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Impending Debian import freeze

"Just a brief note to remind you all that the DebianImportFreeze for Hardy is two days away. This is the deadline for initial merges of packages for Hardy; after Thursday, December 13, merging…

Debian win32-loader Goes Official

After a long process of review and polishing, the win32 loader from goodbye-microsoft.com has finally made its way to official Debian CDs. Latest daily builds of lenny (the development version)…

Debian 4.0r1 Released

The Debian project has updated the stable distribution Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (codename Etch). This update adds security updates to the stable release, together with a few corrections to serious…

Debian Turns 14 Today!

Debian, one of my long time favorite Linux distributions turned 14 today. Without the Debian project there would be no Ubuntu.

Debian was begun in August 1993 by Ian Murdock, as a new…

MEPIS to switch from Ubuntu to Debian

SimplyMEPIS, a very popular desktop Linux, is going to change back to using Debian Linux for its core from Ubuntu. In March of 2006, MEPIS founder Warren Woodford, decided to switch to Ubuntu from…

Debian swirl logo used in PA State Museum gift shop

"Today I decided to take a few pictures of the State Museum of Pennsylvania in Harrisburg PA. They have a gift shop in the lower level called the Radius Gallery, which features artwork from…

Running 32-bit Applications on 64-bit Debian GNU/Linux

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) developed a series of 64-bit extensions to their 32-bit RISC-based Intel IA-32 (i386) compatible processors. AMD sell their AMD64 (x86-64) architecture processors…

Making Debian sexy again: Sam Hocevar speaks

How many developers run for the post of leader of the Debian GNU/Linux project and cite as part of their platform a desire to make Debian sexy again?

None that I know of - except Sam…

Debian Project participates in Google's Summer of Code

The Debian project is proud that it has been accepted by Google as a mentor organization for this year's Summer of Code program, with nine tasks in total. Google will fund the students mentioned…

Goodbye Etch, hello Lenny

The long-anticipated Debian 4.0 may only just have made its debut this week, but it's never too soon for the developer community to be making plans for its successor.

Codenamed 'etch',…