This is a step by step tutorial on HowtoForge on how to install the server component of Puppet (puppetmaster) on one machine, and the Puppet client (puppetd) on another.
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If you're not familiar with Puppet, it's a configuration automation tool that allows you to centralize management of the various *nix flavors running on [...]

Hopefully the last beta of SimplyMEPIS 6.5 have hit the streets.
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Warren Woodford of MEPIS says “First, I want to thank the MEPIS testers who have given so much of their time to investigating issues and suggesting improvements. With their help, Beta 7 brings it all together. We still have cleanup to do but [...]

Jay Lyman, an analyst for open source at The 451 Group, told ZDNet Asia that the Ubuntu-Linspire deal addresses the Linux fragmentation problem in several ways.
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Ian Murdock, CTO of The Linux Foundation, an industry organization recently formed from the merger of the Open Source Development Labs and the Free Standards Group, said any [...]

For those of you using some of the default Ubuntu themes (Human, Tango or Industrial) there is a package that will match those same themes for your Firefox browser
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The key in this blog entry is that it shows how to make dual-boot when you have installed Ubuntu first!
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Scenario: You want to install XP on your machine alongside your existing Linux installation, on the same drive. You have installed Ubuntu already. (If you have already have XP installed, keep an eye out [...]

Ubuntu developers are finalising preparations for the release of the next version — dubbed Feisty Fawn — of the popular Linux distribution in mid-April
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“As of today, main is frozen while preparing for Herd 5,” Heen wrote in an e-mail to the Ubuntu development community. “All uploads to main [...]

This weeks edition of DWN covers Martin F. Krafft's talk about the progress of Etch and the Ubuntu-switch of Eric S. Raymond.
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Last week, he gave a talk at a conference which was entitled “Debian etch: does that itch scratch yet?” The slides, which include the overview of the Debian project and interesting charts [...]

This blog describes how to install Ubuntu on an Acer Aspire 1690
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My laptop is rendered useless by a problem in windows. The First partition is erased and the second is backupped. Vista will be installed on this machine Monday.
So, I guess this the perfect time to install Ubuntu on this machine.

Lucas Nussbaum have released the slides and a paper about Use of Grid Computing for Debian Quality Assurance from his FOSDEM talk.
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Many quality assurance tasks require a lot of computingpower, especially when applied to largeGNU/Linux distributions such as Debian. We used thefrench Grid’5000 experimental computer grid [...]

The Debian project was present at FOSDEM 2007, which took place on 24/25 February in Brussels, Belgium.
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The continuous drizzle and cold weather only marginally tarnishedthe experience of FOSDEM 2007, which took place on 24/25 February onthe campus of the Université Libré in Brussels, Belgium. Around 50active [...]

ITWire's Sam Varghese interviews Mark Shuttleworth in this short article about the purpose and goals of Ubuntu.
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The owner of Canonical, the parent firm of Ubuntu, offered to answer any questions I had about the project following the publication of an article about Ubuntu a couple of weeks ago. While he had no problem [...]

Songbird™ is a desktop Web player, a digital jukebox and Web browser mash-up. Like Winamp, it supports extensions and skins feathers.
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The only conclusion I’ve come to yet is that what people _say_ impresses them about Ubuntu is not what actually impresses them about Ubuntu.
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What impresses me about Ubuntu every time I install it in a VM is the fundamental – to use a controversial term – GNOMEness of everything. It’s very [...]

The nomination period is at an end, with nine candidates standing forth to be counted (a record)
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Hi,
The nomination period is at an end, with nine candidates standing forth to be counted (a record). We are now in the campaigning period. The candidates are:
o Wouter Verhelst [...]

Edward Macnaghten at Free Software Magazine lets his kids use Ubuntu – and they don't need Vista….
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The children are the only ones who really use it and the applications they use are OpenOffice.org for typing homework, Firefox for researching projects etc and MSN for chatting with friends – though not necessarily in that [...]

