Debian live CD distro rev’d

The Elive team has released a long-awaited upgrade to its Debian-based, live CD-ready distro. The New Stable version of Elive 2.0, code-named Topaz, is equipped with the Enlightenment E17 desktop environment, but now offers an alternative Compaz desktop, plus new autolaunchers, system-recovery tools, and “configurators.”
Elive 2.0 represents the first major Elive release in almost three [...]

Debian project at CeBIT 2010

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Debian Project at CeBIT 2010 [...]

How To Upgrade Debian Etch To Lenny

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How To Upgrade Debian Etch To Lenny
Debian Etch is soon
to be unsupported by the Debian team, therefore all Debian Linux
Servers need to be upgraded to Debian Lenny. I work for Netzen (an IT Support
company) and have upgraded many Linux servers to Debian Lenny over [...]

Howto install ATI drivers on Debian 5 (Lenny)

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Howto install ATI drivers on Debian 5 (Lenny)

This tutorial will help you to install ATI drivers on Debian 5(lenny)
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Debian Lenny goes to 5.0.4, and so do I

When Debian issues a point release, as it just did with the current Stable distribution Lenny going from the 5.0.3 to 5.0.4, it’s no big deal. They happen. But you don’t need to throw out your Lenny install CDs or do any kind of reinstallation.
The updates have been flowing to your Debian-running machine (assuming you [...]

Hitting the Debian Lenny sweet spot

During much of the time I was running Ubuntu, I told myself that I’d be running Debian instead, if only I could get everything working.
I have tried the Ubuntu Lucid Alpha 2 build, and I still appreciate so many things working out of the box on my 2002-03-era Toshiba Satellite 1100-S101 laptop.
Even the USB Headphone [...]

Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 updated

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Debian Sources List Generator

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Debian Sources List Generator
If you are looking for debian sourcelist generator try this
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Security Support for Debian 4.0 to be terminated

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Security Support for Debian 4.0 to be terminated press@debian.org
January 21st, 2010 [...]

Howto install Real Player 11 in Debian Lenny

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Howto install Real Player 11 in Debian Lenny

RealPlayer plays streaming audio and video over the Internet in real-time. It plays RealAudio, RealVideo, MP3, 3GPP Video, Flash, SMIL 2.0, JPEG, GIF, PNG, RealPix, RealText, Ogg Vorbis, and Ogg Theora. It is available for Windows, Macintosh, Pocket PC, Nokia [...]

Howto install Cairo-Dock in debian

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Howto install Cairo-Dock in debian
Cairo-Dock is an animated application launch bar for the desktop, comparable to the dock in Mac OS X or Rocket Dock (for Windows). Now, you can use Cairo-Dock with OpenGL (to use your graphic card!).
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Debian Linux-based Google Chrome OS debuts, goes open source

Google unveiled its Debian Linux- and Chrome browser based “Chrome OS” today and announced the open-sourcing of the project. Due to ship on netbooks in late 2010, the lightweight, cloud-oriented Chrome OS offers seven-second boot-ups, works only with flash storage, and borrows from projects including Moblin.
No beta release of Chrome OS was made available at [...]

Offline Package Management for APT

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Offline Package Management for APT
This article is about Offline Package Management in Debian. Debian is a pretty well known project. One of the things that makes Debian very popular is APT (a.k.a Advanced Packaging Tool) which allows remote package downloads, upgrades and dependency resolution. Unfortunately it does require [...]

How To Enable Networking In Xen Guests On Hetzner’s New EQ Servers (Debian Lenny)

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How To Enable Networking In Xen Guests On Hetzner’s New EQ Servers (Debian Lenny)
This tutorial shows how you can enable networking in Xen guests (domU) on Hetzner’s new EQ servers.
With the new EQ servers, you can get up to three additional IPs that
are in the same subnet as the server’s [...]

Eeebuntu 4.0 moves to Debian

Firstly, the team and I would like to thank all Eeebuntuers for the huge number of contributions, participation and votes that have made this project so popular. Because of you we can now boast that we have created “Award Winning Software”!
Secondly, I have read a high number of posts in the forums related [...]

Install X Window System and a Desktop Environment in Debian

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Install X Window System and a Desktop Environment in Debian
So, you have just installed Debian GNU/Linux. Good for you! But, what now? All you have is a black screen in front of you with no mouse pointer or application menu or anything! What gives?!
What you need now is to install [...]

How to Set Up a High Performance Cluster (HPC) Using Debian Lenny and Kerrighed

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How to Set Up a High Performance Cluster (HPC) Using Debian Lenny and Kerrighed

There are many guides found on the net describing Kerrighed and how to set it up using Ubuntu and others.  However, to the best of my knowledge there isn’t a step by step guide specifically designed for [...]

Robotic Submarine Running Debian Wins International Competition

Robotic Submarine Running Debian Wins International Competition
This August, a team of 35 undergraduate students from Cornell University
sank the competition at the 12th annual Autonomous Underwater Vehicle
Competition[0], sponsored by the Association of Unmanned Vehicle Systems
International and the Office of Naval Research. The competition takes
place in a large acoustic testing pool operated by the US Navy SPAWAR
Systems [...]

Set Up A Simple High-Availability Web Server For A Small Company Using Debian Lenny

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].
Read more at [...]

How To Set Up Software RAID1 On A Running LVM System (Incl. GRUB Configuration) (Debian Lenny)

This guide explains how to set up software RAID1 on an already running LVM
system (Debian Lenny). 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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