It is important to note that the following information is based on my trying various of the publicly available Linux distributions on my new HP 2133 netbook More here Quote: SimplyMEPIS 8.0 RC2: The LiveCD booted just fine, the install was absolutely routine, the same as it was on my other two laptops, and it [...]

Warren has uploaded ISO files for RC2 of SimplyMEPIS 8.0 to the MEPIS pools. The files for 32 and 64 bit processors are SimplyMEPIS-CD_7.9.95-rc2_32.iso and SimplyMEPIS-CD_7.9.95-rc2_64.iso. Read the announcement here Quote: SimplyMEPIS developer, Warren Woodford, reports, “I apologize to anyone who was expecting 8.0 to be final by now. It's taking longer than I had [...]

You need to have root access to do that. So the first step to become root with the following command. Read it here

VirtualBox is an x86 virtualization software package, originally created by German software company innotek, now developed by Sun Microsystems as part of its Sun xVM virtualization platform. This mini-HOWTO will guide you though VirtualBox 2.1.0 installation on Debian Lenny/sid. Read it here

I installed bazaar on my debian box in order to host the 'Leave Status Board' Project on launch pad. Following the instructions to init, add, commit worked fine. But on trying to push to the launchpad account, (had to add the RSA public key to Launchpad first) I got a whole bunch of python errors, [...]

In this issue: + Security support for new testing (squeeze) delayed + New whohas tool displays other distributions that have your package + Documentation for python-apt + sbuild and wanna-build status update + Kernel pseudo-package removed The news are collected on http://wiki.debian.org/DeveloperNewsIt's your duty to share news about your work/plans/subproject. In this issue: + Security [...]

Fortunately, the W3C freely distributes the source code for its validation tools. In this tutorial, we're going to use the Debian GNU/Linux operating system to set up a standalone markup validation server. Read it here Quote: An unused older computer may be used as a server in this case; Debian has minimal system requirements and [...]

So, after receiving several pointers to seereason’s cabal-debian tool I thought I’d take it for a spin. After about 30 minutes of browsing through HackageDB and seereason’s source repos, building and installing, I had finally satisfied all dependencies and the build of cabal-debian succeeded. Read it here Quote: The result was fairly good. It seems [...]

This all started when a DSA (Debian SysAdmin (those with root rights on all .debian.org machines)) wanted to upgrade the kernel running on our ftp-master host. It was shortly before dinstall, but hey, there it went, and the machine rebooted into a 2.6.28. Besides murphy taking his share making the machine fsck its huge filesystem [...]

Finally, thanks to a lot of help from Derrick Sobodash, a user of the Beijing GNU/Linux user group I managed to install Debian into the Lemote Yeeloong. Read it here Quote: 0. Download the debian loongson image: http://bjlx.org.cn/loongson/loongson2_debian5_20090108.tar.bz2 1. Use gparted to format a partition on a USB disk to ext3. 2. Mount it, change [...]

Creating high quality appliances is a difficult task and requires deep knowledge of the underlying operating system. So we created the 'Debian Appliance Builder' to simplify that task. 'dab' is a script to automate the creation of OpenVZ appliances. The press release contains more

Presumably, the T-Mobile G1 contains an ARM EABI architecture which is supported by Debian. So a group of people (hackers) set out to install Debian on their T-Mobile G1 Android phone. More here Quote: The portable device I am talking about is the T-Mobile G1 Android cellphone. Android is a software stack for mobile devices [...]

I’ve just spent the last hour or so ironing out the details required to automate the building of cabalised Haskell packages for Debian. At the same time I also built Debian packages for 5 Haskell packages (test-framework and its dependencies). Read more here

It’s been a while now since the 2008 Summer of Code ended. This year, twelve (?) projects were selected. That’s twelve students working full time on a Debian-related project during the summer. Read more here Quote: I am going to give a talk about this at FOSDEM (go to FOSDEM!) so I’m giving you a [...]

Debian Policy work has largely been on hold for the past few months,partly due to the release freeze but mostly due to lack of time andresources. General Status============== Debian Policy work has largely been on hold for the past few months,partly due to the release freeze but mostly due to lack of time andresources. Policy [...]

This article shows how you can install the PowerDNS nameserver (with MySQL backend) and the Poweradmin control panel for PowerDNS on a Debian Etch system. More here Quote: PowerDNS is a high-performance, authoritative-only nameserver – in the setup described here it will read the DNS records from a MySQL database (similar to MyDNS), although other [...]

This is a little script that I’ve done to auto-install the evil nvidia drivers on my Debian Sid, downloading the latest packages from experimental. Given the continuous enhancements, driven by unhappy KDE4 compositing users, and as a KDE 4.2 tester myself, I’m doing it quite frequently. I hope it helps someone else… Read it here

There are a lot of manuals around. So why do I want to add another? Because I want to eliminate some not so clever hints and remarks. More here Quote: First and most importantly of all: there is NO step which has to be done as root in the whole kernel package building process (provided [...]

This guide shows you how to install Spamassassin in Exim4 on Debian. Read it here

For the sake of future googlers, if you are running a Xen server on Debian Etch and want to upgrade to Lenny..First, you don't need linux-image-2.6.26-1-vserver-686. Read more here Quote: The howto I read for Lenny had me run the vserver as Dom0, but that is no longer necessary: both dom0 and domUs can use [...]

Out of Debian packages which self-identify as using a version control system, git is the most popular distributed source control system. Caveats apply of course, but this is interesting in that that preference is somewhat organic in nature, as Debian offers its package maintainers a choice as to which vcs to use. Read more here [...]

Have you been addicted to XMMS to play your music files on your Linux system? If you are and looking to continue to do that you might be well prepared for a change in the way you have been using XMMS. XMMS2, the new version of XMMS, is completely re-written from scratch to support the [...]

I’ve been testing out a few virtualization systems and am sofar very pleased with Xen. Installing on Debian Etch couldn’t be easier and it worked straight out the box – I had my first virtual server running in under 15 minutes flat! More here

The first thing you need to do when you start considering small Linux distributions is decide what your priorities are – what do you need it for and what are you planning to do with it? Read more at ZDNet Quote: As I said, I ended up really liking, and respecting, DSL for what it [...]

This is an Toshiba Satellite Sro 435CDS built around 12 years ago. Specs? Pentium 120, 32 MB ram, 4 GB Hard. Yes this laptop has been upgrade a few years ago to highest supported specs. Impressive! Read it right here Quote: With the help of my linux guru Irix (his weblog in Persian) we started [...]

I can’t even remember the last time I tried KDE, but I do recall that whatever box I was running it on did not have half the hardware I needed to run it, and it was far too much software for the poor little thing Read here and here for part 2 Quote: Over the [...]

I have created and installer and bootloader (download below) for getting Debian running on your Android (G1 at the moment) device, the whole install process will take you about 10 mins, and leaves you with access to the full plethora of programs available in Debian and let's you continue using your phone as it was [...]

Debian doesn’t yet have any Python 2.6 packages. But creating them on your own is very easy. Read it here

Since it is PowerPC based with only 384 MB RAM, my Linux choices are restricted. Happily (I thought), Debian would do the trick. One of Debian's virtues is that they provide Linux for many less common machine architectures. Read it here Quote: Cut to the chase: The Keyspan usbserial driver for my device has been [...]

The success of Debian GNU/Linux can be illustrated by the following numbers. It is developed by over 1,000 volunteer developers, its software repositories contain more than 20,000 packages (compiled for 11 processor architectures), and it is responsible for inspiring over 120 Debian-based distributions and live CDs. Read a bit about Debian here