The Debian project participates in this year's Summer of Code. Morethan 50 development tasks cover general improvements, qualityassurance, releasing and testing the distribution, package management,new applications, security, infrastructure and the improvement ofparticular packages. ————————————————————————The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/Debian participates in Googles Summer of Code press@debian.orgMay 8th, 2006 http://www.debian.org/News/2006/20060508———————————————————————— The Debian project participates in this year's Summer [...]

On his keynote at LinuxTag, Mark Shuttleworth the next version of Ubuntu as it is expected to offer users three desktops to choose from: Gnome, the KDE used in Kubuntu, and Xfce in Xubuntu. Read here at heise.de Quote: Shuttleworth said he was confident that the three certificates for the corporate use of VMware, IBM [...]

Beranger.org have written a nifty little guide on how to use Sarge with backports. Read it all here Quote: Using Debian Sarge (stable) with “testing” and “unstable” is not always the best idea, as in order to get a package not present in Sarge you might need to make a massive update of libs, thus [...]

Now that Xen has made it to Debian unstable, Debian-Administration have cleared the front page……not quite, but they've put up a tutorial showing you how to get the beast working. Read it here Quote: Now that the Xen 3.0 packages have made it to Debians unstable distribution installation has become much more straightforward. Here we'll [...]

this weeks Distrowatch Weekly have interviewed Robert Shingledecker and John Andrews from Damn Small Linux on life, DSL and the new DSL-Not! Read it here Quote: DW: After hearing about the alpha release of DSL-N, my first reaction was: why? What prompted this development? RS: Trying to support both old and new(er) hardware had become [...]

This blog entry describes how to upgrade from Ubuntu Breezy to Ubuntu Dapper Drake. Read it here, it shouldn't be too difficult! Quote: Ubuntu Dapper was originally pegged for release in April, but is now set for June. However, it’s already stable (in my experience), and markedly better than Breezy. Here’s a brief guide to [...]

Flight 7, the latest alpha of Dapper Drake, is now available. Enjoy Screenshot tours a OSDir. Screenshots galore! and also screenshots at Phoronix Flight 7Tollef Fog Heen tfheen at ubuntu.com Fri May 5 15:28:36 BST 2006 Previous message: Google Summer of Code – applications close on Monday 8 May 2006 Messages sorted by: [ date [...]