I’m installing libsbml to make the iBioSim tool work under Debian GNU/Linux. First thing I had to do was to make Sun’s java interpreter do all the java interpretation work instead of gcj
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Today we will see how to change the MAC address of a Network Interface Card (NIC) in a Debian/Debian like system.
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You can install Debian on your OpenMoko FreeRunner, and use that system to fulfill your telephone needs. You can then use almost all of the packages available for Debian
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There are three different “versions” of the Lenny installers that you can use. These are (from most stable installer to least stable installer) Lenny Beta2, Lenny Weekly-Build, and Lenny Daily-Build.
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Also, for Lenny Beta2 and Lenny Weekly-Build, you have the option of installing a 150MB netinstall iso image, or one or more 650MB CDs, [...]

This is the first in what will be a short series of posts of what I’ve had to do to get Debian (Lenny – currently the ‘testing’ distro) working fully and smoothly on my new T61p.
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Before setting this up with Debian, I’d recommend getting it working with Windows if you haven’t reformatted [...]

Linux fans are in for a treat in the remaining few months of the year as most of the major Linux distributors prepare to release updated versions of their operating systems.
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The first of these will be the granddaddy of Linux, Debian, which plans to release its latest version called Lenny in September.
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On August 22nd, both German and French languages reached 100%completeness for po-debconf translations in unstable (not countingDebian Installer packages, handled in a specific way)
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On August 22nd, both German and French languages reached 100%completeness for po-debconf translations in unstable (not countingDebian Installer packages, handled in a specific way) [1].
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This tutorial will walk you through the configuration of name-base virtual hosting using Apache2 server in Debian and Ubuntu.
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The default configuration of Apache server in Debian/Ubuntu is limited only to one website based on your IP Address. We will setup a name-based virtual hosting to have multiple websites using only one machine. After [...]

The other podcast that I did while I was at Debconf8 down in Argentina was with the ever charming Mark Shuttleworth, Debian developer in a past-life and founder of the Debian-based Ubuntu.
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The Debian Live team is pleased to announce the first beta of DebianLenny's Live images.
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Although we missed releasing images for Etch along with the installerimages, we are now prepared to release live images within [...]

Warren announces the first MEPIS Beta, version 7.9.70. The MEPIS beta offers up to date user applications delivered on top of the new Debian (Lenny) core.
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Some of the important packages included with the beta are: 2.6.26.2 kernel, Xorg 7.3, KDE 3.5.9, OpenOffice 3.0beta2, Firefox 3.0.1, Sun Java 6.0, Amarok 1.4.10, mplayer 1.0.rc2, [...]

I changed around my Conky config, and it’s something you could do forever, but it’s great because it can be as heavy or light as you want it.
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So now, using most of the same code/look that I used here, I have a small, transparent strip at the bottom of the screen showing me [...]

IVAN™ makes use of the freely available Asterisk® Open Source and will be delivered inside asterLive™, a live CD, it can be run straight from the CD without installation, asterLive™ use Debian Etch 4.0 as Operating system
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asterLive™ is a Debian Etch-based LiveCD as well as an installation medium for Asterisk 1.4 [...]

n this tutorial we’ll install the free VMware server 1.x and VMware Management Interface to a Debian etch system.
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VMware Server installs on any existing server hardware and partitions a physical server into multiple virtual machines by abstracting processor, memory, storage and networking resources, giving you greater hardware utilization and flexibility. Streamline software development [...]

Here’s the steps I took to get Sun JDK 6 to my Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 system (the right way):
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Built using the MEPIS Linux 7.0 core including the MEPIS 2.6.22 kernel and utilities, along with selected additions from Debian Lenny, this lightweight OS is especially appropriate for older hardware and users who like a very fast and highly configurable system.
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New features based on community contributions are led by the antiX Control [...]

