After two years, NBN construction should have been well underway, but instead, we have Opel cancelled, tenderers labelled as price gougers, NBN Co resignations, no clear and affordable NBN path and still no NBN – where the bloody hell are you?
Debian developers like to take their time embracing new technologies, with a relatively lengthy release cycle compared to most of the Linux clan. Indeed, it's taken almost two years to come up with Debian 5, the latest incarnation of this venerable distro.
Are there any Debian based distributions that have a regular release cycles besides Ubuntu or Linux Mint? I'm running Squeeze right now and I really like the Debian ecosystem and package system. However, a lot of the programs it ships with are really old like Blender (2.49a instead of 2.5+) and Haskell 6.12.
Almost all the major Linux distributions are using LibreOffice instead of OpenOffice. Today, it has been announced that Debian Squeeze too will get LibreOffice in the backports.LibreOffice has been available in Debian Wheezy and Debian Sid for a while now. But in the stable release, Debian Squeeze, it is not available.
The Debian Project announced two days ago, on March 10th, the immediate availability for download of the Debian 5.0.10 Linux operating system. Debian 5.0.10 is the last update to the Debian 5.0 (Lenny) Linux distribution, which reached end-of-life on February 6th, 2012. This release brings together all the corrections for sec... (read more)
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Debian is one of the oldest and most popular distributions among the Linux users. There are probably hundreds of distributions which are based on Debian, or others (like Mepis) which are based on distributions which in turn are based on Debian. Although I'm not a Debian developer, I use it for over two years or so, and slowly got to love this OS.
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As you already know, the next release of our favorite linux distribution will use a new installer.
So, I decided that it's time to play with it!
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It is with huge pleasure that the Debian GNU/Hurd team announces the release of Debian GNU/Hurd 2013. This is a snapshot of Debian "sid" at the time of the Debian "wheezy" release (May 2013), so it is mostly based on the same sources.
"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.
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