Christian Perrier (Bubulle) issued statistics in his blog that show which countries of the world have the largest per capita Debian developers. First place goes to Finnland.
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Reinstalling Debian on the Self-Reliant Thin Client
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Since the CF card serving as the sole disk drive in the Self-Reliant Thin Client (Maxspeed Maxtor converted to use as a full desktop PC) checked out with fsck via a card reader on another PC, I decided to do a reinstall of Debian, this time Lenny instead of Etch.
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Ubuntu man finds metalove in Debian attacks
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If there's an upside to the Debian community's recent attacks on Ubuntu and Mark Shuttleworth it's that there'll be more conversation between engineers on the two distros.
Read more »Explaining Why We Don't Endorse Other Systems
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"We're often asked why we don't endorse a particular system—usually a popular GNU/Linux distribution. The short answer to that question is that they don't follow the free system distribution guidelines. But since it isn't always easy to see how a particular system fails to follow the guidelines, we still get these questions.
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Set Up A Simple High-Availability Web Server For A Small Company Using Debian Lenny
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This tutorial was written for the Debian Lenny distribution and supposes that the user has knowledge about what load balancing is and some basic skills of Linux, our two load balancers consist out of 2 machines that monitor each other [heartbeat], if the master stops responding the secondary one [Backup] will take the master role [Backup -> Master].
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Why does Debian smell like freedom?
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Now when I ask myself if I would like to pay for the newest Windows, I come up with a big no. This is not the first version of Windows and it certainly wont be the last. Clearly, the more I invest in Windows today, the more I will re-invest in the future. Even if one ends up buying Windows, he’d soon have had to pay for an MS-Office licence.
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How To Limit CPU Usage Of A Process With cpulimit (Debian/Ubuntu)
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This tutorial shows how you can limit the CPU usage of a process with the tool cpulimit on Debian/Ubuntu. cpulimit is a simple program that attempts to limit the CPU usage of a process (expressed in percentage, not in cpu time).
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How to find the fastest repository in Debian
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To find the fastest mirror in Debian, download and install apt-spy.
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ALSA 1.0.21 Upgrade Script For Ubuntu / Debian
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Using the same ALSA upgrade script as for 1.0.20, but with some minor tweaks, you can upgrade to ALSA 1.0.21 by running a simple sh file.
For instructions on how to run the script and other MUST READ info, please check our ALSA 1.0.20 upgade script post.
Once you do that, you can download the ALSA 1.0.21 upgrade script....[...]
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The ethical cultivation of peer producers through norms, dialogue, and conflict
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"This article is a detailed examination of ethical cultivation as it occurs in the Debian project,.."
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Howto Install PHP GD (PHP Graphics) support in Ubuntu / Debian
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PHP is not limited to creating just HTML output. It can also be used to create and manipulate image files in a variety of different image formats, including GIF, PNG, JPEG, WBMP, and XPM. Even more convenient, PHP can output image streams directly to a browser. You need to install GD Library for this purpose. Simply you can do this.
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7 Reasons to Use Debian
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1. Stable
Any application needs time to be used and tested enough time in order to make it stable. One of the greatest goals of Debian is stability. It's released when it's ready and applications included in the repositories have enough time to be tested through.
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How To Set Up Software RAID1 On A Running System (Debian Lenny)
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This guide explains how to set up software RAID1 on an already running Debian Lenny system. The GRUB bootloader will be configured in such a way that the system will still be able to boot if one of the hard drives fails (no matter which one).
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DebConf9 in Cáceres, Spain: Time of changes
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«...Every year several hundreds of Debian contributors from around the world get together at DebConf in a different city to share a week (or more!) of work, friendship and fun...»
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Vista User on SimplyMEPIS 8.0.10
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Lets take a closer look at how intuitive the SimplyMEPIS 8.0.10 Live CD really is for a Windows user. I’ve introduced SimplyMEPIS to a lifelong Windows user and documented the “cans” and “can nots” of his first 2 hours on this Linux distribution.
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