Debian Archive

Nikolaos S. Karastathis of Wikinerds has interviewed Marcus Brinkmann, one of the main Hurd developers. It's an insightful interview into Marcus offering a look at how he got started hacking in general and on the Hurd in particular, his version of the recent history of Hurd development, and where he thinks the Hurd is going (hint: away from Mach and towards L4). The presentations from the Hurd developers' mini-Symposium at FOSDEM 2005 makes for good supplemental reading.

The lack of a new stable release of Debian GNU/Linux since July 2002 is fuelling the campaigns of many candidates for the project's leadership position, with many pushing for a shorter and more regular release cycle to arrest user departures.

"Therefore, we're planning on not releasing most of the minor architectures starting with etch. They will be released with sarge, with all that implies (including security support until sarge is archived), but they would no longer be included in testing." Read more here.

"Anyone who dislikes the non-standard desktops of many distributions will feel right at home with Libranet, and the .deb packaging system will keep the Debian nerds happy. Those of you searching for a server-oriented distribution should look elsewhere, but if you're searching for a strong desktop/multimedia distribution, Libranet is one of the best choices available." Read more at NewsForge.

In my never ending search for the ultimate challenge, I decided to remove Gentoo Linux from my trusty laptop and install something else that wasn't as resource starving. Thus, Debian was selected.

TuxMagazine posted a review of Libranet and here is its follow up article.

Newsforge has a interesting interview with the Debian project leaders on the new debian release planned to be released in a short while

This is the fourth update of Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (codename 'woody') which mainly adds security updates to the stable release, along with a few corrections to serious problems.

This tutorial outlines how to speed up Debian by using hdparm, getting sound and video to work, and finally wrapping it up with printing. Read more at Linuxtimes.net

Debian Woody, the current stable release for over 2 years, and Sarge, the new upcoming stable release due out in a month or two, support no fewer than 11 architectures. Perhaps surprisingly, AMD64 is not one of them and it won't be in Sarge either.

This guest editorial by Linux consultant Binh Nguyen is an exercise in "tough love." Nguyen points out key design attributes of Debian that make it one of the strongest and most versatile Linux offerings available. At the same time, he notes several important areas where Debian falls flat. Yet, with a few simple improvements and a more welcoming attitude to new users, Nguyen argues, Debian could turn into the most popular Linux distro around. Elsewhere, Debian Women: Geek feminists in action.

"What do you want from a desktop operating system? The real criteria are stability, package management, hardware compatibility, and the people behind the software, the community. For its superiority in those areas, I made Debian my workstation OS." Read the article at NewsForge.

The next major release of Debian aims at making installation easier for non-technical users. Debian developers have completely rewritten the Debian installer for the next version of the Linux distribution, code-named Sarge.

Progeny Debian 2.0 DE RC1 has been released. Progeny Debian 2.0 DE aims to provide an unmatched 'out of the box' environment for software developers building applications for the Java, Mono/.NET and LAMP platforms.