Philip Newborough has announced the development release (Alpha 1) version of CrunchBang Linux 10 code-named "Statler" just moments after the release of Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" Beta 1. For the first time ever, the distro is being built using Debian sources, instead of Ubuntu.
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Debian: DebConf10 & 2010 Project Leader Elections
The DebConf organisers have announced they are now accepting proposals for contributions to this year’s annual Debian developers conference and the Debian Project has revealed the final four candidates for the 2010 Project Leader Elections
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How to Install Debian Linux on an Embedded System
In this article, I will describe how to bring up Debian Linux on an Embedded System. The hardware chosen for the embedded system is a PowerPC 440EPxX.
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Epidemic 3.1 installation guide
Epidemic is a desktop-oriented, KDE, Debian-based (GNU/Linux) distribution developed in Brazil. This article provides a detailed, step by step guide on how to partition a disk and install Epidemic 3.1, the latest stable release.
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Build Your Own Video Community With Lighttpd And FlowPlayer (Debian Lenny)
This article shows how you can build your own video community using lighttpd with its mod_flv_streaming module (for streaming .flv videos, the format used by most major video communities such as YouTube) and its mod_secdownload module (for preventing hotlinking of the videos) on Debian Lenny.
Read more »Why GNU/Linux for academics and why Debian in particular?
This is an attempt to explain my position as to why I use GNU/Linux and Debian GNU/Linux, in particular, and why you as a reader, surfer, or couch academic, should want to run GNU/Linux and Debian.
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Server Monitoring With munin And monit On Debian Lenny
In this article I will describe how you can monitor your Debian Lenny server with munin and monit.
Read more »Virtualization With VirtualBox 3.1.x On A Headless Debian Lenny Server
This guide explains how you can run virtual machines with Sun xVM VirtualBox 3.1.x on a headless Debian Lenny server. Normally you use the VirtualBox GUI to manage your virtual machines, but a server does not have a desktop environment.
Read more »Eeebuntu 4 Beta 1 Overview And Screenshots
Eeebuntu, the Linux distribution for netbooks which won the Sourceforge Choice Awards: BEST NEW PROJECT in 2009 has released the first beta of the new version 4. For now only the i386 version is available.
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Debian 6.0 Squeeze behind schedule
The Debian release team are sounding the alarm: With only one month left before the planned release freeze, the number of critical bugs in Debian 6.0 Squeeze is still far too high to freeze development.
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Traffic Analysis Using Debian Lenny
By using my Network Monitoring Appliance we noticed a link in MRTG always under heavy load. On this link a lot of different traffic aggregates, so we decided to analyze of what quantities of protocols and therefore applications the cumulative traffic consists.
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Registration now open for DebConf10
"Registration is now open for DebConf10. The dates of the conference are August 1-7, 2010, with arrivals at our group lodging permitted as of 3 PM on July 31 and departures required by 11 AM on August 8. The conference is preceded by DebCamp from July 25-31 including the arrival day..."
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How To Back Up MySQL Databases With mylvmbackup On Debian Lenny
mylvmbackup is a Perl script for quickly creating MySQL backups. It uses LVM's snapshot feature to do so. To perform a backup, mylvmbackup obtains a read lock on all tables and flushes all server caches to disk, creates a snapshot of the volume containing the MySQL data directory, and unlocks the tables again. This article shows how to use it on a Debian Lenny server.
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Why debian rocks
It has been quite some time, actually years, since I started using Debian. I just thought to write the reasons for which I really like Debian compared to other systems.
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How to configure maximum performance storage space for Debian GNU / Linux on IBM DS8300
The IBM DS 8300 Data Storage Systems are multi millions dollars flexible high availability and performance SAN machines.
But you may left much of such performance and availability behind if you do not configure then correctly for Debian GNU / Linux.
See how to ask for performance data storage space on them. Or what you need to configure on them.
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