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Debian Lenny beats Ubuntu Hardy

Mon, 12 May 2008 21:04:03 +0200

OK, here's the situation: Ilene and our little girl need to use the $0 Laptop. So you figure, "new users, go for Ubuntu." Well, after having them on Ubuntu for a week, I've switched them over to Debian Lenny, which I dual-boot on this Gateway Solo 1450.

Debian Weekly News - May 9th, 2008

Mon, 12 May 2008 21:00:46 +0200

Welcome to this year's 2nd issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. While visiting Stefano Zacchiroli the www 2008 conference in china Sir Tim Berners-Lee offered Debian kudos for its well thought-out encapsulation/packaging of libraries.

Debian GNU/Linux SuiteTelecentro: millions of users every day

Mon, 12 May 2008 20:57:38 +0200

The Brazilian Debian GNU / Linux SuiteTelecentro is a custom solution which is currently being deployed in the Digital Inclusion Program of Banco do Brasil. SuiteTelecentro is used in approximately 2000 telecentres and computer rooms.

How to create menus for TWM, OpenBox, FluxBox, etc

Sun, 11 May 2008 20:06:16 +0200

The Debian menu systems really saves you a lot of time, when you are trying to find a new installed software.

Installing Debian Testing on a Lenovo X61s Thinkpad

Sun, 11 May 2008 20:01:21 +0200

So far it seems like everythings working. Network and harddisk were found and the installer is just preparing it for an encrypted LVM, so Im pretty confident everything will work out alright.

Senior Debian developer quits core teams

Sat, 10 May 2008 21:14:14 +0200

A senior Debian developer, Australian Anthony Towns, has left some core teams of the project and gone quiet in the last couple of weeks, according to project sources

Manipulate Audio Files Using CLI Tools in Debian

Sat, 10 May 2008 21:06:50 +0200

This is a tutorial about using CLI (Command Line Interface) tools in Ubuntu and Debian to manipulate, encode and decode various audio formats, like FLAC or OGG Vorbis.

Linux in Under 5 Minutes

Sat, 10 May 2008 21:03:26 +0200

Knoppix is a free, widely-used Live Linux CD distribution, based on Debian GNU/Linux. It bills itself as from zero to Linux in five minutes,

Multi-protocol wireless mesh gateway runs Debian

Sat, 10 May 2008 20:58:47 +0200

Zaragoza, Spain-based Libelium announced an x86-based multi-protocol mesh router with a Debian GNU/Linux-based OS and a user-extensible browser-based open source management interface.

Fedora rescuecd vs. Debian netinst ... with Screenshots

Thu, 08 May 2008 20:43:04 +0200

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.