Computerworld Blogs (Free subscription) | yesterday
Debian 5, Lenny, was due out at the end of the September. Whoops. There are still some last-minute details that need fixing and the Debian developers could use your help. read more
DesktopLinux.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
"Sidux" is a fairly new Linux distribution based on Debian's "unstable" branch, which is perpetually code-named "Sid." An early review suggests Sidux might have the ingredients to make the very newest versions of open source software available for wider testing and use.
Arkytek Ltd :: Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Debian: ‘We’re almost there’ Debian project leader Steve McIntyre has dismissed claims that the next stable version of Debian – codename Lenny – could be delayed until June 2009. Based on the number of outstanding release-critical bugs and the time it has taken to fix them on previous releases, Debian developer Bastian Venthur estimated it will take a further eight or nine months to bring Lenny up...
Weiqi Gao's Observations (Free subscription) | yesterday
Here's a little experiment that I did last night after Kyle's Git talk—I put this blog under Git control. I have been maintaining the content of this blog in Subversion since March 2005, 1292 days ago (and in CVS before that). When I moved this blog from my Fedora Core 6 box to my Debian box 64 days ago, I don't have enough disk space on the partition to hold the 1.9G Subversion workspace. So I simply...
Latest Secunia Security Advisories (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
Debian has issued an update for PHP. This fixes some vulnerabilities, which can potentially be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or compromise a vulnerable system. http://secunia.com/Advisories/32148/ NOTE: This RSS feed does not include information about updated Secunia advisories. You should note that Secunia on average issues more than 20 updated advisories per day,...
Latest Secunia Security Advisories (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
Debian has issued an update for squid. This fixes a vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service). http://secunia.com/Advisories/32109/ NOTE: This RSS feed does not include information about updated Secunia advisories. You should note that Secunia on average issues more than 20 updated advisories per day, containing information about exploit and patch...
Muffin Research Labs (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
I found the update-alternatives on my travels and very handy it is too especially when on a bytemark box by default the editor is set to “joe”. From the man page: update-alternatives creates, removes, maintains and displays information about the symbolic links comprising the Debian alternatives system. It is possible for several programs fulfilling the same or [...]
LWN.net (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
The Debian project is looking for folks to help them kick "Lenny" out the door. To that end, they have created a detailed list of tasks suitable for regular users as well as developers. " The big question is: What can you do, to help release "Lenny" at least in this quarter? That's pretty easy: Fix rc-bugs, take care, that the fixed packages are migrated to "Lenny", do upgrade tests, document problems...
Latest Secunia Security Advisories (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
Debian has issued an update for feta. This fixes a security issue, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain actions with escalated privileges. http://secunia.com/Advisories/32155/ NOTE: This RSS feed does not include information about updated Secunia advisories. You should note that Secunia on average issues more than 20 updated advisories per day, containing information...
Tech2.com India (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
Filed under: Downloads : Linux Ubuntu is a Linux distribution that starts with the breadth of Debian. Read more
Catholic and Loving it! (Free subscription) | 10/04/2008
Ella, I've told you this already. Handy tips for Ella can be found here. Everyone else... as you know, I work programming web servers (Debian Linux ones) to talk to each other and make online shopping happen. That means I know some stuff that you probably don't. The following advice ...
Il Bloggatore (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
Ieri abbiamo visto come installare Skype scaricando i pacchetti dal sito ufficiale, vediamo oggi come fare la stessa cosa utilizzando i repository. Per installare velocemente Skype su Debian basta inserire in /etc/apt/sources.list la seguente linea [code]deb http://download.skype.com/linux/repos/debian/ stable non-free[code] Dare quindi da terminale il comando: [code]apt-get update[/code] e quindi...
DistroWatch.com: News (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
A new stable version of GParted LiveCD, a specialist, Debian-based live medium featuring a popular hard disk partitioning tool, has been released. From the release notes: "Comes with GParted 0.3.9; based on Debian 'Lenny' as of 2008-10-01; Linux kernel 2.6.26; package hfsprogs was added; three boot parameters were....
TechEnclave (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
OK so i was trying to Remotely log in to the administrator accnt after creating 2 more accnts in a machine hosted in UK .. The other 2 accnts were also simultaneously logged in while i tried to log in as the administrator but it gave me a Error...
DistroWatch.com: News (Free subscription) | 09/30/2008
Warren Woodford has announced the availability of the second beta release of SimplyMEPIS 8.0: "Warren has uploaded a second 8.0 beta, SimplyMEPIS 7.9.80-beta. SimplyMEPIS 8.0 offers up-to-date user applications delivered on top of a Debian 'Lenny' core. Important package changes in this beta include Linux kernel 2.6.26.5, OpenOffice....
