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Debian -- News -- Debian 7.0 "Wheezy" released Time for me to move to Jessie.

Hi! I wanted to try out Debian GNU/Linux as a Live CD. So, I downloaded the .iso file for amd64 arch that came with xfce desktop through a torrent. I downloaded the torrent from Debian's website. All I'm downloading is a single .iso image file under the name...

Debian 6.0 “Squeeze” released February 6th, 2011 After 24 months of constant development, the Debian Project is proud to present its new stable version 6.0 (code name “Squeeze”). Debian 6.0 is a free operating system, coming for the first time in two flavours. Alongside Debian GNU/Linux...

Debian 6.0 “Squeeze” to be released with completely free Linux Kernel Debian -- News -- Debian 6.0 "Squeeze" to be released with completely free Linux Kernel SO this means users have to install restricted drivers after install or the free ones in the kernel would suffice?

Debian is one of the most prominent and old releases of all Linux distros, which differs a lot in it's release cycles. While Fedora is gearing up for its 14th release in 7 years, Debian has had as few as five ten releases in its nearly 17-year history. Debian developers have traditionally gone...

"Debian turns 17 today. Yes it has really come a long way from being Murdock's pet project back in 1993 to being the distribution on which the most popular Linux distribution, Ubuntu, is now based." Happy 17th Birthday Debian (And some interesting history)

Debian 6.0 “Squeeze” frozen August 6th, 2010 In this very moment, during the ongoing annual Debian Developer Conference "Debconf10" in New York, Debian's release managers have announced a major step in the development cycle of the upcoming stable release Debian 6.0 “Squeeze”: Debian...

Hi folks, I am just starting a war here. After reading a lot about Linux history, I came to a conclusion that there are only a few( i mean the root nodes ) solid distros availble. My analysis: I have chosen only the root nodes here. I mean that Debian is the root and Knoppix, Ubuntu are...

After 22 months of hard work, The Debian Project has announced the release of the much awaited Debian 5.0r0, codenamed as Lenny. Its available for download on 31 CDs or 5 DVDs or 1 Blu Ray disc. Further Details available Here

"The Debian project's maintainer, Luke Claes, announced in an email Saturday that he will freeze the 'testing' or 'Lenny' tree, in preparation for a new stable release of Debian Linux in ... September! The freeze means that open source software developers have only a couple more days to package...

I run Debian Sid with KDE 3.5.x. I want a way to automatically choose a mirror with the best speed, via a GUI as simple as Ubuntu's feature in synaptic, which lists all the mirrors. How do I do it ?

Hi I downloaded 3 dvd version of Debian from here *cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/4.0_r3/i386/iso-dvd/ But while installation it didnt asked for 2nd and 3rd dvd. Now when I want to install packages from these dvds, how shall I proceed with that . As I try thrugh apt it doesnt get...

*distrowatch.com/?newsid=04936 why?because world's many of the servers and mission critical apps relies on Debian GNU/Linux :) Ubuntu ,mepis and other major distributions are based on Debian GNU/Linux

Hi All I have just successfully switched to Debian Lenny from Ubuntu hardy. Its taking a while to getting used to, but I hope I learn soon. I thought I may ask some questions about debian here. Here is my diary about the Debian install: This installer is too damn easy to use. Its fun...

read more here: *www.internetnews.com/security/article.php/3747296/Debian+Ubuntu+SSH+Under+Attack.htm Debian and Ubuntu Users: Fix Your Keys

Epiphany-2.22 webkit based passing acid3test on Gnome-2.22 :D On Debian Sid ;)

Hi! I've moved to Debian Testing from Ubuntu Hardy. Linking Debian so far! A few things i havent been able to figure out. Im not able to get GVFS to work with nautilus and also the international clock applet is not there. I've set up apt pinning and got Iceweasel 3b5 from the experimental...

If I was considering to install Debian . I'm guessing that I should be installing Debian Etch. However what scares me is that all the packages seem to be prehistoric :( . An example. Openoffice.org in Etch = 2.0.4 Actual Version available = 2.4.0 How difficult is upgrading your...

When I went to the download page of Debian and FreeBSD I found a lot of ISOs Are all of them the OS setup? Or the other ISOs are for appz? I have numbered the corresponding ISOs. can you tell me which ones I will need In the freeBSD downloads one additional question What is the...

The Philippine government's official weather service, PAGASA, has replaced its SGI supercomputer with a clustered Debian Linux system that can process information vital to protection against typhoons, floods, droughts, tsunamis and other wild weather conditions at a fraction of the cost. The...