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Debian is NOT switching to time-based releases

http://mdzlog.alcor.net

At DebConf 9 this week, the Debian release team proposed a new approach to Debian’s release cycle, which was then announced on the Debian web site. Both the Debconf presentation and the announcement were quite clear, but a number of news articles and blog posts on the subject seem to have misinterpreted them.

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Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

http://www.debian.org

The Debian project has decided to adopt a new policy of time-based development freezes for future releases, on a two-year cycle. Freezes will from now on happen in the December of every odd year, which means that releases will from now on happen sometime in the first half of every even year.

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Created by alkali147 14 years 38 weeks ago – Made popular 14 years 38 weeks ago
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Deep Freeze-Like Software for Ubuntu / Debian

http://webupd8.blogspot.com

Lethe is a Deep Freeze-like partition freezing software for Debian GNU/Linux and Lihuen GNU/Linux (May work on other Debian-based GNU/Linux distributions).

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Created by nilarimogard 14 years 38 weeks ago – Made popular 14 years 38 weeks ago
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FSlint - Clean and organize your Linux

http://blog.dipinkrishna.info

By the time now, we all know that all applications installed on our PC are slowly filling our system with files, then comes a time when controlling everything in our computer becomes virtually impossible. If you want your computer to be running like the first day you had it. Put FSlint the task of cleaning and organizing your Linux very easy.

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Created by linuxtips 14 years 38 weeks ago – Made popular 14 years 38 weeks ago
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How To Defend slowloris DDoS With mod_qos (Apache2 On Debian [Lenny])

http://www.howtoforge.com

mod_qos gives some fine-grained opportunities to scale the number of used connections and to defend an attack according to bandwidth limits. Unfortunately it is only available as source-package and there are many possible settings, wich might be hard to set up for this special case. So I provide the way that helped me.

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Mono: Why is Debian resorting to spin?

http://www.itwire.com

The question of using applications that are dependent on Mono has been a vexatious one for a long time. Nobody in the FOSS community has ever raised an objection to the provision of the packages by any GNU/Linux distribution; it's only the question of making these applications a part of the default set that has resulted in endless arguments.

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Debian rejects open-source .NET threat claim

http://www.theregister.co.uk

Debian, the foundation of Ubuntu, has rejected claims that it is potentially holding Linux's future hostage to Microsoft by including an open-source implementation of .NET in its code.

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Created by extra 14 years 40 weeks ago – Made popular 14 years 40 weeks ago
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Striping Across Four Storage Nodes With GlusterFS On Debian Lenny

http://www.howtoforge.com

This tutorial shows how to do data striping (segmentation of logically sequential data, such as a single file, so that segments can be assigned to multiple physical devices in a round-robin fashion and thus written concurrently) across four single storage servers (running Debian Lenny) with GlusterFS.

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5 Simple APT Tips for Debian and Ubuntu, Part II

http://tuxarena.blogspot.com

Several months ago I created an article with 5 APT (Advanced Packaging Tool) tips for both Debian and Ubuntu available here. APT is the package manager in Debian and Debian-based distributions, like Ubuntu. Here's part two of that article, with 5 more tips and tricks for APT.

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Created by keyboardninja 14 years 41 weeks ago – Made popular 14 years 40 weeks ago
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How-To: Download Debian CDs/DVDs Using jigdo

http://tuxarena.blogspot.com

This guide will show how to download ISO images (CDs, DVDs or Blu-Ray) using jigdo, a specific protocol intended to be the main way to download Debian disc images.

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Created by tisha 14 years 41 weeks ago – Made popular 14 years 40 weeks ago
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Rebuilding a deb package from an installation

http://unixlab.blogspot.com

If you have an ubuntu/debian system , you can rebuild the deb file of any installed package. For this install the dpkg-repack package.

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Created by Fermilevel 14 years 41 weeks ago – Made popular 14 years 41 weeks ago
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Debian developer "clarifies" Mono position

http://www.h-online.com

Alexander Reichle-Schmehl, a Debian developer who stated Debian's position on Mono in the default Debian install last week, has clarified his statement on the issue in a new posting.

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Apt-p2p for peer-to-peer Debian package downloads

http://www.debiantoday.com

Apt-p2p gives you the ability to download Debian packages via a peer-to-peer protocol. Apt-p2p will try to get the packages from peers before it resorts to pulling them from the repository. This saves bandwidth for the repository servers, can speed up your download speed, and ads to the sense of community which Debian is so rich with.

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Created by Bizurke 14 years 41 weeks ago – Made popular 14 years 41 weeks ago
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Debian - Mono is not in our default installation

http://www.h-online.com

In response to the open letter written by free software guru Richard Stallman about the Mono problem, Alexander Schmehl, Debian developer and spokesperson for the GNU/Linux distribution has pointed out that Debian has no plans to include the controversial programming environment in the default GNOME installation.

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Created by penguinista 14 years 42 weeks ago – Made popular 14 years 42 weeks ago
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Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 updated

http://www.debian.org

The Debian project is pleased to announce the second update of its stable distribution Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (codename "lenny"). This update mainly adds corrections for security problems.

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Created by bolony_and_cheese 14 years 42 weeks ago – Made popular 14 years 42 weeks ago
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