Debian is a great project with wonderful leadership, but setting up a desktop takes a good amount of time and a few extra repos. I'd like to automate that task using a preseed file.
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A pre-seed file is simply a file which gives answers to the questions offered by the Debian installer. It also [...]

And, overall, I don’t think that a Debian box feels any less robust and stable than, say, a FreeBSD box. Of course, the recent spate of holes in Linux kernels are beginning to strain that.
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OpenBSD’s base userland is quite complete. I prefer the GNU userland because I am used [...]

Down in Argentina I grabbed some time with Steve McIntyre, Debian's 11th project leader since its founding 15 years ago. Steve has been on the job since April of this year and I checked in to see how it was going.
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The Debian Marketing Team is real. It just didnt get alot rolling yetand no processes in place to work on anything. We look for people (both Debian Developers, Maintaners or Users) around the world who are interested in helping.
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The Debian Marketing Team is real. It just didnt get alot rolling yetand no processes in [...]

This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions about how to install the free VMware Server (version 1.0.2) on a Debian Etch system.
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With VMware Server you can create and run guest operating systems (”virtual machines”) such as Linux, Windows, FreeBSD, etc. under a host operating system. This has the benefit that you can run multiple operating [...]

This article explains how you can install and configure apache2-mpm-peruser on a Debian Etch server. apache2-mpm-peruser is an MPM (Multi-Processing Module) for the Apache 2 web server, very similar to apache2-mpm-itk, but faster
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mpm-peruser allows you to run each of your vhosts under a separate UID and GID – in short, the scripts [...]

The setup described here enables you to store all your email (and email for other people) on a single machine, which might be a home server, a remotely hosted server, or even a desktop, and then access it from anywhere.
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There's a wide variety of IMAP server software. Options include UW-IMAP, created by [...]

The Linux landscape is constantly changing and has a strong community of both developers and users. But where is Linux the most popular, and where are the different Linux distributions the most popular?
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Global popularity of the different Linux distributionsAs mentioned in the introduction, we looked at eight common distributions: Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, Fedora, Debian, [...]

Some colleagues (Hovav Shacham, Brendan Enright, Scott Yikel, Stefan Savage) and I have been tracking the aftermath of the Debian OpenSSL PRNG bug
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To understand why, you need to understand the vulnerability better. Effectively, the vulnerability stopped any invocations of RAND_seed() from mixing data into the PRNG. The only time new [...]

Olympics aside, summer 2008 will be remembered for at least two other reasons. It will be seen as a time when the noise over Linux as a platform for mobile devices reached a crescendo. Second: it marked Debian's fifteenth anniversary.
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The announcement, during Debian's DebConf8 in Mar del Plata, Argentina, [...]

A new Debian GNU/Linux Update was released a few weeks ago – well, actually one and a half new updates, to be precise. I just got around to giving it a try, and I'm pleased and impressed.
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I'm now working my way through some of the things which I find to be irritating [...]

Longtime embedded Linux developer Behan Webster has released a collection of utilities for developers assembling root filesystems from Debian packages and compiled applications
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The elbs utilities work with any architecture supported by Debian or Debian-based projects. The centerpiece is an elbs-rootfs utility that can quickly install a first-stage debootstrap directory using any dist/mirror, and [...]

'DebianDayPT 2008' took place in the University of Aveiro, Portugalon the Debian's 15th anniversary (16-Aug-2008). The event, attended by more than 50 Debian users/friends, had severalpresentations about Debian
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'DebianDayPT 2008' [1] took place in the University of Aveiro, Portugalon the Debian's 15th anniversary (16-Aug-2008).The event, attended by more than 50 Debian users/friends, had severalpresentations [...]

Some of the topics covered in this issue include: Debian turns 15, 8th annual Debian Conference finished, Freespire 5 to be based on Debian … and much more.
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Other news
Lucas Nussbaum wondered if the technical solution of freezing the propagation of packages from the unstable development branch to the to-be-released-soon testing branch [...]