This scenario depicts backup of desktop (assuming that IP address is 192.168.0.100) data to a backup server. My desktop runs on Ubuntu 10.04 and backup server runs on Debian Squeeze.

Hi there The moderator is away on holiday, therefore no news at the moment.

Hello, world!, 48 hours into this new DPL term, here are my first ever “bits from the DPL” with kudos, directions, and some practical information.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand – Monday 8 February 2010 – linux.conf.au 2010 is over, but the generosity of its delegates will leave a lasting impression on the Life Flight Trust.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand – Monday 18 December 2009 – linux.conf.au 2010 welcomes over 700 technologists, bringing together the best and brightest minds in the free and open source software community.

We are anticipating great things to happen at linux.conf.au 2010! With four fantastic keynote presenters: Gabriella Coleman, Benjamin Mako Hill, Glyn Moody, Nathan Torkington, and a terrific line up of speakers….

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

Here you’ll find a set of videos guiding you through an Enchilada installation on Debian.

When the first Australasian Linux conference (LCA) was held at Monash University, Melbourne in 1999, it was funded entirely from one of the founder’s personal credit cards.

After long time I’m posting this. In this time, I got a fantastic experience of switching myself from ubuntu to debian. Reasons? may be silly but here they are…

Controversy over fixed release cycles for Debian is nothing new. Now Ubuntu’s Mark Shuttleworth has entered into the fray.

Sorry folks, there’ll be no updates for the next couple of weeks, as I’ll be trekking in the hills and forests of Germany and not spending much time online.

Sorry for sending out this mail so late. It should have gone out a bit earlier, but the delay allowed us to update our views on the timeline based on the feedback we received by the community – see below for details.

Microsoft is promising not to pursue patent claims against Linux and open-source software using the open-source implementation of .NET, Project Mono.

We are currently experiencing some server problems here at Debian-news.net, please bear with us while we work to resolve them as soon as possible.

So it has been a while since I have posted ScreenShots of any distribution lately. So I decided to start it off with the new and improved Debian 5.0.

Elive is not yet another Linux distro it is perfect match of easness, power and beauty.Elive is based on Debian and uses Enlightenment as its windows manager, which gives Mac OS X look and feel.

As the operating system has grown and morphed, however, this is slowly changing, with more companies releasing their online games with Linux support (Americas Army) and 3D games being created specifically for it (Urban Terror). Here is a list of 35 high-quality, well-working games that will run smoothly on Linux

Welcome to the new Debian-news.net! There’ll be many new features on the site now and in the weeks to come. First, thanks to László Torma for motivating us to get moving with the update and for helping with the design. After almost 3½ years with the same layout, we’ve switched from Xoops to WordPress and [...]

U.S. embedded hardware OEM KwikByte demonstrated a display-based, development system running a full Debian environment and applications on a power-conscious, microcontroller. The system is targeted at general purpose computing, test stands, access control systems, and inventory management applications. More here Quote: The board supports smaller configurations like BusyBox and uClibc (top screen shot) as well [...]

Here are the slides for my talk (Debian and Google Summer of Code 2008: wrap-up and insights) in PDF format: debian-fosdem09-gsoc08. Get them here

The Debian project is looking for sponsors for two new officialservices: snapshot and data archives. Both services utilize largeamounts of data and therefore require a capable machine with a largedisk array that provides 10 TB of disk space to start, with the abilityto be easily extended. We'd like interested sponsors to contacthardware-donations@debian.org. ————————————————————————The Debian Project [...]

I am thinking the unthinkable…..I am considering changing from Ubuntu 8.10 for my desktop to Debian 5. I have been running the Debian 5 Lenny candidate for awhile and have bee very pleased with the stability and features. Read it here Quote: 2. SecurityBasically the security issue is the same as stability. It is even [...]

I already knew about DSL (damn small linux). I checked online to see what the requirements were. The entire operating system can fit on a 50MB USB drive. “That's perfect,” I thought. More here Quote: I decided to just run the DamnSmallLinux inside of Windows. I started to read up this distrobution of Linux. Apparently [...]

In August I got a very nice HP 2510p notebook which is now my main system for development. This took a while for two reasons. More here Quote: First of all the system did not resume 100% reliably. This has now been solved, although the final patches needed for that will only be in 2.6.29, [...]

This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install Xen on a Debian Lenny (5.0) system (AMD64). More here Quote: Xen lets you create guest operating systems (*nix operating systems like Linux and FreeBSD), so called “virtual machines” or domUs, under a host operating system (dom0). Using Xen you can separate your applications into different [...]

An amazing Linux distribution. Just 50MB and you are in business. I got a taste of the wonderful Damn Small Linux (DSL) today as I installed it onto my 1GB flash drive. I followed the simple instructions as listed on their wiki. Read more here Quote: In short, good things do come in small packages. [...]

Bruce Allen is perhaps the world's best do-it-yourselfer. When he needed a supercomputer to crunch the results of gravitational-wave research, he built one with his colleagues at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. It isn't mentioned in the article, but he uses Debian and Beowulf

An open-source truism is: “Nothing is released until it's ready.” Well, sometimes that's true and sometimes you have situations like the one with Debian Linux's next release: Debian 5 “Lenny.” Read the comment here Quote: Somehow, and don't ask me how, Debian has managed to survive yet another internal civil war, and so I expect [...]

Debian Linux founder and former OpenSolaris chief Ian Murdock is taking over the role of chief strategist for cloud computing at Sun Microsystems. Read more here Quote: The result of a restructuring at Sun last November has given Ian Murdock the new role of VP of Cloud Computing Strategy, which Murdock recently announced in a [...]