Debian Archive

The beta release of Progeny Debian 2.0 Developer Edition is now available. "This version of Progeny Debian was built using the new Anaconda for Debian, based on Anaconda from Fedora Core 2, and contains many updates to components from Debian's current testing distribution ("sarge")." This is the second snapshot of Progeny Debian 2.0 Developer Edition and it contains three ISO images.

Libranet is a debian based distribution and is a progeny of Libra Computer Systems Ltd. The platypus has written a review of the free trial of libranet 2.8.1 at his site.

"Debian is not easy enough to use to give to everyone... we are working on making it more usable, but it will still take us a while to get there", states Martin Michlmayr, The Debian Project Leader in an exclusive interview for PCTechTalk.com.

The Debian Project announced their AMD64 port is ready for inclusion in Sid. The port is currently at 97% compiled with most of the remaining packages having FTBFS RC bugs filed for unrelated reasons.

This paper written by Andreas Tille is intended to people who are interested in the philosophy of Custom Debian Distributions and the technique which is used to manage those projects. It is explained in detail why these are no forks from Debian but reside completely inside the Debian GNU/Linux distribution and which advantages can be gathered by this approach. The concept of meta-packages and user role based menus is explained. In short: This document describes why Custom Debian Distributions are important to the vitality and quality of Debian.

Debian Installer Beta 3 was released two days ago and I wrote a small review concerning the installation part. The new debian installer is good way to set up your favorite distribution. Nontheless there are a few usability things and I thought that it might be a good idea to write a walkthrough from another point of view: Bob "average" User. Read more .

I considered reviewing Debian for this article. I downloaded a copy of Debian 3.0r2, making sure to get the disk with the 2.4 kernel. Everything you've heard about Debian being difficult to install? It's not totally true, but it's pretty close. I really wanted to try Debian, though, if only to use the vaunted apt-get system. I'd tried apt-rpm on a previous Red Hat installation, and it was great. Since Debian was turning out to be too difficult to put together, I decided to look for a debian-based distro.

This is the fourth in a series of reviews of Debian-based distributions. The first three have covered the best known commercial distributions. LibraNet is aimed more at existing Linux users - including Debian users - than those from the Windows world. Read the review at NewsForge.

Joey Hess has announced the availability of the second beta release of debian-installer. Highlights include better support for PowerPC & IA64 ports, more translations and support for USB devices.

Anaconda-enabled Sarge install images are now available here.

LinMagAU has two interesting Linux articles this time around: "Libranet 2.8.1 Flagship Edition - Distro Review" and "State of Play: xine 1.0 previewed".

This is the second in my series of reviews for debian-based commercial distros that might be appropriate for SOHO use. The first article covered my exploration of Lindows, and this one is focused on Libranet. Before I get started with Libranet I want to clarify a couple of points.

This is the second update of Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (codename 'woody') which mainly adds security updates to the stable release, along with a few corrections of serious bugs. Those who frequently update from security.debian.org won't have to update many packages and most updates from security.debian.org are included in this update. Please note that this update does not produce a new version of Debian 3.0 but only adds a few updated packages to it. There is no need to throw away 3.0 CDs but only to update against ftp.debian.org after an installation to incorporate those late changes.

Despite a cracker incursion into Debian Project servers this week, representatives of the Debian Linux distribution said the open-source code behind it remains untouched.