this can be achieved by installing / using Gnome extensions/tweaks…
I’d done all that, but still no joy. I also reset the U-boot environment vars to the defaults. I’ll reflash my SD card and NVME device and try again from scratch tomorrow.