I’ve put up a little website and created a new mailing list…If you’re a Debian developer or user and you’d like to hear about infrequent Debian social gatherings in the Seattle area, you should sign up on the list!

The Debian project is warning users that the unofficial Debian Multimedia repository now has to be considered unsafe. According to the Debian maintainers, the debian-multimedia.org domain is not being used by the maintainers of the unofficial repository any more and is now registered to a party unknown to the Debian project. This means that the [...]

The Debian project is pleased to announce the first update of its stable distribution Debian 7 (codename “wheezy”). This update mainly adds corrections for security problems to the stable release, along with a few adjustments for serious problems. Security advisories were already published separately and are referenced where available.

Standing to this article and this article, NASA decided to drop Windows in favour of linux and more precisely, Gnu Debian Linux 6 (Stable). This is a news we all expect in years but, finally at the end it arrived.

Up this morning are benchmarks comparing the performance of Debian GNU/Linux 7.0 to Debian GNU/kFreeBSD 7.0, the version of the Debian operating system that ships the GNU user-land but replaces the Linux kernel from that of FreeBSD 9.0.

Welcome to this year’s twelfth issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include: * Welcome to Debian GSoC Students * Outreach Program for Women, the result of the experiment * Bits from the DPL * Expiration of debian-multimedia.org * Other news * New Debian Contributors * Important Debian [...]

When it comes to setup web servers, or Internet servers (web, email and ftp) there is usually two GNU/Linux distributions that comes to mind, Debian and CentOS. Some people are starting to use Ubuntu server, but let’s focus on CentOS and Debian, as Ubuntu is a Debian derivative.

“About ten months ago, we realized that the next installation of Debian was upcoming, and after upgrading about 20,000 machines since Debian 6 (aka Squeeze) was released, we got pretty tired,” Dreamhost developer Brett Gailey wrote in a blog post. “The release cycle for Debian is stable, but it’s not long enough for us to [...]

I have fallen behind on the Distro Deluge of new Linux releases, because I was traveling in the US for three weeks. The good news in that is that I took my two Acer Aspire One systems with me (725 and 522), and both performed extremely well during the trip.

Installing Debian may be a trivial task for someone. It has never been so easy for me. To start with, my first attempt to install it failed epically. Installation of Debian 6.0 Squeeze without a network connection was a serious mistake. Has installation improved in Debian 7.0? It was my task to study this.

Hi, Here is the monthly report for my first full month as the Debian Project Leader.

The development of ‘Fixa min gata’ began in 2011, and a beta release was introduced last year. The site runs on Debian Linux servers and uses thenginx open source web server. Although the new service is being developed by three organisations, it will eventually be made available to all municipalities as a single, national service.

Aloha, fellow Developers, Please join me in saying welcome to the following students into Debian’s 2013 Google Summer of Code:

Welcome to this year’s eleventh issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include: * Debian GNU/Hurd release * DebConf 13: Call for Papers * Debian Edu Wheezy second alpha release * Bits from the piuparts maintainers * Debian/Ubuntu Community Conference Italia 2013 * Other news * Upcoming events [...]

The Debian Project has lost a member of its community. Ray Dassen (jdassen) died on May 18th.

Hi! About piuparts: piuparts [1] tests that .deb packages (as used by Debian) handle installation, upgrading, and removal correctly. http://piuparts.debian.org runs it on whole main Debian archive.

It is with huge pleasure that the Debian GNU/Hurd team announces the release of Debian GNU/Hurd 2013. This is a snapshot of Debian “sid” at the time of the Debian “wheezy” release (May 2013), so it is mostly based on the same sources. It is not an official Debian release, but it is an official [...]

Dear Developers, Following the launch of Bits from Debian[1], the official blog of the Debian project, here is a delegation (between dashed lines below) for the team of editors.

Debian invites submissions of proposals for papers, presentations, discussion sessions and tutorials for its DebConf13¹ conference which will take place in Le Camp by Vaumarcus, Switzerland, in August.

New features for Debian Edu 7.0.0 alpha1 released 2013-05-14 This is the release notes for for Debian Edu / Skolelinux 7.0.0 edu alpha1, based on Debian with codename “Wheezy”.

The Debian project earlier this month put the finishing touches on their latest release: Debian 7.0, code named “Wheezy.” This release marks the availability of two new architectures and a number of major updates and new features.

We are trying to assemble a large enough (but not too large?) team to help us rate the travel sponsorship requests for DebConf13. Many aspects are still open to debate, but most probably we will follow the usual, past years’ procedure.

I’m not a big advocate for one Linux distribution over another. Or maybe I’m fooling myself. I pretty much run Debian GNU/Linux (as it’s officially known) on just about anything. But what I run day to day on my main machine is Debian. Right now that means Wheezy, currently the Testing distribution, which I upgraded [...]

Now that Debian 7 “Wheezy” has been officially released and it’s ready to be installed on your Linux-powered computers, the developers can concentrate their full resources on the next major release, Debian 8.

One of the more peculiar Linux distributions to emerge recently has been SprezzOS, which debuted with claims of being the most robust, performant, and beautiful Linux. When it launched it didn’t generate much attention, but recently the SprezzOS developers began rewriting Debian’s APT software.

Debian comes in three flavors: Stable, Testing, and Unstable. Packages start out in Unstable, and migrate down through Testing and Stable. Stable is great for servers because it is thoroughly tested and gets swift security updates. Testing and Unstable are great for desktop systems because they have newer packages. Unstable really isn’t unstable, but works [...]

Welcome to this year’s tenth issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include: * Debian 7.0 “Wheezy” released * What’s new in Debian “Wheezy” ? * DebConf11 and 12 videos * Debian beyond the cloud * Debian in Google Compute Engine * Bits from the DPL * “Coding [...]

There may be a few minor issues here and there, but my experience, in nearly 13 years of use of the i386 port, seven years of use of the amd64 port and about four years of use of the mips port, has been very good, with just one breakage, of the package CUPS, on my [...]

Given the rise of collaboration, through collab-maint and packaging teams, it is more important than ever that workflows and tools are easily understood and documented. This lets new contributors (including people new to Debian) jump in more quickly and with less risk of disruption.

There are some tools we can use to try to protect ourselves, and one of them is Tor, the onion router. Tor was originally developed by the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory for protecting government communications.