Debian uses the unbranded Firefox equivalent Iceweasel, which is just like Firefox but doesn’t included the copyrighted/trademarked Firefox logos or name. It’s part of Debian’s freedom thing, and I support it. However, when I try to use Iceweasel to access my Firefox-compatible Web app, I get an error message and can’t continue.

What is http://news.debian.net? It is an unofficial news website where you can read and submit news about what is going on in the Debian project…. With the project growing over the years, every day we generate interesting bits about our project that are nice to know, but it is not always so important that it [...]

If you eat and drink open source, chances are high that you might have downloaded an open source project code, only to see files like: aclocal.m4, configure.ac, Makefile.am, Makefile.in and what not. You might have also used commands like ./configure, make etc but what are these files?

Hello, Now there is a wiki page for listing the Debian Day 2009 events. Please, list, link, and announce the page availability for your local user group.

Drizzle is a Free Software/Open Source database management system (DBMS) that was forked from version 6.0 of the MySQL DBMS. Like MySQL, Drizzle has a client/server architecture and uses SQL as its primary command language. Drizzle is distributed under version 2 of the GNU General Public License.

So it seems that later this summer Mepis 8,5 will be released, and as normal Warren will release a distro that just plain works, no matter what it’s size, or the packages that are included.

I’ve only had it installed for about a half hour now, but it’s pretty snappy on my old system and even has some good Compiz effects running. I also like that Iceweasle is the default browser.

I use CFengine for automation of different taks like copying config files from one place to nodes, reloading services after this, etc. And recently i configured it to check and install packages for different boxes depending on their role.

This tutorial will explain how to connect to a WPA (1-2) wireless network without installing any graphical tool.

This tutorial will explain you how to boot from a BTRFS filesystem with kernel 2.6.31-RC4 and BTRFS 0.19. BTRFS is a new filesystem with some really interesting features like online defragmenting and snapshots. BTRFS is an experimental filesystem, use at your own risk. The kernel used is also experimental.

OK, so now it’s time to go home after one week diving into the Debian GNU/Linux community at DebConf9 in Cáceres, Spain. Marsmensch, Roert and me represented “the City of LiMux (Munich)”