Martin Schulze have posted an update about the next Debian release. Quote: ————————————————————————The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/Upcoming Release of Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 press@debian.orgJuly 24th, 2006 http://www.debian.org/News/2006/20060724———————————————————————— Upcoming Release of Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 The Debian project confirms December 2006 as the date for the nextrelease of its distribution which will be named Debian GNU/Linux 4.0alias 'etch'. This [...]

this weeks edition of Distrowatch weekly is full of Debian – Debian Version stories, Ubuntu offline, Comparing Apt-get Interfaces and quick looks at Ubuntu 6.10 + Debian Sid. Start reading here Quote: Debian GNU/Linux is one of the grandfathers of the Linux world, along with Slackware and perhaps Red Hat. Most of the distros available [...]

whatpc.co.uk have written a how-to to setup Squeezebon on Ubuntu to enjoy the music. Read it here Quote: So what has this device got to do with Linux or Unix? Perhaps a unique feature of the Squeezebox is that the server software, which controls the device and streams music to it, is completely open source; [...]

The community-site Debianhelp.org has relaunched and is yet again full of activity and news – say hello to the 'new' site! They are found at http://www.debianhelp.org/ – you can enjoy the article The ultimate Debian setup?

Not a fan of the brownish theme in Ubuntu – here's how to ..well… a more familiar colour-scheme. Read the blogging help here Quote: If you thought that the default Ubuntu mix of Brown and Orange sucked , then here’s your chance to make it cool blue. You don’t need to download anything big. Just [...]

Unfortunately, three significant factors appear to show signs of an all-out hacker attack against Ubuntu this weekend. Update: It was a power failure, so no need to worry. More news is here: Weekend Hacker Attack on Ubuntu As for a motive, I have no idea whatsoever. James Troup lets us know the facts right here [...]

Raldz.dot.tech have reviewed the new SimplyMEPIS release and is totally amazed at how fast and efficient this distro is. Read here Quote: As what I stated from the title, it's like Linux Desktop on Steroids! So far, a lot of improvements has been made since SimplyMEPIS 3.4-3, and MEPIS has live again to its slogan: [...]

Ubuntu 6.06 and The Distribution Formerly Known As SUSE are quickly compared on this blog entry. The score ends 10-10. Read here Quote: In conclusion, SLED 10 brings everything that Ubuntu does and feels slightly faster. But Ubuntu has bigger and nicer community and .deb is simply better than .rpm. Out of 10, I give [...]

OSDir has some great shots of SimplyMEPIS in the SimplyMEPIS 6.0 Screenshot Tour. Start here

Using “a Debian system”, Carla Schroder shows us how to get CUPS working. Read the article here Quote: Network printing is a leading cause of high blood pressure and premature hair loss in our long-suffering network administrator demographic. Fortunately, the FOSS world, as usual, does its best to mitigate our suffering. Today you shall learn [...]

Jon Barnhardt writes his top 10 reasons to use Ubuntu and Flexbeta have a 3-page review of Ubuntu 6.06. 10 reasons? Quote: 1. Hardware Recognition: I would have to say that Ubuntu is by far the best Linux variant available today for hardware recognition. I have installed Dapper Drake (the latest Ubuntu release) on almost [...]

Desktoplinux have made a small writeup about what's what on the next release of Ubuntu. Read the relative short article here Quote: Key features, according to the project team: * OpenOffice.org 2.0.3 * PostgreSQL 8.1.4 database * Thunderbird 1.5.0 email client * Firefox 1.5 browser * GAIM 2.0.0 instant messenger * GIMP 2.2.11

MEPIS has released SimplyMEPIS 6.0. This is the first public release of SimplyMEPIS to incorporate an Ubuntu foundation. Based on the Dapper LTS package pool, 6.0 is designed for stable long term use and support. See the announcement Quote: Warren Woodford of MEPIS said, “Converting MEPIS to the Ubuntu pool while incorporating the latest Open [...]

Marketing material? Preview? In all circumstances it's a short report about the book Ubuntu hacks and works as a teaser for me. Read about the book here Quote: This is a book written by passionate Ubuntu and Kubuntu users who are excited to talk about a powerful, cool distro that meets the needs of novice, [...]

Pre-releases of Edgy are *not* encouraged for anyone needing a stablesystem or who is not comfortable running into occasional, evenfrequent breakage. Screenshot tour included. Here's the announcement – and here's the coverage at Distrowatch Screenshot tours of Ubuntu and Kubuntu Knot CD1 can be found here Quote: Knot 1 releasedTollef Fog Heen tfheen at ubuntu.comThu [...]

