This guide explains how to install the RoundCube webmail application on a Debian Wheezy server running ISPConfig and Apache2, and how to enable the ISPConfig 3 plugins for RoundCube so that users can perform actions like changing their email passwords from within RoundCube. Roundcube webmail is a browser-based multilingual IMAP client with an application-like user [...]

June 17th, 2013 by cj2003

I’ve put up a little website and created a new mailing list…If you’re a Debian developer or user and you’d like to hear about infrequent Debian social gatherings in the Seattle area, you should sign up on the list!

June 16th, 2013 by cj2003

The Debian project is warning users that the unofficial Debian Multimedia repository now has to be considered unsafe. According to the Debian maintainers, the debian-multimedia.org domain is not being used by the maintainers of the unofficial repository any more and is now registered to a party unknown to the Debian project. This means that the [...]

June 16th, 2013 by cj2003

The Debian project is pleased to announce the first update of its stable distribution Debian 7 (codename “wheezy”). This update mainly adds corrections for security problems to the stable release, along with a few adjustments for serious problems. Security advisories were already published separately and are referenced where available.

June 16th, 2013 by cj2003

Standing to this article and this article, NASA decided to drop Windows in favour of linux and more precisely, Gnu Debian Linux 6 (Stable). This is a news we all expect in years but, finally at the end it arrived.

June 12th, 2013 by cj2003

Up this morning are benchmarks comparing the performance of Debian GNU/Linux 7.0 to Debian GNU/kFreeBSD 7.0, the version of the Debian operating system that ships the GNU user-land but replaces the Linux kernel from that of FreeBSD 9.0.

June 11th, 2013 by cj2003

Adobe Flash Player is a multimedia plugin used to play video, games, streaming, and interactivity to Web pages. This how-to describes how to install the Adobe Flash Player (also known as the Macromedia Flash Player), on Debian 7 desktop or laptop systems.

June 11th, 2013 by cj2003

Welcome to this year’s twelfth issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include: * Welcome to Debian GSoC Students * Outreach Program for Women, the result of the experiment * Bits from the DPL * Expiration of debian-multimedia.org * Other news * New Debian Contributors * Important Debian [...]

June 11th, 2013 by cj2003

When it comes to setup web servers, or Internet servers (web, email and ftp) there is usually two GNU/Linux distributions that comes to mind, Debian and CentOS. Some people are starting to use Ubuntu server, but let’s focus on CentOS and Debian, as Ubuntu is a Debian derivative.

June 8th, 2013 by cj2003

In this HowTo I will describe how to prepare a Debian Wheezy server for OpenVZ. With OpenVZ you can create multiple Virtual Private Servers (VPS) on the same hardware, similar to Xen and the Linux Vserver project. OpenVZ is the open-source branch of Virtuozzo, a commercial virtualization solution used by many providers that offer virtual [...]

June 8th, 2013 by cj2003

“About ten months ago, we realized that the next installation of Debian was upcoming, and after upgrading about 20,000 machines since Debian 6 (aka Squeeze) was released, we got pretty tired,” Dreamhost developer Brett Gailey wrote in a blog post. “The release cycle for Debian is stable, but it’s not long enough for us to [...]

June 8th, 2013 by cj2003

You might think that I should be recommending the official supported Linux distributions like SUSE SLES and Red Hat RHEL and don’t get me wrong there are good and rock solid. These official version come at a cost (althought there might be a time limit trial version available – I have not checked recently)and Fedora [...]

June 7th, 2013 by cj2003

LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on a Debian Wheezy server with PHP5 support (mod_php) and MySQL support.

June 7th, 2013 by cj2003

I have fallen behind on the Distro Deluge of new Linux releases, because I was traveling in the US for three weeks. The good news in that is that I took my two Acer Aspire One systems with me (725 and 522), and both performed extremely well during the trip.

June 7th, 2013 by cj2003

Installing Debian may be a trivial task for someone. It has never been so easy for me. To start with, my first attempt to install it failed epically. Installation of Debian 6.0 Squeeze without a network connection was a serious mistake. Has installation improved in Debian 7.0? It was my task to study this.

June 7th, 2013 by cj2003

We’ve added a Twitter-account to make it even easier for you to get your daily dose of Debian-News – you can start following us on the right side of the front page. Or you can go there directly here: http://twitter.com/DebianNews. You can also subscribe to our our RSS-feed on this link – http://www.debian-news.net/feed/rss/

June 6th, 2013 by cj2003

Hi, Here is the monthly report for my first full month as the Debian Project Leader.

June 6th, 2013 by cj2003

The development of ‘Fixa min gata’ began in 2011, and a beta release was introduced last year. The site runs on Debian Linux servers and uses thenginx open source web server. Although the new service is being developed by three organisations, it will eventually be made available to all municipalities as a single, national service.

June 6th, 2013 by cj2003

Aloha, fellow Developers, Please join me in saying welcome to the following students into Debian’s 2013 Google Summer of Code:

June 6th, 2013 by cj2003

Welcome to this year’s eleventh issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include: * Debian GNU/Hurd release * DebConf 13: Call for Papers * Debian Edu Wheezy second alpha release * Bits from the piuparts maintainers * Debian/Ubuntu Community Conference Italia 2013 * Other news * Upcoming events [...]

May 27th, 2013 by cj2003

Finally, the long-awaited Skype 4.2 for Linux released by Microsoft with major updates, lots of various bug fixes and some minor features from the previous version, and this update is one of the biggest update as of now.

May 25th, 2013 by cj2003

The Debian Project has lost a member of its community. Ray Dassen (jdassen) died on May 18th.

May 25th, 2013 by cj2003

Hi! About piuparts: piuparts [1] tests that .deb packages (as used by Debian) handle installation, upgrading, and removal correctly. http://piuparts.debian.org runs it on whole main Debian archive.

May 23rd, 2013 by cj2003

SPDY (pronounced as speedy) is an open networking protocol developed primarily at Google for transporting web content. Nginx version 1.4.x supports SPDY out of the box. You need openssl version 1.0.1 or above to compile and use nginx.

May 22nd, 2013 by cj2003

It is with huge pleasure that the Debian GNU/Hurd team announces the release of Debian GNU/Hurd 2013. This is a snapshot of Debian “sid” at the time of the Debian “wheezy” release (May 2013), so it is mostly based on the same sources. It is not an official Debian release, but it is an official [...]

May 22nd, 2013 by cj2003

Dear Developers, Following the launch of Bits from Debian[1], the official blog of the Debian project, here is a delegation (between dashed lines below) for the team of editors.

May 20th, 2013 by cj2003

Debian invites submissions of proposals for papers, presentations, discussion sessions and tutorials for its DebConf13¹ conference which will take place in Le Camp by Vaumarcus, Switzerland, in August.

May 16th, 2013 by cj2003

New features for Debian Edu 7.0.0 alpha1 released 2013-05-14 This is the release notes for for Debian Edu / Skolelinux 7.0.0 edu alpha1, based on Debian with codename “Wheezy”.

May 15th, 2013 by cj2003

The Debian project earlier this month put the finishing touches on their latest release: Debian 7.0, code named “Wheezy.” This release marks the availability of two new architectures and a number of major updates and new features.

May 15th, 2013 by cj2003

We are trying to assemble a large enough (but not too large?) team to help us rate the travel sponsorship requests for DebConf13. Many aspects are still open to debate, but most probably we will follow the usual, past years’ procedure.

May 15th, 2013 by cj2003