One rather old laptop and one server were the test objects for this howto. Both systems do not have any RAID devices and use a simple partition scheme from a default basic Lenny install. If your setup deviates much from this, it's highly recommended to read all details of the Debian Release Notes before you continue. Be warned.
Read more »Interview with Richard Stallman (2011)
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Richard M. Stallman is an American software freedom activist and computer programmer. In September 1983, he launched the GNU Project to create a free Unix-like operating system; he initiated the Free Software Movement; in October 1985 he founded the Free Software Foundation.
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Debian6.0 Squeeze screenshots Tour
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Finally, after 24 Months of constant developement Debian Aqueeze 6.0 has been released today, this release comes with many updates and new features, it includes the KDE Plasma Desktop and Applications, the debianGNOME, Xfce, and LXDE desktop environments as well as all kinds of server applications, numerous updated software packages, over 10,000 new packages like the browser Chromium, the monitori
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Hosting Multiple SSL Web Sites On One IP With Apache 2.2 & GnuTLS (Debian Lenny)
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This tutorial describes how you can host multiple SSL-encrypted web sites (HTTPS) on one IP address with Apache 2.2 and GnuTLS on a Debian Lenny server.
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How to unclutter your Debian source package from autogenerated files
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It’s quite common that the upstream build system generates/updates some files but does not clean them up properly when you call make clean.
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Debian derivatives census
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The Debian Project would like to invite representatives of distributions derived from Debian to participate in a census of Debian derivatives. In addition we would like to invite representatives of distributions derived from Debian to join the Debian derivatives front desk.
Read more »Updated Debian GNU/Linux: 5.0.8 released
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The Debian project is pleased to announce the eighth update of its stable distribution Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (codename "lenny"). This update mainly adds corrections for security problems to the stable release, along with a few adjustment to serious problems.
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Myths and Facts about Firmwares and their non-removal from Debian
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Debian's announcement to release "Squeeze" with a completely free Linux kernel caused quite some attention, which is actually a good thing. However, it also seems to have caused quite some uncertainty and was often partially misunderstood and miss quoted. I'll try to summarize and answer some of them in this blog post
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Installing MyDNS-NG & MyDNSConfig On Debian Squeeze
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This tutorial will describe how to install and configure MyDNS-NG and MyDNSConfig 3 on Debian Squeeze. MyDNS-NG is a DNS server that uses a MySQL database as backend instead of configuration files. The advantage is that MyDNS simply reads the records from the database, and it does not have to be restarted/reloaded when DNS records change or zones are created/edited/deleted.
Read more »Debian Squeeze release schedule
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Now that a release candidate of the installer has been uploaded and tested, a few issues have been identified and was binNMUed today. This should turn into RC2 by the end of the week. This means we are able to begin the final preparations for a release of Debian 6.0 -- "Squeeze".
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Host Based Intrusion Detection - Samhain
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This article describes in some detail how to install Samhain, the host based intrusion detection system. I am not going to ramble on about what host based intrusion detection is or why to use it, as there are plenty of articles already covering those subjects.
Read more »How to create Debian packages with alternative compression methods
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While gzip is the standard Unix tool when it comes to compression, there are other tools available and some of them are performing better than gzip in terms of compression ratio.
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Linux Mint Debian Edition review
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Linux Mint Debian Edition, or LMDE, is the edition of Linux Mint based on Debian Testing. The latest release was made available for download on December 24, 2010. LMDE was announced as an alternate edition of Linux Mint in first week of September 2010. A review of that release was focused on the installation program. This article presents a more detailed review of this distribution.
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Debian 6.0 "Squeeze" to be released with complete free Linux Kernel
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The Debian project has been working in removing non-free firmware from the Linux kernel shipped with Debian for the past two release cycles. At the time of the releases of Debian 4.0 "Etch" and 5.0 "Lenny", however, it was not yet possible to ship Linux kernels stripped of all non-free firmware bits.
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