Dear developers, some changes have been recently going on among FTP masters, which I’m hereby ratifying with a delegation under Constitution §8.

Want to install the new LibreOffice on Ubuntu or a Debian-based distribution? Although the Document Foundation doesn’t yet offer .deb binaries for these distros, you can use the provided .rpm packages to install LibreOffice on a machine running Ubuntu or Debian

How many Debian users are there? What countries do they live in? Haven’t you ever asked yourself? Well I am trying to find the answer, inspired by the Debian Developers Map, collecting a database of exact locations of Debian users

The official Debian developer status is no longer exclusively available only to Debian project members who are active package maintainers. Debian project leader Stefano Zacchiroli has proposed that, in future, the Debian Account Managers should also accept Debian contributors who don’t maintain packages, but contribute to the project in other ways, as official developers.

IBM now gives CPLEX to academics for free; as I am computing LP bounds for quantum codes, I got myself one. However, it refused to install on my amd64 Debian system, saying “libgcc_s.so.1 must be installed for pthread_cancel to work”.

Debian, Ubuntu’s parent distribution, has set up Debian Bug No. 1 which also reads “Microsoft has a majority market share”. Mandriva, another competing distribution has set up Mandriva Bug No. 1: “Microsoft has a majority market share and Ubuntu has a majority market share on the Linux desktop”. Fedora, Gentoo, Archlinux, Slackware and other distributions [...]

Hi there www.Debian-News.net has now been moved to a new hosting company. From my point of view, the site is responding a lot faster than before. Have a nice weekend everyone. Best regards Søren Reinke Webmaster

Sorry for the downtime. Our hosting company just shut down alle my Domains because a single one of them had a PHP script that did go crazy This site might be a bit slow for now, until I have figured out what the problem site is. Hope to be back in full speed soon. Best [...]

The Debian GNU/Linux project has announced that it will be welcoming as full project members those who make a contribution other than packaging applications.

During UDS Maverick, in Bruxelles, I met the Debian Project Leader Stefano Zacchiroli. Being both Italians we spoke often during the coffee breaks and we discussed further about his keynote’s topic: improving collaboration between Ubuntu and Debian.

Hi, As previously announced[1], hppa is no longer a release architecture for Squeeze.

Welcome to this year’s twelfth issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include: * Linux Mint Debian Edition * “Grave” software bugs * “This week in Debian” interviews Stefano Zacchiroli * etch-backports gone * Release-critical bugs in stable release * Debian Women Mentoring rebooting * Mythbusting Ruby packaging [...]

This is a guide containing the most popular and useful ways of using the APT and DPKG commands, and it applies to both Ubuntu and Debian (and their derivatives). I mentioned where super user privileges are required, the ones without a mention can be executed as normal user.

With a standard Debian Linux operating system, the intelligent camera provides developers with a convenient platform for programming their own applications and transferring them to the camera by means of cross-compilers. The host system and camera have the same application programming interface.

Things have been anything but quiet on the Debian front lately. Between updating 5.0, naming 7.0, and officially approving backports this has been a busy week for Debian. In other related news, a popular distribution has released a version based on Debian while a Website helps users decide if they like the looks of potential [...]

This is the Lite version of the fully featured LEMP (with Nginx) 4 Debian Stackscript. Run it on a new distribution & your Nginx-powered domain is set up and ready to browse to: new user, Nginx, PHP-FPM, Suhosin, XCache, MySQL, Postfix for email, iptables, SSHD security, logrotate and more, the whole darn lot totally tweaked-tastic!

The summer is over but I’m happy to announce that this year’s Summer of Code at Debian has been better than ever! This is indeed the 4th time we had the privilege of participating in the Google Summer of Code and each year has been a little different.

Debian is one of the oldest and most popular distributions among the Linux users. There are probably hundreds of distributions which are based on Debian, or others which are based on distributions which in turn are based on Debian. Although I’m not a Debian developer, I use it for over two years or so, and [...]

In our conference call on August 19th Brendan gave me some pointers about the installation that I would be doing of the Debian ‘Lenny’ Linux software onto the new server. He said it would be fairly straight forward…and parts of it were and other parts of it weren’t.

Hi, The process of a new General Resolution has been started. Currently 1 option has received 16 seconds, so the discussion period has been started. Note that the discussion period is restarted when other amendments get accepted.

One of Debian’s newer offerings is the ability to create a custom Live CD directly from their website. You choose your options, they generate the image.

In this tutorial I will show how to compile from source and install in Debian Lenny the latest release of GIMP, the most powerful image manipulation application currently available for Linux.

The package management system on Linux makes installing and upgrading software a snap, but it also caches every package in a local folder in case it’s needed again. Here’s how to clear that cache and save loads of drive space.

dpkg-source is the program that generates the Debian source package when a new package version is built. It offers many interesting command-line options but they are often not used because people don’t know how to ensure that they are used every time the package is built. Let’s fill that gap!

Dear Debian project, in recent events I’ve attended as DPL, the topic of welcoming non-packaging contributors as project members has been a recurring one. Since it was also part of my platform and since DPL terms don’t last forever, I feel it’s time to have a project-wide decision on the topic.

Hi team, I listen every week to FLOSS weekly [1], which is a great podcast, that you can find on twit.tv. “Randal L. Schwartz” is the host for the show, together with a co-host that changes every week. Few months ago, it was Leo Laporte that was the co-host.

Hi! Looking at the archive of the -news mailing list[1], you might have already guessed: Debian’s Publicity Team *is* alive and it is quite active! But there’s some confusion recently, on what we do, how we do it, and — most importantly — how to interact with us. So, here’s a small introduction from us.

Hi, So, even small teams more closely related to bureaucracy and bookkeeping such as ours also deserve to send out some “bits from…” mails from time to time.

If you are running Debian Lenny, the best way to install Virtualbox OSE is to use the version available in the Debian backports. For those who have installed the previous release (3.0.12), please check the availability before updating

Here’s a DPN gift for you guys – Hope all is going well. I just wanted to let you know that we just released the first episode of This Week in Debian. here are the feeds