This really quick and dirty way to create your own Debian or Ubuntu packages can be done by anyone with little previous package creation experience. Even if you've never even compiled an application, I'll show you just how easy it is to download source code, compile the program and bundle everything up in a .deb package you can share with anyone.

Python is a very popular interpreted scripting language. C is a very popular compiled language. Due to its compiled nature, C is generally faster than Python, but is lower-level, making Python programming quicker and easier than C programming.

The flaw discovered in Ralink's Wi-fi drivers for Windows last weekend also affects the Linux drivers – as already suspected. Attackers can exploit the hole to crash a computer remotely or possibly even inject and execute arbitrary code. Debian has released new packages for the rt2400, rt2500 and rt2570 models, but the packages need to be compiled by the user for the time being.

Java is an object-oriented programming language developed by Sun Microsystems in the early 1990s. Java applications are compiled to bytecode, which at runtime is either interpreted or compiled to native machine code for execution.

Java is an object-oriented programming language developed by Sun Microsystems in the early 1990s. Java applications are compiled to bytecode, which at runtime is either interpreted or compiled to native machine code for execution.

Before joining ZDNet I wrote a lot about Moore’s Law, the idea that things get faster-and-faster faster-and-faster. I found exponential Moore’s Law effects everywhere. Not just in chips, but in magnetic storage, in optical storage, in optical transport, even in radios. The only place where I didn’t find it was in software. But now the folks at SAP Research have.

Java is an object-oriented programming language developed by Sun Microsystems in the early 1990s. Java applications are compiled to bytecode, which at runtime is either interpreted or compiled to native machine code for execution.

The last time I followed a distribution’s suggestion to remove some packages that were no longer needed, I completely hosed the system. Could not use it afterwards. Though the machine was a test machine, the experience thought me to always let sleeping dogs lie.

paldo is a Upkg driven GNU/Linux distribution. It's kind of a mix of a source and a binary distribution. Even though it builds packages like a source distribution it provides binary packages.