http://www.osnews.com/ Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams OSNews version 4 donotreply@osnews.com (Adam Scheinberg) donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:30:42 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com/ 120 http://www.osnews.com/story/22457/Debian_GNU_Hurd_the_L_series/ http://www.osnews.com/story/22457/Debian_GNU_Hurd_the_L_series/ Debian GNU/Hurd can now be installed a little easier. "This month Philip Charles created a new installation CD, the L series, for the Hurd, which brings us a big step towards installing the Hurd from the Hurd (without the need of a Linux-based installer). If you enjoy testing stuff, please give it a try." Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:33:21 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Debian and its clones 31 http://www.osnews.com/topics/52 News J!NX http://www.osnews.com/story/22306/Debian_GNU_kFreeBSd_Gets_Release_Status/ http://www.osnews.com/story/22306/Debian_GNU_kFreeBSd_Gets_Release_Status/ It's hard to turn a news item like this into a front page item, but I'm going to try anyway, because I think it's pretty cool news. As we all know, Debian supports a number of architectures as 'release architectures', but what some of you may not be aware of is that Debian also supports a number of kernels other than Linux. One of those, the FreeBSD kernel, has been promoted to release status, putting it on equal footing with the Linux variant. Wed, 07 Oct 2009 22:34:05 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Debian and its clones 42 http://www.osnews.com/topics/52 News http://www.osnews.com/story/22126/Debian_Oh_What_Tangled_Webs_We_Weave_/ http://www.osnews.com/story/22126/Debian_Oh_What_Tangled_Webs_We_Weave_/ Developer Frans Pop, author of debtree, posted an article showing the evolution in size of the GNOME desktop environment in recent Debian releases. The picture he paints isn't particularly pretty: the default GNOME install has increased drastically in size over the years. Mon, 07 Sep 2009 22:38:32 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Debian and its clones 97 http://www.osnews.com/topics/52 News EvilWells http://www.osnews.com/story/21970/Shuttleworth_Offers_Canonical_Employees_to_Debian/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21970/Shuttleworth_Offers_Canonical_Employees_to_Debian/ Earlier this month, we reported that Debian had announced a new release schedule; a freeze during December, a release some time in the first half of the following year. After outcries from the Debian community, the December freeze aspect of the plan was reversed. Since most of the ire about this situation seemed to be directed towards Ubuntu, Mark Shuttleworth decided to step in and offer to put several Canonical employees to work on Debian instead of Ubuntu. Sun, 09 Aug 2009 19:07:11 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Debian and its clones 62 http://www.osnews.com/topics/52 News http://www.osnews.com/story/21911/Debian_Adopts_Two-Year_Time-Based_Release_Cycle/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21911/Debian_Adopts_Two-Year_Time-Based_Release_Cycle/ Most mainstream distributions, like Ubuntu, Fedora, and Mandriva, have already adopted a time-based release schedule, meaning that releases are not done on a feature basis, but according to a pre-determined time schedule. The Debian project has announced that it has adopted a time-based release schedule too. Wed, 29 Jul 2009 09:50:34 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Debian and its clones 37 http://www.osnews.com/topics/52 News kragil http://www.osnews.com/story/21856/Apperi_Linux_App_Store_Launches/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21856/Apperi_Linux_App_Store_Launches/ A new Linux App Store apperi.com has been launched allowing one-click installation of over 100,000 packages across recent Debian and Ubuntu versions. "Apperi provides a simple way to search and install applications on your Debian or Ubuntu Linux computer. By using the official repository package lists and apt-url it allows for one-click installation of every official package in its supported distributions. Apperi was developed by Ryan Quinn who is also the founder and lead developer of the currently dormant GNU/Linux distro SymphonyOS." Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:56:50 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Debian and its clones 10 http://www.osnews.com/topics/52 News Ryan Quinn http://www.osnews.com/story/21679/McIntyre_Mono_Decision_Under_Discussion_/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21679/McIntyre_Mono_Decision_Under_Discussion_/ Last week we talked about whether or not the Debian project would include Mono in its default GNOME installation. This incited some heavy debate on OSNews, but sadly, the Mono debate also lead to some very nasty blog posts in the Debian community. Time for damage control, Debian project leader Steve McIntyre must've thought. Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:11:51 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Debian and its clones 97 http://www.osnews.com/topics/52 News http://www.osnews.com/story/21660/Mono_Part_of_Debian_s_Default_Desktop_Install_/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21660/Mono_Part_of_Debian_s_Default_Desktop_Install_/ Well, this is interesting. We already have a Mono item ruffling some feathers on OSNews today, but here we have the apparent news that Tomboy has become a default part of GNOME on Squeeze, the next release of Debian. Wait, what now? Update: I've updated the article with Fedora's position in all this. Read on! Update II: Josselin Mouette replies. Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:25:06 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Debian and its clones 95 http://www.osnews.com/topics/52 News http://www.osnews.com/story/21441/Debian_Switching_to_EGLIBC/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21441/Debian_Switching_to_EGLIBC/ Via LWN, we found a blog post of a Debian maintainer which announces a new package: EGLIBC, a compatible reimplementation of the GNU glibc which "which will soon replace the GNU C Library". Apparently the primary reason is the sadly famous bad maintainership aptitude of Ulrich Drepper, the main libc maintainer. Wed, 06 May 2009 17:41:32 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Debian and its clones 43 http://www.osnews.com/topics/52 News diegocg http://www.osnews.com/story/21264/Debian_Gets_FreeBSD_Kernel_Support/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21264/Debian_Gets_FreeBSD_Kernel_Support/ Two new architectures based on the FreeBSD-kernel have been added to the Debian Archive. This makes Debian the first distribution, and probably the first large OS, to support two completely different kernels at the same time. "The two new architectures (well, better named OS i think, as they use a different kernel) are available in unstable and experimental. We do start out empty, importing only what is needed to get a build running. For this reason you will not be able to directly use it immediately. Please wait until they catched up, which I expect to happen soon." Mon, 06 Apr 2009 20:47:11 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Debian and its clones 15 http://www.osnews.com/topics/52 News Lennie http://www.osnews.com/story/21066/_Debian_5_0_Continues_Strong_Linux_Tradition_/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21066/_Debian_5_0_Continues_Strong_Linux_Tradition_/ eWeek has reviewed Debian 5.0, and concludes: "Version 5 of the Debian GNU/Linux open-source operating system offers the same top management tools and processor support that previous versions of the Linux operating system have. There also are a host of updates to open-source components, and the Linux distribution is still a great fit for servers and a solid desktop choice. However, the top reason for upgrading from version 4 may be the relatively short three-year security fix window, less than the coverage time offered with Ubuntu and Red Hat Enterprise Linux-derived CentOS." Mon, 02 Mar 2009 17:16:55 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Debian and its clones 14 http://www.osnews.com/topics/52 News http://www.osnews.com/story/20983/Debian_5_Lenny_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/20983/Debian_5_Lenny_Released/ A few months later than expected, Debian 5 has finally arrived with a bundle of new goodies: Java is finally in the Debian repositories thanks to IcedTea and OpenJDK; Firefox (rebranded as Iceweasel) is now at 3.0; and official live images are ready for our downloading pleasure. TuxRadar has a detailed look at Lenny along with an explanation from Steve McIntyre, the Debian Project Leader, on why it was delayed. Earlier this week, we already detailed the new features in Lenny. Sun, 15 Feb 2009 14:24:14 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Debian and its clones 43 http://www.osnews.com/topics/52 News http://www.osnews.com/story/20969/Debian_Lenny_Due_for_Release_On_Valentine_s/ http://www.osnews.com/story/20969/Debian_Lenny_Due_for_Release_On_Valentine_s/ What a lovely holiday to release the latest and greatest creation brought to us by yours truly, Debian. February 14th marks Debian GNU/Linux 5.0's supposed release into the wilds of the world, nearly two years after 'etch,' lenny's predecessor. The date is set nearly in stone unless something very serious goes wrong in the final days of development or if one of the needed servers for download kicks the bucket at the wrong moment. Read on for the scoop on the most prominent of features. Fri, 13 Feb 2009 04:35:40 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) Debian and its clones 40 http://www.osnews.com/topics/52 News weildish http://www.osnews.com/story/20730/Debian_5_Release_Approaches_Binary_Blobs_Included/ http://www.osnews.com/story/20730/Debian_5_Release_Approaches_Binary_Blobs_Included/ "The developers behind the Debian Linux distribution are preparing for the upcoming release of Debian 5, which is codenamed Lenny. The decision to move forward with the release follows a contentious vote over whether to permit the inclusion of binary blobs in the new version of the distribution. Consensus coalesced around a controversial proposal to "assume blobs comply with the GPL unless proven otherwise." Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:48:33 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Debian and its clones 15 http://www.osnews.com/topics/52 News http://www.osnews.com/story/19653/New_Debian_Leader_Aims_for_Better_Communication/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19653/New_Debian_Leader_Aims_for_Better_Communication/ iTWire interviews the newly-elected Debian Project Leader, Steve McIntyre. "A few days back, the project concluded its elections for the year and Steve McIntyre emerged as the victor in a three-cornered contest. McIntyre may well be the most watched elected official of a non-profit group - the direction the project takes is of vital concern to a great many businesses." Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:17:23 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (David Adams) Debian and its clones 4 http://www.osnews.com/topics/52 News da_Chicken