Tag: DEBIAN

After exactly two years of development and with over 10,000 new packages, version 6 of the wunderkind jack of all trades, Debian, has been released. This release, along with support for i386, amd64, powerpc, sparc, mips, mipsel, ia64, s390 and armel architectures, also features a technical preview of Debian ported to the FreeBSD kernel, dubbed Debian GNU/kFreeBSD. Along with the usual slew of ...

I've played with a lot of Linux distributions over the years, but one I keep coming back to is CrunchBang. It's always been a lean, mean distro and its Ubuntu base meant being able to install just about any popular software easily since. While version 10 (codenamed Statler) has moved to Debian, everything feels the same. #! is still a minimal, fun distro. Boot the live CD to play around ...

Before I start: this is for Linux. Specifically, it's for Ubuntu and Debian, but it'll probably work on other Linux distros if you know what you're doing. With that out the way, I give you rTorrentWeb, the best BitTorrent client for Linux. If you've heard of rTorrent, you've probably guessed what this is: a Web GUI layer for rTorrent. If you haven't heard of it, which is really unlikely, ...

There's been a lot of discussion about a Debian bug going around. The bug affects SSL certificates on servers, which means visiting a compromised server could leave your info in the open, without you having the faintest idea. Here's a quick rundown: "All RSA & DSA keypairs generated with OpenSSL on affected systems (any Debian-based system between roughly Sep-17-2006 and May-13-2008) are ...

It's a weird phenomenon. Nearly every computer platform steals another one's look. Vista gets accused of trying to look too much like OS X. Linux desktops get accused of trying to look like Vista (except when they're accused of ripping off OS X). Well, okay, we guess really what that proves is that there's at least something distinctive and cutting edge about OS X's look. Love it or hate it, ...

digg_url = "http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2008/02/08/flipping-the-linux-switch-envy-no-longer-a-deadly-sin/"; We're taking a little departure this week from our sometimes successful attempt to be non-distro-specific, and looking at a neat little program that runs on Debian and Ubuntu flavors (including Ubuntu-derivatives, like Mint). Have you ever had the joy of installing restricted or ...

The ever-creeping Debian project has released a major update to their production-ready operating system, Debian GNU/Linux 4.0. Although it's not considered a "new version" by the team -- few things are -- it is more or less equivalent to a Windows service pack. The update includes an update to the Debian Installer, and many bugfixes and security patches. For more information, check out the ...

Freespire 2.0, the free version of Linspire, is out. And unlike previous versions of Linspire and Freespire, which were built on Debian, Freespire 2.0 is built on top of Ubuntu. (Which, for those keeping track, is based on Debian). But that doesn't mean Freespire will look or act just like Ubuntu. Freespire 2.0 uses the KDE desktop, which looks a bit more like the Windows and Mac desktop ...

A new blog from the Debian project promises to show you one Debian package in depth each day. For the uninitiated, Debian's "packages" are like Windows installer executables or MSI packages, only Debian packages are smart enough to trace and download any other packages they rely upon to function. Each package profiled by Debian Package of the Day is accompanied by an "elaborate description" and ...

Last week the folks over at Creative Commons released version 3.0 of their licensing suite for user-generated content. The bulk of the changes center around clarifying the existing licenses, and addressing the growing internationalization of Creative Commons content. With 3.0 also comes a compatibility structure that will allow them to identify and certify other licenses as CC BY-SA (Attribution ...

And you thought HP was squeezing all the money it could from your poor wallet when you purchase its ink replacement cartridges. Well apparently, there's lots of profit margin in offering support services for Debian, one of the top ten most popular (entirely free) open source distributions, and the basis for the exceedingly popular Ubuntu. HP reported $25 million in sales in its European, Middle ...

The answer is on Debian. The OS isn't happy with Mozilla's recent hardened stance on their trademark, and doesn't even want to use the Mozilla logos in their distributions. Debian plans to change the name of Firefox in their distros and think it will only take a week to complete. Mozilla doesn't want Firefox to be marketed inside Debian without the logo. It seems that the Debian folks don't like ...

Wow, I am pretty blown away. Almost unanimously everyone said that Ubuntu is the best Linux distro for almost everything you would want to do. I am already a Ubuntu fan, and I thought there would be a huge list of distros because there are so many out there. Ubuntu is the distro I used at work to recover old PC data, and fix PCs when even windows was trashed. It is definitely a killer build and ...

When I installed the OS on my laptop I let Ubuntu pick the BitTorrent client for me. That wasn't a mistake; Ubuntu's default, BitTornado is no slouch and I've been happily using it for quite some time. This weekend I started downloading AMD 64 images for my much anticipated new machine. As I blissfully piled up simultaneous torrents I was reminded again that, as happy as I was with BitTornado, ...