Debian has been selected as a mentor organization for the Google Summer of Code 2010.

March 19th, 2010 by cj2003

Hello, Some time has passed since the last news from the New Maintainer process[1]. Several DD accounts are about to become 6 months old, which qualifies for becoming Application Managers should one wish to do so. Older accounts are also accepted.

March 19th, 2010 by cj2003

ipv6 is about ten years old, and it is well and largely supported by most operating systems. So, coming back to Debian, if you want to enable ipv6 in your machines, here’s how to…

March 19th, 2010 by cj2003

Last night, I got through the process of creating a base Debian image in VirtualBox. The process does not take too long, but long enough that I would be quite happy to skip it in the future.

March 19th, 2010 by cj2003

In the spirit of openness, the DebConf 10 Organizers are soliciting
volunteers for the DebConf 10 Travel Sponsorship team.

March 19th, 2010 by cj2003

I am determined to try out CouchDB 0.11. Since I don’t want to muck with the nice dev environment that I have going I will install that onto a VM. So I fire up VirtualBox and create a new VM:

March 18th, 2010 by cj2003

For the first time in its 16-year history, the Debian GNU/Linux project has a woman in the running to become leader of the project when voting for the post takes place between April 2 and April 15.

March 18th, 2010 by cj2003

The Debian project was given a new server from Thomas Krenn AG, Intel and Adaptec for its image building. With the Dual-Xeon computer the build process was reduced from 20 to two hours.

March 17th, 2010 by cj2003

Hi, We’re now a few days into the campaigning period. The candidates
are….

March 17th, 2010 by cj2003

Dear fellow developers, we all want to get out squeeze as soon as possible. Currently we are still at 400 bugs concerning the next stable release, with 300 of them not yet fixed in unstable.

March 16th, 2010 by cj2003

New cdbuilder server improves Debian infrastructure. Today, the Debian project administrators are activating a new cdbuilder
server. The server computes the official Debian ISO images once all
software packages are ready for a new Debian release.

March 16th, 2010 by cj2003

This HowTo explains how I set up a highly available NFS server using Debian 5 (Lenny) and drbd8 with heartbeat. I did this setup a few days ago. Just for fun. So I thought, it’s a good idea to document this.

March 16th, 2010 by cj2003

Here’s a short python script I must have knocked up some time ago – and totally forgotten – hopefully it’ll be of some use to others….Purpose: backup all MySQL databases, one in each file with a timestamp on the end

March 16th, 2010 by cj2003

Calling all potential contributors to Debconf 10! The Debconf team is excited to announce that we are now accepting proposals for contributions to this year’s Debian conference! We invite you to submit proposals for how you would contribute until the deadline: May 1st, 2010, 23h59 UTC.

March 16th, 2010 by cj2003

Last night in my zombified state I migrated from RHEL 5 to Debian Lenny as I need to brush up on my Debian skillz. This was alot easier than expected thanks to my good friend rsync.

March 14th, 2010 by cj2003

Nothing different about AMD64. Note that before doing sudo make install, you may wish to remove /usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages directory especially if you have a previous installation of Python 32-bit system.

March 14th, 2010 by cj2003

The nomination period for the Debian Project Leader Elections 2010 is over and we have 4 candidates this year:

March 14th, 2010 by cj2003

Hello everyone, I thought it was time again to send a mail to d-d-a, and looking for an excuse, I found the ftpteam.

March 12th, 2010 by cj2003

Let’s say you have multiple version of a package that are available and you want to install a specific one.

March 12th, 2010 by cj2003

Today we’re installing snmpd so that we can query our debian server from another remote server that will use snmp in alert scripts and pretty graphing software.

March 12th, 2010 by cj2003

Hi, The nomination period for the DPL election is almost over. At the
time of this writing, there is still about 29 hours left. The
nomination period ends on Thursday, March 11th, 2010 at 23:59:59 UTC.

March 10th, 2010 by cj2003

Hi! We were again given the opportunity to represent the Debian Project at this years’ CeBIT, one of biggest IT-related exhibitions, which took place last week in Hanover, Germany.

March 10th, 2010 by cj2003

Installing FreeSWITCH is fairly easy if you follow the FreeSWITCH Download & Installation Guide. But the instructions are not step-by-step. Following is an attempt to rectify this.

March 10th, 2010 by cj2003

We have two databases open source environment that is very reliable, namely PostgreSQL and MySQL. Both these databases have some significant differences either, PostgreSQL is an Object Relational Database Management System (ORDBMB). While MySQL is RDMS.

March 10th, 2010 by cj2003

In this article, I will describe how to bring up Debian Linux on an Embedded System. 
The hardware chosen for the embedded system is a PowerPC 440EPxX.

March 9th, 2010 by cj2003

Vsftpd is one of the most secure and fastest FTP servers for Linux. Usually vsftpd is configured to work with system users. This document describes how to install a vsftpd server that uses virtual users from a MySQL database instead of real system users.

March 9th, 2010 by cj2003

Actually Debian has the python-wxgtk2.8 package which you can simply apt-get if you wish to have it installed as part of Python 2.5 which is the stable version for Lenny. I’m adding wxPython 2.8 to Python 2.6, which I installed from source.

March 8th, 2010 by cj2003

I was looking for a way to easily share documents between machines, since WebDAV shares can be accessed by Windows, Linux or Mac machines out of the box, I choose WebDAV over SSL

March 7th, 2010 by cj2003

After a fresh installation of Debian Lenny, I wanted to use a quite very recent version of VirtualBox. One solution is the Debian backports : Here are the VirtualBox packages available

March 7th, 2010 by cj2003

I’m doing some comparative analysis of various distributed non-relational databases and consequently wrestled with the installation of Riak on a server running Debian Lenny.

March 5th, 2010 by cj2003