Once upon a time, writing to NTFS was a chimera. For years I tell to friends to use FAT32 when installing Windows XP. But now the NTFS support is fine, even on Debian. Read more here Quote: Where YOURDEVICE is /dev/something you can found on Partition Editor for the your NTFS partition. Do a mount [...]

I can now set up a GRUB boot menu that puts all of my installed operating systems on an even keel: Debian GNU/Linux “Lenny” (the latest testing version), FreeDOS 1.0 (the latest release, and now no longer “beta”), and Windows 98SE (one given to my kids by my mother, also dating to about 2000, another [...]

It was great news for the jailbreak crowd who used it to enable the telnet shell and sneak their way into the G1's innards. With that in mind, Jay “saurik” Freeman took the G1's shell to the next level. He got Debian Linux running on his G1 under RC29. Read it here Quote: Over the [...]

This article explains how to set up a two-node load balancer in an active/passive configuration with Perlbal and heartbeat on Debian Etch. The load balancer sits between the user and two (or more) backend Apache web servers that hold the same content. Read the good stuff, as usual on howtoforge

R is a free and open source package which use for statistical analysis. In this post main focus is going towards installing and configuring the BioConductor, which is also a free and open source project (a package in R) widely use for analyzing genome data. More here Quote: Tried to install and configure BioConductor in [...]

I have a love/hate relationship with Debian. It is a solid operating system, with a lot of potential. When initially released in 1993, then following the subsequent years, Debian wan innovative. More here Quote: This is the hate relationship I have with Debian. It's lost it's focus. It's gotten overly concerned about the nitty-gritty, and [...]

A few weeks ago, I installed Debian for the first time on the desktop. Once, a friend and I installed a console-only version on another desktop and we connected remotely to his hosted game server which also ran Debian, so I hoped I should be a bit familiar with it. Read more here Quote: So, [...]

We install lighttpd together with trac, as otherwise the trac package will pull in an installation of apache2, which is a bit more heavyweight than what I wanted. Read more here

Anthony Towns recently announced his decision to step down from the Debian Technical Committee. —–BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE—–Hash: SHA1 Anthony Towns recently announced his decision to step down from the Debian Technical Committee: http://lists.debian.org/debian-ctte/2009/01/msg00006.html I thank him on behalf of the rest of the committee and the project for his contributions over the last three [...]

I have read on many websites that Debian has the most number of packages than any other Linux distribution out there. Also as per Debian, there are 18000+ packages in Debian. This got me curious and I decided to query the total number of packages that are currently actually there in Debian. Read it here [...]

The 5.0 (“Lenny”) release of Debian Linux has been delayed by a philosophical rift among project developers. In a thoughtful essay entitled “Debian, Philosophy, and People,” Linux Foundation Fellow Ted T'so draws examples from literature, religion, and philosophy in renouncing the free software absolutism of Debian's Social Contract. Read more here

The Debian secretary, Manoj Srivastava, has resigned from the post in the wake of heated debate about the options available in the vote on the future of non-free binary blobs. Read more here – or directly from his own words here Quote: In his resignation email, Srivastava said “It has been made clear to me [...]

If you are in a local area network environment with a host of running Bittorrent or Gnutella, the speed of the network is significantly reduced. This is a step by step tutorial how to create a Debian Etch server with Layer7 and IPP2P. The next step is to install Debian Etch server. The installation is [...]

Yesterday we launched DebGem, our RubyGems-to-Apt conversion service. As well as receiving a lot of heartwarming reactions, we’ve also received a lot of constructive criticism for which we’re deeply thankful as we believe they will help us improve this service even more Read it here

Many Debian (and Ubuntu, which is compatible) sysadmins and users prefer to use the APT (as in apt-get) package management system for handling the installation of everything on their system. With its separate RubyGems packaging system, however, Ruby can cause a dilemma. More here Quote: While some Ruby stuff is available through the regular repositories, [...]

The developers behind the Debian Linux distribution are preparing for the upcoming release of Debian 5, which is codenamed Lenny. The decision to move forward with the release follows a contentious vote over whether to permit the inclusion of binary blobs in the new version of the distribution. From Ars Technica Quote: The election was [...]

This thing made any debian based Installer (Etch and Hardy) failed to boot, rebooted with no reason. The machine didn't even bother to recognize OpenSolaris CD. So, here's how to get it to work Quote: Nah, the reason was because I would to make sure the installation went well. As my guess, there would be [...]

Debian and Ubuntu uses for visudo, crontab and other similar applications the default text editor, you want to change it use the update-alternatives command. Read how to do it here

If you are using Debian Lenny and are installing software packages using apt-get then you might have noticed the new version of apt-get in Lenny installs the “recommends” packages automatically thus increasing the number of packages installed on your computer. Read more Quote: The “apt-get” in Debian Etch (4.0) did not use to install “recommends” [...]

while setting up my environment on my new big server (running xen server 3.2.1 on Debian Lenny) and while setting up a VM dedicated to hosting SVN and hudson, I decided to use a fast & efficient web server : Jetty. Read more here Quote: I found some debian packages dedicated to the professional packaging [...]

Bring up the topic of Ubuntu and you'll receive a mixed response from unexpected corners. No, it's not the Windows brigade, but the Debian crowd. So just how does Ubuntu differ from Debian to inflame such passion? Read more here Quote: Here’s where we hit our first major distinction. Ubuntu comes on one CD. While [...]

So you want to replace that expensive windows file server with a cheap linux solution. But you need to connect from a windows client. Use samba server to do this! Here is how you do it on debian. Read it here

Here, in alphabetical order, is a list of the seven distributions that have most affected GNU/Linux as a whole… And Debian is here Quote: Debian has a reputation for being hard to install and use, neither of which is true today. The new Debian installer released a couple of years ago has taken the pain [...]

The kernel in RC1 has been updated to upstream version 2.6.27.10 and the wl wireless driver has been updated to improve reliability. Some minor changes have taken place “under the hood” to address issues that were reported by individual testers. More from the announcement

Currently gaming fever is on me. Me and my friends group play Counter strike every evening on our Laptops. Just few weeks ago i installed Ubuntu on my laptop but for gaming , i uninstalled it and installed Windows XP. More here Quote: Currently Linux is gaining popularity. Many people , many offices are switching [...]

If you have used Knoppix for any extended period of time, chances are you eventually thought about customizing it. You might have simply wanted to make cosmetic changes with a new background and a different theme, or you might have wanted to add programs, change what happens at startup, or make any number of more-intensive [...]

USB Damn Small Linux (DSL) This is a revisit of the Windows DSL USB installation tutorial: “Putting damn small linux on a USB pendrive”. Read more here

CDs and DVDs are finding their places at garbage boxes these days. To run portable OSes from CD is an age old process. Here is a very cool alternative though. I guess some of you are well aware of USB DSL or damn small Linux. Read it here Quote: It was created by John Andrews, [...]

Debian Project mourns the loss of Thiemo Seufer. The Debian Project has lost an active member of its community. Thiemo Seufer died on December 26th in a tragic car accident. ————————————————————————The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/Debian mourns the loss of Thiemo Seufer press@debian.orgDecember 29th, 2008 http://www.debian.org/News/2008/20081229———————————————————————— Debian Project mourns the loss of Thiemo Seufer The Debian Project [...]

As we're now supposedly close to the release of Lenny, we feel theneed to give news about the Debian Installer team. During Lenny release cycle, we managed to release two beta versionsand one release candidate. As we're now supposedly close to the release of Lenny, we feel theneed to give news about the Debian Installer [...]