LinuxQuestions have taken a lot of screenshots of the latest SimplyMEPIS release.
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We are in the final stage the nomination period for candidates for the position of the Debian Project Leader.
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Hi,
We are in the final stage the nomination period for candidates for the position of the Debian Project Leader.
According to [...]

In this article i describe some of the things to do immediately after installing ubuntu on your machine .
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Since most of the people reading this would be shifting from Windows to Linux with a system dual booting so i would focus more on making transition easy from Windows to Linux.

Blogbeebe continues his testing of Ubuntu and blogs about his experiences.
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I finally got some more time this evening to try out various applications with Ubuntu 7.04. But before I get started, I need to clarify a statement I made earlier. Not only are the Ubuntu developers deserving of praise, but so are the [...]

The 2007 road map for the Ubuntu Linux operating system includes continuing its focus on the desktop, paying more attention to the server and garnering additional corporate support.
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Already in 2007 Canonical has struck deals with SpikeSource, Linspire and SugarCRM to help boost adoption of Ubuntu.
However, “Why don't we see Linux in [...]

Vyatta Community Edition 2 (VC2) is based on Debian, runs on commodity x86 hardware, includes excellent documentation, and supports numerous enterprise features, including serial T1/E1 cards, VLANs, RIP, and OSPF.
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Touted new features in VC2 include:Debian GNU/Linux compatibility, said to make VC2 “the most configurable, customizable router/firewall on the planet”
Improved performance — [...]

Lots of screenshots at LinuxQuestions.org from the latest RC of Damn Small Linux.
See them here

HP is making $25 million by supporting the free Debian GNU/Linux distribution in what may ultimately turn out to be a challenge to commercial distributions from Novell and Red Hat.
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HP supports both Novell SUSE Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Though HP may well make more profit from a Debian-related sale [...]

Getting the NVIDIA Geforce video card working to it’s full potential with Ubuntu edgy requires the installation of an additional glx driver package.
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These drivers do not come preconfigured with the Ubuntu distribution and need to be enabled in order get the most from a Geforce video card. The process is simple, however many tutorials make [...]

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols enjoys a good old bashing at the delay of Etch.
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Last September, some of the Debian Linux distribution's leadership wanted to make sure that Etch, the next version of Debian, arrived on its December 4th due date. So, the “Dunc-Tank” group decided to experiment with financially supporting some key developers [...]

With Ubuntu, Kubuntu, and Xubuntu each deploying a different desktop environment (GNOME, KDE, and Xfce respectively), how do each of these distributions compare performance-wise?
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In these tests with the dual Clovertown setup we found the results to be indistinguishable. However, with the AMD Sempron, Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn Herd 4 had outperformed [...]

In Vista OS against SimplyMEPIS Linux, DesktopLinux.com columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols compares the operating systems' bundled games, browsers, and instant communications applications.
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In this episode, I turn my attention to the software that both OSes include in their standard packages. Since I was using Vista Ultimate, the Vista with all the bells and [...]

I finally broke down and installed Ubuntu (7.04 Alpha 3) over Fedora Core 6 this evening. I decided to do this after reading about Eric Raymond's rant against his installation of FC6. In the end he installed Ubuntu 6.10 over it. So I decided I'd give it a whirl as well.
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Final Thoughts
This whole experience [...]

Let's take a look at two methods of building Debian packages: using standard Debian packaging tools and the CheckInstall utility.
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I've used the tools described in this article to create packages on Debian and Ubuntu systems, but they should be suitable for other Debian-derived distros, such as MEPIS, Xandros, Linspire, and Freespire. In the [...]

sidux is a full featured Debian Sid based live CD with a special focus on hard disk installations, a clean upgrade path within Sid and additional hard- and software support.
After 3 months of development we are proud to announce the immediate availability of the sidux-2007-01 “Χάος release” for amd64 and i686 systems, shipping in a [...]