Well, if you speak the national language of Bhutan, then this distro is for you – but it's announced on the Debian-news channel, so it's official Debian News! ————————————————————————The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/Dzongkha Version of Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 launched press@debian.orgJuly 19th, 2006 http://www.debian.org/News/2006/20060719———————————————————————— Dzongkha Version of Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 launched The Information and Communication minister of [...]

I hope you'll never need it, but here's a short and precise article on what to do if you discover your server's been hacked. See if there is something you have forgotten to do Quote: Every sysadmin will try its best to secure the system/s he is managing. Hopefully you never had to restore your [...]

Check out the boot up and desktop features by watching the show at TuxVids The show is here

Nagios® is a host and service monitor designed to inform you of network problems before your clients, end-users or managers do. It has been designed to run under the Linux operating system, but works fine under most *NIX variants as well. The monitoring daemon runs intermittent checks on hosts and services you specify using external [...]

Raphael Hertzog has some news about the latest changes made to the Package Tracking System. Hello everybody, here are some news about the latest changes made to the Package TrackingSystem. New derivatives keyword———————– The PTS will be used to relay informations from derivative distributions.Therefore, a new keyword “derivatives” has been implemented. By default, aPTS subscriber [...]

This weeks DWN contains items on Debian Server restored after Compromise, Updated Sarge CD Images with newer Kernel and Old debian-devel Channel on Freenode. —————————————————————————Debian Weekly Newshttp://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2006/29/Debian Weekly News – July 18th, 2006————————————————————————— Welcome to this year's 29th issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter forthe Debian community. Harald Welte [1]announced the availability of aroot [2]filesystem [...]

Eweek.com have reviewed Ubuntu and like what they try and see. The three-page review is found here Quote: Since Linux distributions boil down to collections of software that are freely available to everyone, distributions most clearly differentiate themselves from each other in the ways that they bring together and manage this software. Ubuntu owes its [...]

Wolfgang Lonien have been experimenting a bit with Etch, ahd have written about his experiences so far. Blog and screens here Quote: Being able to use Evolution instead of Outlook is like the last hurdle; everything else can be done within remote desktop windows already. Plus it is much safer as a groupware client than [...]

Free-bees.co.uk reviews and goes through Installation; Logging On; Package Management and much more of Ubuntu The article starts here Quote: To sum it up – Dapper Drake is Ubuntu's best release to date, where just about everything just works. The massive array of packages, with the user friendliness bolted on, mean that I can recommend [...]

Marc Brockschmidt provides an update on Etch on the debian-devel list. We're still on for a December release. Hi, Since our last release update, there were a few changes we want to informyou about – actually quite many and we should have written earlier, butwriting an update also takes time. Please note that as of [...]

eHomeUpgrade have written about “How-To: Setup Debian Linux Desktop with Full Multimedia Support and Faster Processing” With pictures and how-to's here Quote: Recently Debian-based distributions have been making the headlines these past few months (i.e. Ubuntu, MEPIS, Linspire, Xandros) and taking away some of the glory from its root source, so I decided to see [...]

Just a short note to mention that there's an Official Ubuntu Book on it's way, written by Benjamin Mako Hill, Jono Bacon, Corey Burger, Jonathan Jesse and Ivan Krstic The notice is found here Quote: Anyway, on to the book. This is the “Official Guide”, but definitely isn't the dry tome you might expect if, [...]

In This Issue: Chicago LoCo Team, Kubuntu meeting, New KOffice and Amarok, Edubuntu Community Grows, Feature Of The Week – Baobab = Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter – Issue #6 = Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter – Issue #6 for the weeks of July 2, 2006 -July 15, 2006 You can always find this and other Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter [...]

MadCarter at Debiantutorials have been updating a bunch of articles, so have a look if there's anything interesting for you. He's updated: Copying or ripping DVDs in Linux (Debian) Resize that large Windows Partition Linux Conventions Debian GNU/Linux Desktop Configuration Tutorials Installing Software Linux Style (Debian)

This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install the free VMware Server (version 1.0) on Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (Dapper Drake). VMware has just released version 1.0 of its free VMware Server. With VMware Server you can create and run guest operating systems ("virtual machines") such as Linux, Windows, FreeBSD, etc. under a host operating [...]