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It's a time of joy and happiness for Linux fans, as two days ago the famous Debian Linux distribution turned 15 years old. Debian is well known for its adherence to the Unix and free software philosophies, and for its software packages that satisfy most of the computer architectures on the market. The story behi... |
18 August 2008
05:29 GMT |
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If you are using Debian or any other distro that's based on it (such as Ubuntu), you are advised to update, because a weakness was discovered in the random number generator used by OpenSSL. To fix the problem, you will have to update the OpenSSL packages and regenerate any private keys made on Debian (Etch or ne... |
14 May 2008
04:55 GMT |
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The first release candidate of Dreamlinux 3.0 was launched yesterday, sporting some minor improvements and some bugs squashed. The final release of Dreamlinux 3.0 is scheduled for March 29th.Video card detection got more robust: if the correct driver for your card is not detected, the configurator will use a vesa dri... |
28 February 2008
05:41 GMT |
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Miroslav Jovanovic, foregoing head of the Ministry of Finance IT department, in former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, presented an overview of the Open Source utilization on desktop and servers, during a conference held by the United Nations Development Programme in Skopje, last year.According to Jovanovic, the Mini... |
28 February 2008
05:01 GMT |
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The Debian project announced yesterday the availability of the third update for its stable distribution, Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 "Etch". It corrects mainly security problems and adds a few adjustments to serious problems.The installer now uses and supports the updated kernels included in this release. The update also in... |
18 February 2008
05:04 GMT |
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Today, Linspire announced the availability of the Custom Operating System Build service, an initiative to provide a customized desktop Linux operating system to partners. This service will also help Linspire's partners to cut time to market and reduce the overall costs needed when building a Linux operating syst... |
31 January 2008
10:20 GMT |
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Ryan Finnie has announced the release of Finnix 91.0, a self-contained, bootable Linux CD distribution - or LiveCD - for system administrators. Finnix is a distribution based on Debian Linux.Here are some of the most important features included in this version:Automatic 32-bit/64-bit detection (x86)When booting up Fi... |
30 January 2008
06:05 GMT |
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The Linux Mint team is proud to present the first beta version of Linux Mint 4.0 (Daryna) Fluxbox Community Edition and the first alpha version of Linux Mint 4.0 (Daryna) Debian Edition. The Fluxbox edition is based on the popular Fluxbox window manager and aims to achieve the following goals:￭ Linux Mint Flux... |
4 January 2008
02:47 GMT |
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The developers behind the Debian project announced yesterday the availability of the second update of Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 "Etch".This is NOT a new version of Debian GNU/Linux 4.0, but only updates some of the packages included. So, don't throw away your 4.0 CDs or DVDs, because it is not the case. You will have... |
28 December 2007
08:33 GMT |
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The Elive team proudly presents a new version of their popular Debian-based operating system, Elive 1.0.2. This is a development release and the big change is the switch to the greatly anticipated new version of Enlightenment 17 (e17). All users have now the possibility to get backgrounds, animated icons and themes f... |
27 November 2007
02:48 GMT |
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Shift Linux, a Linux project created by the Neowin community, has reached a new version, 0.5. This distribution is based on Morphix Linux and it is a Debian derivative Live CD.Shift Linux has access to all the software just like any other Debian based distributions. Shift was produced in several versions, with Fluxbo... |
26 November 2007
04:27 GMT |
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Sidux 2007-04, codename "Eros", was released for both amd64 and i686 architectures and it is available in two flavors: a 445 MB KDE lite and a 680 MB full version.Sidux is a Debian Sid based live CD, focused on hard disk installations, with a clean upgrade path within Sid and additional hardware and software support.... |
21 November 2007
03:40 GMT |
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Fellow Linuxers, prepare your champagne and let's party, as last night the famous Debian Linux distribution has just turned 14. Debian is well known for its adherence to the Unix and free software philosophies, and for its software packages which satisfy most of the computer architectures on the market. The nam... |
17 August 2007
12:58 GMT |
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The Debian project is proud to announce the immediate availability of an updated version of their very popular distribution, Debian Etch 4.0r1. This release contains mainly security updates and some corrections to serious problems found in the first release of the Debian 4.0 distribution.Highlights of this release in... |
17 August 2007
02:58 GMT |
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In their latest release announcement, the Sidux team presents the Sidux 2007-03 version for amd64 and i686 systems. This third official release comes, as the Sidux developers say, after three months of development and it ships in too flavors: lite, respectively full, KDE flavors.Based on the Debian Sid distribution, ... |
14 August 2007
15:47 GMT |
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SimplyMEPIS is yet another Linux distribution, initially based on the famous Debian. When it reached the 6.0 version MEPIS switched from Debian to Ubuntu 6.06, mainly because of the long time support and the stable release cycle of Ubuntu.However, it seems that Warren Woodford, founder of MEPIS, is no longer satisfi... |
1 August 2007
10:49 GMT |
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Based on the famous Debian Etch Linux distribution, the Studio release has now reached its 2.0 version. Addressing both the 64 and 32 architectures for the Intel and AMD processors, 64 Studio also comes with high compatibility with its ancestor, Debian Etch but also with the other Debian or Debian-based distribution... |
31 July 2007
00:45 GMT |
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Skolelinux International announced the final release of their Skolelinux 3.0 Linux distribution: "This is an community release with comprehensive support from regional and national projects in Germany, Spain, France, Greece and Norway. The Skolelinux project is now a part of Debian under the name Debian-Edu. Several... |
23 July 2007
03:56 GMT |
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When we hear Debian, we think of something humongous, a still heavyweight champion among Linux distributions worldwide. Many distributions were, are and will be based on Debian Linux. To name a few, Ubuntu is based on the Debian mammoth and Xandros is also a Debian-based distribution. But I bet you didn't see a... |
2 July 2007
06:36 GMT |
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Skolelinux International announced today the 4th and last test release of their upcoming Skolelinux 3.0 distribution. This release brings improved USB and hotplug devices handling, a framework that allows you to select languages during the installation process, many bug fixes and also a lot of improvements."Debian-E... |
14 May 2007
10:25 GMT |
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The Elive team has just announced the release of a new development version of Elive, mainly with a testing purpose. Elive is a GNU/Linux Debian based distribution using the Enlightenment desktop environment instead of GNOME or KDE. Enlightenment (commonly known as E) window manager has a rich feature set that include... |
2 May 2007
04:03 GMT |
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Yeah, you have (probably) already heard about the new stable release of one of the oldest Linux distributions around, Debian 4.0 (codename "Etch"), a distribution that inspired many of the popular Linux operating systems you (probably) use today, like Ubuntu, Xandros or MEPIS for example. Now, you may wonder what it... |
10 April 2007
00:35 GMT |
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