The Ministry of Education from Brazil is buying more 3000 Debian GNU / Linux computers , with four multimedia terminals and compatible printers for installing at 3000 rural schools, with 36 months contractual support. This next bidding adds up to the previous 90000 Debian GNU / Linux computers, network and printers.
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Debian Administration website design contest!
"The current look of this site hasn't changed much for the past two years, apart from a few additional CSS rules being used by default in article texts. Whilst the content here is hopefully of sufficient quality to allow the current design to be tolerated I'm sure we can do better. [...] So I've decided to see what the readers can do to help, and would like to see designs from people with better skills than myself..."
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Creating Ringtones with Linux (Debian)
This howto shows you how to edit mp3 files to make the useful as ringtones using audacity with Linux, then you can upload using bluetooth.
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How To Set Up Software RAID1 On A Running System (Incl. GRUB Configuration) (Debian Etch)
This guide explains how to set up software RAID1 on an already running Debian Etch 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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Debian Maintainers Open Beta
"In early August, Debian voted to endorse the concept of "Debian Maintainers" which allows contributors who, though not full Debian developers, should be allowed to maintain their own packages in the archive without requiring a sponsor for every upload [0].
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Hyperic isn’t the only open source company hoping to capitalize on Ubuntu’s push for a bigger piece of the OS market, it seems. Thursday, GroundWork Open Source released GroundWork Monitor Open Source for Ubuntu and other Debian-based operating systems.
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Massive scale installation and management tools for Debian GNU/Linux (part 1)
You have 5,000 or 50,000 machines to install and manage across the country, at a thousand distant locations into your enterprise. Such massive GNU / Linux installation and management for corporations needs suitable tools or become a nightmare.
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Some numbers about Debian’s history
"There’s an interesting article on LWN.net about Gentoo: Who made Gentoo Linux, and when? A commit analysis. I was wondering how Debian compared, so I made some stats using the debian-devel-changes archives..."
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How to install Looking Glass on Debian Etch
This is a pretty simple guide to installing Looking Glass, a 3D window manager alternative to Compiz Fusion, for Debian Linux.
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Linux: The Little Operating System That Really Can
I began what I like to think of as my “Linux Adventure”, in February of 2006 on a short, much-frazzled shoestring.
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Debian GNU/Minix
"Finally someone has seen the light and started a project that I called for in a previous article. This melding of the Minix kernel with the GNU userland is called Preventa..."
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Why don’t more people use Debian?
Over the last couple of weeks I’ve caught myself wondering why there are so many “easy-to-use” Debian-based distros. I used to think of Debian as the distro that was way up there, a long long way to go, in terms of user-friendlyness. I didn’t think that I was going to be able to use Debian. It just seemed to hard.
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Bhutan Deploys Linux
The Bhutan government liked its first taste of Linux so much that it has come back for seconds, releasing an updated version of its Debian-based operating system that it launched last year.
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GNU wget: Get all the web content you like on your local machine
"Wget is so flexible you’ve probably been using it for years without knowing it, many scripts use it because it is a boilerplate method of grabbing files, it will even automatically retry under certain circumstances…"
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Installing LedgerSMB (Open Source Accounting Application) On Debian Etch
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.
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