So, no news for the next week....I'm away on vacation and probably won't be near a keyboard to support you with new articles about Debian!

As with the original ARM-based Bubba Server, which shipped in January 2007 and subsequently garnered at least one glowing review, the Bubba Two is a highly customizable, general-purpose server appliance.

After installing Debian I set out to get the desktop fonts to look as good in Debian as they did (by default) in Ubuntu.

This article will explain how to install and configure lighthttpd with PHP5 and MySQL. lighthttd is a web server designed to be fast, secure, flexible and standards-complient while being optimized for speed-critical environments.

How to install Xfree86 in Debian Sarge? Here is a short how-to that shows the process of installing it .

Phil Hands did some stuff for etch / debian-installer to try to help out with this. This is the auto-install udeb. Most importantly is trying to get all the network information on the command line.

Basically what I feel about stability of distributions I am considering is:
Debian Stable (+backports) > Ubuntu (+backports) > Debian Testing > Debian Unstable

DebConf 8 is approaching and our website is clearly not what we’d like it to be. It turns out that compiling all the useful stuff that travellers might need is not easy, so we kindly ask you —dear lazyweb—, to lend us a hand.

You can now try the “Nouveau” free software nVidia video drivers from Debian experimental.

How would it be, if we developed unified Debian / Ubuntu installer addons that would solve all the painful issues that somebody in a campus like ours at IITM faces while installing Debian / Ubuntu?