I decided to test Ruby Enterprise Edition to see if it’s claims about reduced memory usage were true. All of my machines are 64-bit at this point but unfortunately Ruby Enterprise Edition is more optimized for the i386 architecture.
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This is a quick how to setting up bluetooth audio under Debian.
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First off we need to install a couple packages:
# apt-get install bluez-utils bluez-gnome bluez-audio
Now we need to run ‘hcitool scan‘ to get the address of the bluetooth device.

For past two years I have been testing out Debian system. My goal was to install it and set it up and use it for every day task. I started using Sarge. Then switched to Edge. I reached an important milestone this week
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I'm new to Git, the “fast Version Control System” originally developed by Linus Torvalds for the Linux kernel sources management. Of course, my first use of Git would be to manage my Debian packages sources.
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Here is a short recipe to start using Git to manage your packages.
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Invariably, every time I install Linux, i tend to remove a lot unused packages from the new system. So I have come to the conclusion that the minimal install is what i need to begin with for all requirements. This post should guide you to install a minimal copy of Linux.
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With more and more Dell machines with perc raid controllers and redundant power supplies I thought that now would be a good time to try out the monster that is OpenManage again.
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I suspected that I might have some ports open that I didn’t expect, but all I could see was SMUX. All looks [...]

It's no secret that Canonical is a large proponent of Bazaar (bzr) and would like to use Ubuntu as a guinea pig for large scale deployments. At UDS Prague, James Westby gave an interview about using “distributed version control systems” (DVCS) for coordinating development.
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SVN is the runaway winner here, but for both Ubuntu and [...]

What are you going to do if you are in your client’s provider’s Data Center, you have to reinstall some Linux servers and you cannot posticipate the installation but you found out that any CDROMs on your servers are broken?
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Anything you need is a Internet connection to download the boot files for your [...]

This message on the Debian Eee PC mailing list reveals that Asus and Debian are working together, or at least planning to, on software for the Eee PC.
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This, presumably, means that future versions of the Eee PC could run a modified version of Debian, rather than a modified version of Xandros, as [...]

We hear from the folks at TehSkeen that Wii Linux has just upped in both content and features, and the once-proof of concept homebrew project is now ready for partial Linux testing. Debian is the flavor that's been chosen for the Nintendo Wii, and Debian etch 4.0 coupled with Whiite 0.1 seems to do the [...]

It's been some time since our last email. Much has happened since thenwith regards to the security support of Debian's testing distribution.
Hi fellow developers,
It's been some time since our last email. Much has happened since thenwith regards to the security support of Debian's testing distribution.
General security support for testing————————————
The Debian Testing Security team is very [...]

We are still in need of talks for DebianDay, so, if you are coming to DebConf and you’ll be staying a few more days in Argentina after the conference, you are invited to give a talk on whatever you want as long as it’s Debian related.
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Some of the topics covered in this issue: Call for new New Maintainer Application Managers, Backports.org keyring package?, Debian powers Max Planck Institute 32.8 TFlops supercomputer … and much more.
—————————————————————————Debian Project Newshttp://www.debian.org/News/project/2008/05/Debian Project News – June 23rd, 2008—————————————————————————
Welcome to this year's 4th issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debiancommunity.Some of the topics [...]

I used Debian Etch for a long time even though several unstables versions of Lenny has been relased.So I thought to give it a shot for new Debian Lenny. So i downloaded Lenny Beta 2 DVD and the installation was smooth and easy.
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Anyway I always liked Debian , because its giving me [...]

The recipe for today is how to properly install and configure nVIDIA driver for my iMac’s 8800GT (G92) on 64 bit Debian Linux 5.0 (lenny).
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Even if the driver installation will follow the Debian way, specifically the simplest method with module-assistant, I wish the concepts illustrated here might be useful also for the other [...]

In Debian / Ubuntu, sometimes you want to keep a package at a specific version, and not upgrade it. For instance, the Perl module DateTime::Timezone in Ubuntu Dapper lists its version as 1:0.37-1, when the version is actually 0.37.
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This tutorial shows how to install and use mod_python on a Debian Etch server with Apache2. mod_python is an Apache module that embeds the Python interpreter within the server.
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It allows you to write web-based applications in Python that will run many times faster than traditional CGI and will have access to advanced features [...]

I haven’t installed OpenNMS from a package in a while, so I thought I’d try out the new 1.5.92 on Debian Etch.
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And it turned out to be a breeze. In actual fact, the biggest issue I ran into was telling Puppet (which manages most of our systems to a greater or lesser degree) [...]

To continue our efforts in welcoming new Debian Developers into theproject, the New Maintainer Team would like to ask for help.
Heya,
To continue our efforts in welcoming new Debian Developers into theproject, the New Maintainer Team would like to ask for help.
To better handle applications, we would love to hear from interested DDswho would like [...]

PPTP is known to be less secure than other VPN software, but if you need a quick solution for a VPN server that will connect out of the box from Windows workstations PPTP is the obvious choice.
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This post will show how easy it is to setup a pptp vnp server on Debian Etch.
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If you want to install CPAN modules as Debian packages, this HOWTO is for you.
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Technologic Systems has upgraded the firmware for its quick-booting single-board computer (SBC) to make it boot even quicker.
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To break the one-second boot barrier, Technologic improved the TS-7800's bootup firmware by implementing kernel simplifications, reducing the Busybox filesystem, and improving the LinuxRC initialization script, says the company. The board boots to a minimal kernel, [...]

You need to use apticron command / script for notification. apticron is mainly intended for automatic notification of pending security updates but can also be used in many other situations where timely updates are neccessary.
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You will get an email when security updates released by Debian / Ubuntu security team. I also suggest [...]

Debian likes to make things difficult. It insists on using an old version of GTK, which means installing Firefox 3 won’t be straightforward.
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This article describes one way to do it: installing GTK and Firefox as a non-root user. I don’t understand some of the voodoo behind it, but it works.
However, the [...]

DSL 4.4 was just released on June 9th, so this past weekend I installed it on my Compaq Deskpro Pentium III 800 Mhz machine. It only has 256 megs of RAM, so a lightweight distribution like DSL is a good choice for it.
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In conclusion, I think DSL is a cool little distribution. DSL [...]

This blog entry shows how to install and run “Vservers” environment on Debian Etch
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This guide explains how to set up WebDAV with MySQL authentication (using mod_auth_mysql) on Apache2 on a Debian Etch server
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WebDAV stands for Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning and is a set of extensions to the HTTP protocol that allow users to directly edit files on the Apache server so that they do [...]

In order to have only a minimum and basic Debian installation, when the installer reaches to the window where it asks you to select which software you want to install, deselect Desktop Environment and make sure Basic System remains selected
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After Debian installs the basic system, it will ask for a reboot, then it will [...]

This is a great way to extend the life of your older computers. In my case, I’ve installed it on a IBM T21 with 256MB of memory and a 30 GB hard drive. This tutorial assumes that the user has some linux and command line experience.
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Once launched, delete any existing partitions [...]

The Debian team has provided a tool that can be used to determine if any such weak keys exist on the system, and it can be run by anyone, regardless of whether they use Debian or not.
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