Other than a few obtuse references to some of the features of the Fedora 8 rescuecd, I could not easily figure out how to install Fedora 8 (fc8) in a similar fashion to Debian's netinst installer.

It took me a few tries to get a good burn on Damn Small Linux 4.3. Once I did, it worked great on my Dell Optiplex GX 520. It also performed flawlessly on my VIA C3 test box.

Finally re-installed Debian 4.0 “etch” on the Toshiba Satellite Pro M10. It’s a dual-boot installation with Windows XP. I installed from a CD (I only used CD 1, .iso image available on the Debian website.

Being in a reasonably small home I was eager to save on desk-space, and so decided to upgrade my ageing inkjet printer at the same time. Having looked around I eventually went for an HP Photosmart C5180 device.

We tested openSUSE, Ubuntu 8.04, PCLinuxOS, Mandriva Linux One, Fedora, SimplyMEPIS, and CentOS 5.1. All performed well, and each had at least one truly outstanding feature.

I was cleaning up my /home partiton when I noticed I had several tiny distros hanging around waiting to be tested. So I thought this might be a good time to write an updated Mini-distro Roundup.

I was always shying away from installing the firmware, building from the source. But when I found no other way, I ventured to get things done with sourceforge.net and here is how.

Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt becomes Release Manager for Debian, replacing Andreas Barth.

If you are currently using a Linux router on a home network, you should seriously consider uPnP. uPnP allows computers to request ports be opened for them, so applications that require open ports can work without work of the owner of the Linux router.

used webmin for most of my user administration in the past just because of the ease of use, however I’ve been trying to move away from webmin and do everything myself from the command line lately so I’ve gotten back into adding users and managing passwords and groups from the command line.

As of February 2008 1&1 has still only Debian Sarge (3.1) in their standard portfolio for initial installation. But the move to Debian Etch (4.0) is quite easy.

If you use Debian, Ubuntu, or some other Debian derived Linux distribution, there may come a time when a packages default configuration options don't meet your needs.

We use git with a single bare repository for our puppet configuration, and each systems administrator has a local git repository clone which they push back to the origin. I wanted to set up email notification on this main repository which lives on a debian etch server.

I’ve just been trying to build Mapnik on my stock Debian Etch box. Mapnik’s build system couldn’t find the required Boost libraries on its own, and it wasn’t possible to just tell it where they were…

I had the opportunity recently to test Linux, the freeware operating system, as a standalone, bootable CD. The version I tried was SimplyMEPIS 7.0, a configuration of the Linux OS and many popular open source programs, with a good graphic user interface (GUI).

This blog entry will explain how to enable 3D acceleration under Debian Linux and may be perhaps under any other Linux distribution.

Steve McIntyre: The first thing I promised to do when I became DPL was to initiate a thorough review of Debian's teams. Well, no time like the present!

The Debian project is proud to announce that it has again been accepted by Google as a mentor organisation for the Summer of Code programme.

That being said, this guide uses very clean methods to install beryl so it shouldn't break your setup. The only part that can (realistically) break your system is the xorg.conf editing, so take a copy.

Elected Debian project leader on 17 April, Steve McIntyre is the man charged with leading the organisation to the next level. McIntyre found some time to talk ZDNet.co.uk through his vision of where the Debian project is headed.

This is a simple walk through on how to create a debian file from a binary

As part of the Tech Fusion Outline Series, this article describes some additions to the Debian Distribution model which, if implemented, would have the benefits of making Debian, the Debian Development and deployment entirely independent of Server-based Infrastructure.

The news are collected on http://wiki.debian.org/DeveloperNews Please contribute: add important news related to your Debian work, too.

Kamloops Thompson School District #73, British Columbia, Canada, with 55 elementary and secondary schools, chose a majority of open source software on Debian GNU / Linux as it is easier to maintain and in their experience offers better support.

This guide will walk through the setup and installation of Debian GNU/Linux and Squid proxy. Optionally, DansGuardian may be used in addition to provide URL blacklisting and content filtering.

Steve McIntyre is the recently elected Debian Prioject Leader. He is a software engineer and a long-time Debian developer. His best known contributions have been in the field of creating Debian CD/DVD images.

To fix GRUB, I booted into Knoppix 5.1.1, opened up a terminal, did su to root and then the following (thanks to Kyle Rankin's excellent "Knoppix Hacks"; and yes, we all need a copy of this very valuable book)...

One of the highlights of fisl9.0 for me was getting to know better the work that is being done by Brazil's Ministry of Education (MEC). The software installed on these systems is "Linux Educacional 2.0", a very clean Debian-based distribution, with KDE 3.5, KDE-Edu, KDE-Games, and some tools developed by the project.

This guide explains how to integrate APC (Alternative PHP Cache) into PHP5 on a Debian Etch system (with Apache2). APC is a free and open PHP opcode cacher for caching and optimizing PHP intermediate code.

Frustrated software programmers unable to sign up to the voluntarily run community of developers behind the Debian GNU/Linux operating system have criticised the management of the project.