In the end, it really wasn’t that difficult to get Mepis 8.0 installed on a 4 GB Kingston pendrive and booting with ease from the Ubuntu Grub on the mbr.

Here I am trying to explain some useful Linux commands for wireless networking

Well because I’m such a daredevil I decided to try something new with my new ThinkPad X40 and install Debian with the default Gnome desktop.

This document describes how to install a Proftpd server that uses virtual users from a MySQL database instead of real system users. This is much more performant and allows to have thousands of ftp users on a single machine. In addition to that I will show the use of quota with this setup.

SimplyMepis, or Mepis for short, is a distribution targeted towards new users that has the intended goal of providing a good distribution that is easy to use. Version 7.0, which was my first experience with Mepis was pretty good. But past success means little if the newer version doesn’t deliver. So let’s see how SimplyMepis [...]

Ever since the release team of the Debian GNU/Linux Project announced that it would be adopting a time-based freeze for future releases, there has been much debate about it on the project’s mailing lists.

I caught myself endorsing Slitaz over Damn Small Linux the other day, not realizing exactly how long it has been since I used DSL, and whether or not it has improved in the past year or so. Slitaz scooped me up quite easily after relying on DSL for many years — so easily in fact, [...]

This guide explains how you can run virtual machines with Sun xVM VirtualBox 2 on a headless Debian Lenny server. Normally you use the VirtualBox GUI to manage your virtual machines, but a server does not have a desktop environment.

IPTraf is an ncurses-based IP LAN monitor that generates various network statistics including TCP info, UDP counts, ICMP and OSPF information, Ethernet load info, node stats, IP checksum errors, and others.

What about plain old Debian stable (nicknamed Lenny)? Well, when I tried to use the regular .iso through a UNetBootIn’ed USB, I got some error message about the CD-ROM not being detected

If you happen to own a SPARC64 box, you’ll probably already know that even if the kernel is 64bit the userland comes from the normal SPARC Debian port, so it’s 32bit. Mysql is no exception, with all the 32bit limitations – mainly the 4GB RAM per process limit.

When trying to get MPICH2 working on two Debian Lenny machine, I ran into a problem. Actually, /etc/hosts was misconfigured.

Quran Study Now Available in Linux, Arabic Quotes and English Translation. It is fully featured with advanced searching, navigation, recitation, and commentary.

Controversy over fixed release cycles for Debian is nothing new. Now Ubuntu’s Mark Shuttleworth has entered into the fray.

This article presents several free games that are immediately available once you have downloaded and installed Damn Small Linux.

Hi, here are some bits from Debian Pure Blends [0]:

Build world-class websites and applications with one of the industry’s leading web authoring tools. Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 software is ideal for web designers, web developers, and visual designers

The Debian release is designed for institutions such as schools and universities which typically require a high number of concurrent users. The included BarracudaDrive Debian startup script configures BaracudaDrive to allow up to 2000 simultaneous socket connections,sufficient for most high end users.

In this issue: + PTS news: accessibility, piuparts, l10n + cvs.debian.org (and its webwml repo) moved to Alioth + Git user’s survey 2009 + New source formats + New mailing list debian-user-dutch

It’s been a really long time since owner@b.d.o has written, so these should most likely be called bytes, but here goes..

I’ve just uploaded Debian Policy 3.8.3. The next time you upload a package, please check it against the new version of Policy and update Standards-Version in debian/control accordingly. A new release of Lintian calibrated for this release of Policy will be uploaded shortly.

MultiTail lets you view one or multiple files like the original tail program. The difference is that it creates multiple windows on your console (with ncurses).

If you didn’t already know, Debian had announced a new release schedule; a freeze during December, a release some time in the first half of the following year. After outcries from the Debian community, the December freeze aspect of the plan was reversed. Since most of the ire about this situation seemed to be directed [...]

Forget AMD, Intel, NVIDIA! Thomas White’s incredible work with Neo FreeRunner’s puny graphics dec…accelerator, Smedia Glamo 3362 is starting to bear fruits.

It all started here 16 years ago!

Sorry folks, there’ll be no updates for the next couple of weeks, as I’ll be trekking in the hills and forests of Germany and not spending much time online.

About 250 people from over 35 countries attended this year’s Debian conference, DebConf9, which took place from July 24th to 30th in Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain. About 80 of them also attended the Debianworking camp, DebCamp, which preceded the conference from July 16th to23rd. DebCamp is mostly used for face to face meetings by teams withinDebian, [...]

If you are running a webserver you might have faced the problem already: somewhere on your server is a vulnerable contact form or CMS system written in PHP that gets abused by spammers to send emails trough your server. If you have more than a few websites, it is a pain to detect which of [...]

Some time ago, the Debian Developers decided to include Mono in the default Debian installation. This move was controversial, and provoked a discussion. After considering the different opinions, I decided to voice mine.

Given the increasing corporate use of GNU/Linux, there has been pressure on Debian from various quarters to adhere to some kind of time-based release process. This pressure increased no end after the emergence of Ubuntu, based on the unstable branch of Debian, which has tied its releases to the six-monthly release cycle of the GNOME [...]