So, as we are taking an extended vacation, there won't be any updates on Ubuntu-news.net for the next three weeks - I'll be enjoying a trip to USA with my family. We wish you a merry Christmas and all the best for the New Year.

A month ago I built a new Debian webserver to replace an older one. We got the website moved to the new machine, and it's working great. I decided early on that I did not want to enable FTP on this box, but rather use SSH/SCP for transfering files.

Long-time developer Manoj Srivastava has resigned as the secretary of the Debian GNU/Linux Project and is thinking of leaving the project altogether

Free Linux distro Debian has been working steadily on its next version 5.0 of the OS, known as Lenny. Now developers have been called in for a vote to determine the course of its general release.

During the last few posts, I’ve been using Debian-ARM from TS-Logic site as the root filesystem. Debian is a nice distro, but it’s too much for learning embedded linux development. Therefore, I’m creating a new simpler root filesystem to make it faster to boot, and reduce the complexity.

The Debian project is pleased to announce the sixth update of its stable distribution Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (codename "etch"). This update mainly adds corrections for security problems to the stable release, along with a few adjustment to serious problems.

I wanted to begin writing more tutorial based post so I thought I’d start off with an Nmap tutorial. This is going to be just a basic Nmap scanning tutorial, more advanced tutorials about Nmap will come later.

When you install an application package in a Debian-based system, sometimes prerequisite application packages are unavailable. These missing packages are known as broken dependencies.

Debian developer Josselin Mouette has had his privileges of posting to the announcement mailing list for developers withdrawn, following an offensive post to the list in November.

Topics covered in this issue include: * Release Update * General Resolution: Project membership procedures * Better backports.org Support * ... and much more.

Several of us use Debian GNU/Linux and among other features we have all appreciated the way Debian software package dependencies are calculated to give us a stable package.

So I replaced my Latitude D410 with a shiny new Latitude E4300 (Intel Core 2 Duo SP9400 2.4 Ghz with 4 Gb RAM). Here are some notes about this laptop that might be interesting for others.

Please find below the results for Project membership procedures. The website has been updated and you should be able to view the latest version at the next sync.

Debian is on the verge of its next major release codenamed "Lenny" - but before it gets released, Debian developers will have to vote on it. Debian developers have until 23:59:59 UTC on Saturday, December 21st, 2008 to vote on six key issues collectively titled the Lenny Release General Resolution.

So it’s time to upgrade the slug’s Debian NSLU2 from Etch to Lenny. Every upgrade carried a risk, depending on how much you have customised the installation. In my case, the risk was small since I have made little change to the default install.

At least two Debian women developers are reconsidering their participation in the GNU/Linux project following the posting of what they deem to be a sexist message to one of the mailing lists meant for developers.

No, not a call for votes, although they seem quite prevalent these days. Two weeks ago, I sent out a call for talks for the Debian Devroom at the upcoming FOSDEM. So far, seven people have expressed interest to hold a talk, of which five have definitively confirmed it.

Why don’t we do something like a partial freeze, still considering newer kernels during the bug-squashing period? And fixing the kernel (and glibc and whatever depends on it) at the very last possible moment?

Currently, the only extra piece we need to declare the Lenny puzzle ready is a final version of the installer. The -boot people are about to deliver a second release candidate, which will be final unless something critical pops up.

EnvyNG (Earlier Envy) is a driver installation script developed by Alberto Milone for Nvidia/Ati graphic cards. It is available only for Ubuntu and Debian systems.

Joerg Jaspert just updated the Software behind Planet Debian to Planet Venus, away from PlanetPlanet. The major benefit right now is the threading, we are now using 15 threads to download the various feeds instead of just one.

This is a one-liner that I've found useful for searching Tag: fields in Debian's package lists. For instance, I might want to know about all the packages available that have to do with Ruby.

FIRST CALL FOR VOTES FOR THE Lenny Release General Resolution Voting period starts 00:00:01 UTC on Sunday, December 14th, 2008

My next attempt was to try installing Mepis Linux (or maybe the proper name is SimplyMEPIS?). It took a little bit of configuration work, but getting the wireless to work was just a matter of figuring out the right settings in Mepis’ network manager.

Annual Debian conference to take place 23 - 30 July 2009, it is hosted in UNESCO World Heritage city Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain. General public invited to open conference day Saturday, 25 July and Call for papers, registration to open in January 2009

In this interview we talk with Warren. In specific, we talk about: The origins of SimplyMEPIS, Ubuntu’s role in the larger community , Differences among distros from a developer perspective, Corporate use of free versus for-fee Linux, The Linux desktop and the future of client-side Linux and Future directions of note: IPv6 and DNSSEC

Are you tired of seeing the plain old (black background and blue blox) Grub screen when you turn on your computer to boot Linux? If yes, then here is a quick and easy way to install a fancy Grub Image in less than 2 minutes.

Just yesterady though I found out that it’s possible to easily install a minimalist Debian setup with the fluxbox WM. In fact, this “how to” will be over before you know it. :) If you have installed Debian before, then you will be on familiar ground.

Recently I received requests from people how I created my Linux Digital Picture frame out of some old laptops and I've decided to post easy to follow (hopefully) instructions on how to build your own, you may have to Google for some answers but hopefully I snagged them all.

With approximately 60 hours remaining, 142 people have voted, out of a potential 1018. This is somewhat of an record for low participation.