http://www.osnews.com/ Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2012, David Adams OSNews version 4 donotreply@osnews.com (Adam Scheinberg) donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Wed, 15 Feb 2012 01:09:03 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com/ 120 http://www.osnews.com/story/25030/Recent_improvements_with_Debian_GNU_kFreeBSD/ http://www.osnews.com/story/25030/Recent_improvements_with_Debian_GNU_kFreeBSD/ Debian developer Robert Millan talks about recent improvements with Debian GNU/kFreeBSD in the past few weeks. Thu, 04 Aug 2011 19:21:19 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (David Adams) Debian and its clones 12 http://www.osnews.com/topics/52 News http://www.osnews.com/story/24991/Debian_7_Wheezy_To_Introduce_Multiarch_Support/ http://www.osnews.com/story/24991/Debian_7_Wheezy_To_Introduce_Multiarch_Support/ Debian announced that they are going to introduce multiarch support for Wheezy (7.0) in 2013. Well, nice, but aren't they a little bit late now that problems are mostly sorted out and systems moved to 64-bit? This would have been great news at the time when Lenny (5.0) was released, but does it even matter in 2013? Are they just going to make things more complicated for no reason? Tue, 26 Jul 2011 21:44:13 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) Debian and its clones 19 http://www.osnews.com/topics/52 News jarkkot http://www.osnews.com/story/24547/Ubuntu_Linux_Aims_to_Give_Back_with_Debian_Dex/ http://www.osnews.com/story/24547/Ubuntu_Linux_Aims_to_Give_Back_with_Debian_Dex/ "Debian is the 'mother' distro to many 'children' derivative distros, including Ubuntu. Sometimes those derivatives give back to the upstream, but it's not always easy. A new effort called DEX is aiming to improve how derivative bits are merged upstream." Sun, 20 Mar 2011 20:03:43 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) Debian and its clones 12 http://www.osnews.com/topics/52 News fran http://www.osnews.com/story/24535/Debian_6_Squeeze_Not_Good/ http://www.osnews.com/story/24535/Debian_6_Squeeze_Not_Good/ Writing about Debian is not a simple thing. You know it's the giant that has spawned pretty much every other distro out there. It's almost like a Roman Empire, almost a taboo. Furthermore, it's not a desktop distro per se. It's more sort of a template you use to build your platform. It's also a SOHO server distro, therefore it more fits into the business category, comparable to CentOS and similar. Thu, 17 Mar 2011 23:17:53 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) Debian and its clones 223 http://www.osnews.com/topics/52 Feature Dedoimedo http://www.osnews.com/story/24378/Debian_6_0_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/24378/Debian_6_0_Released/ Oh glorious day! After two years of development, one of the prime Linux distributions has pushed out a new release - Debian 6.0 'Squeeze' has been released. The most fascinating aspect fo this new release is that it includes Debian/kFreeBSD s a technology preview, which fascinates me to no end. Of course, there's a whole lot more, including a brand new website for the project - the first major redesign in 13 years. Sun, 06 Feb 2011 11:09:16 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Debian and its clones 96 http://www.osnews.com/topics/52 News http://www.osnews.com/story/24319/Debian_Frees_Up_the_Kernel_Again/ http://www.osnews.com/story/24319/Debian_Frees_Up_the_Kernel_Again/ "The Debian project has now announced that from the release of Squeeze (Debian 6.0) their GNU/Linux kernels will be available without the non-free blobs." Tue, 25 Jan 2011 14:25:43 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Hadrien Grasland) Debian and its clones 5 http://www.osnews.com/topics/52 News fsmag http://www.osnews.com/story/24157/Debian_6_0_Squeeze_To_Have_Completely_Free_Linux_Kernel/ http://www.osnews.com/story/24157/Debian_6_0_Squeeze_To_Have_Completely_Free_Linux_Kernel/ The Debian project will release the new stable version of debian - Debian 6.0 "Squeeze" - with a completely free Linux kernel. Binary-only firmware and other non-free kernel components will only be available via the non-free repositories and the project is actively encouraging vendors that have not done so already to release their firmware in a form compatible with the Debian Free Software Guidelines. Tue, 21 Dec 2010 22:35:39 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) Debian and its clones 9 http://www.osnews.com/topics/52 News crystall http://www.osnews.com/story/24081/Debian_Squeeze_the_First_GNU_distribution_to_Support_ZFS/ http://www.osnews.com/story/24081/Debian_Squeeze_the_First_GNU_distribution_to_Support_ZFS/ "ZFS will be supported in Debian Squeeze using the official installer. This means that Debian Squeeze will be one of the first GNU distributions to support ZFS. In fact, even though ZFS support didn't make it to Debian-Installer beta1 by the time it was released, it is now available in the netboot images (this happens because netboot images fetch newer installer components from the internet)." Tue, 30 Nov 2010 22:59:27 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Debian and its clones 21 http://www.osnews.com/topics/52 News http://www.osnews.com/story/23693/Happy_17th_Birthday_Debian_/ http://www.osnews.com/story/23693/Happy_17th_Birthday_Debian_/ "Debian turns 17 today. Yes it has really come a long way from being Ian Murdock's pet project back in 1993 to being the distribution on which the most popular Linux distribution, Ubuntu, is based on now." Let's go through some interesting history of Debian. Mon, 16 Aug 2010 21:41:35 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Debian and its clones 12 http://www.osnews.com/topics/52 News Debjit 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 33 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