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Trac is an enhanced free software wiki and issue tracking system for software development projects. Trac uses a minimalistic approach to web-based software project management. It's mission is to help developers write great software while staying out of the way. Trac should impose as little as possible on a team's established development process and policies.
"Installing Emacs 22 on Debian Etch doesn’t need to be a painful experience. While installing from source is perfectly doable, some people will want to use the Debian packaging system. Emacs 22 is now in Sid but it didn’t make it yet to Etch backports..."
This mini-howto explains how to set up an SSH server on Debian Etch with public-key authorization (and optionally with disabled password logins). SSH is a great tool to control Linux-based computers remotely. It's safe and secure.
Unbound is a validating, recursive, and caching DNS resolver, released under a BSD license. Version 1.0.0 was released on May 20, 2008. This tutorial explains how to install and use it on Debian Etch, including the creation of zones for your own domains.
In this HowTo I will describe how to prepare a Debian Etch server for OpenVZ. With OpenVZ you can create multiple Virtual Private Servers (VPS) on the same hardware, similar to Xen and the Linux Vserver project. OpenVZ is the open-source branch of Virtuozzo, a commercial virtualization solution used by many providers that offer virtual servers.
This document explains how to set up a fully encrypted para-virtualized XEN instance. In this howto, the host system is running Debian Etch, while the guest system to be installed will be using Debian Lenny.
Most of us might be finding it difficult to run Mozilla Firefox 3 on Debian Etch, because of the old gtk libraries. And many might have problems installing the libraries themselves. Mozilla Firefox requires at least gtk 2.10. Here is a small howto I found to solve the problem. Basically it is to install the required libraries in a different location and make Firefox3 use them.
LedgerSMB is a free (licensed under the GPL), web based double entry accounting system written in Perl which uses PostgreSQL for data storage. It is intended for small and medium businesses (SMB), and it can be used easily through a regular web browser like Firefox. This tutorial explains how to install LedgerSMB on a Debian Etch system.