Hi, The nomination period for the DPL election is almost over. At the
time of this writing, there is still about 29 hours left. The
nomination period ends on Thursday, March 11th, 2010 at 23:59:59 UTC.
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March 10th, 2010 by cj2003
Hi! We were again given the opportunity to represent the Debian Project at this years’ CeBIT, one of biggest IT-related exhibitions, which took place last week in Hanover, Germany.
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March 10th, 2010 by cj2003
We have two databases open source environment that is very reliable, namely PostgreSQL and MySQL. Both these databases have some significant differences either, PostgreSQL is an Object Relational Database Management System (ORDBMB). While MySQL is RDMS.
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March 10th, 2010 by cj2003
Hi, According to the constitution (5.2. Appointment), project
leader elections should begin “six weeks before the leadership
post becomes vacant, or (if it is too late already) immediately.”
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March 5th, 2010 by cj2003
Debian developer Alexander Reichle-Schmehl presented Debian GNU/kFreeBSD at the Open Source Forum at CeBIT. The FreeBSD port should become an official part of the upcoming Debian version 6.0 free distro.
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March 5th, 2010 by cj2003
In view of the fact that the Debian community members put the blame on this situation in Ubuntu, Mark Shuttleworth decide to adopt the measure, lets some Canonical Corporation employees is the Debian work.
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March 3rd, 2010 by cj2003
Generalizations are fun, they always are because they tend to offend people and offended people by stupid shit is usually lots of fun.
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March 2nd, 2010 by cj2003
Debian is one of the more important Linux distributions. Without Debian, we would probably not have Ubuntu or APT and Linux desktop would still be a dream. And it just happens that I never gave it a proper review, until now.
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March 1st, 2010 by cj2003
This vignette is an attempt to explain my position as to why I use GNU/Linux and Debian GNU/Linux, in particular, and why you as a reader, surfer, or couch academic, should want to run GNU/Linux and Debian.
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February 27th, 2010 by cj2003
Video recordings from the Distribution Developer Rooms at FOSDEM 10 arenow available at . All but two talks were recorded and are available in Ogg Theora+Vorbis format, in low-bandwidth (~300 kbit/s) and high-bandwidth (~1.5 Mbit/s) versions.
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February 26th, 2010 by cj2003
I decided to finally install an OS on the machine I’ve devoted to my arcade console. Since this is just first step, I don’t have pictures for you yet – but I will – rest assured.
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February 24th, 2010 by cj2003
The Debian project is happy to announce that it will again be represented at the CeBIT IT fair in Hanover, Germany, this year. At the booth of Univention GmbH[0] in hall 2 stand B36[1], members of the project will be available for questions and discussions and will give a preview of the new version Debian [...]
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February 23rd, 2010 by cj2003
The Debian Installer Team[1] is pleased to announce the Debian Installer 6.0 Alpha1. This first release since Lenny brings a lot of new features and improvements.
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February 21st, 2010 by cj2003
I decided to go with a standardized server rack so that I could locate my (future) switches, servers and other components in one place – namely a closet. I’ve ordered a 13U table top/wall relay rack from Primespec,
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February 21st, 2010 by cj2003
So, if anyone is wondering whether or not Debian or Ubuntu work on these machines, I can confirm that they do, and very nicely too. I am currently running Debian Squeeze on my machine and everything works just fine
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February 21st, 2010 by cj2003
A few weeks ago, I noticed some really good e-Bay deals on used, Opteron-based servers.
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February 21st, 2010 by cj2003
In this issue:
+ DEHS, watching 10 000 packages
+ Conversion of source packages to 3.0 (quilt/native)
+ DEHS now supports format 3.0 source packages
+ userdir-ldap mail gateway updated
+ piuparts.d.o
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February 19th, 2010 by cj2003
Debian packages for KDE 4.4 are being worked on, just slowly and of course, keeping on with the quality you are used to. There will be also some changes that have been in some people’s TODO for long time.
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February 17th, 2010 by cj2003
The Debian system administrators (DSA) have announced that they will soon be deploying DNSSEC for selected Debian zones
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February 17th, 2010 by cj2003
Hola! I am happy to announce that we will be holding another edition of DudesConf a.k.a. debconf-es, the weekend 9-11 April in Coruña, Spain.
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February 14th, 2010 by cj2003
As you’re probably aware, we recently released the latest point release
of the stable distribtion, lenny, as 5.0.4. We thought this would be a
good opportunity to reiterate and clarify a few aspects of point releases and stable updates.
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February 14th, 2010 by cj2003
Do you like Debian? Do you like GNOME? Are you free on February 27-28? If so, please reserve your week-end, because you are going to help us do a massive cleanup in the insane amount of bugs submitted against GNOME packages.
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February 14th, 2010 by cj2003
The Debian release team are sounding the alarm: With only one month left before the planned release freeze, the number of critical bugs in Debian 6.0 Squeeze is still far too high to freeze development and create the next stable version of Debian.
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February 14th, 2010 by cj2003
Today the Eeebuntu team launched the first public beta of Eeebuntu 4.0, which drops the Ubuntu base for Debian Linux.
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February 10th, 2010 by cj2003
Hi, I’m proud to announce Debian Edu 5.0.4+edu0 is finally ready for you to download and enjoy!
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February 9th, 2010 by cj2003
We hoped to freeze in March, but the current number of RC bugs makes
this highly unlikely. From our experiences with previous release cycles,
we wish to freeze only after the number of these bugs has dropped below the mark of 300
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February 9th, 2010 by cj2003
Stellarium is a free open source planetarium Software for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.
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February 8th, 2010 by cj2003
Yesterday I played with QEMU in order to run a Debian Lenny distro on a virtualized ARM arch. The Debian installation was easy thanks to this post of Chris Dew. I just wanted to point out what I did to get the virtual machine running after installing the distro.
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February 6th, 2010 by cj2003
SERPRO, the Brazilian IT government agency, has been advancing in its collaboration with Debian Project. This is a first preliminary informal report about these advancements. This is not an official statement from Debian Project nor SERPRO, yet.
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February 4th, 2010 by cj2003
Registration is now open for DebConf10! DebConf10 will take place in New York City, USA from Sunday August 1st through Saturday Aug 7th, 2010, with arrivals at our group lodging permitted as of 3 PM on July 31 and departures required by 11 AM on August 8. The conference is preceded by DebCamp from July [...]
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February 4th, 2010 by cj2003