In this issue: + GPG key signing coordination moved to wiki.debian.org + Debian OpenSSH VCS changeover, and call for help + Easier for customization on LXDE now + WNPP BTS report now categorised + Update about “3.0 (quilt)” source format

So, the question remains: Is Debian deviating with Vixie cron from what would be considered “standard practice”? Well, to start, I pulled up the crontab(1) man page to see what it says regarding the matter.

Since the end of December, a change in nfs-kernel-server package caused a change of behavior in some NFSv3 crucial services: rpc.statd, rpc.mountd.

Aria2 is a fast download utility that you use in the Command Prompt or xterm. To compile aria2 for Linux, install the following packages.

Keryx is a portable, open source and cross-platform package manager for APT-based (Ubuntu, Debian) systems. It provides a graphical interface for gathering updates, packages, and dependencies for offline computers. It is similar to “Sushi, huh?”, but easier to use and with a nice GUI.

This quickie howto will describe the basic steps necessary to configure a VNC server to enable remote control of the X Windows desktop environment on Debian GNU/Linux.

Flash Player is a cross-platform browser plug-in that delivers breakthrough Web experiences to over 98% of Internet users.

Who want to install the server from source have to take the Suse or RedHat rc-script as skeleton to write a own Debian startup script. I’ve done this and want to share the little script with you.

Because Catalyst is a rapidly evolving project, packages supplied by operating system vendors like Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu, and many others have historically been outdated compared to the stable versions.

This is the first time after a lot of years that I am installing Debian from scratch on my system, before this the last Debian version I installed from base was version 3.

Here is a step by step summary of what I did to get to get Redmine up and running on Debian 5.x – If you don’t know what Redmine is, it is like Trac, but better and on Rails.

I was installing Debian (testing release) on a netbook since my main laptop is away for repairs and I noticed the Ogre packages in the distribution. So far I have always compiled Ogre and its dependencies myself so I was curious how much work it would take to get the Okra examples running.

This quickie howto will explain the steps necessary to recompile a Debian software package on the local machine from source code.

Today I’ve been researching on Linux and Debian booting. There is an excellent article from IBM, which explains the procedure.

Most readers probably have installed Debian version 5.0 (Lenny) or an older version and are using shadow passwords with the md5 hash algorithm. This is not bad but not good enough.

The best news about Lintian is that Raphael Geissert has joined the team as an additional Lintian maintainer.

I was using good old Debian Linux 3.1 Sarge when I found out Sarge’s wpasupplicant couldn’t work well with ndiswrapper-supported Windows network drivers

To enable Wake on LAN on a Asus P5E-V motherboard under Debian you can do the following. Since I have a Asus motherboard, that’s the only one I’ve tested, but except from the BIOS (which may differ a bit), the instructions should be the same for all motherboards/NIC that supports Wake on LAN.

I have to struggle with this whenever I had a new Debian installation. SCIM does not work out of the box in Debian, so there’s some minor configurations to do. But I failed to note it down anywhere, just happily relying on Google.

Merlin’s platform of choice is Debian GNU/Linux, which he said has the most comprehensive software library available for Linux. Merlin developed ‘getupdates’, a program to keep client software synchronized with a central server.

Sure, Debian Stable is boring. There’s no fanfare every six months about the next release (and if I wanted newer everything, I could upgrade to Testing, currently Debian Squeeze).